Celebrate the ARTS!

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The Hawai`i Arts Alliance hosted a sparkling evening with Ambassador of Aloha, 
Danny Kaleikini, Manoa DNA, Reverend Dennis and David Kamakahi, Eddie Kamae, 
new ukulele talent Neal Chin, and Taiko Center Of The Pacific Youth Group! The event supports arts education statewide.

This year’s honorees were Edith and Keiji Kawakami, shown to the left. Click on the photo for a gallery of images from the Celebrate the ARTS! reception at The ARTS at Marks Garage.
(This year, May 2009, Keiji Kawakami passed away. The Alliance joins the whole community in our gratitude to Keiji and Edith for their many contributions to the lives of the people of Hawai`i.)



Preis Honorees

As part of our national mandate, we give public recognition to arts and arts education at Celebrate the ARTS!, an annual public event in Historic Hawaii Theatre.

The Alfred Preis Award is named after the founder of Hawai‘i Arts Alliance, and the first executive director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. The Award was established in 1982, and recognizes those who have demonstrated in word and action a lifetime commitment to the arts and arts education for all the people of Hawai‘i. Based on the idea of making art “mandatory, rather than allowable,” Preis authored the Art in State Buildings Law, which designates one percent of public building construction funds for art, and established the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Program. Also, an architect in Honolulu, Alfred Preis’ most noteworthy design is the iconic U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.

2008 Alfred Preis honorees Edith and Keiji Kawakami.
On October 4, 2008, the Alliance presented a sparkling evening with Ambassador of Aloha, Danny Kaleikini, Manoa DNA, Reverend Dennis and David Kamakahi, Eddie Kamae, new ukulele talent Neal Chin, and Taiko Center Of The Pacific Youth Group!

Alfred Preis Award
We honor an individual for lifetime commitment to arts and arts education in Hawai`i.

See list of past honorees (PDF)

Preis Videos



Celebrate Videos