The Arizona Aloha Festival event began in 1995 at Heritage Square in Phoenix, Arizona. We shared culture, activities, community partners, and vendors for one day only.

Since then, we’ve grown into a nonprofit volunteer-run organization whose mission and purpose is to provide awareness and education about Hawaiian and other South Pacific Islander cultures and heritage.

Throughout the year we support cultural arts learning, provide speakers or instructors for educational programs, support gifts of learning materials, and provide funding for eligible cultural awareness and/or educational programs. And our annual event is now two days.

Each year, on one special March weekend, a little bit of Arizona is transformed. It all happens by the shore of a lake in the City of Tempe. We gather to celebrate Hawai’i and other South Pacific Islander cultures and heritage, share the music and dance, the beat of the drums, the food, the shopping, and, most of all, the spirit of aloha.