HILO HULA TUESDAYS continues at the Mo`oheau Park Bandstand across from the Hilo Farmers Market at 329 Kamehameha Avenue every Tuesday from 12 noon to 1 p.m.  This free event is sponsored by Destination Hilo’s members and supported by various hula hālau who lovingly perpetuate our Hawaiian culture. Please join us.  We have a one-time […]

Hilo Hula Tuesday at the Mooheau Park Bandstand is being held every Tuesday through December 27, 2022, from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.  Please join us for this free event across from the Hilo Farmers Market!  Various well-known Hilo musicians and halau will be featured.

East Hawai’i Cultural Center is currently displaying Shingo Honda’s exhibition Parallel which is curated by Andrzej Kramarz through September 24, 2021. Honda, who came to the Big Island in 2005, was associated with the Mono-Ha art group in Japan. A striking feature of Honda’s work is his exploration of white space – described by author and art critic […]

Please join us on Saturday, July 10, 2021 from 11am – 2pm for a Hawaiian Cultural Celebration supporting Downtown Hilo and presented by Downtown Hilo Improvement Association and Destination Hilo. We will have the Hula Sisters from 11am to 12pm, story telling (haʻi ōlelo) from 12pm to 12:30pm with Leilehua Yuen and music with Bert Naihe from 12:30 to 2pm! We will be practicing social distancing! The event will be located in front of 186 Kamehameha […]

Join on Saturday, May 8th, 2021 from 11am – 2pm for a Hawaiian Cultural Celebration supporting Downtown Hilo and presented by Downtown Hilo Improvement Association and Destination Hilo.

Join on Saturday, March 13th, 2021 from 11am – 2pm for a Hawaiian Cultural Celebration supporting Downtown Hilo and presented by Downtown Hilo Improvement Association and Destination Hilo.

Join on Saturday, January 9th, 2020 from 11am – 2pm for a Hawaiian Cultural Celebration supporting Downtown Hilo and presented by Downtown Hilo Improvement Association and Destination Hilo.

Join on Saturday, December 12th, 2020 from 11am – 2pm for a Hawaiian Cultural Celebration supporting Downtown Hilo and presented by Downtown Hilo Improvement Association and Destination Hilo.

Since the middle of March we have had to close down our programs due to the Stay at Home orders.  Museums and parks have been closed.  Shops and restaurants are slowly re-opening; however, the museums and our Hilo Hula Tuesday program remain closed.  Our Aloha Information Station in Downtown Hilo also remains closed.  Stay tuned […]

Who dares describe Hawai‘i’s iconic lava tubes as fossilized tunnels, bereft of life?! Since 2015, UH-Mānoa’s Dr. Megan Porter and a team of cave biologists from around the U.S. have been studying the communities of animals living in lava tubes on the island of Hawai‘i. Learn all about these creatures and their nether world, on […]