• BIG ISLAND GOES GLOBAL FOR PEACE DAY
    Live streaming video links Hawaii with international events


    On Sunday and Monday, September 20-21, 2009, the Island of Hawaii will join global Peace Day celebrations in London, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, South Africa, Brazil, California, Canada and elsewhere, via technological wizardry and the efforts of international organizations such as  Peace in Our Lifetime.

    Two Big Island separate events will be broadcast via streaming video on the worldwide web in joint Peace Day music cooperative concerts happening around the world.  The "Global United Party for Peace" will also appear within a virtual reality world, Second Life, where 3D user-generated characters called Residents, move, work, socialize, go to school, play and do business.  Potential audience for the internet streaming broadcast is an estimated 1.5 million viewers.

    The events are:

    • Sunday, September 20, 12:00-4:40 p.m.  Parade & Festival for the United Nations International Day of Peace, Starts and ends at Honokaa High School.  Free.
    • Monday, September 21, 1:00-7:00 p.m.  The World Peace Effect Festival, Kalani Oceanside Retreat, Pahoa. Donations. For information call Christian Hine 808-854-0407.

      This first-of-its kind global broadcast from Hawaii is made possible through the cooperative efforts of the Peace Committee of Honokaa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, Christian Hine-World Peace Effect Festival, Zion Estes-Amaraka, Honokaa High School, actress and peace pioneer Lynne Hazelden-Peace In Our Lifetime/Planting Seeds (United Kingdom), and many others.  Major financial support has been provided by the County of Hawaii Dept. of Research & Development (Tourism Division), The Social Concerns Committee of Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, Healing our Island and others.

      To view the broadcasts, visit:

  • "Read for Peace"
    Honokaa Library
    Monday, September 14, 2009
    6:00pm
    Open house and special opportunity to encourage students and families to “Read for Peace.  The Carteret Atoll Project will make a multi-media presentation on the survival of the atoll, soon to be submerged by global warming.  Children's craft activity.
  • "Read for Peace" flyer  (coming)
  • "Drums, Not Drugs”
    Exciting, eclectic, one-of-a-kind downtown Honoka'a BLOCK PARTY and CONCERT
    Saturday, September 19, 2009
    Block Party 3:00-6:00pm
    Family-friendly and Free
    With dynamic drummers from
    Pacific Buddhist Academy Taiko Ensemble, Oahu
    Native American Pawnee Iruska (warrior) drummers
    Sacred Women’s Drum Circle of Pahoa
    Hawaiian Ipu drums and more…
    PLUS “Art4 Peace” street art event presented by Mar Ortaleza and “AHA” Abled Hawaiian Artists
    AND
    SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERT AT THE PEOPLES THEATER
    7:00pm
    High-impact Native American motivational speaker Brian Frejo delivers a message of “C4G,” Created For Greatness.  Plus, brother Quese IMC and their powerful hip hop crew CULTURE SHOCK CAMP and MORE great Big Island performers live onstage.
    Concert Tickets $10 at the door. 
  • Student Peace Poster Contest
    DEADLINE TO ENTER:  September 11, 2009
    All Hawaii students urged to express their own interpretation of this year’s theme: 

“Peace is being… “  

1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes ($50, $35 and $25) awarded for various age divisions.  Plus “Best of Show”

Instructions and Entry Forms below

  • 3rd Annual Parade and Festival for the United Nations International Day of Peace – Hamakua Times, July, 2009
  • Peace Day Parade Looking for Entries – West Hawaii Today, Sunday, July 26, 2009
  • The Parade for Peace Seeks Entries – The North Hawaii News, Thursday, July 16, 2009

Honokaa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, PO Box 1667,  Honoka`a HI 96727  808 775-7232
The Committee is an affiliate of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii,
a registered not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization.  Artwork and the words “United Nations” are used with permission.