Aloha Shorts welcomes Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities as its new corporate underwriter. Pictured above (l. to r.) Aloha Shorts on-air host Cedric Yamanaka, co-producers Craig Howes and Phyllis Look, HCH Executive Director Bob Buss. Photo credit: Sammie Choy, AS co-producer.

Another SRO crowd on September 6, 2009. Photo taken from the HPR control booth by co-producer Sammie Choy.

Special musical guests for Aloha Shorts taping on Hawaiian writers.

Jamaica, Jon, and Duncan perform "Kaulana Na Pua."

Nara demonstrates a gesture in "’Au’a ‘Ia" by Mary Beth Aldosa.

Nara reads from Puanani Burgess’ "Hawaiʻi Pono’i."

Sam, a 14-year old Kamehameha Schools student, reads "When I hear my grandma" by Bobbie Kanae. The poem was written when Bobbie was a 4th grader.

Ginger reads "Bearing the Light" by N. Keonaona Aeʻa. Guitarist Duncan Osorio listens in background.