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Made in Hawaii Festival in Honolulu
The Made in Hawaii Festival is the state's largest marketplace for locally made products, gathering hundreds of Hawaii artisans, food producers, and designers at the Hawaii Convention Center each August. Presented by Hawaiian Airlines, the multi-day event combines shopping with live music, food tastings, and fashion shows celebrating small businesses across the islands.
The Made in Hawaii Festival grew out of a straightforward idea: give the state's independent makers, from food producers to fashion designers, a single large venue where shoppers could find genuinely local products in one place rather than searching across dozens of small shops and farmers markets scattered around Oahu and the neighbor islands.