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East-West Fest 2024 East-West Fest 2024
In-person In-person

Free admission!

Come join us for an afternoon of family-friendly fun including dance and musical performances, cultural booths, storytelling and food representing people and places from across the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

Performance Schedule

1:50pm - Opening, Welcome

2:00pm - Set 1

  • Guqin - Traditional Chinese Stringed Instrument
  • UH Manoa Chinese Ensemble
  • Sing our Stories - Songs from the Indigenous Paiwan people of Taiwan
  • Our Narratives through Song - Violin interpretations of Civil Rights ballads
  • Cebuano Liturgical Music - Violin music from the Philippines

3:00pm - Set 2

  • UH Manoa Kulintang Ensemble - Gong music of Southern Philippines
  • Aloha Natyam - Thillana -Bharatanatyam Classical Indian  Dance
  • Kathak Indian Dance in Bollywood - Thare Rahiyo
  • Angklung - The Sound of West Java Indonesia

4:00pm - Set 3

  • Poi Spinning
  • Ewe - Contemporary Hawaiian Music
  • Jehzan Exclusive - Local Filipino Rap
  • K-Pop Cardio Crew - K-Pop Dance

5:00pm - Set 4

  • Taiko Center of The Pacific
  • Fealofani O Samoa - Siva Samoa
  • Palauan Contemporary Dance
  • Pohnpeian Surupak and Kosraean Stick Dance
  • We Are Pasifika - Upon the Mat : A story of building relationships, of staying and of unity in diversity
  • DJ AiT - International Dance Party!

Cultural Booths

African Cultures Booth

Chinese Hanfu and Aesthetics

EWC Alumni Hawaii Chapter

East-West Center Community Garden

Filipino Booth

Friends of the East-West Center

Afghanistan - Heart of Asia

Indonesia

Persian Art of Iran

Korean Culture Booth

Melanesia

Micronesia

Nepal Vista: A Cultural Expedition

Okinawa Table

Polynesia

Seas of Diversity: Taiwan's Coastal Cultures

Thailand

Falestine -The Roots Connecting Us All 

UH Way of Tea Club - Japanese Tea Ceremony Demonstration

The East-West Center Gallery exhibition Kabuki in Hawai‘i: Connections through Time and Space will be open to visit and participate in hands-on activities!


Watch a sneak peek of East-West Fest intern Chetsada Changmai's performance on Hawaii News Now or learn more about East-West Fest intern and indigenous Paiwan Eleng Kazangiljan from Taiwan.

Free admission!

Come join us for an afternoon of family-friendly fun including dance and musical performances, cultural booths, storytelling and food representing people and places from across the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

Performance Schedule

1:50pm - Opening, Welcome

2:00pm - Set 1

  • Guqin - Traditional Chinese Stringed Instrument
  • UH Manoa Chinese Ensemble
  • Sing our Stories - Songs from the Indigenous Paiwan people of Taiwan
  • Our Narratives through Song - Violin interpretations of Civil Rights ballads
  • Cebuano Liturgical Music - Violin music from the Philippines

3:00pm - Set 2

  • UH Manoa Kulintang Ensemble - Gong music of Southern Philippines
  • Aloha Natyam - Thillana -Bharatanatyam Classical Indian  Dance
  • Kathak Indian Dance in Bollywood - Thare Rahiyo
  • Angklung - The Sound of West Java Indonesia

4:00pm - Set 3

  • Poi Spinning
  • Ewe - Contemporary Hawaiian Music
  • Jehzan Exclusive - Local Filipino Rap
  • K-Pop Cardio Crew - K-Pop Dance

5:00pm - Set 4

  • Taiko Center of The Pacific
  • Fealofani O Samoa - Siva Samoa
  • Palauan Contemporary Dance
  • Pohnpeian Surupak and Kosraean Stick Dance
  • We Are Pasifika - Upon the Mat : A story of building relationships, of staying and of unity in diversity
  • DJ AiT - International Dance Party!

Cultural Booths

African Cultures Booth

Chinese Hanfu and Aesthetics

EWC Alumni Hawaii Chapter

East-West Center Community Garden

Filipino Booth

Friends of the East-West Center

Afghanistan - Heart of Asia

Indonesia

Persian Art of Iran

Korean Culture Booth

Melanesia

Micronesia

Nepal Vista: A Cultural Expedition

Okinawa Table

Polynesia

Seas of Diversity: Taiwan's Coastal Cultures

Thailand

Falestine -The Roots Connecting Us All 

UH Way of Tea Club - Japanese Tea Ceremony Demonstration

The East-West Center Gallery exhibition Kabuki in Hawai‘i: Connections through Time and Space will be open to visit and participate in hands-on activities!


Watch a sneak peek of East-West Fest intern Chetsada Changmai's performance on Hawaii News Now or learn more about East-West Fest intern and indigenous Paiwan Eleng Kazangiljan from Taiwan.

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