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Weekly Highlights in Hawaii

Every featured event of the week, past and present

HIFF46 Opens at Hawaii Theatre
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

HIFF46 Opens at Hawaii Theatre

The world premiere of "The Navigator," Jordan Manley's documentary about Nainoa Thompson's final 2,400-mile voyage to Tahiti, opens the 46th Hawai'i International Film Festival on Oct. 21, 2026, at the Hawaii Theatre in Honolulu.

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Hawaiʻi International Film
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Hawaiʻi International Film

The 46th Hawaiʻi International Film Festival, presented by Halekulani, runs Oct. 21–Nov. 5, 2026 on Oʻahu, opening with the world premiere of The Navigator at the Hawaiʻi Theatre Center.

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Hauntopia 2026 at Da Dream Lab
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Hauntopia 2026 at Da Dream Lab

Da Dream Lab in Kailua turns its art-and-science space into a two-ghosts-out-of-ten guided Halloween adventure for keiki, running October 23–25 and 28–31, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

HUKI Canoe Show at Polynesian

The Polynesian Cultural Center's lagoon canoe spectacle HUKI returns to Lāʻie on October 19, 2026, with live musicians and Pacific storytellers performing from double-hulled canoes.

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Octo-Bear-Fest at Honolulu Zoo
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Octo-Bear-Fest at Honolulu Zoo

Octo-Bear-Fest: Boos & Brews is listed as bringing local beer, live music and family fun to the Honolulu Zoo on October 24, 2026 — a Halloween event built around the zoo's Malayan sun bears.

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Samadhi Lagoon Halloween Circus
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Samadhi Lagoon Halloween Circus

Samadhi Hawaii's aerialists turn the Kaka'ako studio at 330 Cooke Street into a haunted lagoon on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, for a costume-friendly circus Halloween show.

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Improv & Open Mic at Puhi
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Improv & Open Mic at Puhi

Kauai Community Players and Hawaii Children's Theatre team up for a $5 improv-and-open-mic night at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse in Lihue on Friday, October 16, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Kauai Made Craft Fair

The Kauai Made Craft Fair brings county-vetted island makers to Kauai Shores Hotel in Kapaa every Tuesday and Saturday from 3 to 7 p.m., free to enter.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Free Hula Lessons at Hale Lihue

YWCA Kaua'i and the Rice Street Business Association host free hula lessons with Kumu Kamalani at Hale Lihue in Lihue, open to keiki through kupuna.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Kōlea GPS Talk at Princeville

Biologist Susan Scott returns to the Princeville Moʻolelo lecture series on Oct. 13, 2026, to explain what GPS-tagged Pacific golden-plovers revealed about tracking Hawaiʻi's shorebirds.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Lauhala Weaving Class at Kahului

A free, registration-only lauhala weaving class taught by Maui cultural practitioner Leiana Sing-Keliikoa comes to Kahului Public Library on October 13, 2026.

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After the Flood
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

After the Flood

A state meeting at the Nāʻālehu library will lay out plans for 12 interim homes for residents displaced by Hurricane Lala — homes that will later house the town's teachers and nurses.

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Walking With Animals in Waimea
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Walking With Animals in Waimea

A hurricane-delayed pet walk at Pukalani Stables carries on a Big Island tradition of healing animals and a global fundraiser for therapy animal teams.

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Before There Were Maps, There Were
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Before There Were Maps, There Were

A one-night premiere at the Kona Elks Lodge brings a filmmaker couple's global Indigenous documentary series to the island where its Hawaiian chapter was born.

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Friday Nights Belong to the Artists
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Friday Nights Belong to the Artists

Every week, a 3,000-square-foot community house on Rice Street throws open its doors to painters, poets, musicians and anyone else who wants to make something.

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Maui Fair's 99th Year Takes Flight
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Maui Fair's 99th Year Takes Flight

After a six-year hiatus and a record-breaking homecoming, the Maui County Fair returns for four days of Hawaiian music, hula, and nightly drone shows over the War Memorial Complex.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Museum's Courtyard

Every first Thursday, the Kauaʻi Museum throws open its courtyard to island artists, fashion makers, and cultural practitioners — free, as it has welcomed the island since 1960.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Pounding Poi, Reclaiming Law

At a three-acre Windward Oʻahu farm, a weekly workshop keeps alive a food practice Hawaii once banned — and teaches the hands-on history of how it came back.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Free Hula Every Thursday

A Kauai halau has turned the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn at Wailua Bay into a weekly gathering of hula, mele, and handmade craft — free, rain or shine.

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Young Voices, One Ohana: Kona's
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Young Voices, One Ohana: Kona's

For the second year, Hawaiʻi Island keiki will perform live with Grammy-nominated LT Smooth's band—this time with a donation drive for Hurricane Lala recovery.

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Hands in the Soil: The Monthly
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Hands in the Soil: The Monthly

On the first Tuesday of each month, volunteers climb Maui's great volcano to tend a tiny greenhouse that may hold the key to the survival of some of its rarest plants.

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A Poet Laureate's Gift for the Grieving: Talk Story, Write, and Let the Ones Who Stay Gone Speak
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Poet Laureate's Gift for the Grieving: Talk Story, Write, and Let the Ones Who Stay Gone Speak

Hawaiʻi's third poet laureate, Lee Tonouchi, brings his talk-story poetry workshop to Waimea's Thelma Parker Memorial Public Library, where he'll help attendees write about the loved ones they've lost.

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A Poet Laureate's Gift for the
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Poet Laureate's Gift for the

Hawaiʻi's third poet laureate, Lee Tonouchi, brings his talk-story poetry workshop to Waimea's Thelma Parker Memorial Public Library, where he'll help attendees write about the loved ones they've lost.

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Community Resilience Fair in North
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Community Resilience Fair in North

The free community preparedness fair scheduled for Aug. 29 at Hisaoka Gym has been postponed, according to event materials.

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Reeling in Generations: The ʻOhana
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Reeling in Generations: The ʻOhana

For nearly three decades, Hawaiʻi Island's beloved shoreline fishing tournament has brought keiki to kūpuna together for a weekend of heritage, competition, and conservation.

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