In recognition of Earth Day, the Kaua’i Westside Watershed Council will be sponsoring a multi-faceted event this Saturday at Nawiliwili Park featuring experts and booths on science, health and entertainment and government leaders. In conjunction with the state’s proclamation of
In recognition of Earth Day, the Kaua’i Westside Watershed Council will be sponsoring a multi-faceted event this Saturday at Nawiliwili Park featuring experts and booths on science, health and entertainment and government leaders.
In conjunction with the state’s proclamation of “The Year of the Hawaiian Forest,” EarthDay 2003 Celebration is scheduled to be held at the East Kaua’i park from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event not only will encourage residents and visitors to protect the environment and help perpetuate Hawaiian culture, but offers them a chance to “experience possibilities and knowledge in one accord with fun and sharing,” said Rhoda Libre, coordinator of the event this year.
“Support the fight in education for empowerment towards the life and survival of our island, peoples, and culture,” Libre said.
Libre said the community forum will allow people access to “information and governmental representatives in networking your concerns.”
Kauai Westside Watershed Council, the sponsor of the event, is an affiliate of Garden Island Quality of the Pacific “Serving Kaua’i.” Admission is free.
Supporting the event are Mayor Bryan Baptiste’s office, the Kaua’i County Council, state office of Forestry, National Resource Conservation Service, Garden Island Resource, conservation and development and Garden Island Quality of the Pacific.
Earth Day is celebrated at the United Nations each year on the first day of spring.
Plans for the first Earth Day were announced in San Francisco at the November 1969 UNESCO Conference on the Environment.
Earth Day proclamations were issued by San Francisco and other Northern California cities and the first Earth Day was celebrated March 21, 1970.
This Saturday’s event will feature booths and products that relate to massage, yoga, martial arts, cultural entertainment, healing, crafts, workshops in Tahitian drumming, wood carving, navigational practices of Micronesians and canoe carving, Libre said.
Also offered will be aerobics, tai chi, kickboxing, hula dancing and yoga.
At noon, experts on recycling, composting and plants and government officials, including Mayor Bryan Baptiste, will be introduced. Nawiliwili Bay Watershed Council chairperson, Cheryl Obatake-Lovell will give a pule, a prayer.
Among artists and entertainers that will be featured at the event are: Puna Dawson and her Hawaiian hula halau, Jahfoliba, an African-style band featuring Blu Dux’s African dancers, Omega Project, an all-girl band from the north shore of Kaua’i, Lost Pelican, a rock band featured at Caffe Coco in Wailua, Dr. Kanter, a tai-chi master, Craig Davies, Patrick Cortez, a kickbox teacher for women and Donna Whitaker, a Pa Kua master (healing martial arts) and acupuncturist.
Also expected to make a show are: Renuka and the Devoted Yogis and modern dance troupe, Yemaya, an aromatherapy and exotic mystic dance group, Matea and her healing arts and modern dance troupe, Manea and Heiva O Kaua’i, experts in Tahitian drumming and woodcarving and Kula Ni’ihau O’ Kekaha.
Somatic therapy also will be offered to those who are physically and emotionally injured, Libre said.
The booths will be manned by representatives from the Kaua’i County recycling program, Save Our Seas, Kaua’i County Water Department, Adel, an etch glass entity, Sandblasters Kaua’i, Kauai Native Plant Society, Kaua’i Invasive Species Committee, Koke’e Resource Conservation, Conservation Council of Hawaii, the forestry division of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, GMO, Gospel bookstore, the Way of Salvation Church, Hanalei Heritage River, Nawiliwili Bay Watershed Council and the Kekahu Foundation, Painted Feather Crafts, Karen Tilley Holistics and the Kaua’i Center for Holistic Care.
Also invited to the event are: Lihu’e Massage Clinic with Isaac Osborne, a licensed massage therapist; Annalia Russell, who has a doctorate degree in therapeutic massage and healing art; Claude Hutchins, a practitioner of the Dr. Ida Rolf Method of Structural Integration and Wes Marrin, environmental scientist and author of “Universal Water.”
For more information, contact mailto:earthday03@go.com, mailto:kauaiwestsidewatershedcouncil@go.com or call event organizers at 245-9415 or 639-8158.
