FAQs
What You Like Know?
You can find an online community here at Pilina ʻŌiwi through our learner network, and form bonds in papa, workshops and huakaʻi. As we continue to build our community we hope to build opportunities for connection also. Also as you become leaders in your community, you can learn how to gather and build community.
The word kinship refers to a familial relationship, and that is the value that the Hawaiian gave to their surroundings–their trees, their sun, their stream water, their moss, their clouds–anything that was alive and shared space with man was in a relationship with man. This is an integral part of Hawaiʻi lifeways and Hawaiian values.
No and no. We start at the beginning with basics, building a foundation of skills and knowledge. Those more familiar with ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) or with hula experience may have an advantage, and that will allow them to kōkua with those new to the practice.
