Activities

“Kuku Kapa E” runs through Sept. 30 and features the historic kapa moe from the Hind-Vredenburg Collection, a key piece from the revival of kapa making.

The public is invited to help get the garden at Kohala Elementary School ready for the new school year next week.

Several Native Hawaiian organizations are hosting an event in East Hawai‘i to highlight the importance of civic engagement and voter turnout.

These popular community events provide the public an informal way to get to know their area community policing officers.

Get ready, chocolate lovers. The Big Island Chocolate Festival has a new event that is sure to not just tickle your taste-buds but get your creative juices flowing.

An event to honor loved ones who have died returns to Pauoa Bay this month after a three-year hiatus.

An upcoming exhibit at the East Hawai‘i Cultural Center in downtown Hilo imagines Earth as a vast, diverse and dynamic living entity.

Summer Fest continues in August in true ʻohana style at Halekiʻi Market in Kealakekua.

Make-A-Wish Hawai‘i is marking 40 years of granting life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses, and to celebrate the significant milestone, the organization will host free anniversary events every Saturday in August throughout the state, including on the Big Island.

Several students in Hilo now have a good fish story to tell.

The public is invited to come out and smell the flowers during an upcoming Kona Orchid Society event.

Election season is in full swing and the Hawai‘i Democratic Party invites voters to meet its candidates face-to-face before next month’s primary election.

Not even Tropical Storm Darby and the rain it brought as it passed to the south of the island could keep people away from participating Saturday night, July 16, in the 30th Relay For Life of the Big Island.

The world’s largest long-distance outrigger canoe race will once again welcome paddlers from around the world this year to the Big Island.

Get ready for a fun-filled day of activities for everyone in the family.

Two people will be honored later this month for their contributions to the Big Island community.

Ballots for this year’s primary election are expected to arrive in Big Island mailboxes by July 26 and Waimea Community Association wants voters to be as informed as possible before making their first choices.

For the ninth year in a row, Hilo Community Players is adapting another Shakespearean tale for teens as part of its Shakespeare in the Park festival.

A swashbuckling comedy about freedom, redemption and recovery will grace stages in Hilo and Honoka’a this month during the 45th annual Shakespeare in the Park.

The community is invited to join the movement and fight back against cancer while honoring and remembering loved ones during the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of the Big Island next month.