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Maui Attractions Newsletter September 2002
Special Announcement - Soroptimist News Release NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KAPALUA - The brush of international artist Buy Buffet is no stranger to animal art. The whimsical images he paints of our local island lifestyle - where cows wear leis and road signs caution, "Baby Pig Crossing," - hang in cafes, sunrooms, kitchens and art collections across the world. They're light, playful, upbeat and colorful just like the man who paints them. So it didn't take much for the Rotary Club of Lahaina to recruit Buffet as a Whale Mania Maui artist - where the canvas is a 7-foot fiberglass cast humpback whale. Buffet has painted large murals in the past, two for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, but "this is the first time I will be painting on the shape of a whale," Buffet remarked. Rotarian Rick Nava, a spokesperson for the west side nonprofit sponsoring Buffet in this charitable art adventure, was enthusiastic about Buffet's participation: "We're really excited that this has happened. This is major for us." A part time island resident since 1963, Buffet's support of local charitable functions is well known in this small island community. When Sacred Hearts School in Lahaina needed funds for a school bus, Buffet led the fundraising parade, donating either a lithograph or original watercolor, depending on the amount of the contribution, to those individuals and businesses giving $300 or more to the cause. At the Sacred Hearts School Bazaar each year, a booth is supplied with donations of posters, note cards and lithographs by the famous French master, with the coup de grace of the annual event, the auction of an original Buy Buffet painting. Born in Paris in 1943, Buffet's talents were fostered from an early age by his family. Following in the footsteps of his parents, Buffet is sharing the stage on this project with his 12-year old son Albert. "We have worked together in the past on a large painting. Albert will help me with the whale, too," Buffet announced. The title of Buffet's Whale Mania work of art is 'A Pacific Journey." According to Buffet, the journey is symbolic of the migration of the Polynesian culture across the Pacific to Hawaii. On a personal level, however, the ocean voyage is perhaps more representative of Buffet's travels across the seven seas as the Official Artist of the French Navy ending in Hawaii in 1963. With the 7-foot mold recently delivered to his home overlooking Kapalua Bay, Buffet said, "The more I see the whale in my yard, the more excited I get about the project." Whale Mania Maui is the Pacific extension of the "Animals on Parade" global art movement, fathered by Swiss artist Beat Seeberger-Quin. In 1998, Seeberger-Quin convinced city officials to display 815 hand-painted and/or decorated, fiberglass cast life-size cows along the streets of historic Zurich. The contemporary craze swept across the Atlantic, with dozens of cities across America mirroring the European exhibit with public art displays like "Cows on Parade" in Chicago, "Art on the Half Shell" in Tampa and the "Big Pig Gig" in Cincinnati. "It's a fundraiser with a following," said Whale Mania Maui co-chair, Soroptimist Kim Willis. Whale Mania Maui is a function of the Soroptimist International of West Maui (SIWM). The professional women's community service organization is offering sponsorships of the e7-foot humpbacks for $3,000 each, including the $1,000 honorarium paid to the artist to adorn it. The artistically embellished whales will be on display island wide from November 2002 through February 2003 during the traditional whale watching season. "The name of the sponsor, artist and sculpture location will be published on a Whale Mania Map of Discovery and available free to the many "Animals on Parade" Aficionados tracking the phenomena across the country," Willis added. The grand finale of the five-month long event is the charity auctions slated for March 2003, where the whales will be sold to the highest bidder, with half of the generated proceeds donated to the sponsor's charity of choice. SIWM, the event organizer, is designating the balance of the money raised to local charities, benefiting children, art, educational and environmental groups. In Chicago, the public auction raised $3.5 million total. The 79 horsed on display in Lexington, Kentucky, netted $750,000 for a local art fund and the pigs at Pikes Place Market raised $380,000 for the needy. "We are sincerely honored to have Mr. Buffet join the international list of Whale Mania artists. With artists of his caliber participating, the auction is likely to reap excellent results for all of us," Willis said For sponsorship information, call Willis at 669-6867. [ Top ]
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It was the middle of the 19th century in Hawaii. Protestant missionaries had a major foothold by the time the first official Catholic priest arrived in 1846 in Lahaina. He quickly found a large following on the island, it is said, despite fierce opposition from the missionaries and many of their chiefly converts and supporters. One especially formidable opponent was Queen Regent Kaahumanu. 
Men were deputized to arrest the miscreants and bring them in for trial in Wailuku. These men spent more than a month tracking down and gathering in all of the known, professed Catholics. To keep track of their prisoners, the deputies tied them together with ropes and marched them along the Piilani Highway through all the districts of Kahikinui, Kaupo, Hana and Nahiko, Keanae, Kailua, Haiku and Paia, all the way to the government seat in Wailuku. Helio and Petero were at the head of the line, which became known as the Paakaula ("the tying with ropes"). 
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