Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival, which began in 2000, continues in its eighth year Sunday with native storytellers from Hawai'i, Alaska and as far away as Massachusetts.

The festival is being held on Great Lawn at Bishop Museum to celebrate native cultures through the ancient art of storytelling and dance.

The festival, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., includes Ani Lomaika'i Lipscomb from the Bishop Museum; Jonathan Perry from the Peabody Essex Museum and Candida Rose from New Bedford ECHO Project (consisting of the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Oceanarium) of Massachusetts; Debra Dommek from the North Slope Borough in Barrow, Alaska, and Stephen Blanchett from the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, Alaska; and local storytellers from Hawai'i. Storytellers from Hawai'i include Jeff Gere, Makia Malo, Ipolani Vaughan, Hailama Farden, Nyla Fujii-Babb, Janice Terukina, and Hina Kahanu.

Cost: $3 kama'aina and military with ID (free for museum members and children age 3 and younger, full price for visitors).

Information: 847-3511 or www.bishopmuseum.org.