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.
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.
Milton Kaka’s video, “Tala,” traces the death of an infant girl in Samoa and its subsequent impact over 60 years ago.
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.
Kahuku 3rd Ward (Tongan) was one of three choir that performed during the PCC’s 60th anniversary’s opening devotional.
PCC senior missionary Sister Gayle Bleak felt angelic help in the dark.
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.
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.
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.
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