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\u02bbAhahui Ka\u02bbahumanu members. File photo by Wendy Osher. <\/p>\n\n\u02bbAhahui Ka\u02bbahumanu members. File photo by Wendy Osher. <\/p>\n
The \u02bbAhahui Ka\u02bbahumanu Chapter IV Wailuku Island of Maui announces its Annual Queen\u2019s Celebration at the Queen Ka\u02bbahumanu Shopping Center in Kahului on Sunday, March 15, 2026. <\/p>\n
The Society has been celebrating Queen Ka\u02bbahumanu\u2019s birthday anniversary at the shopping center since 1995, when the Tom Vaught Queen\u2019s statue was commissioned and placed at the mall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are both humbled and excited to invite our Maui Nui community to join us as we gather at Center Stage to share traditional music, mele and hula in honor of her birthday,\u201d said Pelekikena, Stacey Shibao. The music, hula and lei draping portion of the event begins at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
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\u02bbAhahui Ka\u02bbahumanu members. File photo by Wendy Osher. <\/p>\n
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\u201cWe will continue our tradition of Lei Draping her statue and the public is welcome to bring a 6 foot open lei as Ho\u02bbokupu during the draping ceremony. This will be followed by our very first Queen\u2019s Gallery Experience,\u201d said Shibao. <\/p>\n
This year marks Queen Ka\u02bbahumanu\u2019s 258th birthday anniversary, a very special occasion as the \u02bbAhahui Society will be sharing, for the first time, their one-of-kind Queen Ka\u02bbahumanu Portrait gifted to the \u02bbAhahui over 30 years ago.<\/p>\n
The Queen\u2019s Gallery Experience runs from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and is an interactive art display featuring culture, kupuna and mo\u02bbolelo. It is located on the first floor bay next to Bath & Body Works. The Experience is presented by members who will share their aloha by honoring the Queen. Additionally local artists Philip Sabado and Sean Baba will be paying tribute with their special pieces honoring the Queen\u2019s time as ruler from Lahaina, Maui.<\/p>\n
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The Gallery experience includes a \u201ctalk story\u201d about the Queen\u2019s Portrait as told by the ladies of \u02bbAhahui. There will be \u02bbAhahui artworks to enjoy, lei hulu (feather lei) demonstration and kapa mo\u02bbolelo followed by a tribute to Lucy Peabody and the lineage legacy of the society. \u02bbAhahui Ka\u02bbahumanu Chapter IV has a lineage of nearly 700 Native Hawaiian women and is in its 103rd year since its establishment in 1923.<\/p>\n
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\u02bbAhahui Ka\u02bbahumanu members celebrate the Queen\u2019s birthday with protocol assisted by the Royal Order of Kamehameha. File photo by Wendy Osher.<\/p>\n
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The society honors the Queen through care of the elderly, benevolent support, promotes culture, history, wellness, Christian and Hawaiian values. \u02bbAhahui Ka\u02bbahumanu is the oldest Royal Benevolent Society in Hawai\u02bbi, started in 1864 by Princess Victoria Kamamalu. The Maui Chapter IV is one of nine societies with residence throughout Hawai\u02bbi including O\u02bbahu, Kaua\u02bbi, Hawai\u02bbi Island, Moloka\u02bbi and also on Maui, the H\u0101na Chapter which is the moku of her birthplace.<\/p>\n
The all day event is free to the public. \u2018Ahahui Ka\u2019ahumanu Society encourages all Maui \u02bbohana, keiki, kupuna, hula h\u0101lau, visitors and local organizations to stop by and remember Maui\u2019s own and Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s Kuhina Nui, Queen Elizabeth Ka\u02bbahumanu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u02bbAhahui Ka\u02bbahumanu members. File photo by Wendy Osher. The \u02bbAhahui Ka\u02bbahumanu Chapter IV Wailuku Island of Maui announces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[62368,62369,62370,62371,62372,9,24,63,62373,62374,122,124,123,62375,62376,62377],"class_list":["post-148752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-hawaii-royal-society","tag-ahahui-kaahumanu","tag-ahahui-kaahumanu-chapter-iv","tag-ahahui-kaahumanu-chapter-iv-wailuku","tag-kaahumanu-birthday","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-kaahumanu","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royal-benevolent-society","tag-stacey-shibao","tag-victoria-kamamalu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}