This site exists because the existing ones were wrong. Classes that finished two years ago, prices from a different season, studios that closed during the pandemic and still have a live listing. So the standards below aren’t marketing — they’re the specific rules that stop us becoming the thing we were annoyed by.
Every date, price and opening time is read from the venue’s own website or its official ticketing page. Not from another blog, not from an aggregator, not from a review site. If the Honolulu Museum of Art says a class costs $305, that number came off honolulumuseum.org — and if it changes there, ours is wrong until we re-check.
Plenty of venues don’t publish their hours, and some don’t publish prices at all. When that happens the listing says so — “not published online, call ahead” — instead of filling the hole with a number that looks plausible. An honest gap is more useful than a confident guess.
A listing only ever shows imagery from the venue it belongs to, or a plain illustrated tile. We don’t use stock photography and we don’t borrow a nice pottery photo from one studio to decorate another studio’s class. This rule exists because we broke it early on and it was immediately obvious — a Waikīkī lei-making photo ended up on a Kakaʻako ceramics class, and it made the whole page feel invented.
Recurring things — night markets, the free hula shows, monthly art walks — are stored as a rule (“second Friday, 5–9pm”) rather than a list of dates that quietly expires. The next occurrence is worked out in Hawaiʻi time when the page loads, so a recurring listing can’t go stale between visits. Where a venue has announced dark nights, those are stored too and skipped.
Guides carry the date they were verified, right at the top. If that date is getting old, treat it as a starting point and confirm before you drive across the island. We would rather show you a stale-dated page than a page that pretends to be current.
Nobody pays to be listed, ranked higher, or described more warmly. There are no affiliate links on event listings. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on this page before it appears anywhere else.
Local Hawaii Events is run by Nurullah Gökdoğan, who also owns KraftStories, a craft studio at 15 N Pauahi St in Chinatown, Honolulu. That is a real conflict of interest and it is worth stating plainly rather than burying.
Here is how we handle it. KraftStories workshops appear on this site the same way every other studio’s do, at the same prices they cost on our own booking page, and they are labelled as ours. Competing studios — Fishcake, Mudd Studio, Nendo, ʻOhana Hot Glass, the Honolulu Museum of Art School, North Shore Arts Center and the rest — are listed in full, including when they are cheaper than us. The whole reason this index is useful is that it is complete, and an index that quietly buried the competition would be worth nothing to you and, eventually, nothing to us.
The restaurants guide contains no KraftStories properties at all, and no restaurant paid to be in it.
We get things wrong. Prices change mid-season, a venue quietly moves its opening hours, a class gets cancelled the week we check. If you spot something — especially if it is your venue — tell us and we will fix it, or explain why we read the source differently.
Send us the page on your own site that has the right information and we will re-read it from there.
Tell us which listing. We re-check against the source rather than just taking the correction at face value.
We add venues we can verify. If you publish your schedule publicly, we can index it.
Our whole index is built from these sources. They are hand-picked rather than crawled at random, which is why the list is short enough to publish — and publishing it means you can check our work against the same pages we used.
The Island Guides are the clearest example — every price footnoted to the venue, every gap marked, and the date we checked printed at the top.
This page was last reviewed on 2026-08-12.