The festival’s first two days - today and Friday - are devoted to hula and craft workshops that have moved, this year, from Clark College to the Groove Nation dance studio at 3000 Columbia House Blvd., Suite 107.
“We want to make sure it stays a safe and healthy event that people feel good about coming to,” he said. This year, Holt said, event planners decided it was time to institute some limits. Vancouver’s so-called “Hawaiian festival” has grown into a public dance party that has packed in as many as 30,000 people in a weekend. “A lot of people coming here are people you can only see on TV, even in Hawaii,” Holt said.Īnother reason for tickets, Holt added, is security and sanity in the park. It has developed a reputation that even people in Hawaii are talking about lately. The musicians, crafters and teachers who come here to dance hula, play music, demonstrate Indigenous arts and crafts and teach Hawaiian history are some of the most esteemed experts in the world, said Holt, executive director of the Four Days festival.
Children 10 and younger are still free, but must register online. Tickets start at $7 for a single-day pass.
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That’s partly why Vancouver’s prized annual “Four Days of Aloha” festival, which was free for 19 years running, has finally made the difficult decision to require tickets and charge admission. The “aloha spirit” of Hawaii is all about warmth, friendliness and inclusion, according to Kaloku Holt.īut it takes a lot more than that to operate a cultural foundation and stage a four-day festival that draws top entertainers and educators from overseas, along with tens of thousands of local visitors.
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