HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - When you go to an event like a concert, your attention is usually on the performance happening on stage. But there’s a lot more that goes into it, like the sound design, the look of the venue and the lights.

There was all of that in a graduation event at Hawaii Stage, an event production company that has been rigging up shows across the state for 50 years. It looked like it was being held in a Waikiki ballroom with fancy lighting, a stage and dining tables, but it was actually in the lightning and stage company’s Kapalama warehouse.

It was transformed by 18 graduates of the state’s first production arts cohort, sponsored by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement and funded by Kamehameha Schools and the Hawaii Community Foundation.

“There’s corporate gigs,

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