Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center

Outdoor Lawn sneak peek! Here's how we're laying out the audience Blocks for this weekend's Making Spirits Bright Holiday Cabaret.

Construction is underway for our newly designed Portable Stage!! Continental parallel platforms sitting on. Leveling basket. Intention is to have this stage storage for future events. Stable and level win!!!' This stage is being created for our upcoming Holiday Cabaret: Making Spirits Bright happening this weekend! Reserve your tickets today!

Performing at our upcoming Making Spirits Bright Holiday Cabaret: Xcentric! We are Xcentric and we span across 7 years of former Kaimuki students, from 2011 - 2018. Dance club, at Kaimuki, formed over the years, but hasn’t been consistent with continuing the club. It would last for a year or so, and then be done with. Although, since 2012, the dance club has been coming back every year and has been growing into what it is today: Explicity. We come from different walks of life with different flavors and love the art and passion of dance. As proud former members of Explicity, we’re excited for our first performance in Honozulu as Xcentric. 2019 HONOZULU Dance Comp: 3RD PLACE

Thank you Hawaii News Now for the feature this morning! Click the link below to hear what our Learning Center Coordinator MJ Matsushita has to share about this weekend's performances! There's also a get a sneak peek of the outdoor space and some of our KHSPAC Alumni Performers!

Performing at our upcoming Holiday Cabaret: Making Spirits Bright is Lelea'e "Buffy" Kahalepuna-Wong! LELEA‘E "BUFFY" KAHALEPUNA-WONG hails from Kaimuki and is a multiple Pookela recipient. She was last seen in Lovey Lee(KKT-virtual) and The Conversion of Kaahumanu(KKT-virtual), Aua Ia: Holding On (UHM) and Ua Pau (It is Finished, Over, Destroyed) (KKT). Her previous credits include Fa'alavelave: The Interruption(KKT), A Timeless Princess (Edgewater Company), The Watcher of Waipuna, Demigods Anonymous, Ihula, and Not One Batu (KKT), as well as, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (UHM), Happily Eva Afta (MVT), Kinolau (HTY) and Les Miserables (PT).

Congratulations newly crowned Miss Hawaii USA 2021, Allison Chu! We're so proud of our KHSPAC Alumni, and we're looking forward to her performance at our socially distanced Making Spirits Bright Holiday Cabaret tonight!

Performing at our upcoming Holiday Cabaret: Making Spirits Bright: Samuel Tafolo! Samuel Tafolo is a performer and designer. He was last seen as "Pharus Young" in Choir Boy at TAG and designed the Hair/Makeup for Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center’s Hairspray. Samuel has costumed for KHSPAC, EPOCH, St. Andrews Priory, and St. Francis, as well as doing Hair/Makeup design. Tafolo also actively performs with his dance group, SW!TCH, while choreographing and training Kaimukis’ dance groups, Explicity and XCENTRIC, and Washington’s Explicit. Aside from performing arts and dance, he works as an Education Assistant and Paraprofessional Teacher for Special Educations children. Follow him on IG: @samtafolo

Another vendor appearing at our Making Spirits Bright Holiday Cabaret this weekend...Emi Sampson! "My name is Emi Sampson and I’m a Freshman at McKinley HS. I’m a local artist, and the proceeds go to Project Hawaii to support the local homeless children."

Performing at our upcoming Making Spirits Bright Holiday Cabaret: Liza Corotan! Liza is finishing her last year at UH Mnoa studying Communication and Psychology. She was last seen as Princess Ichisan at Mnoa Valley Theatre. A proud KHSPAC alumna, her past credits include as Carla in In the Heights, a Dynamite in Hairspray, and The Cat in Puss in Boots. Aside from theatre, she performs in competitions and for the community with Kaimukis alumni dance group, Xcentric. Nowadays, Liza currently works as an Assistant Coach for a non-profit called Mlama Mentors and as the Content Creator for a women empowering project, The Whine Collective. Follow her on IG: @lizacorotan

Behind the Scenes Sneak Peek: Our Photos With Santa area is coming together! Santa will be observing social distancing guidelines, but that won't stop him from sharing Christmas Joy at our Making Spirits Bright Holiday Cabaret. Bring your camera and snap a photo with Santa Claus!

Performing at our upcoming Making Spirits Bright Holiday Cabaret with her Uncle Barrett and Uncle Kevin is Jorin Young! Jorin has recently graduated from the University of Hawai`i at Mnoa with her Bachelors degree in Theatre. She has been seen in a few online projects during this pandemic featuring in a Mother Line Story Project X Hao/Peligro. And starred in the Fall 2019 play `Au`a `Ia: Holding On at Kennedy Theatre which was taken to New York City in January 2020. Her earlier performances at KHSPAC involve Once on This Island, Cinderella, Rocky Horror, Grease, Pirates of Penzance, and all the way to her first ever musical The Wiz. She is so excited to be singing with her Uncle B and Uncle Kevin for this fundraiser who are long time musicians and N Hk Hanohano Award winners. All glory goes to god.

We're excited to announce we will have a few vendor tables at our Making Spirits Bright Holiday Cabaret this weekend! First up is Kailani Beach Decor, by Kealani, a 2020 Graduate and KHSPAC Alumni! Kealani is very grateful to have been able to be a part of KHSPAC. She played her first lead role as Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray and Rosie in Mamma Mia in her sophomore and junior year. As a Castle student, she was in Shrek, Les Misérables, and Addams Family (in the CPAC program).... KHSPAC changed her life and gave her so many memorable and unforgettable opportunities and she could not be more honored to be a part of the KHSPAC ohana! She is currently studying Liberal Arts and has started her own business: Kailani Beach Décor. She hand paints and hand-prints all of her products, which focus on nature and reflect Hawaii's beauty. From different ferns, to flowers, it is all hand made and hand printed! She currently is selling online through her website, Etsy, Instagram (@kailanibeachdecor), and Facebook. Her website is https://sites.google.com/view/kailanibeachdecor/home, and her Etsy shop is https://www.etsy.com/shop/KailaniBeachDecor

6 days left until the first of our two Holiday Cabarets, featuring KHSPAC Alumni! Click the link to reserve your tickets today!