For the third consecutive summer, PLC teamed with the HIDOE Library Media Services (LMS) to produce and launch the HIDOE’s statewide #808Reads summer challenge. PLC and LMS continue to leverage Beanstack’s technical platform, which is an online commercial application that makes it easy for users to register, track reading, and gain data-driven insights. Although the challenge is statewide, each school library has its own individual website where students can track books read and time spent reading them. PLC produced another engaging #808Reads promotional video that features author Graham Salisbury (Under the Blood Red Sun) and local musicians Kalena Delima and Kala‘e Parish.
PLC produced and promoted the pre-recorded event that was filmed at Ko‘olau Ballrooms and Conference Center. PLC engaged the services of HI*Sessions staff who manage Hawai‘i’s premiere social media platform that exists to promote local music and artists on a global stage. With almost two-hundred-thousand subscribers, two-million views per month, and 140 artists on their Youtube channel, HI*Sessions has become the online music source for the state of Hawai‘i.