Tahitian alumnus creates Laie mural
Eriki Marchand, former “chief” of the Polynesian Cultural Center’s Marquesas tohua, recently revisited Laie to install a mural honoring the visit of King Kalākaua to Laie in 1894.
PCC videographer produces award-winning film
Milton Kaka’s video, “Tala,” traces the death of an infant girl in Samoa and its subsequent impact over 60 years ago.
Virtual choir touches hearts at 60th-anniversary devotional
The story behind the Cultural Center’s 60th-anniversary virtual choir video that was performed on screen during the opening devotional on October 8, 2023, in the BYU–Hawaii Cannon Activities Center, and is now online.
Opening devotional: 60 years of one ‘ohana sharing aloha
Kahuku 3rd Ward (Tongan) was one of three choir that performed during the PCC’s 60th anniversary’s opening devotional.
‘My miracle at the PCC’
PCC senior missionary Sister Gayle Bleak felt angelic help in the dark.
Miracles in Aloha
Related by Greg Maples, PCC VP of Culinary Services, July 2022 We all know that the Polynesian Cultural Center is a place of miracles. Greg Maples shared two miracles that happened in the Hale Aloha. Every day before Hale Aloha opens for guest seating, an employee goes around and lights the tiki torches. There is […]
Elvis co-star revists the Center
Irene Tsu, who co-starred with Elvis Presley in the 1966 movie, Paradise Hawaiian Style, that was partially filmed at the Cultural Center during the summer of 1965, revisited “the set” for the first time since then in April 2023.
Silina Turaga Aina: Growing up at the Center
It’s safe to say Silina Turaga Aina grew up as one of a small group of keiki at the Polynesian Cultural Center when her parents — Meleki and Sophia Turaga — were among the earliest people in the 1960s to work in the Fijian Village . . . and she’s still here, displaying and sharing her skills as a long-time weaver in the Hawaiian Village.
TALK STORY: Kavika Tiave, Senior Theater Manager
People joke and ask, “Are you still here?” And I answer, I have the best job because I see the night show kids come in and train, and end up graduating and leaving here better prepared.
