STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3117

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 57

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Technology and the Arts and Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 57 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION SUPPORTING A BID TO THE COUNCIL OF PACIFIC ARTS AND CULTURE FOR HAWAII TO HOST THE 2020 FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to support a bid to the Council of Pacific Arts and Culture for Hawaii to host the 2020 Festival of Pacific Arts.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Kali‘ula Foundation/Na Kini Kailua, and thirteen individuals.

     Your Committees find that the Festival of Pacific Arts was established in 1972 to maintain the traditional cultural practices of the nations in Oceania and to encourage younger generations to learn from their elders and the masters of the arts.  The Festival is a traveling event that allows nations in Oceania to showcase, share, and exchange their indigenous cultures and is hosted every four years by a different nation in Oceania.  The Council of Pacific Arts and Culture selects the host country based on the principles of equitable opportunity, by rotating the Festival among nations that have never hosted.  While Hawaii has participated in every Festival, it has never hosted the Festival.  Hawaii has sizable populations from nations in Oceania, a large tourist market, and experience hosting cultural events.  Hosting the Festival of Pacific Arts would also provide an economic boost to the State.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Technology and the Arts and Transportation and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 57 and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Technology and the Arts and Transportation and International Affairs,

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair