Healing, Connection Focus of Aʻaliʻi Workshop
By Dayanti Karunaratne | Editor
A special edition of the Hawaiian Arts workshop series took place on June 13, with a different location and an expanded focus. The Molokai Arts Center free lei-making class, usually held during the bi-monthly Hoʻolehua Homestead Makeke, set up at Uncle Bobby Alcain’s property, known as Aina Pulapula. And participants learned more than how to string lei.
Alcain explained that the Aʻaliʻi plant can be a type of medicine, as well as a lei material, but to do that meant visiting the Aʻaliʻi grove on his property. This gave attendees a chance to harvest the lei-making materials themselves and learn from artist Aulani Herrod-Perkins, who has spent the last year harvesting and growing seeds, tending the native plant nursery and making art at Aina Pula Pula.…
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