Slate.com | Dan Kois | Oct 5, 2023 Among the 20 winners of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship announced Wednesday were scientists, engineers, composers, legal scholars—and one hula dancer. Patrick Makuakāne, a 62-year-old kumu hula, or master teacher, lives in San Francisco and runs the hula school and company Nā...
KITV News | By Rick Quan | Oct 4, 2023 A big congratulations to Kumu hula Patrick Makuakane. He's one of twenty people from around the country this year to win a prestigious MacArthur Foundation genius grant. When Makuakane first got a text to call the MacArthur Foundation last...
MacArthur Foundation | October 4, 2023 Blending traditional hula with contemporary music and movements and uplifting Hawaiian culture and history. About Patrick’s Work Patrick Makuakāne is a kumu hula (master teacher) and cultural preservationist infusing traditional hula with fresh interpretations and establishing new routes for transmitting and preserving Hawaiian cultural...
Philanthropy.com | By Thalia Beaty, AP | Oct 4, 2023 The 20 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend as they see fit. Patrick Makuakāne’s choreography and dance have blended hula with contemporary influences while uplifting Hawaiian languages and histories. The John...
WashingtonPost.com | By Travis M. Andrews | Oct 4, 2023 Ian Bassin would rather talk about the 2024 election — “one of the most consequential” in the history of this nation — but right now he must talk a little bit about himself. His grandparents used...
Fortune.com | By Thalia Beaty, AP A scientist who studies the airborne transmission of diseases, a master hula dancer and cultural preservationist, and the sitting U.S. poet laureate were among the 20 new recipients of the prestigious fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, known as “genius...
APNews.com | BY THALIA BEATY | Oct 4, 2023 A scientist who studies the airborne transmission of diseases, a master hula dancer and cultural preservationist, and the sitting U.S. poet laureate were among the 20 new recipients of the prestigious fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, known...
StarAdvertiser.com | By Thalia Beaty, AP | Oct 4, 2023 Patrick Makuakane, left, director of a hula school in San Francisco, is shown with producer Lisette Marie Flanary of New York, in July 2003, at the Bishop Museum, before the preview showing of the documentary film...
Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne and his award-winning dance troupe, Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu, present an entirely new show, MĀHŪ, for two performances only. Nā Lei Hulu’s newest production features some of the most well-known māhū artists in Hawai’i today, including Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Kuini, and Kaumakaʻiwa Kanakaʻole, beautiful costumes and...
Roxie Theater, SF | October 24, 2022. Q&A with Directors Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson and Editor Bill Weber following the screening! On Honolulu’s famed Waikiki Beach stand four giant boulders placed as a tribute to the four legendary mahu–individuals of dual male and...
Say Aloha to These Local Luminaries in Dance, Education, Sports and More by Jeanne Cooper Patrick Makuakāne | Sixteen years after receiving a lifetime achievement award from the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, the iconoclastic kumu (hula master) picked up a second such honor, this time from the...
LISTEN:“Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakane to debut new show ‘Mahu’ in San Francisco” (Hawaiʻi Public Radio | August 11, 2022)...
May 27, 2022 | Hawaiʻi Chamber of Commerce of Northern California Kumu Patrick Makuakāne receives the 2022 Kūlia I Ka Nuʻu Lifetime Achievement Award. Patrick Makuakāne is the Director & Kumu Hula of Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu. He is a creative force in the hula world,...
April 27, 2022 by Anthony Manuel Caravalho | San Quentin News The Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) prison population in the U.S. skyrocketed 250 percent in the 1990s, while the country’s overall prison population grew by only 77 percent. AAPI is now counted within a group called “Others”...