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Waimea Valley Summer Concert Series
Waimea Valley hosts its summer concert series, Don’t miss this final concert in the limited summer series, featuring food, drinks, and live music by Kapena, Brother Noland, and others. Visit us Saturday, August 31st, between 1:00pm - 7:00pm at the Plastic Free Hawaiʻi table, where we promote the refusal of single-use plastics and offer our reusable merchandise for sale. Reserve your tickets today.
Sunset on the Beach at Queen’s Beach, Waikiki
Each month Southwest Airlines hosts Sunset on the Beach, a free event in Waikiki with live music, kids games, lots of yummy food, a fun photo booth, outdoor movie, and a KHF water station! Everyone was invited to stop by the Plastic Free Hawaiʻi water station for a bottle refill and play a plastic free game. As the sun set, families settled in to enjoy a free screening of Disney’s “Coco”. Mark your calendar for next month’s screening of Pixar’s “Up”, September 14th and be sure to #BYOBottle!
Art Explorium Workshops
Using plastic bottle caps, beads, and paint pens, Art Explorium will host an afternoon workshop Sunday, September 15th from 2:30pm-4:00pm, showing kids how to turn plastic into their new favorite accessory! At the Keiki Workshop: Up-cycled Necklaces, children will design bottle caps, add them to necklaces, and finish off with some beads for detail. Instructor Lily Hebert teaches workshops at the Art Explorium, led Art Camp last summer at the Art Explorium, and is a Mixed Media Art teacher at University Laboratory School. Register Here. This workshop offers a great, hands-on way to guide kids towards creative ways of giving old items new life. Not only will they have a blast, but they will be able to reuse the skills they gain at the workshop at home! The best part? They get to walk away with their own signature upcycled statement piece!
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- 09-17-19 2020 International Youth Summit on Plastic Pollution
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- 12-27-18 2018-19 Plastic Free Hawaiʻi School Mural Contest!
- 12-27-18 First Ever Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Youth Summit
- 12-27-18 Request a Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Presentation
- 12-27-18 Straub’s Waste Reduction Efforts
- 12-27-18 BYOBowl @ Banan
- 12-27-18 Surfrider UH Club Tackling Straws
September
- 09-17-18 International Coastal Cleanup Day
- 09-17-18 Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Youth Summit Rescheduled
- 09-17-18 Hawaiʻi Youth Sustainability Challenge
- 09-17-18 Featured Youth Activist: Dyson Chee
- 09-17-18 Upcoming Events
- 09-17-18 Request a School Presentation
- 09-17-18 National Geographic Geo-Inquiry Training Sessions
- 09-17-18 Young Ocean Leaders Wanted!
July
June
- 06-29-18 Take the Plastic Free July Challenge
- 06-29-18 Checkout Bags to Cost $0.15 Each on Oʻahu
- 06-29-18 Featured Youth Activist: Karen Abe, ʻIolani School
- 06-29-18 Art Explorium’s Creative Reuse Open House for Educators
- 06-29-18 Surfjack Summer at the Swim Club
- 06-29-18 Moana Lani Festival & Zero Waste Summit
- 06-29-18 Free Plastic Pollution Lesson Plan
- 06-29-18 7th Annual Environmental Education Symposium
May
- 05-30-18 Volunteer & Partner Appreciation
- 05-30-18 Plastic Bag Ban to Include Fee on Oʻahu
- 05-30-18 June Events
- 05-30-18 Featured Youth Activist: Shannon Murphy, Kaiser High School
- 05-30-18 Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Celebrates Earth Month
- 05-30-18 Maryknoll School Cleans Makapuʻu Beach
- 05-30-18 Kualoa Beach Cleanup with Blue Zones Project
- 05-30-18 Educators: Save the Date for Creative Reuse Open House
- 05-30-18 Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation Volunteer & Partner Appreciation
- 05-30-18 Oʻahu ʻĀINA Educator Training for ʻEwa Schools
- 05-02-18 Beach Cleanup at Kualoa Beach Park
- 05-02-18 Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Celebrates Earth Month
- 05-02-18 Lāʻie Beach Cleanup Yields 975 Pounds of Marine Debris
- 05-02-18 Plastic Free Efforts at Punahou School
- 05-02-18 Oʻahu ʻĀINA Educator Training for ʻEwa Schools
March
- 03-23-18 Hawaiʻi Representation at the 6th International Marine Debris Conference
- 03-23-18 Spring Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Volunteer Training
- 03-23-18 March 31st Beach Cleanup at Lāʻie Beach Park
- 03-23-18 Hawaiʻi Foam Ban Update
- 03-23-18 Plastic Free Hawaiʻi at the Keiki Great Aloha Run
- 03-23-18 Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Makapuʻu Beach Cleanup
- 03-23-18 Hawaiʻi Businesses Switch from Plastic to Paper Straws
- 03-23-18 Youth Advocacy: SEEQS
- 03-23-18 Maui Students Attend National Youth Plastic Solutions Conference
- 03-22-18 Plastic Free Hawaii
- 03-02-18 Spring Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Volunteer Training
- 03-02-18 Plastic Free Hawaiʻi at the Keiki Great Aloha Run
- 03-02-18 Next Beach Cleanup at Lāʻie Beach Park
- 03-02-18 Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Makapuʻu Beach Cleanup