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I Mau Ke Aloha: Dinner Event

Date: July 26, 2025

Location: Nāulu Farm


Arts & Native Species Fundraising Farm Dinner benefitting Hawaiʻi Land Trust and Lahaina Community Land Trust


Ua Ikea

The revelatory power of art and native species

In 2025, Mākena Golf & Beach Club will continue to host community fundraising dinners & golf events to support important Maui organizations. All funds raised go directly to the organizations being celebrated. This year's dinner event series will focus on the revelatory power of art and native species. Each organization will recognize up to 3 native species that are particularly reflective of the organization's work and vision for community well-being. In this way, we re-member as a community the reciprocal relationship of aloha with our native species - that they also gather us. The inaugural event was called Ua Ikea. The second event in this series is I Mau Ke Aloha.


I Mau Ke Aloha Benefit Dinner


Join us on July 26, 2025, for I Mau Ke Aloha, a special fundraising farm dinner to celebrate the vital work of the Hawai‘i Land Trust (HILT) and Lahaina Community Land Trust (LCLT). This event honors their commitment to fostering a reciprocal relationship between people and ‘āina for the collective well-being of Hawai‘i’s communities.


I Mau Ke Aloha, meaning “towards the constancy of aloha,” embodies the enduring connection between Hawai‘i’s people and environment. Guests will enjoy a delicious farm-to-table meal, live entertainment by Marja Lehua Apisaloma and Wailau Ryder, and breathtaking views of Pu‘u Ōla‘i and Kaho‘olawe.

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​Seating is limited and is based on a first-to-register basis.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the honorees. 



The Honorees:

Hawaiʻi Land Trust

Hawai‘i Land Trust (HILT) is Hawaiʻi’s local statewide nonprofit land trust, protecting and stewarding lands that sustain Hawaiʻi through education, public access, and cultural practice. Nationally accredited, HILT has preserved over 22,500 acres across the islands, safeguarding coastlines, cultural landscapes, and agricultural lands. Learn more at www.hilt.org.

Lahaina Community Land Trust

Formed in the aftermath of the Lahaina fires, the Lahaina Community Land Trust is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to keeping Lahaina’s lands in the hands of its people forever. Discover more at www.lahainacommunitylandtrust.org or follow @lahainacommunitylandtrust on social media.






Lau Ke Aloha: Kinolau Native Species Art Creation Days & Exhibit:


Leading up to the I Mau Ke Aloha fundraising dinner event on 7/26 Aloha Makena Foundation will host a Lau Ke Aloha: Kinolau Native Species Art Day for Maui residents on Wed, 6/25 at Mākenaʻs Hale Pili.

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Art created from the 6/25 community event will have an opportunity to be displayed in a web-exhibit hosted on this website and during the I Mau Ke Aloha dinner. In an effort to reach more of the Maui community, short video tutorials of the artists teaching will be posted to the Lau Ke Aloha website. All Maui residents are encouraged to submit their art; attendance at the community event and/or watching the video tutorials is not required. For every piece of art submitted by a Maui resident to the Lau Ke Aloha website by 11:59pm on Friday, 7/18/2025, $5 will be donated by Mākena Golf & Beach Club to each organization, up to 300 entries. For more information, see the Lau Ke Aloha webpage.

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“One of the absolutely vitalizing and humbling aspects of a Hawaiʻi worldview is to recognize natural phenomena and our native species as intimately connected to us, as family. The goal of these community art days is to nurture our role as younger siblings to our native plant family, to see our kino (body, form) as related to the kinolau (multiple forms) of this precious landscape. Through the skill and leadership of our Maui artists, we have an opportunity to express the respect and aloha that animates being part of an ʻohana (family, kin) by creating new native species art. In this way we live again a relationship that supports our ecosystem and Islandʻs wellbeing.” - Director of Mākena Community Engagement, Leahi Hall



The Plants That Gather Us






 
 
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