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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Saturday, May 6, 2006

Hawaiian culture takes center stage

 •  Japan for the keiki

Advertiser Staff

Moses Pakaki demonstrates taro-pounding. Hawaiian cultural activities will be part of the "Relive the Plantation Days" event today at the Hawai'i Plantation Village in Waipahu.

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The Hawaiian heritage group is the focus of this month's "Relive the Plantation Days" festival at the Hawai'i Plantation Village in Waipahu.

Among the highlights:

• A Hawaiian herbal medicine presentation by Moses Pakaki, 10 a.m. in the Gentry Room.

• A session on hands-on Hawaiian healing through lomilomi, by licensed practitioners who worked with kumu Janice Keonaona Kalua.

Other attractions include entertainment, taro-pounding, hula and crafts demonstrations, a Chinese dragon game, a Filipino martial-arts demo and ethnic-food sampling.

Hours are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Admission is $7 general, $4 kama'aina and military, free for plantation village members and kids 12 and younger.

677-0110.