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See the original post at Estria.org: "This Mele Mural project with Aliamanu Middle School connects us with the land and mo‘olelo (story) of Mo‘oanaloa on O‘ahu and is respectively titled with the same name of “Mo‘oanaloa.” The mo‘olelo behind this mural takes us back...
See the original post at Estria.org: "Our journey with this Mele Murals project with Waimānalo Elementary & Intermediate School started with a kanikapila (Hawaiian music produced in an impromptu jam session) event back in September. Our staff and the students were...
https://vimeo.com/263988896 Mele Murals completed their final mural of 2017 with David Kalākaua Middle School. This was the biggest Mele Mural project to date, facilitating about 1,000 haumāna (students) to paint the mural project in unison. The main message conveyed...
https://vimeo.com/194911120 R.L. Stevenson Middle School, in the Makiki / Papakōlea area of Oʻahu, is the location of the latest Mele Mural. 6th graders, the youngest age group of the school, were tasked with leading the entire student body in accomplishing the...
https://vimeo.com/184593551 Students from Hoʻoulu ʻŌpio Academy honor the past and embrace the future in this Mele Murals project in Heʻeia. Huliau/Kalamakū “We are painting a Mele Mural today in Heʻeia at the back of Boston Pizza, which faces Windward Mall by where...
https://vimeo.com/165659294 Hoʻomalu ʻia e nā liko. Another Mele Murals project has begun. This time taking place at Blanche Pope Elementary School in Waimanalo. Those involved began the Mele Murals process by taking a huakaʻi, or journey, to a nearby spring to...
https://vimeo.com/145697883 Mele Murals completed both their largest project yet and first collaboration with a DOE school at Kaimuki High School.
https://vimeo.com/140479649 Students from Cathedral Catholic Academy & Pacific Buddhist Academy collaborated on the latest Mele Mural in Nu'uanu.
The Estria Foundation is pleased to announce the start of its fourth collaboration in its 20 mural series led by the students of Ke Kula o Ehunuikaimalino in Kealakekua on Hawaiʻi Island. Ke Kula ʻo Ehunuikaimalino is committed to perpetuating the language, customs,...
https://vimeo.com/90588168 The Estria Foundation’s latest project, Mele Murals, was recently completed in the small town of Waimea on the island of Hawaiʻi. “Mele Murals is a series of murals that we are intending to do across all the islands. The larger goal is to...
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