August 1st, 2026 | 3:00-7:00 PM 

Zen Life & Meditation Center, Oak Park, Illinois 

Nā Pua e Hoʻōmau i Ke Ea  - “The Flowers Will Continue to Perpetuate Sovereignty”

A Lā Kū'ē Lei Celebration 
Honoring Kumu Pili Pang's 40 Years of Cultural Breath 

Join us in person or online for a Hula Performance and Silent Auction. If you attend in person, you can also enjoy the Lei Contest and Potluck. All proceeds support Halau i Ka Pono's journey to Honolulu to honor Kumu Pili's 40th anniversary celebration. 

The day after Lā Kū'ē (Hawaiian Sovereignty Restoration Day), we gather to make lei, share hula, and celebrate four decades of Kumu Pili Pang's dedication to keeping Hawaiian culture alive and breathing. 

Nā pua - the flowers, the people, the students, the practice. 
Hoʻōmau - to continue, to perpetuate, to tend and sustain. 
Ke ea - sovereignty, breath, rising, life force. 

As long as we tend to our collective responsibilities - making lei, dancing hula, gathering in community - we continue to rise, to breathe, to enact sovereignty for our past and future ancestors. Lei and hula are evidence: we are still here.