Video replay available — Kai Piha: Nā Loko Iʻa: Talk Story with filmmaker & stewards
Historic Hawai‘i Foundation presents A Talk Story with the filmmaker and Loko Iʻa Stewards Wednesday, October 27, 2021 From 5:00-6:15PM Virtual, via Zoom Cost: Free View the video replay below of the talk story with the film's director and community stewards of three O‘ahu fishponds: Kanewai Loko Iʻa, Paʻaiau Loko Iʻa, and Huilua Loko Iʻa, below. RESOURCES for Stewarding Loko Iʻa Huilua Loko Iʻa, Kahana Hoʻāla 'Āina Kūpono Friends of Kahana Email: kahiau@hoalaainakupono.org Kānewai Spring & Kalauha‘iha‘i Fishpond, Kuli’ou’ou Website: https://maunaluafishpond.org/ Loko Pā`aiau Fishpond, ‘Aiea Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lokopaaiau/ Website: https://www.aieacommunity.org/projects/loko-paaiau-fishpond/ Waikalua Loko Iʻa, Kāne‘ohe Website: https://www.thepaf.org/waikalua/ Anne Marie Kirk: Blue Crater Media Several of Anne Marie's films are available on her website: http://www.bluecratermedia.com/movies.html Kai Piha Kaʻahele ma Waikīkī Ola Na Iwi Pacific Clues Art Hunter Sounds of Hawaiʻi Choices Stories to Tell Ke 'Imi Noi'i View the film, Kai Piha: Nā Loko Iʻa SUMMARY: For centuries, loko iʻa, or fishponds, were a vital part of the Native Hawaiian food system, connecting freshwater sources to the ocean, using rock-wall enclosures to raise and eventually harvest fish. In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of this indigenous way of aquafarming. Kai Piha: Nā Loko Iʻa looks at how four fishponds on Oʻahu are being restored. DOWNLOAD THE EVENT FLYER Loko i‘a are historical evidence to the legacy of abundance throughout our islands -- abundance of freshwater flowing to the ocean, abundance of healthy coastal fisheries and thriving human communities that lived independently on isolated islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The people power required to construct loko i‘a and the intergenerational environmental knowledge required to manage them necessitated [...]