YAS Fest 2025

Program type: 
Special Event
Dates: 
Saturday, March 8, 2025 - 10:00am
YAS Fest 2025
Saturday, March 8th
10:00 am-2:00 pm
Kalākaua Park

Join us for the inaugural YAS Fest, a vibrant celebration of youth arts on Hawai‘i Island! The festival brings together local organizations dedicated to providing arts opportunities for keiki and teens, while also recognizing young artists in our community.

YAS Fest is a free, family-friendly event featuring a wide range of hands-on activities, live performances, and more. Don’t miss this unforgettable celebration of arts and community!

This event is made possible with support from Coldwell Banker Island Properties, Hawai‘i Community Foundation and Hawai‘i County Council District 2.
 
Informational, Merchandise, and Activity Booths From:
Hummingbirds Music (Hawai‘i Science & Technology Museum)
HIYAC (Hawai‘i Island Youth Arts Coalition)
Susun Gallery
Transforming Trash
Waiākea Intermediate Art Club
 
Food Booths:
 
Live Demo:
 
Performances By:
Big Wave Dance Academy
Center Stage Dance Alliance
N2 Dance
 
PLUS!
• A special art installation by the Hawai‘i Handweaversʻ Hui
• The 37th Annual Young At Art Exhibition Awards Ceremony (11:00 AM) and satellite exhibit featuring the award winning artworks.
• The 5th Annual Youth Art Month Kalākaua Park x EHCC Project Presented by the Youth Arts Series and The Fuzz Hawai‘i: The East Hawai‘i Cultural Center (EHCC) Youth Art Month community art installation is an annual project on view in Kalākaua Park each March. The collaborative art display celebrates the importance of arts education for keiki and teens. In addition, it highlights the value of art in the community as a vehicle for collaboration and connection. By using Kalākaua Park as the venue for the project, our aim is to bring visibility to the area, and activate an underutilized and historically significant part of Downtown Hilo. This yearʻs installation is a collaboration with the Oahu based yarn-bombing organization, The Fuzz.
 
About 'The Fuzz'
Back in 2014, we were asked to do an installation at Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House. We put a call out to yarn crafters and with their help, we covered the front of a building on the museum grounds. Those panels have been re-purposed and re-imagined at least four times now, at the Honolulu Museum of Art as a yarn forest of ʻōhiʻa lehua, at Volcano Art Center as a wall hanging, at Gangway Gallery in Honolulu as an indoor tree, and now here at Kalākaua Park. It continues to branch out, and now hundreds of people have contributed pieces including leaves and flowers. This has become a way to start conversations about ʻōhiʻa lehua, and a reminder that by working together we can make greater things than what we can do alone.
The Fuzz is a loosely-knit collective of yarn and textile enthusiasts. @TheFuzzHawaii on Instagram.
 
 
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