VIDEO: Oli, traditional protocol to name Kapiʻolani CC landmark
Kapiʻolani Community College
Pōkinahua ceremony held on the Great Lawn at Kapiʻolani CC
About 100 faculty and staff participated in the ceremony
Link to video and sound (details below): https://bit.ly/3bZSkwK
WHAT: Traditional Hawaiian protocol observed to help usher in the fall 2022 semester and celebrate the naming of the Great Lawn in the piko (center) of the campus, Makahiapo (first-born child).
WHO: Kapiʻolani Community College faculty and staff
WHEN: Wednesday, August 17, 7 a.m.
WHERE: Kapiʻolani CC Great Lawn
WHY: The protocol represents the college’s collaborative commitment to revitalize Native Hawaiian culture and language as the campus strives to become an Indigenous-serving institution.
HOW: Faculty and staff shared oli (chant) and brought fresh water from their individual ahupuaʻa (land division) to offer to an ahu (altar) on the lawn.
VIDEO BROLL: (1 minute, 52 seconds)
0:00-1:52 - Pōkinahua ceremony at the great lawn at Kapi‘olani CC
SOUNDBITES:
Louise Pagotto, Chancellor/Kapiʻolani Community College
(11 seconds)
“What we want is to also integrate Hawaiian values into our daily operations on the campus and this occasion marked how that can be done.”
Laure Burke, Professor/Kapiʻolani Community College
(17 seconds)
“The fact that I was still part of today and I am here and my colleagues are so uplifting and it just makes me want to start the semester. I just can’t wait for the students to come back and share the positive energy that has begun today.”