The Sugar Museum Plantation Days Cultural Heritage Celebration is an appreciation of our multi-cultural heritage that derived from the early immigrants, who came from around the globe to work on Hawaii's sugar plantations and left a legacy of the unique multi-ethnic heritage and lifestyle enjoyed by Hawaii's residents today.

The Sugar Museum presents a program of authentic, multi-cultural performances by local groups and organizations, comprised of many individuals whose ancestors lived and worked on the plantations, and who are carrying on their unique, ethnic cultural traditions.

Featured groups will be:

• Maui Taiko, who dazzle audiences with their drumming artistry. This popular group has opened pre-concert performances for the WHO, and rock legend Bon Jovi, and Hiroshima;
• Dance Production International dancers, who perform Filipino folk dances including the lively and rhythmic bamboo dance, as well as Hawaiian, Tahitian and the arts of other cultures;
• Arirang Dance Studio, presenting captivating, colorful graceful, flowing and authentic Korean Dances.
• The lion dancers of the Maui Chinese Martial Arts Academy, who always draw an eager crowd of bystanders ready to "feed" it gifts of money in the hopes of getting good luck.

The Sugar Museum will also have available its Plantation Camp Registry, a permanent record of those who lived in the plantation camps on Maui. Anyone with such plantation roots is eligible to sign up. Information and forms are also available at the Sugar Museum website: www.sugarmuseum.com.

Mahalo to The Sugar Museum