First
Thursdays (This event is held the first Thursday of every month at the Pipeline Cafe)Email: info@HawaiiSlam.com
See the Website www.HawaiiSlam.com for information about cover charge, upcoming performing poets, etc.
First
Thursdays (This event is held the first Thursday of every month at the Pipeline Cafe) Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, 7:00 p.m. -- Bamboo Ridge Issue #94 Book Launch and Reading at UH-Campus Center Ballroom.
Join in celebrating the release of the latest regular issue of BAMBOO RIDGE, JOURNAL OF HAWAI‘I LITERATURE AND ARTS (#94), at the book launch and reading. For more information about the reading, go to the Bamboo Ridge website at http://www.bambooridge.com/. Download Issue 94 Launch flier at http://www.bambooridge.com/bluesun.aspx?bid=364
7:00 p.m. – reception and book signing;
7:30 p.m. – reading (authors to be announced)
FREE and open to the public. Sponsored by the University of Hawai‘i Campus Center Board Activities Council and Bamboo Ridge Press.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009--Reception, reading and book signing by Michelle Cruz Skinner to celebrate the release of In the Company of Strangers.
7:00 p.m. reception and book signing
7:30 p.m. reading
University of Hawai‘i Art Auditorium
FREE and open to the publicReception and reading co-sponsored by the University of Hawai‘i American Studies Department and Bamboo Ridge Press.
Fall 2009 Literary Events --PAU
Tuesday, November 17, 2009--Reading and book signing by Michelle Cruz Skinner. The release of In the Company of Strangers will be celebrated with a launch reception and reading at Punahou School (information provided below). For more information about the reading, go to the Bamboo Ridge website at http://www.bambooridge.com/
Book Launch and Reading
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
6:30 p.m. reception and book signing
7:00 p.m. reading by Michelle Cruz Skinner
Luke Lecture Hall, Wo International Center
Punahou School (see campus map at http://www.punahou.edu/page.cfm?p=1890)
FREE and open to the public. Co-sponsored by Punahou School and Bamboo Ridge Press. Download Michelle Cruz Skinner Punahou and UH event flier at
http://www.bambooridge.com/bluesun.aspx?bid=363
Nov. 18-20, 2009 Fall Festival of Writers UH-Manoa. Featured writers include Carlos Andrade, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Lurline Wailana MacGregor, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Anne Panning, and others. Information about the authors and events are available at http://www.english.hawaii.edu/cw/festival/fallfestival.html.
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, 6:00 p.m.-- Fall Festival of Writers Reading at Kapi‘olani Community College Maile Auditorium. The final event, a reading by all the authors featured in the Fall Festival of Writers, will be held at KCC's Maile Auditorium. Free and open to the public. See an interactive KCC Campus map or download a pdf file of the campus map here.
Friday, November 6: "An Evening of Art, Poetry and Fashion," part of downtown's First Friday celebration this month. The art begins at 5:30 p.m. The UH Fashion Design folks take the stage at 6 pm and the word people (Brenda Kwon, Susan Schultz, Jaimie Gusman, Shantel Grace, Gigi Miranda, Will Espero and Amalia Bueno) begin the poetry reading at 6:30 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public. Parking is downstairs of the Pioneer Plaza building at 900 Fort Street Mall, with parking entrance on Merchant Street. Here are the details
WHAT: An Evening of Art, Poetry & Fashion
WHEN: Friday, November 6; 5:30 to 8:30 pm
WHERE: Plaza Club Penthouse, 21st Floor
WHO:
Visual Artists - Corinne Gallardo & Maurice Hutchinson
UH Fashion Students - Alana Morton, Eri Takebayashi, Feliz Salas, Kate Henry, Matt Gonzales, Alicia Himoto, Erin Ludolph, Jaclyn Santos, Matt Bruening and Sasha Dominy
Poets - Amalia Bueno, Will Espero, Shantel Grace, Jaimie Gusman, Brenda Kwon, Gigi Miranda, Susan Schultz
First Thursdays (This event is held the first Thursday of every month)
First Thursdays (September 4th)
$100 Slam Poetry Competition & Open Mic
LOCATION: HAWAIIAN HUT
410 Atkinson Drive (ground level of Ala Moana Hotel)
Park at Ala Moana Shopping Center or Validated Parking for Ala Moana Hotel
Doors & Poet Sign-Ups 7:45 pm, Show 8:30 pm
$3 before 8:30 pm, $5 after
Phone: (808) 387-9664
Email: info@HawaiiSlam.com
Website: www.HawaiiSlam.comFirst Thursday, Sept. 4: Kealoha will host another mind expanding slam featuring:
-- ShadoKat, an internationally known poet who has toured throughout the United States and Europe, and in 2007 was a member of the New York City Urbana's National Slam Team. He won a 3rd place finish in Apollo Theater's Nationally renowned Amateur Night, and was the Male Performer of the Year at the 2006 National Underground Spoken Word Awards. ShadoKat performed on the Hip Hop for the People tour which was sponsored by Bill Cosby, and has been featured on stage with DJ Afrika Bambaataa, Dead Prez, Black Ice, Immortal Technique, Saul Williams, DMC, Amiri Baraka, and Ras Baraka.
-- Youth Speaks Hawai`i, our group of local teens who took the world by storm by winning the 2008 International Youth Poetry Slam Championship. You've seen them this summer trying out their weaker material to work out the kinks. This Thursday, they will showcase their A-list pieces that actually won them the gold.
-- Turntable Sorcery by DJ Toki (Sisters in Sound)
-- The kickoff of the 2008-2009 HawaiiSlam season (normal slam rules apply, and top two poets advance to the 2009 Grand Slam Finals). Congratulations to the 2008 HawaiiSlam Team for representing Hawai`i at the National Poetry Slam and for making it to the Team Piece Finals Stage (top 13 teams out of the total field of 75). They placed 7th in the Team Piece Finals competition.
-- Live painting by the resident artists (including Solomon Enos, Erin McCullough, Kimi Werner, The Storekeeper, Dhyana Zagri, Stanstill, Nabahe, Wes Ka`uhane, Neal Uno, Pancho Abalos, Mike Fresh, Manny P, Patti Bruce, Aaron Char, Mark Agnir, Jeff Lum, Samantha Goldman, Earl Washington, and Clinton "Clean" Haness)
-- Massages in the lounge by Tracy Phipps
Local Literary Events Spring 2008 PAU
First Thursdays (This event is held the first Thursday of every month)
LOCATION: HAWAIIAN HUT
410 Atkinson Drive (ground level of Ala Moana Hotel)
Free parking at Ala Moana Shopping Center
Doors & Poet Sign-Ups 7:45pm, Show 8:30pm
$3 before 8:30pm, $5 after
Phone: (808) 387-9664
Email: info@HawaiiSlam.com
Website: www.HawaiiSlam.com
April 30, 2008--Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, author of Decolonizing the Mind, Petals of Blood, and Wizard of the Crow, will do a reading and book signing with Albert Wendt. Reception 5:00 p.m., Reading 6:00 p.m. in the UH Manoa Hawaiian Studies Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
April 30, 2008--Bamboo Ridge Issue #91 reading. Carlos Andrade, Gerry Lopez, Rachel Ana Brown, Kealoha, Brenda Kwon, Moriso Teraoka, Peter Van Dyke, Sue Cowing, Jesse Fourmy, Michael Little, Christine Thomas, and Eric Paul Schaffer will read. Reception 7:00 p.m., Reading 7:30 p.m. at the UH Manoa Campus Center Ballroom. Free and open to the public.
A Reading by award-winning poet Cathy Song -- Monday, March 17, 2008, 10:45-noon in the Holomua Center in ‘Iliahi 231: Cathy Song's books include Picture Bride; Frameless Windows, Squares of Light; School Children; and the newly published Cloud Moving Hands. Additional info about Cathy Song at the Poetry Foundation website at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80611
A Filipino Writers reading/performance with Amalia Bueno and others --Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 10:45-noon in ‘Iliahi 231F in the Holomua Center.
Da No‘eau Zone Open Mic-- Thursday, March 20, 2008, 10:45-noon in the Holomua Center in ‘Iliahi 231. OPEN MIC -- Bring your voice, ears and eyes. Want to share your writing? Contact Lisa Kanae at lkanae@hawaii.edu or call 734-9751 to sign up to read your work.
Reading by R. Zamora Linmark -- Thursday, March 20, 2008, 7:30 p.m., HIG (Hawaii Institute of Geophysics) Auditorium at UH-Manoa. Zamora Linmark is the author of Rolling the R's and Prime-Time Apparitions. Free and open to the public. Click here for map of UH-Manoa campus. Read about him at http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Mar/08/il/FP603080304.html
Inaugural "KCC Poetry Slam Contest." Monday, April 14, 2008, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. @ Ohia cafeteria. Now, it is our KCC student slam poets’ opportunity to "shine on stage." The emcee for this OSA event is Kealoha, Slam Poet of Hawaii. Come to hear and support our KCC slam poets!
Reception and book launch for Mahealani Perez-Wendt's recently published book of poetry, Uluhaimalama, edited by Ku`ualoha Ho`omanawanui and Brandy Nalani McDougall of Kuleana `Oiwi Press.
Saturday, March 15
from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
at the Art Auditorium (across Kuykendall Hall)
U.H. - ManoaMahealani Perez-Wendt will be joined by musicians as well as Ku`ualoha Ho`omanawanui and Brandy Nalani McDougall, co-editors and poets, and acclaimed writers and artists Joy Harjo, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Albert Wendt and Imaikalani Kalahele. Click here for map of UH-Manoa campus.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. @ ‘Ohi‘a 118 auditorium: Slam Poet Kealoha Presents a Slam Poetry Seminar. You are invited to attend Slam Poet Kealoha's OSA Guest Speaker Seminar to learn about Slam Poetry: its art and its history. Kealoha is Hawaii's SlamMaster and an internationally known slam poet icon!
Monday, March 10, 2008, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. @ ‘Ohi‘a cafeteria: Kealoha & Hawai‘iSlam Poets Show. Experience a dynamic hour-long Poetry Slam Show with HawaiiSlam Poets. Find out how to apply to participate in the April 14, 2008 inaugural "KCC Poetry Slam Contest" inside the ‘Ohi‘a cafeteria from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. which will be held if there are at least twenty (20) poetry slam contestants.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 7:00 p.m. For the Love of Bamboo Ridge 30th Anniversary Celebration. Join local writers to honor and roast Bamboo Ridge editors Darrell Lum and Eric Chock
February 27, 2008, 7:00 p.m., UH Art Auditorium, Chang-Rae Lee. Free and open to the public. See flyer. Download pdf flyer.
Tuesday,
January 29, 2008--The re:VERSES Poetry Collective presents: re:VERSES
Featured Poets and Open Mic
hosted by TravisT, Lyz, & B-Kwon, with vinyl on rotation by dj Mr.Nick
$5 cover, BYOB; doors open @ 7pm, show starts @ 8pm
1159 Nuuanu (Nuuanu & Pauahi, Chinatown)
www.artsatmarks.comfor more info: contact Brenda @ poetryhawaii@hotmail.com or TravisT @ 808-753-4661.
Sponsored by Youth Speaks Hawai'i & Na Mea Hawai'i/Native Books. Spread the word!
Local Literary Events Fall 2007 PAU
Monday, December 3, 2007, Da No`eau Zone -- 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm @ Manele Building Lawn (or Manele 104 if it's raining). Bring your eyes, ears and voice. Share your creative works - poetry, prose, mele, oli and more -- at his open mic forum presented by Malama Hawai`i. Free. Please contact Lisa Kanae or Kawika Napoleon at 734-9751 for more information on how to participate.
Thursday, November 15, 2007, Reading by Cathy Song -- 7:00 p.m., Wo International Center at Punahou School. Free and open to the public. Map of Punahou School at http://www.punahou.edu/page.cfm?p=364.
Monday, November 5, 2007, Da No`eau Zone -- 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm @ Manele Building Lawn. Bring your eyes, ears and voice. Share your creative works - poetry, prose, mele, oli and more -- at his open mic forum presented by Malama Hawai`i. Free. Please contact Lisa Kanae or Kawika Napoleon at 734-9751 for more information on how to participate.
Saturday, Oct. 27, Reading by Celestine Vaite -- 3:00 p.m., Pohai Nani Auditorium, Kane‘ohe. Celestine Vaite is the first Tahitian ever to receive the coveted Prix litteraire des etudiants. Free and Open to the public. Click here to see the flier. Click here to download the flier in pdf format.
Thursday, Oct. 4, Reading by Chang-Rae Lee, 7:00 p.m., Wo International Center at Punahou School. Free and open to the public. Newspaper article at http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710030359. Map of Punahou School at http://www.punahou.edu/page.cfm?p=364.
October 3-5, Fall Festival of Writers 2007: Write Hard,Play Harder: Playwriting Across the Pacific, University of Hawai`i at Manoa and Kumu Kahua Theatre. Click on this link to UH-Manoa's Fall Festival of Writers website for more information. Click on here to see the flier about Festival events. Download the flier in pdf format.
Monday, Oct. 1, Da No'eau Zone, noon open mic at Manele lawn. Share your stories, poems, multimedia stuff, and music. Contact Lisa Kanae at lkanae@hawaii.edu or Kawika Napolean at nawaa@hawaii.edu (phone 734-9751) to sign up. Download flier in pdf format here.
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 7:00 p.m. reception and reading, UH-Manoa Campus Center Ballroom--A Reading by Mavis Hara from her new book An Offering of Rice. Free and open to the public. Download flier in pdf format here
Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 10:45-noon, Holomua Center ('Iliahi 231 above Subway), Kapi`olani Community College-- A Reading by Mavis Hara from her new book An Offering of Rice. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday,
August 28, 2007--re:VERSES Featured Poets and Open Mic-- Location: The
ARTS at Marks Garage, 1159 Nuuanu Avenue.
hosted by Lyz & TravisT, with vinyl on rotation by dj Mr.Nick
$5 cover, doors open @ 7pm, show starts @ 8pm
Your truth-seekers and tellers this month: CAWA TRAN...PhD student studying Zoology at UHM, believes in striving to create a community in which political activism is driven by the power of art, language, creativity, and most importantly, truth. CHAR... LADIE K...writer and actress for the local independant film THE SOUL SAVIOUR CHRONICALS, also playing the role of Sandra Vile in Dave and Busters Mystery Dinner Theater COMPETITION IS MURDER. NICKI GARCES...former educator, now working for UNITE HERE Local 5, the hotel and restaurant union, involved with the Filipino American Historical Society of Hawai'i (FAHSOH), Filipinos Linked in Pride (FLIP). SONYA ZABALA...second generation multi-racial Filipina whose roots take her back to Dagupan City, Pangasinang, to Turtle Island of the Alonquin Nation and everywhere in between, an activist, educator and family advocate here in Hawai'i and beyond.
for more info: contact Brenda @ poetryhawaii@hotmail.com or TravisT @ 808-753-4661. Sponsored by Youth Speaks Hawai'i & Na Mea Hawai'i/Native Books.
Local Literary Events Fall 2006 PAU
November 6-10, 2006 -- Kooser Week in Hawai‘i. Pulitzer Prize winning poet and 2004-2006 U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser will be the featured speaker at a series of talks and workshops on Oahu and the Big Island. For complete information about all the Kooser week events, registration forms for workshops, links to some of Ted Kooser's poems, and audio links to interviews, go to http://library.wcc.hawaii.edu/kooser. Information about free readings on Oahu is listed below:
Monday, November 6, 2006. 7:00 p.m. UH-Manoa Campus Center Ballroom -- Ted Kooser: A Reading and Conversation -- Thoughts on how poetry can give us fresh ways of looking at the world and touch our hearts. Free. To see the location of the UH Campus Center Ballroom on the UH-Manoa campus, go to http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/ and select the name "Campus Center." The ballroom is upstairs in the UH Campus Center.
Thursday, November 9, 2006. 7:00 p.m. Paliku Theatre at Windward Community College -- Kooser on Local Wonders: Poetry and Place -- A reading and conversation on finding inspiration in everyday life. Free. To see a map of Windward Community College's campus, go to http://www.wcc.hawaii.edu/WCCmap.html.
Tuesday, October 31--The re:VERSES Poetry Collective presents two poets visiting Hawai'i for a special show:
MARC MARCEL: Internationally known, Marc Marcel is a dynamic Poet, Writer, Author, Producer and Speaker. Raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Marcel made his start in Atlanta, Georgia, where he started writing in April of 99, and since, has compiled thousands of unreleased poems, and several novels. In the summer of 2004, Marcel traveled across seas to perform in London, Bristol, Munich, and Prague. Marc Marcel has found his passion, and has dedicated himself to sleepless nights.This is the subtle joy of enjoying the familiar things in everything.
IYEOKA IVIE OKOAWO: Nigerian-American poet/singer residing in Boston,MA and winner of a 2006 New England Urban Music Award for Best Female Spoken Word Poet. She also won "Performance Poet of the Year" and "Slam Poet of the Year" for the 2003 Cambridge Poetry Awards. 5 time Boston Slam Team member, "Blackout Boston" member. She's opened for Gil Scot Heron, the Jeff Robinson Trio, Vivian Green & Musiq Soulchild. has been featured on HBO & CBS. In 2004 she released her solo debut album LP "Black and Blues" through Phanai Records.
But that's not all! This month, we've got... The Halloween Costume Contest - this is open to everybody but in TWO separate categories 1 - best costume, and 2 - best "open mic-er" costume more details to be announced at the show
The ARTS at Marks Garage, 1159 Nuuanu (Nuuanu & Pauahi, Chinatown). Every Last Tuesday of the Month
hosted by Brenda Kwon & TravisT, with vinyl on rotation by dj Mr.Nick
$5 cover
doors open @ 7pm, show starts @ 8pm
www.artsatmarks.com
for more info: contact Brenda @ PoetryHawaii@Hotmail.com
or TravisT @
808-753-4661.Sponsored by Na Mea Hawai'i/Native Books.
Friday, October 13, 2006 -- Writers Night Out: A FREE reading in conjunction with the Bamboo Ridge Writers Institute. University of Hawai‘i Campus Center Ballroom. 7:00 p.m. reception. 7:30 p.m. readings and performances by Kealoha, Brenda Kwon, Chris McKinney, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka. To see the location of the UH Campus Center Ballroom on the UH-Manoa campus, go to http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/ and select the name "Campus Center." If you click on the building name on the map, you will get a photo of the building. The ballroom is upstairs in the UH Campus Center.
Saturday, October 14, 2006 -- TRY 4 WRITE! Bamboo Ridge Writers Institute 2006, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., UH Campus Center Ballroom. Registration fee required. Scholarships available (deadline for scholarship application is Sept. 30). A full day of readings, panels, and writing workshops for all writers and lovers of literature. Sessions on writing fiction, poetry, non-fiction, screenwriting, drama, oral history, and biography. Keynote address by Lee Cataluna, lunchtime reading celebrating the Filipino Centennial, Closing reading by Lee Tonouchi. For flyer, tentative schedule, registration form, and scholarship application, go to http://www.bambooridge.com.
To see the location of the UH Campus Center Ballroom on the UH-Manoa campus, go to http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/ and select the name "Campus Center." The ballroom is upstairs in the UH Campus Center.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006-- re:VERSES, an evening of featured writers and open mic hosted by TravisT, Ally, and Brenda, and music on rotation by Mr. Nick. Show starts at 8 p.m., doors open at 7 p.m. The Arts at Marks Garage, 1159 Nu'uanu Avenue. All Ages. $5, BYOB
HOT this month: BART ABBOTT--humanitarian and activist, founder of the nonprofit Emerging Humanity. JOHANNA ALMIRON--Babaylan performance artist, dancer, educator. MARK CHITTOM--Back by popular demand! DJ and creator of "Clubbed to Death." DARLENE RODRIGUES--Program coordinator for isisHawaii, community sistah working for peace and justice. JERRY SAVIANO--HCC professor, previous winner of Honolulu Magazine's fiction contest.Contacts:TravisT --808-753-4661; Brenda--poetryhawaii@hotmail.com
Local Literary Events Spring 2006 PAU
First Thursdays (This event is held the first Thursday of every month)
LOCATION: HAWAIIAN HUT
410 Atkinson Drive (ground level of Ala Moana Hotel)
Free parking at Ala Moana Shopping Center
Doors & Poet Sign-Ups 7:45pm, Show 8:30pm
$3 before 8:30pm, $5 after
Phone: (808) 387-9664
Email: info@HawaiiSlam.com
Website: www.HawaiiSlam.comApril 21 and 22: Maxine Hong Kingston is in town for a workshop and readings to promote a new book co-written by her and war veterans, Reflecting OnWar And Peace. Here is link to article in Monday's Star-Bulletin which details times and places for the workshop and readings. See the Honolulu Star Bulletin article at http://starbulletin.com/2006/04/17/features/story02.html. There is also an interview with her at the bottom of the newspaper article.
Maxine Hong Kingston and 17 veterans will present "Reflecting on War and Peace" -- a meditation and writing workshop drawn from Kingston's Veterans' Writing Program -- from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 22 at the Church of the Crossroads. The church is at 1212 University Ave. Admission is free but donations will be accepted. Contact DharmaFriends@aol.com or call 808-875-7995, on Maui.
Kingston and the veteran writers will also read from and sign their new book at Native Books/Na Mea Hawaii, Ward Warehouse, from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 21 and at the Hawai'i Book & Music Festival at Honolulu Hale, from noon to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 22.
- 12:00 p.m. Saturday, April 22 in the Storytelling Pavilion-- "Aloha Shorts" reading by Wendie Burbridge, Lisa Linn Kanae, Michael Little, Joe Tsujimoto, and Cedric Yamanaka.
- Sunday, April 23, 11:00 a.m. in Mission Memorial Auditorium-- Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Behold the Many
- Sunday, April 23, 1:00 p.m. in Mission Memorial Auditorium--Maxine Hong Kingston, "Celebrating 30 Years of Woman Warrior"
- Sunday, April 23. 1:00 p.m. in Honolulu Hale-- excerpts from Lee Cataluna's Folks You Meet at Longs read by actors Daryl Bonilla, Dawn Gohara, Wil Kahele, Keith Kashiwada, and Janice Terukina.
- Sunday, April 23, 3:00 p.m., in Mission Memorial Auditorium--Kiana Davenport, House of Many Gods
- Sunday, April 23, 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. in the Storytelling Pavilion--Kealoha Wong, Poetry Slam
The Songmaker's Chair by Albert Wendt, Kumu Kahua Theater, 6 Merchant Street, Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813
Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8 pm, March 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31; April 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, *15, 2006Sunday @ 2 pm, March 19, 26; April 2, 9, 2006.
Box Office Phone: (808) 536-444. Go to http://www.kumukahua.org/ for information about the play, location of the theatre, and ticket prices.
PAU
Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 7:00 p.m. reception, 7:30 p.m., HIG Auditorium, UH Manoa-- Ian MacMillan Reading. Ian MacMillan will read from his new book The Seven Orchids. Mr. Macmillan has won the Hawai‘i Writer's Award, the PEN-USA-West Award for Fiction, The Associated Writing Programs Award, The O. Henry Award, Pushcart Prize, and a Best American Short Stories Award.
Sponsored by the UHM English Department and Bamboo Ridge Press. Free and open to the public. For location of HIG Auditorium, go to http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/ and select the name "Hawaii Inst Geophysics."Friday, April 7th, 5-9pm (part of Chinatown's Art First Friday)--First Annual Smartitas Rant & Rave (poetry reading/music/eating)
daspace at 1192 Smith Street --(corner of mith & Beretania ABOVE Yasura's Restaurant, 1 block down from Chinese Cultural Center), parking available in Chinese Cultural Center for cheapthe debut of dj prima b
introducing
darlene "unggoy mixtress" rodrigues
melisa "boogie m" san luis casumbal-salazar
gigi "honey tongue" miranda, and
other very special guests....please spread the word!Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 10:45-noon, ‘Ohi‘a Auditorium, Kapi‘olani Community College--Literary Reading by Robert Sullivan and Lisa Kanae,. Robert Sullivan is an award-winning Maori poet and co-editor of Trout, an online journal of arts & literature from Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific Islands at http://www.trout.auckland.ac.nz/. He has published several books, most recently Voice Carried My Family (2005). Mr. Sullivan is a professor of Creative Writing at UH-Manoa. Lisa Kanae is an award-winning local writer who is the author of Sista Tongue and numerous short stories and poems. She teaches at KCC.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 10:45 a.m.-noon, ‘Ohi‘a Auditorium, Kapi‘olani Community College--Reading by Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Wendy Miyake. Acclaimed writer Lois-Ann Yamanaka reads from her new book Behold the Many. She will be joined by Wendy Miyake, who will read from her newly published first book Beads, Boys, and the Buddha.
March 23, 2006, 7:30 p.m., UH-Manoa Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics Auditorium- Inaugural reading by W.S. Merwin, thirty-year Maui resident and environmental activist whose career as a poet and translator spans five decades. In 1952, he was awarded the Yale Younger Poets prize by W.H.Auden. In addition to the Pulitzer and National Book Award, he has received the Tanning Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. While on Maui, Merwin has written nine books of poetry and five of prose. His largest work, The Folding Cliffs, is the story of the struggle of Ko'olau, a victim of Hansen's disease, to remain with his family on Kauai shortly after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. In 2005, he published an autobiographical book, Summer Doorways; a new volume of poems, Present Company; and Migration. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 23, 2006, 10:45-noon, 'Iliahi 231F (in the Holomua Center)--Literary Reading by award-winning writer Ian MacMillan. Ian MacMillan will read from his new book The Seven Orchids. Mr. Macmillan has won the Hawai‘i Writer's Award, the PEN-USA-West Award for Fiction, The Associated Writing Programs Award, The O. Henry Award, Pushcart Prize, and a Best American Short Stories Award.
Thursday, March 23, 7:00 p.m., UH-Manoa Campus Center Ballroom--Alexander McCall Smith Author of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, The Sunday Philosophy Club, and other works. Public Lecture: "On Being a Serial Novelist." To get more information on Alexander McCall Smith go to http://www.mccallsmith.com/. To see a campus map go to http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/
Friday, March 24, 7:00 p.m., UH-Manoa Campus Center Ballroom--"An Evening with Alexander McCall Smith: A Reading and Conversation." Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Hawaii Council of Teachers of Englishand Hawaii Writing Project. To see a campus map go to http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/Thursday, March 9, 2006, 7 to 9 PM, HIG Auditorium at UH Manoa. A reading with R. Zamora Linmark. Free
Poet, novelist and playwright R. Zamora Linmark is author of Rolling the R's and the just-released Prime-Time Apparitions.. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, textbooks, and journals, including Hanging Loose, Zyzzyva, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of Asian North American Poetry, Charlie Chan is Dead 1 & 2, and the Philippine Free Press. A recipient of several awards and fellowships, he is currently a U.S. Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Philippines. He divides his home between Honolulu, San Francisco and Manila. For location of HIG Auditorium, go to http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/ and select the name "Hawaii Inst Geophysics." Read about him at http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Mar/08/il/FP603080304.htmlMonday, March 13, 2006, 10:45-noon, Kalia 102. A reading with R. Zamora Linmark. Poet, novelist and playwright R. Zamora Linmark is author of Rolling the R's and the just-released Prime-Time Apparitions. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, textbooks, and journals, including Hanging Loose, Zyzzyva, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of Asian North American Poetry, Charlie Chan is Dead 1 & 2, and the Philippine Free Press. A recipient of several awards and fellowships, he is currently a U.S. Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Philippines. He divides his home between Honolulu, San Francisco and Manila. Read about him at http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Mar/08/il/FP603080304.html
Monday, March 6, 2006, 7:00 PM--Special performances of "Bamboo Ridge Tales" by Nyla Fujii-Babb, Janice Terukina, and Eric Mita.
Manoa Valley Theatre
2833 East Manoa Road (parking next door at Safeway)
7:00 p.m. - reception
7:30 p.m. - performance
Free for 2006 Bamboo Ridge Press members or donation at the doorNovember 30, 2005, 3:15-4:30 in 'Ilima 202: Public performance and poetry reading by Tusiata Avia, New Zealand Samoan poet, performer and writer. "Tusiata as much as being a poet for the page, is also a poet for the stage. She has performed her one-woman show, also called Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, since 2002 around New Zealand, in American Samoa, Germany, Austria, Russian, and Hawai‘i."
November 16, 2005: 9:15-10:30 a.m.. Mokihana 101 at KCC. Literary reading by 4 writers published in Issue #87 of Bamboo Ridge: A Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts. The following are the Contributers Notes which were published in Issue #87.
- Emelihter Kihleng is a haf kas Pohnpeian who was born on Guam and raised on Guam, in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, and in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Much of her work is about Pohnpeian identity and diaspora. She is an MA student in English, Creative Writing at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
- Amalia B. Bueno emigrated to Hawai'i from the Philippines at the age of seven. She has a BA in English Literature from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and aspires to write poems and short stories for a living. She lives and works in Honolulu.
- Tyler Miranda is currently teaching English at Leilehua High School. A modern-day cookie monster, Tyler is appalled to think that the powers that lord over Sesame Street would modity that wonderful character (Cookie Monster) in any way because some minority thinks he encourages obesity. In animated response and protest, Tyler has this to say: "Quick, shove a chocolate chip cookie under my tongue!" It's a hard job, he knows, but someone has got to fight the fight.
- Lisa Linn Kanae would like to mahalo her kupuna for sending her the ‘u‘u and her father for this gift of a story.
All events are free and open to the public. There is also a free film festival, Re-viewing Vietnam: Film Presentations of the Vietnam War at the Honolulu Academy of Arts Doris Duke Theater from Nov. 1-10 which is part of the Fall Festival of Writers. See the film schedule at http://www.honoluluacademy.org/theater/events.htm. If you scroll down on the schedule, you can see descriptions of the films. On November 10, Andrew Lam will be speaking at the showing of the film My Journey Home, which was made about his journey back to Vietnam (7:30 p.m.).Readings for the Fall Festival of Writers are:
Wednesday, November 9, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at UHM Art Auditorium, UH-Manoa -- Reading by Wayne Karlin, Andrew Lam, Tim O'Brien. Click here for UH-Manoa Campus Map.
Friday, November 11, 3:00 p.m. at Fort DeRussy, Hale Koa Army Hotel [Waikiki].-- Reading by Tim O'Brien
Lectures for the Fall Festival of Writers include:
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 9:00 a.m. in the Pacific Room at the Imin Conference Center at UH-Manoa--Wayne Karlin will talk about Vietnamese-American reconciliation through literature and about translating Vietnamese literature. The Imin Conference Center is what used to be called Jefferson Hall, so if you go to the online UH campus map, search for Jefferson Hall because they haven't updated the name to the Imin Center yet.
Thursday, Nov. 10, 9:00 a.m. in the Pacific Room at the Imin Conference Center at UH-Manoa--Andrew Lam will speak on the Vietnamese diaspora.
Thursday, November 10, 3:00 p.m.in Kuykendall Auditorium at UH-Manoa--English Department Colloquium,Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried: An Author's Perspective"
The 25th Anniversary of the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, Zang Pictures and The Safe Zone Foundation present The Official World Premiere of "Hawaii Slam: Poetry in Paradise" a documentary film by Kathryn Xian
> What happens when four friends from Hawaii fly to the middle America to compete for the title of " Best Slam Team in the World?" STARRING Kealoha, Selah Geissler, TravisT., Melvin Borja. and the 1st Thursday's Poetry Crowd
Art at Marks Garage at 1159 Nu'uanu Avenue
All Ages, $5, BYOB
Contact: TravisT
808-753-4661
poetryhawaii@hotmail.com
Show starts at 8, doors open at 7
Featured poets for this month are...JOHANNA ALMIRON, DAYA. INTREPID, KATHRYN TAKARA, KAI WHITE. KING REAL
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Sista Stories with Lisa Linn Kanae
Part of the Pidgin Line Up series, Lisa Linn Kanae steps up to share her stories & prose. Her stories are witty and sharp. Her work can be found in Bamboo Ridge, Hybolics, and Tinfish. Wen you hea her storeez you goin cry laugh, an you goin tink, “Ho! I know somebody li `dat”.
Local Literary Events Spring 2005 Pau
Hawai'i's First Team Slam Competition!
Tuesday, 4/26/2005
The Arts at Marks Garage
1159 Nu'uanu Ave.
Show at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:00 p.m.
$5 admission, all ages
BYOB
1st place wins cash prize + books from Bamboo Ridge Press!
Hosted by Travis T and Brenda Kwon
Music by DJ Dr. Dread
Register your team NOW!*****************************************
*Teams must consist of 2-5 poets each.
*Teams should pre-register by email at poetryhawaii@hotmail.com or by phone at (808) 753-4661.
*On-site/walk-up registration will be accepted from 7 p.m. on 4/26 ONLY IF EXTRA TEAMS ARE NEEDED.RULES AND REGULATIONS
*The slam will consist of 3-5 teams, depending on registration.
*Team and/or individual pieces are allowed.
*Five (5) judges will be picked at random from the audience.
*There will be up to 5 rounds, depending on number of teams registering.
*Each round lasts three minutes (3:00) per performance. Time penalties will apply.
*Each performance will be scored on a scale of 1-10 points, with the lowest and highest scores dropped.
*Line-up will be random draw for the first round. Subsequent rounds will be determined by team scores, with the highest-scoring team competing first and the lowest-scoring team competing last.
*The team with the highest accumulated score at the end of the event wins the Slam.
For more information, email poetryhawaii@hotmail.com or call (808) 753-4661.
REGISTER NOW!
This event is co-sponsored by Bamboo Ridge Press and Youth Speaks Hawai'i.
Spring 2005 Literary Events: PAU
First Thursdays (Feb 3rd, 2005)
$100 "Break the Rules" Slam Poetry Competition & Open Mic
LOCATION: HAWAIIAN HUT
410 Atkinson Drive (ground level of Ala Moana Hotel)
Free parking at Ala Moana Shopping Center
Doors & Poet Sign-Ups 7:45pm, Show 8:30pm
$3 before 8:30pm, $5 after
Phone: (808) 387-9664
Email: info@HawaiiSlam.com
Website: www.HawaiiSlam.comJoin us this Thursday (February 3rd) for a groundbreaking First Thursdays show. We've been waiting for the "break the rules" slam to come to fruition for many months now. And it's on!! Poets have been collaborating, creative freedom has been unleashed, musicians have been incorporated, and rules will be broken for the first time after following them diligently for almost two years. As always, the HawaiiSlam show will be hosted by Kealoha and will feature:
-- The inaugural "Break the Rules" slam where collaborative/team pieces, musical accompaniment, cover poems, props, etc are ALLOWED (Poets/performers, please read the italics section below to find out all the details you'll need for the show)!!!
-- Live painting by Solomon Enos, Kimi Werner, & Matt DeMartino
-- Visual projections by Solomon
-- Turntable grooves by DJ Toki (Sisters in Sound)
-- FREE Admission to Taharba's (Treehaus/Sovern-T) hip-hop after-party at Kaspy's (just show your First Thursdays wristband & stamp to get in)
-- DISCOUNTED Admission (only $3) to the live urban jazz and house music after-party at the Living Room/Fisherman's Wharf (just show your First Thursdays wristband and stamp for the hook up)
**Note: we are now offering FREE slam poetry workshops for teenagers on every Monday and Thursday (starting Feb. 7th). The workshops are made possible by a grant from the Hawai`i People's Fund. For more info, check out www.YouthSpeaksHawaii.org or call us at (808) 387-9664.**
Poets/performers: you will only need one piece to compete, as we will only be doing one round of performances. The three-minute rule is still in effect. Priority on the sign-up list will be given to those who intend to break the traditional slam rules. There will be 4 microphones, a CD player, two turntables, one 1/4" cable to plug in basic instruments, and one free-roaming bass amp (not plugged into soundboard) on stage. If you have more sound requirements, bring your own cords and equipment to make it happen (There will be 5 unused channels on the mixer board). That being said, you have 30 seconds to set up... do not make us wait for you!!
First Thursdays is the largest registered poetry slam in the world (500+ in attendance)!! Please forward to anybody who may be interested...
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7 p.m. Feb. 17: National Book Award winner Barry Lopez will speak at the University of
Hawaii's Orvis Auditorium.
The essayist, short-story and environmental writer will give a free reading and talk about his work, which includes Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award. Among his other nonfiction
books are About This Life and Of Wolves and Men (a National Book Award finalist). Lopez is considered one of the nation's premier environmental writers, often exploring the relationship between human cultures -- especially
those of indigenous peoples -- and physical landscape. Lopez's other awards include the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Burroughs Medal, Guggenheim, National Science Foundation, Lannan fellowships, the John Hay Award for 2001, Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction, and other honors. His work appears regularly in Harper's, where he is a contributing editor, The Paris Review, Orion, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. " An Evening with Barry Lopez" is presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal, with help from the University of Hawaii, the Pacific Writers Connection, and the Charles Engelhard Foundation.Monday, March 14, 2005, Lee Cataluna 7 pm, reception and booksigning, 7:30 pm readng. Manoa Valley Theatre (parking at Manoa Safeway). Food, drink, talk story +
solo reading. Donation requested at the door from non-members. Free to Bamboo Ridge members.Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 9:15-10:30 a.m. in 'Ohi'a Auditorium, Kapi'olani Community College-- HUMANITY: LONGS DRUGS, TATTOOS, AND TEARS
Award-winning authors Lee Cataluna and Chris McKinney will read from their books. Author, playwright, and journalist Lee Cataluna is the 2004 winner of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature and has written a new book, Folks You Meet at Longs and Other Stories. Chris McKinney is a two-time Ka Palapala Po'okela Award Winner and a winner of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature. He is the author of two books: Tattoo and The Queen of Tears. To find out more about Lee Cataluna, click here. To read a review of Lee Cataluna's play Folks You Meet at Longs, click here. To see a Star-Bulletin article about Chris McKinney, click here.
Thursday, March 17, 2005, 10:45-noon in Kalia 102, Kapi'olani Community College -- POEMS, STORIES, AND HUMANITY
Award-winning authors Eric Chock and Juliet Kono will read their work. Eric Chock is one of the founding editors of Bamboo Ridge: A Hawai'i Writers Journal and the winner of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature. He is the author of two books of poems, Ten Thousand Wishes and Last Days Here. Juliet Kono is the author of two books of poems, Hilo Rains and Tsunami Years. She recently published a collection of short stories, Ho'olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile and Other Stories. She is a winner of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, the American Japanese National Literary Award, and the Ka Palapala Award for Excellence in Literature. To read about Eric Chock on the Bamboo Ridge website, click here. To read a Star-Bulletin Article about Eric Chock, click here.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005--Once again, re:VERSES invites you to THE ARTS AT MARKS GARAGE for an evening of featured poets, open mic, and jazz music by DJ Mr. Nick.
Show starts at 8, doors open at 7
Featured poets for this month are Greg Austin, Itai, Michael Lagory, Mariko, Selah, and Liam Skilling
Hosted by Travis T and Brenda Kwon
The Arts at Marks Garage, 1159 Nu'uanu Avenue
All Ages
$5, BYOB
Contact: Travis Thompson, 808-753-4661, poetryhawaii@hotmail.com
Wednesday, March 30, 2005, Lee Cataluna 7:00 reception and booksigning for Folks You Meet at Longs, 7:30 reading, UHM Art Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
Fall 2004 Literary events: PAU
Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004 -- Author Gary Pak will present his new novel "Children of a Fireland" during a free reading 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies, 1881 East-West Road.
Tuesday, November 30 at 8:00 p.m. -- re:Verses
An evening of featured poets, open mic, and jazz music by DJ Mr. Nick.
Hosted by Travis Thompson and Brenda Kwon.
Featured poets: Joy Harjo, the Hawai’i Slam Team, Juliet Kono, Jesse Lipman, Gary Pak, Kathryn Takara, and Richard Hamasaki.The ARTS at Marks Garage 1159 Nu’uanu Ave.
$5, BYOB
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ARTS at Marks Garage
1159 Nu’uanu Ave. (808) 521-2903. info@artsatmarks.comThe ARTS at Marks Garage is located on the corner of Nu’uanu and Pauahi in downtown Honolulu, one block makai of Beretania. Admission is $5, available at the door one hour before show time. For more information, call 753-4661.
Contact: Travis Thompson
808-753-4661
poetryhawaii@hotmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE re:Verses SLAMS INTO DOWNTOWN
Spoken word luminaries Travis Thompson and Brenda Kwon ignite Hawaii’s poetry scene with “re:Verses,” an evening of featured poets, open mic, and jazz music by DJ Mr. Nick. This all-ages event, beginning November 30 at 8:00 pm, will take place on the last Tuesday of every month at The ARTS at Marks Garage.
Since 2003, Kwon, Thompson, and Nick Yee have fired up a loyal following by rousing poets to seize the microphone at monthly events held at Coffee Talk and Ward’s Rafters. A previous “Hot Pick” in The Honolulu Weekly, these three blend the spark and energy of the slam scene with the relaxed and comforting atmosphere of a best friend’s living room. Kwon, who founded the poetry series, performs her work in several circles of the literary scene. “There’s room for a lot of different poets—slammers, page poets, MCs—to come into the mix,” says Kwon. “We’ve always wanted to
let everyone, no matter what style, feel that they could get up there and share their work.” Kwon was part of an all-local cast of GiRL FeST Hawaii’s benefit performance of “The Vagina Monologues” at the Hawaii Theater in February 2004. Thompson, a member of The 2003 and 2004 Hawai’i Slam Team and a well-known regular at Studio 1’s First Thursdays events, sees re:Verses as a complement
to the slam phenomenon. “We want to promote poetical creativity outside of a competitive atmosphere,” Thompson says. But competition is not completely out of the picture--re:Verses also plans to hold two team-slam contests to be held in March and October 2005.
Kicking off the premiere event of re:Verses will be featured poets Joy Harjo, the Hawai’i Slam Team, Juliet Kono, Jesse Lipman, Gary Pak, Kathryn Takara, and Richard Hamasaki. An open mic session will follow on a first-come, first-served basis, with smooth jazz rhythms filling out the evening.November 8, 9, 10, 12, 2004 -- MOVING ISLANDS: 2004 Fall Festival of Writers -- Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand playwright, screenwriter and author of Whale Rider, Nights in the Garden of Spain, The Uncle's Story, and other works, speaks along with Michelle Cliff, Nalo Hopkinson, George Lamming, Jully Makini, Rodney Morales, Noenoe Silva, and Albert Wendt. The festival celebrates authors of Oceania and the Caribbean. UH-Manoa. Free and open to the public. Go to the Festival website or call 956-7619 for more information.
October 20, 2004, 10:45-noon, in Kalia 102, Kapi‘olani Community College-- Jeffery Paul Chan will be reading from his new novel Eat Everything Before You Die. Mr. Chan is a professor of Asian American Studies and of English at San Francisco State University. He co-edited Aiiieeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers and The Big Aiiieeee! An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature.
October 21, 2004, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in Kopiko 127-128, Kapi‘olani Community College-- Albert Wendt will be reading from his work. Professor Wendt is one of the best-known writers of the Pacific and is the Citizens' Chair at UH-Manoa. "Professor Wendt is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of poetry, and a play. Leaves of the Banyan Tree won the New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award, and is considered a classic of Pacific literature" (UH-Manoa English Department website information).
October 21, 2004 evening, 7:00 p.m., at Coffee Talk, 3601 Waialae Ave -- With Our Words: A KCC Student Reading featuring the original creative work of emerging student writers. Free and open to the public. If you are a KCC student and would like to participate as a reader, contact Leigh Dooley at 734-9703 or via e-mail at ldooley@hawaii.edu.
October 22, 2004 -- Bamboo Ridge Writers Institute Special Reading, 7:00 p.m. UH-Manoa Campus Center Ballroom. Reading by Juliet S. Kono from her new collection Ho'olulu and the Pepsodent Smile. Join us for a 7:00 p.m. reception followed by the reading at 7:30 p.m . FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
October 23, 2004 -- Bamboo Ridge Writers Institute. Download the latest info on the Bamboo Ridge Writers Institute (Sessions, Master Workshops, and Registration form). Download the Student Scholarship application in pdf format or in Word format (Student Scholarship Applications must be received by October 15, so mail them by October 9 to ensure they are received by the deadline). More info at www.bambooridge.com. NEW! Updated Schedule for sessions and workshops!
If you would like to volunteer to help out with the Saturday, October 23 Bamboo Ridge Writers Institute sessions, contact Gail Harada at gharada@hawaii.edu by October 18. Please include "Bamboo Ridge Institute volunteer" in your subject line.
September 6, 2004 -- Buss Laugh: Stand-Up Poetry from Hawaii Reading at Kumu Kahua Theatre (46 Merchant Street), 7:00 p.m. In celebration of their chapbook launch, KCC students are having a reading. Go to the Kumu Kahua website at kumukahua.org to see a map and parking directions.
Thursday, September 9, 2004, 6:30-9:00 p.m. --WORDS@WARD RAFTERS, 3810 Maunaloa Ave.
After a one-month hiatus, the W@WR crew is happy to present you with this
month's featured readers, once again hosted by Travis Thompson:
JEFF GERE, THE HAWAI'I SLAM TEAM 2004, MIKE HIGA-PUAOI, BRENDA KWON, WHITNEY LAWRENCE, CHRIS ANN MOORE, GARY PAK, CHRISTY WERNER
Jazz music by DJ Mr. Nick. Open mic session follows on a first-come, first-served, time-pending basis. This is our last event before we reincarnate into a new
show over at Mark's Garage, so come help us bid a fond farewell!
$2 suggested donation -OR- food and drink to share! We'll provide plates, napkins, utencils, etc.
Yahoo Map Link to Ward Rafters:
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=x.J6oep_0Trqekgx0rx6Z761FyJBTyEcjNY-&csz=Honolulu%2C+HI&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=Heading East:
Street parking (but please try to avoid parking near 16th and Maunaloa).September 20, 2004 -- Bamboo Ridge Reading, 7:00 p.m. reception, 7:30 p.m. reading. UH-Campus Center Ballroom. Free and open to the public. On-campus parking $3.
Spring 2004 literary events: PAUApril 29, 2004 -- The Cades Awards for Literature. 6 p.m. reception. 7 p.m. awards ceremony and reading by Lee Cataluna and Stuart Coleman. Center for Korean Studies Auditorium at UH-Manoa, 1881 East-West Road. Lee Cataluna is columnist for the Honolulu Advertiser and the author of several well-received plays. Stuart Coleman is the author of the book Eddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero. This reading is free and open to the public. Parking is available for $3 on the UH-Manoa campus.
April 10, 2004 -- Feast Poetic: A National Poetry Month Celebration. 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., ‘Ohi‘a Auditorium, Kapi‘olani Community College. Editors from local literary journals, published and unpublished poets will read. Free and open to the public. For more information contact Mavis Hara (mavish@hawaii.edu), Lisa Kanae (lkanae@hawaii.edu) or Gail Harada (gharada@hawaii.edu). More information at www.bambooridge.com or view the flyer or download the flyer (pdf).
March 22, 2004 -- For the Love of Writing: A Bamboo Ridge Celebration. 7:00 p.m. Reception, 7:30 Reading. Manoa Valley Theatre. . Lois-Ann Yamanaka and others will read. Free to Bamboo Ridge members. Donation requested of non-members. More information at www.bambooridge.com
March 17, 2004 -- Harmony with Our Words. 12:15-1:30 p.m., The Bistro (next to ‘Ohi‘a cafeteria), student literary reading. Sign up to read in advance by contacting Leigh Dooley at ldooley@hawaii.edu. Or just show up and bring something to read.
March 15, 2004 -- Literary Reading by Nora Okja Keller and Robert Sullivan. 1:45-3:00 p.m., 'Ohi‘a Auditorium, Kapi‘olani Community College. Part of the 16th Annual KCC International Festival.
