Benefit Concert with Brother Noland, Na Kama, and
the Kapaa Middle School Ukulele Band
Friday, November 17 - 6:30 pm
Kaua'i Community College Performing Arts Center in
Lihue
We are honored to have such an awesome line up of
performers to help support our youth programs here
on Kaua'i at our big, annual benefit concert.. Brother
Noland - who played for us at the 2004 Kaua'i Peace
Project - is one Hawaiian superstar who can get everyone
dancing with his range of slack key guitar to "Jawaiian"
island rockers. He does a ton of volunteering to help
youth on Oahu and we honor him for this. Na Kama, the
heartfelt Oahu trio groomed by the Makaha Sons, opens
with a rich Hawaiian set that will make your heart
fly... and to start the night, we'll have a few songs
by the prize-winning Kapaa Middle School Ukulele Band
lead by award-winning teacher Mary Lardizabal. This
promises to be an evening where you can enjoy top-flight
Hawaiian music while knowing you are supporting a great
non-profit cause for our teens.
We are pleased to introduce you to the Kauai Peace
Project, an on-going initiative aimed at empowering
youngsters and inspiring to build a more positive
perspective of themselves, their family and their world.
Our variety of offerings - such as Mentor
Ohana - are
designed to help build self esteem, provide tools to
build confidence, and to help children understand that
peace begins from the inside out. We define peace with
a broad stroke, including mind/body well being… so
there is a positive lifestyle/health component to this
as well.
This year we will not have the daytime event, only
the evening Benefit Concert due to our inability to
find a suitable location. Please come support this
event and the good work that it will benefit.
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We will also be announcing the winners
of our "Peace from the Inside Out" essay contest in
between musical acts. This annual contest asks island
youth to describe how peace starts within... and what
that means to them and the community.
If you attend a Kaua'i Middle or High
School, contact us to get the contest guidelines to
enter. Due date for entries is November 12th.
Click here to contact us about contest
guidelines
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Last year's event took place November 19, 2005 at
the beautiful Kauai Beach Resort in Lihue. Thank you
to all the amazing people who volunteered to make this
2nd Annual event a great success for the children of
Kaua'i. Over 850 people attended from Friday evening
through Saturday evening... we are so grateful to everyone
who participated. We added the Children's Health Fair
and Symposium component to the Second Annual Kauai
Peace Project this year, including 40
vendor tables and exhibits,
CEU (Continuing Education Unit) workshops for healthcare
professionals - featuring the Nobel Prize-winning Physicians
For Social Responsibility. 13 other top presenters
will be part of the Diabetes Awarness program track
sponsored by the Hawaii Health Guide. Click
here for a detailed schedule of last year's events.
 Fun,
free activities
A
gourmet luncheon fundraiser presentation featuring
representatives from the Physicians for Social Responsibility
and Miss Hawaii 2005 Malika Dudley took
place and we are grateful to Kaua'i Mayor Brian Baptiste,
Beth Tokioka - Director of the Office for Economic
Development, JoAnn Yukimura - County Council Member,
and all the other community leaders who attended.
All the unique and exciting children's activities
and the Saturday evening awards presentation and
music gala will remain as we offered last year. Slack
key guitar virtuoso Makana played
a partial-benefit concert on Friday evening, November
18th at the KCC Auditorium and we raised $800 for
our Mentor
Ohana program. For the 400 people who attended,
this was a show to remember, thank you!
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Miss
Hawaii 2005 - Malika Dudley 
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The First Annual Kaua'i Peace Project Gala Event took place in 2004 and
more than 800 people from Kaua'i, our neighboring islands, and the mainland
attended - including 200 children and youth, participating in workshops like
the one pictured at the left featuring Tepairu Manea teaching Polynesian
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This gala event created by the non-profit Kahuna
Valley organization includes fun activities and educational workshops
designed to inspire children and adults alike, with Hawaiian blessings
by kumu hulas Auntie Nani Higa and her Halau Hula O Nani. Evening entertainment
included awards presentation and singing by Miss Hawaii 2005 Malika Dudley,
slack key guitar virtuoso singer/songwriter Makana, talk-story,
singer songwriter Millicent Cummings, the Rainbow Players children ensemble
band, and the All Saints Pre-School Choir led by Warren Dastrup.
Click
here for the Schedule of 2005 Events
Saturday "FunShop" activities for kids included "Smart
Exercise" led by Daisy Lee-Garripoli, a traditional Hawaiian drumming
and wood carving workshop with James and Lizanne, fun and expressive recycling
art workshops led by Carol Yotsuda, founder of the Garden
Island Arts Council, glass art classes with Kathy Cowan, a songwriting
workshop with Millicent Cummings, biofeedback games, a Taiko Drumming workshop
with Ray Nitta, and other exciting and interactive events for everyone
to get involved in... including workshops for parents on Qigong stress
management and an array of vendors sharing services and products from around
Kaua'i.
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Kaua'i Peace Project had breakout workshops for children and adults throughout
the weekend event in the areas of 1) Health and Healing; 2) Diet and Exercise;
3) Confidence and Esteem Building; 4) Creativity Boosting; 5) Scholastic
Skill-Building; 6) Music and Dance; 7) Eco-friendly Solutions; 8) Arts
and Crafts, Self-Esteem Building through Music and Voice programs - all
ways for our youth to be heard, and to give voice to their self-expression
during the most exciting - yet very vulnerable - time in their lives. Share
your teaching talent and your love of children, work to empower our youth
in positive ways and you will create a memory that may sustain them through
times of challenge as they grow to adulthood.
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Working in conjunction with motivated teachers, volunteers, and non-profit organizations,
the ongoing momentum of the Kaua'i Peace Project initiative will run throughout
the year, with on-going in-school events designed to build self-esteem, scholastic
skills, health and well-being, that will culminate at the gala event in November.
There will also be a contest for 9 - 16 year-olds leading up to the gala where
a variety of prizes will be given in various age-group categories for creative
entries in how we can "promote peace from the inside, out ." These
will include essays, poems, artwork, and take-action projects which will be promoted
in schools throughout Kaua'i.
Check out the cover story that appeared in the Garden Island Newspaper and other
press coverage that we've been receiving ... click
here.
Financial Support - As with all things, it takes a
certain amount of money to make things happen in any initiative. Your contribution
is a tax-deductible donation that will help sponsor a child so that they may
participate in one of our programs. Please help us help our youth by clicking
one of the two options below to make a $50 donation to help a child learn the
benefits of Smart Exercise... or make a $100 donaton to help us match a child
with a volunteer mentor through Mentor Ohana. Thank you.
We are so grateful for the growing media support of this project, and for our
corporate sponsors and supporting friends:
   
   
   
    
   
Please check in to this site regularly as we continue to adjust schedules up
to the day of the event...or feel free to contact us to discuss how to get involved,
secure a vendor table, or support this important event for the youth of Kauai.
For more info, click here to contact us
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