Purchase Your Banquet Tickets Here!

September 14, 2025 Joshua Edelstein Leave a comment

Get your tickets to the 2025 Hawaii Jewelers Association Annual Banquet and Design Contest. The banquet will be held on Saturday, October 11th at the beautiful Oahu Country Club in Nuuanu Valley.

While you're buying your tickets, don't forget to submit your work for the Jewelry Design competition; entry rules and forms are available here!

HJA 2025 Annual Banquet – one seat

$150.00

Join us at the HJA Annual Banquet and Design Contest on Saturday, October 11th, 2025 at the beautiful Oahu Country Club in Nuuanu Valley. Price is per person (tables for 10 are discounted) and includes buffer dinner and one complimentary drink ticket.

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HJA 2025 Annual Banquet – table for 10

$1,500.00

Join us at the HJA Annual Banquet and Design Contest on Saturday, October 11th, 2025 at the beautiful Oahu Country Club in Nuuanu Valley. Price is for a table of up to 10 and includes buffer dinner and 10 drink tickets (one per person).

Category: Banquet

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2025 HJA Banquet Speaker Announced

September 12, 2025 Mark Carson Leave a comment

We are pleased to announce that Marques Hanalei Marzan will be our speaker for the 76th Annual Hawaii Jewelers Association Banquet on Saturday, October 11! Marques is an accomplished Hawaiian cultural practitioner and fiber artist, and also works a day job as the Cultural Curator at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. He recently added a new credential to his CV as one of the cultural advisers on Apple TV & Jason Momoa's Chief Of War.

Marques will be bringing his vast knowledge of Hawaiian and Oceanic art to us, discussing Hawaiian jewelry from pre-contact times to the Victorian era and beyond.

Tickets to the banquet are available for sale on the HJA website; members and non-members are welcome to attend but only members are able to submit entries in the HJA jewelry design competition.

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Showcases available for purchase

February 4, 2025 Mark Carson Leave a comment

These showcases were formerly at Michael's Fine Jewelry (owned by the late Michael Parker)

3 @ 5'10" x 1'6" x 3'2"
3 @ 4' x 1'6" x 3'2"

$2000.00 all

Please contact John Woodbury of Honolulu Trading at 808-536-9739 if you are interested.

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2024 Design Contest Winners

October 30, 2024 Mark Carson Leave a comment

The Hawaii Jewelers Association celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2024. Our annual banquet was October 26, 2024 at the Elks Lodge in Waikiki on Oahu. The Design Contest was held concurrently and the winners for 2024 are:

Designer of the Year 2024

Designer of the Year 2024 - Carrie Nottage Smith, Na Hoku for Nautilus

Under $5000 - Category I

Under $5000, 1st Place - Pearl of Aphrodite - Alex McFarlin, Na Hoku

Under $5000, 2nd Place - Over the Rainbow - Tom Wheeler, Opal Fields

Under $5000, 3rd Place - Blooming Sun - Chira Duval-Arnould, Aquagems LLC

Under $5000, People's Choice - Pearl of Aphrodite - Alex McFarlin, Na Hoku

$5000 and Over - Category II

Over $5000, 1st Place - Nautilus - Carrie Nottage Smith, Na Hoku

Over $5000 - 2nd Place - Transformation - Dona Wong, Keoni Collection

Over $5000, 3rd Place - Year of the Dragon - The Design Team, Na Hoku

Over $5000, People's Choice - Nautilus - Carrie Nottage Smith, Na Hoku

Hawaiian Themed - Category III

Hawaiian Themed, 1st Place - Hoku Nani - Carrie Nottage Smith, Na Hoku

Hawaiian Themed, 2nd Place - Hahalua Aumakua - Alex McFarlin, Na Hoku

Hawaiian Themed, 3rd Place - Voyages - Eli Saban, JES Jewelry Co

Hawaiian Themed, People's Choice - Diamond Islands - David Heartson, Heartson Jewelry

Membership

2025 Membership Renewal

September 9, 2024 Mark Carson

Early Bird pricing now in effect for Retail and Associate Membership renewals - save $50 when you renew by December 31st, 2024 for your 2025 HJA membership.

Click here for more information.

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2024 Annual Banquet and Design Contest

July 17, 2024 Mark Carson

UPDATE: The 2024 Design Contest winners are announced here!

The HJA 2024 Annual Banquet was held on October 26th, 2024. Design Contest winners were announced at the banquet. Attendees voted for the People's Choice awards for the Design Contest pieces.

Click here for the 2024 Design Contest rules and entry form.

Click here to reserve a seat at the Banquet.

Click here to reserve a table - up to 10 seats for the price of 9.

The Hawaii Jewelers Association Annual Banquet was held at the Elks Lodge in Waikiki. Located at 2933 Kalakaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815. Click to view location on a map.

Our featured speaker was Hawaii State Senator Sharon Moriwaki.

Be a Banquet Sponsor - Contact us for details!

The Banquet was be held on October 26th, 2024 from 5:30 to 9:30 P.M.

Click here to view the 2023 Design Contest winners.

Look at how much fun we all had at previous Banquets:

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Call for Members to Renew Membership

February 13, 2024 Mark Carson

If you have not renewed your HJA membership for 2024, now is a great time to continue to support your Association. This also allows to you benefit from HJA services such as Security Alerts and Social Media support/reposts of your promotional efforts.

Click here to renew online.

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