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Eahou Fest 2026

Eahou Fest is a conference-meets-festival in Mōʻiliʻili , Oʻahu that weaves skill-building, collective design, technology, art, music, and community activation. Rooted in our theme of Kīhoʻihoʻi Kānāwai , the restoration of ancestral ecological law and our relationship with 'āina, it brings together the people of Hawaiʻi to build the tools, relationships, and vision for a self-determined Hawaiʻi.

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Join us for three days in Mōʻiliʻili alongside community organizers, farmers, artists, technologists, and cultural practitioners from across Hawaiʻi and the world. Rooted in ea and culture, powered by global solidarity, and built for the future of our lāhui. Pre-sale pricing is available for a limited time.

Be part of building the Hawaiʻi our kūpuna imagined and our keiki deserve.

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Eahou Fest 2026

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Be part of building the Hawaiʻi our kūpuna imagined and our keiki deserve.

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Conference Info

Festival Days

ʻŌlelo Noʻeau #2178: Mōhala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua Flowers thrive where there is water

Come experience our Eahou Malaplex campus spread across Mō'ili'ili: design labs, film, music, art, and community activations — exploring 'Ōiwi storytelling, 'āina justice, data governance, sustainable computing, food sovereignty, and cooperative economics.

Evenings open with pau hana, the inaugural Eahou Short Film Festival, a nite mākeke, and fashion show reclaiming May Day and celebrating pua, ea and local designers. The gathering closes as a working assembly mapping Hawaiʻi 2046 and the long-term infrastructure of a self-determined Hawaiʻi.

May 1st

Day One centers Kīhoʻihoʻi — regeneration through return. A kīpaepae opens the gathering, followed by a keynote by Kekuhi Kealiʻikanakaʻole grounding us in ancestral law as the foundation for everything that follows.

From there, Eahou Global Sessions, cooperative workshops, and tech demos put that vision into motion — exploring what restoration looks like in practice, across ʻāina, economy, and technology.

The evening closes with pau hana and the inaugural Eahou Short Film Festival, celebrating cultural narratives and movement stories rooted in ea.

From there, Eahou Global Sessions, cooperative workshops, and tech demos put that vision into motion — exploring what restoration looks like in practice, across ʻāina, economy, and technology.

The evening closes with pau hana and the inaugural Eahou Short Film Festival, celebrating cultural narratives and movement stories rooted in ea.

May 2nd

Day Two is the active practice of Kānāwai — the living law of collective stewardship. Just as our kūpuna managed water together, building capacity was never individual — it belonged to the community.

Workshops in graphic design, digital storytelling, soil science, and tissue culture run alongside sessions on regenerative finance, food sovereignty, and community-led governance. Every skill learned here adds to the collective flow.

The evening closes with a Nite Mākeke and fashion show celebrating pua, ʻŌiwi design, and the reclamation of culture.

May 3rd

Day Three we Haku Waiwai — the act of weaving abundance. Not the accumulation of capital, but the building of real wealth rooted in ʻāina, culture, and collective ownership.

We close Eahou Fest as a working assembly, mapping Hawaiʻi 2046, aligning cooperative institutions and community enterprises, and committing together to the long-term infrastructure of a sovereign, self-determined Hawaiʻi.

We close with a kīpaepae — weaving a shared lei as a collective commitment to carry what we have built forward, together, long after the gathering ends.

Day Three we Haku Waiwai — the act of weaving abundance. Not the accumulation of capital, but the building of real wealth rooted in ʻāina, culture, and collective ownership.

We close with a kīpaepae — weaving a shared lei as a collective commitment to carry what we have built forward, together, long after the gathering ends.

The Journey

Shaping the Experience

Shaping the Experience Together

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What You'll Gain

Three days to learn, connect, and build alongside the people doing this work across Hawaiʻi and the world. Through design labs, hands-on workshops, and shared meals and conversations, you'll develop real skills and deepen your understanding of the systems, models, and movements shaping our collective future.

You'll leave with new tools, lasting relationships, and a expanded sense of what's possible in your work and your community — grounded in the knowledge that you are part of a much larger movement working toward the same horizon.

Expected Outcomes

This program seeks to amplify community voices and leadership in shaping global systems change, while demonstrating how ancestral knowledge and economic innovation move in alignment.

Eahou Fest is designed to foster lasting relationships and networks that extend beyond the festival itself, contributing to a growing global movement for Indigenous self-determination, healing, and regeneration rooted in aloha ʻāina.

The Journey

Shaping the Experience

What You'll Gain

Expected Outcomes

This program seeks to amplify community voices and leadership in shaping global systems change, while demonstrating how ancestral knowledge and economic innovation move in alignment.

Our 'Ohana

Who's Involved?

Eahou Fest is a collaboration rooted in the relationships and movements that have been building this work for years — bringing together cultural practitioners, cooperative developers, Indigenous leaders, community organizers, and global allies united around a shared vision of sovereignty and self-determination for Hawaiʻi.

Opening Keynote

Kekuhi Kealiʻikanakaʻole

Kekuhi Kealiʻikanakaʻole is a kumu hula, composer, and cultural practitioner whose work centers the restoration of ancestral knowledge and ʻŌiwi ways of knowing.

Panelist

Brandon Makaʻawaʻawa

Vice President, Nation of Hawaiʻi

Panelist

ʻIlima Long

President, Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Honolulu

Cohort Partners

Eahou Global Cohort

30 leaders, practitioners, and innovators from across the world who participated in a six month learning cohort with Purple Maiʻa focused on Eahou.

Community Network

Hawaiʻi Co-op Hui

A growing network of cooperative enterprises and community builders working toward economic self-determination and collective ownership rooted in aloha ʻāina across Hawaiʻi.

Cultural Partners

Hālau ʻŌhia

A community of practitioners dedicated to the restoration of ancestral ecological knowledge, cultural practice, and the living relationship between people and ʻāina.

Panel + Workshops

Eahou Sessions

Eahou Sessions are part talk story, part workshop facilitated by members of the Eahou Global Cohort — Indigenous leaders, innovators, and cultural practitioners from across the world that participated in a 6 month learning cohort with Purple Mai'a.

Each session opens with cohort members sharing from their own community's experience — what they've built, what they've learned, what they're fighting for. From there it shifts into collective design, where participants work together to apply those lessons to the challenges and opportunities facing Hawaiʻi, co-creating tools, strategies, and frameworks rooted here but informed by what is being built elsewhere.

Eahou Sessions

Moananuiaka Storytelling & Media

Exploring how Indigenous communities across Oceania reclaim narrative as a tool for sovereignty and movement building.

Eahou Sessions

ʻĀina Justice & Return

Mapping bold frameworks for ʻāina return and justice — from Kenya to Bolivia, Aotearoa to Maui.

Eahou Sessions

Indigenous Tech & Data Sovereignty

Building Indigenous tech and data governance on our own terms — from Hana and Mauritius to Pakistan, rooted in self-determination.

Eahou Sessions

Cooperative Economics & Solidarity

From Oaxaca to Hilo, exploring what a cooperative solidarity economy rooted in collective ownership looks like.

Eahou Sessions

Regenerative Finance & Sovereign Wealth

Growing sovereign wealth through regenerative finance models that keep resources, ownership, and abundance within our communities.

Eahou Sessions

Governance, Sovereignty & Community Power

Drawing on models from Chicago to Pueblo Territory, Waiʻanae to Panama — building collective power and self-determination from the inside out.

Eahou Sessions

Food Sovereignty & Resilient Food Systems

Designing a sovereign food system from seed to table to policy, resilient, community-led solutions from Jamaica to Maui, Guåhan to Peru.

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Workshops

Eahou Labs

Eahou Labs are hands-on skill-building sessions offered throughout the festival, facilitated by Purple Maiʻa staff, program alumni, and community practitioners.

Rooted in the spirit of Kānāwai — the understanding that collective capacity is shared stewardship — each Lab grows the full range of skills our communities need. Technical, cultural, creative, and political. Because building our lāhui has never been individual work. This is where restoration becomes capacity.

Eahou Labs

Digital Creators

This workshop guides participants through the art of visual storytelling, using Canva to build collages, layouts, and graphics that carry your community's moʻolelo with intention and impact.

Eahou Labs

Hālau ʻŌhiʻa

Grounded in the traditions of Hālau ʻŌhiʻa, this session connects participants to hula and chant as living practice — a way of knowing, remembering, and relating to ʻāina and lāhui.

Eahou Labs

KILO: Environmental Monitoring Sensors

Learn how to build and deploy affordable environmental sensors to track the health of ahupua'a in real time. A hands-on introduction to community-led data collection rooted in aloha ʻāina.

Eahou Labs

Makaliʻi Metrics Soil Lab

Get your hands in the dirt. This lab explores soil health through an 'Ōiwi science lens, using the Makali'i Metrics framework to understand and restore the foundation of a thriving ʻāina.

Eahou Labs

Tissue Culture

An introduction to plant propagation through tissue culture — growing and preserving native and agricultural species to support food sovereignty and ecological restoration.

Eahou Labs

Reels

A practical workshop on creating short-form video content — from concept to edit — to amplify your message, your mana, and your mission across digital platforms.

Eahou Labs

Food+ Policy

Learn how to navigate and shape food policy from the ground up. This workshop connects farmers, organizers, and advocates with the tools to turn community knowledge into legislative change.

Eahou Labs

Waiwai Studios

An introduction to animation as a tool for cultural storytelling. Waiwai Studios guides participants through the creative process of bringing moʻolelo to life through motion and design.

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Community Engagement

Ka Moʻoʻiliʻili Activations

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Mōʻiliʻili is not just a neighborhood — it's a wahi pana rich with moʻolelo. Home to Kā Moʻo'iliʻili, the great moʻo whose presence shaped this 'āina, a site along Hiʻiaka's storied travels across Oʻahu, and the grounds where the patriots of the Wilcox Rebellion of 1895 fought in aloha ʻāina for their Nation. We gather here with intention, honoring the layers of resistance, spirit, and ea this place carries.

Across the three days, Eahou Fest activates the neighborhood into the Malaplex Campus— Shinnyo-En Hawaiʻi opens its doors for the inaugural Eahou Short Film Festival, the Church of the Crossroads hosts our Nite Mākeke, and the Japanese Cultural Center serves as our main venue.

We celebrate the spirit of Ka Mo'oʻiliʻili, hoping to spark that same ea — that living current of sovereignty and possibility — that has always moved through this place.