Hilo Wayfinding & Navigation Festival
Celebrate the Tradition
The annual Hilo Wayfinding and Navigation Festival celebrates the historic feats of Pacific navigators and current day efforts to revive and expand celestial navigation skills and interest in long distance deep-sea canoe voyaging that connects the many indigenous island communities in the Pacific Ocean.
"The Wayfinding and Navigation Festival is a celebration of our Hawaiian heritage, culture and traditions, it is a unifying legacy that we proudly share with other Polynesian cultures in the Pacific. Wayfinding and celestial navigation is an ancient knowledge that shows us the power of human initiative and intuition, before modern navigation systems became available to explore the unknown."
—Ka‘iu Kimura, Executive Director, 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i
Hilo Wayfinding & Navigation Festival 2012
September 29 & 30
Held over two days in September, The Hilo Wayfinding and Navigation Festival celebrates Koho'olawe.
The event is free to the public.
‘Imiloa provides accommodations for accessibility for persons with disabilities. For accommodations contact Jeff Harman, at 969-9705 or email jharman@imiloahawaii.org ten business days prior to event.
Mahalo to the Hawai`i County Department of Research & Development
and the Hawai`i Tourism Authority
Photos of 2009 Hilo Wayfinding & Navigation Festival
