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Keahualaka [digital videodisc] : a door to Hawaiian spirituality / [creatively pieced together, edited and completed by Serge Marcil/4dMedia].

[Kapaʻa, Kauaʻi : Ka ʻImi Naʻauao o Hawaiʻi Nei, 2017]

Bailey, Roselle.

Restoration ecology -- Hawaii -- Kauai.

Nature conservation -- Hawaii -- Kauai.

Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Hawaii -- Kauai.

Hula (Dance) -- Hawaii -- Kauai.

1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

"Beginning in the 1970s, Ka Imi Institute’s founder and current President Emeritus Roselle Keliihonipua Bailey held a vision of what might happen if the important archaeological site of Keahualaka were to be released from its stranglehold of non-native plants and trees and re-dedicated to Laka, the Goddess of Hula, the forest, and navigation, for which it was originally constructed in prehistoric times. Keahualaka is an important site for all of the Hawaiian islands, beyond Kauai. The work that went into freeing it from its almost forgotten state to its present and future recreated beauty and importance as an historical hula site is the focus of the documentary. That journey was documented over the years via photo and film, including programs by representatives of Japan television and BBC film crews... It includes an in-depth interview of Bailey giving her first-hand account of what transpired over many years after she sought and received permission to undertake the daunting challenge... “Keahualaka” includes archival photographs and segments of video footage filmed on the site during workdays and ceremonial events of hula once the ancient hula platform was cleared and rededicated some decades ago. The years of maintaining and honoring the archaeological site have led to the hoped-for outcome of Bailey’s vision, now come to fruition: Keahualaka and its surrounding area continue to draw people beyond cultural practitioners and haumana hula (hula students) because of its significance and its beauty."--The Garden Island.

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