POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTER DELAYS LEI DAY CONTEST

May 6 is Deadline for Entries in the Fifth Annual Competition

La‘ie, HI – Each year since 2000, the Polynesian Cultural Center has hosted a competition for local residents and visitors to display and share the beauty of the lei. This year, to encourage even more participants, the competition has been moved to Friday, May 6 and includes a concert by local favorites Na Hoku Pa at 5:00 p.m.

All entries must be registered by 12:00 p.m., May 6, to be considered. There is a $10.00 fee per entry. The lei will be on display throughout the day at the PCC’s front entrance.

“We wanted to hold our lei day celebration later, so that community members can spend more time on their lei and improve on ideas they already shared on May 1st,” said Keith Awai, manager of the Hawai‘i village.

As part of the festivities, there will also be lei making for guests in the village, as well as Li Hing pineapple tasting in addition to the usual taro sampling.

Categories this year include seeds and shells, leaves and ferns, ribbons and artificial flower, plumeria, fresh flower and multicultural. Guests will again judge the most popular category, while a panel of PCC judges will judge all others. Prizes will be awarded to the best lei in each category, with first place receiving $100, second place $75, and third place $50.

Everyone is invited to come share in the beauty of the lei whether they are entering a lei or just checking out new designs. For more information, please call 293-3121.

Founded in 1963 as a non-profit organization, the PCC has entertained more than 31 million visitors while preserving and portraying the culture, arts, and crafts of Polynesia to the rest of the world. In addition, the PCC has provided financial assistance to 14,000 young people from more than 70 different countries while they have attended Brigham Young University-Hawai‘i. As a non-profit organization, all funds generated by the PCC are used for its daily operations and to support its cultural and educational missions.
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