Kama'aina and visitors are definitely in for a TREAT with this general admission Special Offer: Buy One Adult Admission, Get One FREE Child Admission! Plus, children 3 years-old and under are always free!

Join us for a spook-tacular celebration filled with family-friendly fun, festive decorations, and Halloween surprises. From creative costumes to themed games, trick-or-treat stations, and special appearances by some of your favorite characters, it’s a frightfully delightful way to enjoy the season. Come in costume and make unforgettable fall memories with your ‘ohana!

Chinatown 808 presents the 2025 Honolulu Mid-Autumn Festival!  Celebrate this traditional Chinese holiday that marks the end of a great autumn harvest and a reunion time for families.  Come out with your friends and family for a weekend of fun with food, crafts, keiki activities, live entertainment, and more!

Get ready for a beachfront street festival like no other!

Kalākaua Avenue will be transformed with booths showcasing Hawai‘i cuisine, crafts and culture stretching as far as the eye can see. Taste the best of local flavors from around the island in one place, and peruse artisan-made crafts. Multiple stages with incredible entertainment will rock the evening featuring top local artists, award-winning hālau hula, and more.

Free admission.  Everyone welcome!

Bring your own chairs & blankets.

9am – Native Hawaiian Blessing, music & performance, followed by Grand Entry at 10am.

Visit with Indigenous & Turtle Island craft vendors, gather resource information from educational & community-based organizations, participate in children’s crafts, enjoy local food vendors and

Navajo frybread prepared by our Navajo relatives, Masen Tsosie and Caroline Begay, throughout the day.

Invited Groups include the Lummi Nation Blackhawk Singers and the Bird Singers from the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.

Host Drum – Blackfoot Drummers
Head Woman Dancer – Taunie Cullooyah, Kalispel Tribe
Head Man Dancer – Robert Thomas, Colville Confederated Tribe
Emcee – Brad Bearsheart
Arena Director – Eric Lonecheif

Stay tuned for more details!

Cultural performances, activities, exhibits, marketplace, bon dance.

And FOOD! Freshly made ANDAGI, shave ice, Okinawa soba, Pig’s Feet soup, Champura and more.

Learn how to craft beautiful, sturdy baskets and handbags out of recycled waste materials in this fun workshop series with Dr. Elaine Imoto!

STUDENTS NEED TO BRING:
*1 pair of Sharp scissors to cut plastic waste (required)
*20 clothes pins used to hold strips in place while weaving (required)
*Snacks including water for break at 11:30am (optional)

Learn how to craft beautiful, sturdy baskets and handbags out of recycled waste materials in this fun workshop series with Dr. Elaine Imoto!

STUDENTS NEED TO BRING:
*1 pair of Sharp scissors to cut plastic waste (required)
*20 clothes pins used to hold strips in place while weaving (required)
*Snacks including water for break at 11:30am (optional)

Topics for this popular beginning watercolor class with 104-year-old artist Esther Nowell may include: light to dark washes; shading and depth; drawing and painting faces; drawing and painting trees; painting clouds and sunsets, and more. Lessons of the day are flexible, so  whether this is your first class with Esther or your 15th, you will always learn something new and have fun doing it!

Learn how to craft beautiful, sturdy baskets and handbags out of recycled waste materials in this fun workshop series with Dr. Elaine Imoto!

STUDENTS NEED TO BRING:
*1 pair of Sharp scissors to cut plastic waste (required)
*20 clothes pins used to hold strips in place while weaving (required)
*Snacks including water for break at 11:30am (optional)

Get ready for a beachfront street festival like no other!

Kalākaua Avenue will be transformed with booths showcasing Hawai‘i cuisine, crafts and culture stretching as far as the eye can see. Taste the best of local flavors from around the island in one place, and peruse artisan-made crafts. Multiple stages with incredible entertainment will rock the evening featuring top local artists, award-winning hālau hula, and more.

Crowds dressed in kimono, hapi coats and eisaa outfits gather at the Hawaii Okinawa Center. Young and old, newbies and pros, dance to the beat of taiko, sway to the sounds of sanshin and cheer, “iya sassa-ha iyaa!” into the night. Traditional Okinawan numbers are combined with time honored and contemporary Japanese favorites for an evening of culture, food and fellowship.

Along with great music and dancing, matsuri goers can enjoy onolicious andagi and other local favorites. Each year, the Matsuri is coordinated by the efforts of many volunteers. Ippee nifee deebiru, mahalo and thank you to their hard work and support!

Sunset Arts Market at Fort Street Mall will be FREE and open to the public. There will be one live music stage and an urban fashion show, as well as local arts, crafts, and food vendors.

This event is organized by the team that brings you the annual HEART of Honolulu Street Festival on Nuʻuanu Avenue. The elements of HEART (Heritage, Entertainment, Arts & Culture, Restaurants and Theaters) together make up the core of our vibrant creative community.

The goal of this event is to enliven the historic Fort Street Mall, once home to Oʻahu’s first main shopping district, and to redefine the area in the public eye as a neighborhood that is interesting and walkable, rich with events and local culture that everyone can enjoy.

Learn how to craft beautiful, sturdy baskets and handbags out of recycled waste materials in this fun workshop series with Dr. Elaine Imoto!

STUDENTS NEED TO BRING:
*1 pair of Sharp scissors to cut plastic waste (required)
*20 clothes pins used to hold strips in place while weaving (required)
*Snacks including water for break at 11:30am (optional)

Puʻuhnoua Society, a long standing community arts and culture nonprofit, alongside local collaborator Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea and national collaborators from the initiative One Nation One Project: ARTS FOR EVERY BODY, is demonstrating real-time how the arts can lead to healthier people and healthier communities. Artists, civic leaders, and community health providers in 18 cities and towns across America including Honolulu will simultaneously premiere an array of large-scale participatory art projects.

The culmination of over a year of supporting Hawaiʻi-based art collectives, over 80 storytellers, weavers, dancers, healers, voyagers, kapa makers, poets, musicians, photographers, lei makers, activists, creators and dreamers will come together to share their embodied understanding of EA, of self determination and sovereignty, through individual and collective acts of affirmation and resistance.

July 27th Highlights

10-3pm Keanahala and NiU NOW! share lauhala (pandanus) preparation,

weaving and ʻike niu (coconut knowledge) and practices

10-3pm Large scale banners of akua wāhine or ancient Hawaiian goddesses,

moʻolelo of place and accompanying zines

11-2pm Walt Keale and other talented local musicians invite community to sing

songs of sovereignty at Tūtū’s Hale

12-3pm 808 Breakers, Hawaiʻi’s Premiere Break Dancing Crew shares

Performances, Showcases, Intro Workshops, and Battle Competitions

1-2pm Guest speaker Uncle Walter Ritte with the Sierra Club of Hawai’i

Learn how to craft beautiful, sturdy baskets and handbags out of recycled waste materials in this fun workshop series with Dr. Elaine Imoto!

STUDENTS NEED TO BRING:
*1 pair of Sharp scissors to cut plastic waste (required)
*20 clothes pins used to hold strips in place while weaving (required)
*Snacks including water for break at 11:30am (optional)

Learn how to craft beautiful, sturdy baskets and handbags out of recycled waste materials in this fun workshop series with Dr. Elaine Imoto!

STUDENTS NEED TO BRING:
*1 pair of Sharp scissors to cut plastic waste (required)
*20 clothes pins used to hold strips in place while weaving (required)
*Snacks including water for break at 11:30am (optional)

Sunset Arts Market at Fort Street Mall is an evening arts market, focused on activating the historic Fort Street Mall at Pauahi Street with a spotlight on local art, live music, fashion, and food.

Vendor information also available at “MORE INFO” link below.

Merriment and a celebration of us! Tea, refreshments, crafts, and music by Lana Lavergne and Rockwell Fukino provided.

April is Earth Month and there’s no better way to celebrate than with the 17th Annual Mauka to Makai Environmental Expo! 

The expo offers live entertainment, hands-on activities, arts and crafts, a fish release, and educational exhibits that showcase ways to protect and preserve Hawai‘i’s environment. Attendees who complete the event passport will also receive a complimentary native plant. Limit one per household, while supplies last.

Free parking will be available in the back parking lot at Jefferson Elementary School beginning at 7:30 a.m., with free shuttle to and from the Waikīkī Aquarium courtesy of Waikīkī Trolley. Guests are also invited to bring refillable water bottles to stay hydrated with our water stations.

Cultural charity event featuring traditional Japanese music, folk arts, and the first ever performance of Kanazawa Geishas in Honolulu. 

Through this unique opportunity you will have the occasion to appreciate the authentic beauty of Japanese culture which crowns the commemoration of Hawaii-Japanese relation in light of more than 100-year history. 

In particular, Ishikawa Prefecture is located in the northern coast of Honshu and it is famous for being the cradle of traditional and contemporary Japanese art, design, culture and craft. Moreover, Kanazawa, its capital, is one of the best-preserved Edo-period (1603-1867) cities in Japan.

Live performances as well as Japanese tea ceremony, traditional flower arrangement, and Japanese calligraphy in the exhibition room. 

Modern fashion show featuring the fusion between the traditional and the modern Japanese culture! In fact, you can admire the outstanding traditional fabrics from Ishikawa, such as Kimono and lacquer, in modern fashion.

A charity event with all ticket proceeds donated to the historic Hawaii Theater.

A donation box will be present to support the disaster-affected areas of Maui.

Fun for the family! Time to make Christmas ornaments. Join us for a 2-hour workshop focused on creating a set of ornaments. You will be making a fish, star, heart and pineapple. All ages are welcome. Instruction and all supplies are included.

2-hour workshop to learn how to make anthuriums. These beauties can be used in flower arrangements, given as gifts or even worn as a hair pick. All ages are welcome. Instruction and all supplies are included.

Join Niʻihau shell expert restorer, appraiser, maker, teacher, and owner of Hooked Gallery, Kai Hyde, for upcoming Ni'ihau Shell Workshop. Kit options Include lei, bracelets, earrings, or pendants [in pīkake, kipona, & other styles] to wear for yourself or to gift to a special someone.

Join Niʻihau shell expert restorer, appraiser, maker, teacher, and owner of Hooked Gallery, Kai Hyde, for upcoming Ni'ihau Shell Workshop. Kit options Include lei, bracelets, earrings, or pendants [in pīkake, kipona, & other styles] to wear for yourself or to gift to a special someone.

Nov 11: Turkey Candle

Is that a turkey? Design your own feathers and use model magic to form your own personal turkey, complete with flameless candle. Candle pumpkins may follow.

Nov 18: Advent Calendar

Create a special calendar for the 25 days of December. Each day, open a little envelope that will contain a surprise gift, compliments of you. What will your surprise be?

Dec 2: Reindeer

Your reindeer may not work for Santa,  but you never know. Paper and wire create the body with your special touch of antler styling and overall fashion accent.

Dec 9: Christmas Ornaments

Be an elf in Santa’s workshop and create ornaments in your special style. A variety of glittery mediums will be provided to entice the holiday elf in you. 

Nov 11: Turkey Candle

Is that a turkey? Design your own feathers and use model magic to form your own personal turkey, complete with flameless candle. Candle pumpkins may follow.

Nov 18: Advent Calendar

Create a special calendar for the 25 days of December. Each day, open a little envelope that will contain a surprise gift, compliments of you. What will your surprise be?

Dec 2: Reindeer

Your reindeer may not work for Santa,  but you never know. Paper and wire create the body with your special touch of antler styling and overall fashion accent.

Dec 9: Christmas Ornaments

Be an elf in Santa’s workshop and create ornaments in your special style. A variety of glittery mediums will be provided to entice the holiday elf in you.