A&E Wrap-Up: 3-31-17

Shows &events

Kalani Pe’a to be honored today

Grammy Award-winner Kalani Pe’a will be honored today at the Hawaii Capitol in Honolulu.

State legislators will honor the Big Island-born musician at 11:30 a.m. Pe’a’s historic win for Best Regional Roots Music Album for his debut CD, “E Walea,” occurred during the nontelevised portion of the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. It was the first time since the category was introduced in 2012 that a Hawaiian recording has won and the first time the category has been won by an artist outside the Louisiana Cajun and zydeco genres.

Pe‘a, a 2001 graduate of Ke Kula ‘o Nawahiokalani‘opu‘u, a Hawaiian-language immersion school, is the Hawaiian resource coordinator for Kamehameha Schools-Maui. He was born in Panaewa and spent time in Kailua-Kona.

Tropical Paws this evening

Hawaii Island Humane Society’s 21st annual Tropical Paws event is today at Four Seasons Resort Hualalai.

Tropical Paws gets underway at 6 p.m. and features a cocktail reception, silent auction, dinner, live auction and dancing. Event proceeds help offset costs of Hawaii Island Humane Society shelter operations around the island and assist in funding spay and neuter services and special needs for Second Chance animals.

Tickets for Tropical Paws are $135 per person or $2,000 for a reserved table of 10. Tickets are on sale now at Hawaii Island Humane Society shelters or online at HIHS.org.

Info: 329-2135, ext. 3.

Family skate night and outdoor market Saturday

Bring the family down to the Old A Skate Rink at Old Kona Airport Park from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday for an ’80s themed Family Skate Night and Outdoor Market.

The 6 to 9 p.m. event will feature a costume contest so dust off those legwarmers, tease that hair, and come decked out in your raddest ’80s outfit. The winner will receive a $30 Kona Brewing Co. gift card. Raffles are also planned for iTunes gift cards.

In addition, there will be 1980s music, local grinds, shaved ice, and food trucks, as well as vendor booths that parents can cruise and shop while keiki skate. Special guest appearances will be made by Skating Spider-Man and Disney princess Ariel, from The Little Mermaid. A performance by Simeon Tavares of God Hears is also planned.

All ages are welcome and the derby girls from Echo City Knockouts will be there to referee and keep keiki safe.

Entry is $5 for keiki 3 years old and up; parents and keiki younger than 2 years old enter free. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to West Hawaii Hockey Association to help support its youth hockey program and rink fees.

Info: www.facebook.com/events/641105979411787, call (808) 217-4990 or email Toccara Chrisman at sgskona@gmail.com.

Kohala Village HUB hosts holoku pageant, luau

The Kohala Village HUB hosts its second annual Holoku Pageant and Luau Saturday in Hawi.

The 4 to 8 p.m. event is a fundraiser for Na Kupuna o Kohala and the Kohala Kamehameha Day Committee. Tickets are $15 and include a Hawaiian plate.

Purchase tickets at the front desk at the Kohala Village HUB or through any friends who belong to the halau and/or committee. The HUB is located at 55-514 Hawi Road in Hawi.

Info: 889-0404, www.kohalavillagehub.com.

Celtic harp and story with Patrick Ball

Renowned Celtic harpist/storyteller Patrick Ball returns to Hawaii with his latest combination of Celtic stories and sounds from his Maplewood harp. The Kailua-Kona Public Library hosts ball from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday and the Naalehu Public Library will host him from 11 to 11:45 a.m. on Monday.

The crystalline, bell-like resonance of the legendary harp is guaranteed to take the listener into the deepest realms of the imagination. Ball tours extensively throughout the United States and Canada and has recorded about a dozen albums which have earned national awards in both the music and spoken word categories.

This 45-minute program is suitable for ages 5 and older. Young children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver.

Info: Kona: 327-4327; Naalehu: 939-2442

‘Meditative Artwork’ offered at library

“Meditative Artwork” continues at 1 p.m. Saturday at Kealakekua Public Library.

From choosing colors to the gentle repetitive motion of your hands as you bring color to paper, coloring can be seen as a form of “active meditation.” Repetitive motions, such as coloring (or running, walking, dancing or even drawing), can help strengthen focus and easily shifts attention back to a relaxed state.

The event, held every Saturday, is geared for children ages 16 ages. All materials will be supplied; attendees may bring their own materials, as well.

Aloha Teen Theatre brings ‘Play &Play’ to library

Young people ages 10 to 19 years old are invited to participate in “Play &Play,” an opportunity to see a play, and then play theater games with the cast from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Kailua-Kona.

Engela Edwards, award-winning actor, playwright and director of Aloha Teen Theatre will be directing the play “Melting” by Eddie Zipperer, performed by members of Aloha Teen Theatre at the Kailua-Kona Public Library. Aloha Teen Theatre is a free program that teaches leadership through performance.

Children must be accompanied by a parent or adult caregiver.

Firehouse Gallery exhibiting ‘Hawaiian Culture’

Firehouse Gallery in Waimea is exhibiting a colorful artistic showcase inspired by Hawaiian royalty, hula and significant places on Hawaii Island through April 15. Interesting and important landscapes, people, and animals will be showcased in the show, “Hawaiian Culture.”

The exhibit will feature oil paintings, fine art photography, and colorful mixed medium creations by local artists Janice Gail, Bernt Grundseth, James Carlson, and Anna Sullivan. Original artwork and prints by other local artists featuring volcanoes, Hawaiian Island landscapes, horses, clouds, and rainbows will also be displayed.

The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and Sunday, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. It is closed on Monday and Tuesday.

Info: www.waimeaartscouncil.org.

Royal Order of Kamehameha I presents scholarship fundraiser

The Royal Order of Kamehameha I in conjunction with Na Pokii Incorporated presents its annual scholarship fundraiser on Sunday at Kahilu Theatre.

Penny Vredenburg will be emceeing the event, which starts at 2 p.m. at the Waimea-based theater. The event will feature opening performances by Kumu Hula Liana Aviero and Hula Halau Waiau of Waimea and a special appearance by Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner Diana Aki and Friends.

Tickets are $40 and are available by calling 937-6380 or emailing kakaukii@hawaiiantel.net.

Nakai, Kater to perform at Kahilu Theatre

Native American flutist, R. Carlos Nakai and pianist/composer Peter Kater bring their 25 years of collaboration to Kahilu Theatre on Wednesday.

The collaboration has produced some of the most memorable and ground breaking recordings in the New Age and World Music genres. Their music is intimate, intelligent, soulful, soaring and heart-centered.

Kater has been leading innovator of contemporary instrumental music for more than three decades. He’s performed all over the world, as well as for presidents and celebrities. He has released more than 60 critically acclaimed CDs and has scored the music for more than 100 television and film productions including Sirius; Civil War: The Untold Story; 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama; and How The West Was Lost plus 11 on and off Broadway dramatic plays.

Of Navajo-Ute heritage, Nakai is the world’s premier performer of the Native American flute. Since 1983, he has released more than 40 albums on the Canyon Records label in addition to many albums and guest appearances on other labels. In addition to his educational workshops and residencies, Nakai has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, including with more than 15 symphony and chamber orchestras.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. Global Media Productions show on Friday, April 7, range in price from $30 to $50. They can be purchased online at www.brightstarevents.net/kater-nakai or www.kahilutheatre.org or by or call (808) 875-8820.

DMAC hosts artists talk Thursday

Donkey Mill Art Center hosts a free artists talk with Claudia Bruhin from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Bruhin is the director of La Meridiana in Tuscany, a nonprofit institution for the advancement of the ceramic arts, She is Swiss born and has been living in Italy for 35 years. Her studies in different fields have given her a broad background in history, art history, arts &crafts and administration. Since 2007, she has collaborated with La Meridiana, directing the schools program, which includes ceramic workshops, painting workshops and study abroad program.

The talk is free; attendees are asked to bring a potluck dish to share.

Info: www.donkeymillartcenter.org.

7th annual MAMo Gallery show opens April 7

Twenty Native Hawaiian artists will showcase their artwork in the seventh annual MAMo (Maoli Arts Month) Gallery at Wailoa Center.

For the past seven years, MAMo has sponsored a gallery show in Hilo with this year’s show being titled “Ehiku” or “Seven” as this is the seventh consecutive year at the Wailoa Center’s Main Gallery. “Ehiku” will feature 20 Native Hawaiian artists and cover many different genres and media, including traditional and contemporary artwork, and even a fashion show.

The featured artists are Ben Ka’uhane Heloca, Bernice Akamine, Ka’ohu Seto, Almaline Ku’uipo Grey-Parker, Tom O’o Mehau, Keoki Apokolani Carter, Kauanoe Chang, Natalie Mahina Jensen, Momi Greene, James Kunani Kaulukukui, Lehua Waipa Ah Nee, Beau Jack Key, Nelson Makua, Kainoa Makua, Jimie Ramos, Kalei Nu’uhiwa, Maile Lu’uwai, Roberta Hannah Muller, Haley Kailiehu, and Pi’iali’i Lawson.

For the first time this year, there will be a student art show located in the downstairs Fountain Gallery. Two outstanding visual artists from the Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii Campus will be featured: Nainoa Rosehill, a senior, and Tiari Faagata, a junior. The exhibition of their works are titled “E Kulia I ka Nu’u,” or “Striving for the Summit.”

An opening reception is slated from 5 to 7 p.m. on April 7 at Wailoa Center.

Info: www.wailoacenter.com.

KCS holding fundraiser April 9

Kona Choral Society is holding a fundraiser, “Canzoni D’Amore” or “Songs of Love” from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. on April 9 at Mi’s Waterfront Bistro on Alii Drive.

The event will feature a performance by soprano Amy Mills, tenor Bernaldo Evangelista, and Tatyana Shapiro on harp. There will also be a silent auction and pupus and desserts. Tickets are $75 and include a complimentary drink. They can be purchased online at www.konachoralsociety.org.

The Kona Choral Society’s spring concert, “Requiem for the Living,” under the direction of Susan McCreary Duprey, is slated for 4 p.m. on May 13 at the Sheraton Kona Resort and Spa at Keauhou Bay. The concert will feature Dan Forrest’s work of the same name as well as works of the Hawaiian tradition by composers Les Ceballos, Randy Fong and Dorothy Gillet.

Tickets for the spring concert are $25 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets are on sale 1 at www.konachoralsociety.org and at Kona Stories and Kona Bay Books.

Kahilu Theatre presents Lage, Eldridge, O’Donovan

Release The Hounds: An Evening with Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge and Aoife O’Donovan is slated for 7 p.m. on April 13 at Waimea’s Kahilu Theatre.

A night of intrepid songwriting and acoustic innovation, beginning with O’Donovan at center stage. O’Donovan draws from her catalogue of songs, played as she wrote them; with just her acoustic guitar and voice.

Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge follow with their masterly acoustic performance typical of the virtuoso duo, known for pushing the envelope of folk, bluegrass, and jazz.

The evening concludes with all three on stage together in an aural-hootenanny.

Tickets range in price from $20 to $68 and are available online at www.kahilutheatre.org, by calling (808) 885-6868, or at the theater’s box office at 67-1186 Lindsey Road in Waimea from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays.

Info: www.kahilutheatre.org.

David Bromberg Band coming to Hawaii

The David Bromberg Band is coming to Hawaii in support of their new release “The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing but the Blues.”

David Bromberg, the godfather of Americana, decorated multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, joins his David Bromberg Quintet for a three-island tour in April. One show will performed on the Big Island on April 14 at Honokaa People’s Theatre, according to Lazar Bear Productions.

The band will feature Bromberg (guitar and vocals); Mark Cosgrove (guitars, mandolin and vocals); Nate Grower (fiddle, mandolin, guitar and vocals); Josh Kanusky (drums); and Suavek Zaniesienko (bass and vocals). “The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing but the Blues” was released on Oct. 14, 2016, on Red House Records.

Bromberg, known as a hired gun guitarist for recording sessions, has played on hundreds of records by artists including Bob Dylan, Link Wray, The Eagles, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, George Harrison, Jorma Kaukonen and Carly Simon.

Doors open at 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. show at Honokaa People’s Theatre. Tickets are $45 to $65 and can be purchased online at www.lazarbear.com or by calling 896-4845. They’re also available in Kona at Kona Music Exchange, Sound Wave Music and Kiernan’s Music; in Waimea at Waimea General Store; in Honokaa at Taro Patch Gifts; in Hilo at Hilo Guitars, CD Wizard and Hilo Music Exchange; and in Keaau at Keaau Natural Foods.

Info: www.davidbromberg.net.

Calls for entries

HSFCA seeks artists

The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts is seeking artists to submit qualifications for consideration for several commissioned works of art project sites within the state Department of Education.

This call is part of the Art in Public Places-Artists in Residence (APP-AIR) Program, a collaborative initiative between the Department of Education and the HSFCA. The program was established to implement an integrated visual arts in education program, while providing commissioned works of art in public schools.

A $100,000 budget has been set per project. The deadline to submit applications is April 25.

The HSFCA urges visual artists to register with CaFÉ (callforentry.org), a website developed by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) to facilitate calls for artists and artwork. The CaFÉ registration is free, secure, and offers access to visual arts opportunities nationwide. The title of the call on CaFÉ is: 2017 APP HAWAII: Commissioned Works of Art for the Department of Education.

Film screenings

‘This Changes Everything’ to be shown

North Kohala Public Library will present the environmental documentary film “This Changes Everything” at 6 p.m. on Monday. This special film showing is possible through the cooperation of the Sierra Club.

Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international nonfiction bestseller, “This Changes Everything” presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.

Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: “that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.”

Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, “This Changes Everything” is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.

Info: 889-6655.

Announcements

HPAF adds dance program to 2017 Summer Festival

“Dance the World: A Dance Fusion Workshop” will be part of the 2017 Hawaii Performing Arts Festival’s 13th season this summer, joining the festival’s vocal, instrumental, collaborative piano and directing programs. The new multi-discipline dance program will be held July 3 through July 18 in Waimea.

Directed by Angel Prince of Hawaii’s Prince Dance Theater and assisted by Catherine Turocy, artistic director of the New York Baroque Dance Company, the workshop will offer a unique combination of contemporary and classical dance classes and performances. Drawing on the creative force of cultural fusion through improvisation, “Dance the World” will be taught by master teachers in jookin, baroque, tango, hula, ballet and modern dance.

Faculty includes Ladia Yates, who competed on “So You Think You Can Dance,” a nationally known hiphop and jookin artist who has performed with Usher and Missy Elliott, and ballet teacher Rachel List, formerly on the faculty at NYU and Barnard College and currently Director of the Dance Program at Hofstra University.

Dance students 18 years of age and older will have an opportunity to expand creative skills, culminating in on-stage performances with live music, beginning with HPAF’s performance of Stabat Mater by the Baroque composer Giovanni Pergolesi, on July 7 and 8 at Davies Chapel on the HPA campus in Waimea. This performance will be free to the public.

Deadline for applications is April 15.

Info: www.hawaiiperformingartsfestival.org, Angel Prince at 217-3008.

Puuhonua o Honaunau slates annual cultural festival

Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park has scheduled its 56th anniversary and annual cultural festival for late June.

The community is invited to join in celebration of Ka La Hiki Ola – An Extension of Life, as the park perpetuates its living culture and storied history for its 56th anniversary. Ka la hiki ola is a philosophy rooted in the chants and practices of Puuhonua, through which our traditions are renewed, generation after generation.

The festival takes place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 24 and 25. June 24, which is Saturday, opens with, games, arts and canoe rides. On June 25, there will be games, arts, hukilau and Hawaiian food tasting.

The festival is a special time when children, kupuna and visitors come together for two days of fun, sharing and learning. It has become a tradition for the local community, an event where the younger generation can learn about their culture and experience their heritage.

This event is free to the public; park entrance fees are waived. The festival is sponsored by Hawaii Pacific Parks Association.

Info: www.nps.gov/puho ■