{"id":25088,"date":"2018-04-23T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25088"},"modified":"2018-04-23T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:56:46","slug":"california-island-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-island-fests\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Love, Aloha Spirit in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/polynfes.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love Polynesian culture, especially in California where people from many Pacific islands live? Polynesia is characterized by land spread over a very large portion of the mid and southern Pacific Ocean, so California&#8217;s festivals and events produced by people originating from these regions may focus on one specific group, but often include a variety of Polynesian cultures. Many of the festivals their clubs and non-profit organizations host are free admission, and include tropical music, dance competitions with exotic &amp; colorful costumes, and vendors selling tasty foods &amp; beverages in a warm and welcoming atmosphere. It almost sounds too good to be true but the aloha spirit is alive and well in California.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/polynesian-festivals.html\">Polynesian Festivals &amp; Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Dates are subject to change<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SANTA CLARITA: Santa Clarita Valley Pacific Islander Festival May 5-6<\/li>\n<li>FOSTER CITY: Polynesian Festival May 5<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: San Diego Ho&#8217;olaule&#8217;a May 5-6<\/li>\n<li>PLEASANTON: Hawaiian May Day Festival May 12-13<\/li>\n<li>SANTA FE SPRINGS: Heritage of Aloha Festival May 19-20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>June 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Pacific Islander Festival June 2-3<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Aloha Poly Fest June 23<\/li>\n<li>NORWALK: Southern California Hura Tahiti Tahitian Dance Competition June 29-30<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>July 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LAWNDALE: Alondra Park Ho&#8217;olaule&#8217;a, July 21-22<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>August 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Heiva San Diego-Solo Ori Tahiti Dance Competition August 11-12<\/li>\n<li>SAN MATEO: San Francisco Bay Area Aloha Festival August 11-12<\/li>\n<li>ELK GROVE: Heiva Ma&#8217;ohi O&#8217; Patitifa August 18-19<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Tiki Beach Festival August 18-19<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CRUZ Aloha Races and Polynesian Festival August 19<\/li>\n<li>ROHNERT PARK: Pacific Islanders Festival August 25<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Weekend in Polynesia August 25-26<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love Polynesian culture, especially in California where people from many Pacific islands live? Polynesia is characterized by land spread over a very large portion of the mid and southern Pacific Ocean, so California&#8217;s festivals and events produced by people originating from these regions may focus on one specific group, but often include a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25088"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25089,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25088\/revisions\/25089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}