Fundraiser Project Pitch Public Events

Fundraiser Project Pitch Public Events

Events

2012

Sacramento Aloha Festival

Napa Valley Aloha Festival

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Sacramento Aloha Festival

View the photos on the Google Web Album Aloha Festival 2012, Sacramento 

I was able to apply for & get a non-profit booth at the 2nd Annual Sacramento Aloha Festival 2012 held Saturday, October 13 at the California Exposition & State Fairgrounds (map). Among booth visitors were several notable members of the “it’s a small (Polynesian) world” group - one fellow, who was in attendance at the original 1975 Hōkūle‘a launch at Kualoa Regional Park in O'ahu, searched the booth’s Polynesian Voyaging backgrounder info display board photo (to see if he could spot himself in the picture), from National Geographic’s March 8, 1975 photo of the event “Hōkūle‘a Launching Consecration Ceremony (story)”; another visitor was the wife of the original project manager overseeing construction of the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s 2nd Voyaging Canoe Hawai‘iloa; lastly, a man & his wife, recounting their recent travels in Melanesia, while procuring a small plane ticket to the Solomon Islands, mentioned standing in the ticket line directly behind, (& later getting acquainted & hanging out with), of all people our Hui Board member Byron Washom - those folks being Kae & Greg Aaron, en route to the 2012 Festival of Pacific Arts.

Between the 2 Aloha Festivals I evolved the booth design to handle either indoor or outdoor locations & resolved the “wind blowing over easel-mounted poster boards” problem (originally requiring laying the boards horizontally flat down & weighted on tables) by reworking the exhibit design to suspend the display boards vertically like hanging signs from the tent canopy roof framework. As noted in the previous Aloha Festival update, “For all Hui folk, Friends of & recipients of this email, please feel free to download any of these photos for upload to your website, Facebook, email, etc for promoting the Mo’ohike Fundraiser”.

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Napa Valley Aloha Festival

View the photos on the Google Picasa Web Album Aloha Festival 2012, Napa Valley

I took a set of photos of the booth & event & uploaded the photos to the online photo album hosting service, Google Picasa Web Albums. I added captions that do double duty, describe the scene and self-document the setup or layout. As a result some captions are a bit lengthy, probably too long to read during a timed slideshow view. Consequently I recommend “manual advance” through the photos, basically in Picasa’s default “grid view” of all photo thumbnails, click on the 1st one, then either click on the “< >” icons on the side of the photo, or use keyboard “<- ->” arrow keys  to advance to the next photo. Also, when viewing a photo, Picasa has a nice zoom feature accessed by click the “magnifying class +” icon above the top of the photo just left of center. When you click it a popup screen appears with a larger photo; on the upper left corner is a “+/-“ control you can click to further magnify or, alternately, in the bottom right there comes & goes (as you move the mouse cursor around) a thumbnail of the photo with a “_____+” zoom slider with drag-able slider box on the slider line; as you drag the slider toward the “+” & the photo gets too big to fit on the screen, a small white “viewport” rectangle appears on the thumbnail – you can then click in & drag the viewport rectangle around to pan & scroll to different areas on the “too big to fit” photo to see all areas. To get out of zoom & back to the photo grid, click the zoom popup’s upper right corner “X” close window control or press the keyboard “Esc(ape)” key. For all Hui folk, Friends of & recipients of this email, please feel free to download any of these photos for upload to your website, Facebook, email, etc for promoting the Mo’ohika Fundraiser. To download a photo, when viewing a photo, click the “Download” pop-down menu above the top of the photo just left of center adjacent the “magnifying glass +” icon.