Culturised With Makani Tabura

Aunty Toni Lee is a longtime advocate for the native Hawaiian community, serving as the chair of the Aloha Festival Floral Parade for the past decade and held multiple leadership positions in the Hawaiian civic Club communities. She is currently the president of the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, which is the nonprofit behind Waikiki Beach Walk’s free cultural exhibit, The Royal Room.  To Learn...

I am from the island of Hawaiʻi.  Raised on family ʻāina that was given to my great great grandfather through a Royal Patent Land Grant in 1850.  I am the 5th generation to be raised on family land with all of our kupuna, including my parents, buried on the property. My father was a manaleo, native Hawaiian speaker and chose not to teach me ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi as he reflected on his time of b...

Jasper Wong is an artist, illustrator, and curator. As an artist, he has exhibited worldwide, in places such as Japan, California, France, London, Mexico, New York, Hong Kong, Chicago, and Australia. He has also scored press in publications such as Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Taschen’s Illustration Now, Hypebeast, Booooooom, Arrested Motion, Hi-Fructose, Acc...

Often touted as the Grandfather of Hawaiʻi fashion, Nakeʻu was the first Hawaiian designer to locally create prints using native and indigenous flora as inspiration (what’s come to be known as “Hawaiian print”). He also produced the first muʻumuʻu (a loose gown) and holokū (a loose, seamed dress with a yoke and train) to be sold commercially at Carol and Mary, an iconic women’s fashion store at th...

Daniel Aipa was born and raised in Kailua, O’ahu.  He has worked in the fitness and health industry for 20 years and incorporates Hawaiian culture into his training and coaching methods. He is the founder of The KŪ Project – a platform and space devoted to health and wellness using a holistic approach rooted in Hawaiian values. Aipa believes that when we learn to stand tall within ourselves,...

James Mane is a larger than life Samoan stand up comedian, actor, and podcast host from Hawaii. He is the first Samoan to do stand-up comedy on American television via FNX’s First Nations Comedy Experience which highlighted many Native American comedians and other indigenous people and can be seen on Amazon Prime. Mane is a co-star of an Adult Swim TV hit called, ‘Decker’ where he played Lanoi Arn...

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Aaron J. Salā is President and CEO of Gravitas Pasifika, a boutique firm intent on harnessing the power of creative storytelling to advance Native Hawaiian, local Hawaiʻi, and Pasifika worldview and talent through the exploration and integration of, and experimentation with, creativity in production. He is a contemporary and traditional Hawaiian music singer and pianist most well known for his Haw...

My name is Kimo Leong, owner of Kanaka Solutions we Spread Aloha n Malama. Da Po’oof NA KANE KOA O MAKUA a LaHui who has Malama Aina our AHUPUA’A Kaniana cave to Ke’awa’ula. WILD WEST was starting to be jus dat ENTITLED people outside our 96792 community started feeling like they could come Camp ,throw parties n make bonfires. We noticed they jus had no respect for da Aina n da area they was in. D...

I am Hawai’i Hip Hop.   Artist: @krystilez  Rap group: @angrylocals  Radio show: @hi93oahu   To Learn more about Culturised visit:  https://www.culturised.com/ Culturised is a https://www.wikiocast.com/ production.   #hiphop

Papa Ola Lōkahi, the Hawaiian Health Board established in 1988, is charged with raising the health status of Native Hawaiians to the highest possible level, which it achieves through partnership, programs and public policy. Learn more at papaolalokahi.org   To Learn more about Culturised visit:  https://www.culturised.com/ Culturised is a https://www.wikiocast.com/ production.   #ha...

Mehanaokala Hind is a Kumu Hula and cultural practitioner skilled in hula, oli, and ceremony. She descends from the hula lineage of Kumu Hula Leinaʻala Kalama Heine and earned the rank of Kumu Hula in 2009 when she completed the ‘ūniki rites set forth by her Kumu.  She has been trained in mele oli from some of Hawaiʻiʻs master chanters.  Mehana brings a breadth and depth of relationships...

Edmund Kekupua’enohopono’ike’ohia Nourrie Jr. is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Cultural Educator. He graduated from Chaminade University in 2018 with his Masters in Counseling Psychology, and has been working in a clinical setting for over four years at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC) as a member of the Behavioral Health Department, as well as a Clinical Thera...

Kalehua Kamohaliʻi Caceres is an ʻŌiwi from Māʻili, Waiʻanae, Oʻahu. She is the eldest daughter of Gregory Kamohaliʻi Jr. and Edwena Kanani Awong, granddaughter of Gregory Kaʻilihou Kamohaliʻi Jr. of Kahoma, Ritchie Grace Pūʻiakeonaonaokaleimokihana Parker of Honolulu, Edward Kalani Awong Sr. and May Kuʻulei Aldeguer of Māʻili. She is a graduate of Kamehameha Schoolsʻ Class of 1996 and the Univers...

If anyone could be described as having “Hawaiian heart and soul,” it is indeed Kamakakehau Fernandez. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, a 6 week old African American infant was adopted and brought to the shores of Maui, Hawaiʻi by Robyn Nae’ole, It is here that his new family and home shaped “Kamakakēhau” (Kamaka) into one of Hawaiʻi’s refreshing  talents.   Kamaka’s education played a...

We are Las Vegas’ premiere entertainment company.  founded in 2000, bringing island style entertainment to Las Vegas. It is Vizzun Entertainment’s dream to share the aloha spirit and island culture through music and entertainment. We specialize in concerts, festivals, nightclubs, comedy shows, and private functions.   To Learn more about Culturised visit:  https://www.culturised.com...

I am a activated Kanaka Oiwi from Puea Wai'anae the son of Wela Wahilani ( Father ) and Pikake Wahilani ( Mother ) a Husband to Purdyka Noelani Keohokapu Wahilani and Father to 3 sons Kaulana Keohokapu 27 , Keola Wahilani 19 and Hau'oli Wahilani 14. I work at Brinks Hawai'i under Skyline Security in collaboration with 808 Smart Homes , I also sit on the Wai'anae Neighborhood Board and sit as the c...

Sarah Kuaiwa is a historian, art historian, and genealogist from Waimalu, Oʻahu. Her ʻohana has been living in and around Puʻuloa for the past four generations. Sarah is a fourth-year Ph. D. student at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. She specializes in nineteenth-century Hawaiian History and her disserta...

A lifelong learner, Hiʻilani Shibata has spent the last 20 years in the field of education, both formal and informal. Born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, she moved to the island of Oʻahu to attend the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where she graduated with a BA in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. While finishing her last year in college she was also teaching ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi at Kailua Intermediate school part time and...

Po'okela Mossman is a Leadership Speaker & Executive Coach and the founder of Chief Development & Leadership Strategies.  A quickly growing training and development company with a sweet spot for High Impact & Healthy Leadership!  Po'okela's mission is to help hard-working leaders & entrepreneurs WIN at what matter most - in their Life & Business!  As a US Army Ve...

Consuelo Gouveia was born and raised on the island of Lāna'i. This is the start of her 20th year as a teacher and her 14th year at HKM.  She started my career in the DOE and was wanting something different.  HKM holds a special place for her as she spent majority of her career here.  The teachings and pedagogy of this school was the means and ways of how she learned growing up on th...

Arthur/Ka‘uhane has been a Community Relations Specialist since March 1994 and coordinates and conducts the educational tours and outreach programs for BWS.  Outside the responsibilities of his career, Arthur is a native Hawaiian cultural practitioner. His interest lies in perpetuating the Hawaiian language. He has a passion in learning and performing the art of hula. He is an executive offic...

In January 2017 Sun Dot changed ownership and was passed down to Viv's niece, Christina Henline. Tina was born in Kailua, O'ahu and raised in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai'i. After high school, she moved to Noosa Heads, Australia to attend college and ended up staying in Australia for 13 years, focusing on building her knowledge in business, tourism and teaching. She recently returned to Hawaii...

OZEKY is the name everyone knows me by . I am just an ordinary island boy , struggling and trying  to live life to its fullest here on Hawaii to support and provide for my small family.   I was born in chuuk and was relocated to Guam for better education in 1990’s . From Guam to Seattle and Seattle to Honolulu.   With an undeniable passion for music I started playing keybo...

Lane Wilcken is a scholar, cultural tattoo practitioner and advocate for the critically endangered practice of "batok" or cultural tattoos of the Philippines. He also has studied other related indigenous traditions of the Philippines and greater Pacific with over three decades of research and experience. His mother is from the Philippines and his father is of English and Scandinavian descent. &nbs...