The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives (HMH) invites the community to experience Kikilo Ke Kapu: “Looking to the Past and Future of Kapu”, the next installment of HMH’s acclaimed Mele Program. Kikilo means to look deeply, to observe with focused and careful attention. It is both an ancient Hawaiian practice and an urgent contemporary responsibility. This evening invites guests to look closely at the sacred places and history of Hawaiʻi — the kapu that maintain the genealogies, histories, and mana of generations of kānaka — and to honor the communities whose kuleana it is to protect them. Expressed through mele (song), oli (chant), and hula (dance), Kikilo Ke Kapu embodies the enduring principle of Mālama ʻĀina, Mālama Kānaka: that caring for the land and caring for the people are one and the same. Support provided by the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority through the Kūkulu Ola program.