• Blue Planet benefit auction • ‘Parallel Lives’ • Book signing and presentation • Health lecture; ‘I Ching’ workshop • Mangia and movie night • Call for artists • Sierra Club Outings • E Kanikapila Ka Blue Planet benefit auction
• Blue Planet benefit auction
• ‘Parallel Lives’
• Book signing and presentation
• Health lecture; ‘I Ching’ workshop
• Mangia and movie night
• Call for artists
• Sierra Club Outings
• E Kanikapila Ka
Blue Planet benefit auction
5 p.m. tomorrow
Kaua’i Marriott Resort and Beach Club
The Brothers Cazimero and their dancers are featured entertainers at Island School’s 30th annual gala auction. Hundreds of items will be up for bid at the live, almost-live, silent and dessert auctions. There will be a brand new 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid from King Auto and an “Endless Summer” surfboard made by master craftsman Frank Pullano to bid on. Proceeds support Island School’s academic, enrichment and financial aid programs. Admission is $110 and includes a gourmet dinner buffet and open wine bar. Walk-in guests are welcome. For more information call, 246-0233.
‘Parallel Lives’
7 p.m. today, tomorrow;
4 p.m. Sunday
KAPA Theatre, Puhi
This hilarious 80-minute comedy is a series of seven sketches that explore various relationships. The two-woman cast play the roles of both men and women ranging from five year olds in church to barflies in a honky-tonk bar. The show is a playful post-feminist satire that in many ways is a celebration of the diversity of women’s perspectives and experiences. Performances are 7 p.m. tonight, tomorrow and 4 p.m. Sunday. Ticket costs: adults, $20; students and seniors, $15. Seating is limited to 40 seats per show. Reservations are required. For more information and reservations call, 245-7700.
KAPA Theatre is located at 4411 Kikowaena St. in Puhi. Look for the large gray warehouse across from KCC and behind the Harley Davidson store. This show is not appropriate for children under 16-years old.
Book signing and presentation
2 p.m. tomorrow
Borders Books and Music
Longtime pilot and author Bob Tripp has crafted an aviation-based novel that begins with a disastrous crash at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport, and then follows the human story that happens behind the headlines. “Last Clear Chance” is based on real events and began as nonfiction. Fiction allowed Tripp to write with greater depth and emotion than narrative nonfiction would allow.
Health lecture; ‘I Ching’ workshop
Tonight; Saturday and Sunday
Qi Center, Lihu‘e
There is a free lecture on healing from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. tonight. The following day Grandmaster Hong will lead a weekend workshop on the “I Ching,” an ancient Chinese text consulted as a source of wisdom. The workshop is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. The “I Ching” is considered the mother of qi gong, feng shui and herbology. No prerequisites required. Tuition is $380 and includes lunch. To register call, 639-4300.
Mangia and movie night
6 p.m. tomorrow
Anchor Cove Shopping
Village, Lihu‘e
The Italian Club of Kaua‘i presents, “Golden Door,” a subtitled film that follows a family in 1913 leaving their poverty stricken life in a Sicilian village to come to America. The potluck is at 6 p.m. followed by the movie showing in the room next to the ABC store. Cost is $5. For more information call Bob Bartolo, 639-8080. To RSVP e-mail maikai@hawaiilink.net
Call for artists
All Kaua‘i artists are invited to participate in the Kaua‘i Orchid and Art Festival Art Show and Competition with the theme “Orchid Fantasy.” Festival dates are March 28 and 29. Submissions must be received by 4 p.m. March 24 for the 10 a.m. March 26 judging. Doors open 1 p.m. March 27 at Amy Lauren Gallery (prior Timespace), 4545 Kona Road. Entry fee is $10; two entries maximum. Awards and cash prizes offered by Hanapepe Economic Alliance. For entry form and art show information contact Angela Headley, 335-0591 or download the form at kauai.net/hanapepe
Sierra Club Outings
Tomorrow; Sunday
Hike the Powerline Trail from the East Side to the North Shore tomorrow. Cars will shuttle from North Shore to Wailua for a one-way trip along a ridge offering views of the northeast quadrant of the island. A strenuous 9-mile excursion. For information call Jane Schmitt, 826-6105. Hike Waipo‘o Falls at Koke‘e. Many views along this spectacular hike. Picnic at a ginger pool. Moderately strenuous 2.5 miles round trip. For information call Allan Rachap, 742-1001.
Malama Maha‘ulepu, Sierra Club and Surfrider join forces for a beach clean up Sunday. For information call Judy Dalton, 246-9067.
E Kanikapila Kakou
6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday
Island School main hall
E Kanikapila Kakou is an informal backyard Hawaiian music jam session promoting aloha through song among Kaua‘i residents by showcasing Hawai‘i’s diverse and talented composers, musicians and kumu hula sharing songs and chants. This week Maui falsetto singer Leokane Pryor with Hana musicians, Glenwood Tolentino, Christoperh and Matthew-John Helekahi. This Garden Island Arts Council sponsored event happens every Monday through April.
Photographer Patrick Nagatani
7 p.m. Wednesday
Kukui Grove Exhibition Hall (Unit B-6)
Kaua‘i Society of Artists presents a free lecture. Nagatani is professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico. He is in Hawai‘i courtesy of the University of Hawai‘i Intersections program. He teaches photography at the University of New Mexico. Nagatani’s long career has been driven by the notion that color has healing properties. He is fascinated with the symbolism and emotional power of color including chromotherapy, based on ancient traditions of using color as a remedy for individual and social ills. Whatever Nagatani is photographing — people, subways, internment camps, excavations, nuclear test sites — he exposes the paradoxical relationship of reality and illusion. For more on the artist and links to his photography visit kauaisocietyofartists.org
Video ‘Slippery Path to Indiginaity’
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday
Hanapepe
Neighborhood Center
Everything a person ever wanted to know about Hawaiian sovereignty is told by videographer Keanu Sai. Sai received his doctorate in law and wrote this as his dissertation. There will be time for questions after the video. For more information call 635-2693.
Malama Pono open house and Hamster Dance
March 20
4357 Rice St., Lihu‘e
Malama Pono is negotiating with the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest hamster dance ever. Already 160 Wilcox fifth graders will participate in the event at 8:15 a.m. in front of the Malama Pono office on Rice St. Each dancer gets a certificate for making a world’s record not to mention their own hamster nose. There will be a live broadcast on KONG radio with Ron Wiley. Malama Pono is seeking 50 volunteers/dancers to sign up and get people to sponsor them to the tune of $100. Following the dance is an open house in recognition of National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call Malama Pono for pledge forms and rehearsal times, 246-9577. Proceeds go to client services.
Hawai‘i Literary Arts Council
Accepting submissions for ‘Kaimana’
Literary journal scheduled for fall 2009 publication brings together contemporary poems and short stories that speak to the environments and ideas that unite. Seeking submissions that that are based in nature, personal, local, national or international. There are no thematic and stylistic limits. Hoping to represent the range, depth and authenticity of the single or plural voice with new, original work. Send up to three poems of no more than two pages each or a short story of no more than 3000 words.
Send a three to five line biography to Poetry Editor or Fiction Editor at hlacsubmissions@gmail.com.
Text should be in .rtf or .doc attachments, New times Roman 12 point type. Snail-mail submissions are not considered.
