Pacific Verse, a project focused on developing and encouraging indigenous Pacific languages in songwriting, will be holding its first public performance on Thursday, April 17 at the at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ at Mānoa. The project began in March 2014 with a music workshop and will be followed by public performances, recording sessions and future follow-up sessions with the participating musicians.
Pacific Verse is organized by Leora Kava, a graduate assistant and MA student at UH Mānoa . Looking for ways to promote Pacific-language songs, Kava, a poet and musician, has developed this series of events in the hope that it will lead to a music festival.
To enable Pacific Verse to reach out to the wider community, Kava will also host a Pacific Islands music workshop at Pālolo Homes as part of the Pālolo Pipeline program through the Pālolo ʻOhana Learning Center.
Pacific Verse is sponsored by the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ at Mānoa’s Center for Pacific Islands Studies, the Office of Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity, and and Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies.
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