DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & TOURISM (DBEDT)MINUTES OF THE COMMISSION ON THE 13TH FESTIVAL OF
PACIFIC ARTS & CULTURE (FestPAC) MEETINGTUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2020 AT 1:00PM
VIA VIRTUAL APPLICATION ZOOM: VIDEO / AUDIO CONFERENCE
Commission Members Present were:
J. Kalani English, Chair
Kalani Ka‘anā‘anā
Māpuana de Silva
Richard OnishiMonte McComber
Snowbird Bento
Misty Kelaʻi
Jamie Lum-Senate President’s Designee (arrived at 1:25pm)
Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority (HTA) Designee
Community Member At-Large
House Speaker’s Designee
Governor’s Designee
Community Member At-Large
City and County of Honolulu Designee
Department of Business, Economic Developmentand Tourism (DBEDT)

Jacob Aki
Honey Maltin-Wisot
Kanoe Takitani-Puahi
Lynn Martin Graton
Maka Casson-Fisher
Malia Sanders
T. Ilihia Gionson
Dede Howa
June Matsumoto
Jackie Burke
June Matsumoto
Jean-Emmamuel Frantz
Michi Moore
Ngahiraka Mason
Terence Liu
Eric Chang
Caroline Yacoe-Senator English’s Office
Strategies 360
Mayor’s Office of Culture and Arts (MOCA)-Hawai‘i Tourism Authority
Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association
Native Hawaiian Hospitality AssociationHawai‘i Tourism Authority
Pacific Islands Institute
Kahookele Art
Pacific Islands Institute-Hawai‘i State Senate
Aotearoa Representative-East West Center
Pacific Pathways

Margaret Ahn
Marlene Hiraoka
Timothy Tiu
Scott Tome
Selma Malcolm-Attorney General
DBEDT
DBEDT
DBEDT
DBEDT

Guests:Staff:

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Apologies:
Mehanaokalā Hind

-Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Designee

CALL TO ORDER
Call to order: The meeting was called to order by Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā at 1:01pm., who welcomedeveryone present via Zoom.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā called upon Mr. Gionson for the wehena (opening).
PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON AGENDA ITEMS
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā invited members of the public to testify on the agenda items. Hearing none, hecontinued with agenda items.
APPROVAL OF NOVEMBER 10, 2020 MEETING MINUTES
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā requested a motion to approve minutes of November 10, 2020. Motion toapprove by Mr. McComber and seconded by Ms. Bento. No further discussion.
A roll call vote was requested with the following Commissioners approving the motion:
Ms. de Silva, Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā, Ms. Lum, Mr. McComber, Representative Onishi, Ms. Bento andMs. Kela‘i. None opposed.
The facilitator for this meeting is Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā.
Festival Program Offerings
Commissioner Kaʻanāʻanā started discussion. Ms. Bento to facilitate. Mr. Gionson will edit
slides on screen.
Oral Traditions suggestions:
Mr. McComber: Create a space for non-hearing friends throughout the festival in its entirety.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: As much as possible I want to get the foundation of definitions solidified. If
anyone is feeling the urge for more detail, those definitions will come as the committees arefinalized. Let’s build out the framework.
Music Suggestions:No further discussions.
Dance Suggestions:No further discussions.
Mixed Media Suggestions:
Mr. McComber: This definition is maikaʻi.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: This will help us divide that kuleana to divide and conquer that work.

Minutes of the Commission on the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. via ZOOMPage 3 of 6Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: Regarding Indigenous Languages: Want to confirm that ʻōlelo Hawai‘i will beused throughout the festival. It will be a trilingual festival at a minimum: French/English/ ʻōleloHawaiʻi, possibly Spanish?
Ms. de Silva: ʻAe/Yes.
Mr. McComber: For graphic design do we want to include Digital Media? Adding it might
encourage more participation.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: It’s a nice complement to balance things.
Living Arts Suggestions:
Ms. Bento: This is a great opportunity to expand the waʻa community.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: Asks Ms. de Silva: Has kapa and weaving been together or held seperately?
Ms. de Silva: Responds seperately.
Ms. de Silva: Is there a place you’re putting featherwork, lei making, adornment making? Howdo we decide to make a separate category? I feel like featherwork and lei making should beseparate? What does the commission feel?
Mr. McComber: Do we offer “textiles”? Where does that go?
Ms. de Silva: Textiles belong in weaving but kapa should be separate.
Ms. Bento: There weren’t explicit definitions of how to cover all of them. It’s important toinclude featherwork as a separate program offering. Personal adornments perhaps that’s
everything here. It should all be vetted through the sub-committees.
Mr. McComber: There’s always a layered relationship in all of these. Even language layers into
storytelling etc.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: We should consult someone like Hanalei at Bishop Museum because they havea clear framework of how they define these. It probably exists somewhere already.
Ms. de Silva: It is a great resource for that. Let’s reach out.
Ms. de Silva: Just a thought on the extreme other side of this. We want countries to really focus
on their own country’s indigenous everything (arts/culture/practices). There’s so much crosscollaboration in today’s world that if we showcase the collaboration, we might lose the clarity
between one delegation and another.
Chair English joined the meeting at 1:25pm, and Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā provided a summary of thediscussion up to that point.
Ms. de Silva: I am cautious to include it in this festival but perhaps after the festival we canencourage collaborations.
Mr. McComber: One of the strengths of collaboration is that we are all coming out of thissituation that could be an economic driver that the festival can be used for many things; we needto lift the economic livelihood of all peoples in the Pacific and can we use the festival to do that.
Collaboration could help some of the Pacific peoples.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: Bringing us back, let’s give Ms. Bento time to think about and revise thesedefinitions, then we can discuss after that what we can do with these definitions.
Ms. Bento: Adding featherwork to living arts. Mahalo to Ms. de Silva.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: Asks to consider body ornamentation and personal adornment and how do wedistinguish between the two?

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Mr. McComber: Personal adornment can be expressed individually in different ways.
Ms. Bento: Will play around with these definitions and will bring back to the commission.
Health and Wellness Suggestions:
Mr. McComber: ʻOhana is a big one too. In age and preference category. What about naming
traditions and practices? Where does that fit?
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: As we start to figure out the expansiveness of what can be done, I suggest wedelegate the refining of definitions to the sub-committees to empower Ms. Bento to create theframework.
Special Events Suggestions:
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: Make fashion and wearable arts as a big bucket event as opposed to being aseparate category to include ornamentation and personal adornment as a broad umbrella. Add toLiving Arts instead of being a separate category.
Ms. Bento: Similarly, we would take the queens pageant and put that under the ʻohana section as
an event in Health and Wellness.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: Calls for the Question are we good with this? Do we want to take a formal voteon program offering today?
Commission decided to just agree to the framework and empower Ms. Bento to work on it rather
than to call for a formal vote today.
Festival Logo
Mr. Gionson: Slide #1 is the original logo that we showed last meeting. Slide #2 shows the logowith less common fonts that are more recognizable and with stylization and adjustments to thefont. This font doesn’t come in lower case. Slide #3 shows subtle differences in changes in fontand stylization but does include lower case.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā: Let’s set the foundation and then we can talk color.
Chair English: Likes #3 but not sure about this particular font.
Ms. Bento: Likes #3 also and would like #1 without the italics.
Ms. Kelaʻi: Asks to move logos to one screen for comparison.
Mr. Gionson adjusts to new slide for this purpose.
Chair English took over facilitating the meeting at 2:00pm as Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā left for anothermeeting.
Chair English: We should reconvene 2nd or 3rd week in January.
Ms. Kelaʻi: This is my last meeting.
Mr. Ka‘anā‘anā and Chair English thanks Ms. Kelaʻi for her time and dedication to thiscommission.
Ms. Kelaʻi: Likes #3 it’s clean and simple and the spacing makes it look less crowded.
Ms. Lum: Actually thinks there is a little too much spacing but likes #3.
Ms. de Silva: Likes #1 and #3 but is leaning towards #3 simpler font makes the images pop
more. Would like to see the words stretch end to end on the logo.

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Chair English: We are on the right track but would like one more refinement and to revisit thelogo at the next meeting in January.
Ms. de Silva: This logo and the fonts we use will be the same for the whole festival but theHawaiʻi delegation will make their own.
Chair English: Let’s take this up next meeting if Mr. Gionson will please offer us two moreiterations of this logo with adjustments to font and size.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Chair English asks for public testimony.
Ms. Caroline Yacoe of Pacific Pathways: Program Offerings Kapa/Tapa instead of a specific
one name. In other places in the Pacific it has other names.
Chair English: Explains that because Hawaiʻi is hosting, we will be using the Hawaiian terms.
Hailama Farden, Kamehameha Schools (via FB live): Requested the manaʻo on the logo.
Chair English: Explained that this was explained in a past meeting.
Ms. de Silva: Gives a quick summary from the artist about the logo.
No further public testimony.
Chair English: Thanks Ms. Kelaʻi for her outstanding work on this commission. There is somuch more work to be done and your work will be involved in so many different ways. Wealoha you so much and thank you for everything you have done for this commission.
Chair English: Thanks also to Ms. Takitani-Puahi. Your hard work and organziational skills arebeyond what we expected. You saw things from a perspective that we could never see. Putting
all those files in order. We want to acknowledge you as well from the Commission and the Stateof Hawaiʻi.
Chair English: Thank you all for your undying work and making this an extraordinary andawesome event. We pray for the best in 2021. We will see you all next year.
NEXT MEETING
Suggestions for next meeting date: January 11, 2021 (Monday)
Time: 1:30pm -3:00pm
Suggestions for future meetings: Every other Monday. Will confirm later.

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ADJOURNMENT
Chair English adjourned meeting at 2:30pm
Respectfully Submitted,January 6, 2021
Senator J. Kalani EnglishChair

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