Kauai Fund Fest 2010
Kauai Community Radio (KKCR) will be presenting the second annual Fund Fest Sunday, February 28. This event is for the whole family with a full afternoon of music, food, and Keiki area from 12 noon – 7:00 pm at the Kauai Beach Resort.
Entertainment will include:
TreySara (Jazz)
Sashamon (Island Raggae)
Ka Ha O Na ‘Opio (Hawaiian Contemporary)
Keola Worthington, Jonah Cummings & Garret Santos (Hawaiian)
Shilo Pa (Hawaiian Contemporary)
Kapaia Stream (Rock)
Animal Dream (Funk/Rock)
Malama Pono Allstars (Indescribable)
Purple Striped Honu Theater (for keiki)
Soulfire (Fire-Dancing)
Attendance is free, but donations will be accepted at the door, and door prizes will be awarded throughout the afternoon. They will also have T-shirts, hats, and other gear for sale. Food and beverage will be provided at nominal cost through the Kauai Beach Resort. It’s outdoors, so lawn chairs and blankets are welcome, but no collers or outside food or beverage.
Kauai Community Radio is the only full-powered community based non-commercial radio station on the Hawaiian Islands, and can be found at 90.9 fm, 91.9 fm, 92.7 fm on Kauai, 104.7 fm on Oahu, and worldwide at www.kkcr.org. Music heard on KKCR reflects the broad spectrum of the island’s community including Hawaiian, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Reggae, Classical, Folk, Jam bands, New Age, and World artists, as well as locally produced talk programs.
E Pili Kakou 2010
The E Pili Kakou hula festival is meant to bring together as one all who dance the hula. From the newbie who has never danced hula to the most experienced dancers, you are invited to experience the 12th annual E Pili Kakou I Ho’okahi Lahui on Kauai. There will be a variety of Hawaiian culture delights crowned by two evenings of show your stuff, and any level of participation is welcome, from making a feather lei, a hula instrument, learning a chant or a hula, or simply being in the audience for the evening celebrations.
For eight years now, E Pili Kakou I Ho’okahi Lahui has been dedicated in their mission. “Let’s join together as one body of people”, from all corners of the world and all of Hawai’i Nei (this beloved Hawaii), to promote, share, and perpetuate Hawai’i’s rich culture and heritage by sustaining and further educating all who are practitioners and enthusiasts of the hula. Each year, kumu hula and kupuna, from throughout Hawai’i are invited to pass on their teachings to eager participants. These dedicated individuals are devoted to ensuring that the art of hula will be passed on from generation to generation with accuracy, integrity and with great love for the culture and its people.
It’s their love for hula and the perpetuation of it that makes E Pili a success, and anyone who is interested is welcome to join this two day event Feb. 26 – 28 at Kaua’i Beach Resort. There are so many ways to enjoy E Pili Kakou. This event provides na haumana, na alaka’i, na ho’opa’a, na olapa and na kumu hula as well as non-hula dancers a common bond in celebrating the hula. You will learn, experience, and exchange dances and ideas, and have the opportunity to share and meet new friends while increasing your knowledge in hula.
Visit epilikakou.com or contact:
Emma Rogers, 651-4203 or emmacrogers@aol.com
Tina Unciano, 245-8372 or waiolena@-hawaiian.net
Vagina Monologues Kauai
The Vagina Monologues will be performed on Kauai at the Performing Arts Center (Kauai Community College) on February 19 and 20. In 1996, The Vagina Monologues began as a one-woman show with Eve Ensler in a a series of character-driven pieces each revealing a different woman’s experience with topics such as sex, love, tenderness, embarrassment, cruelty, pain, and pleasure. As the show increased in popularity, it began to be performed by an ensemble of actresses. It was translated into over 45 languages and performed in over 130 countries, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway’s Westside Theater and London’s West End. Politically active theaters and college campuses began producing the Monologues, all of which helped to launch a global movement known as V-Day. V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls, and a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. For more information visit www.vday.org. What started as a one-woman play has become a national phenomenon for a new generation of women.
The 2010 performances on Kauai will benefit the YWCA, and help keep the organization funded and growing. This years performance will include an aerial dance performance, a monologue offered in Pidgin, and live music performed by Millicent Cummings. The cast consists of 21 people ranging in age from 17 to 75, including two mothers and their daughters. In addition to the performances, Women Artists of Kaua’i will hold an art show with pieces for sale. The art show will be held from 5 to 7 pm, and you may enter the art show without purchasing performance tickets. A portion of those sales will also benefit the YWCA Kauai.
Waimea Town Celebration 2010
The Waimea Town Celebration 2010 will host more than 10,000 people in a flurry of events and aloha. Events are scattered over a two mile area and include Hawaiian outrigger canoe races, rodeo events, 3-on-3 basketball tournaments, swim meet, ice cream eating, ukulele contests, games, crafts, local food favorites, and a fun run. The purpose of the Waimea Town Celebration is to give West Kauai schools, clubs, and non-profits a chance to fundraise. Community businesses, clubs, and individuals volunteer in the preparation and participation so that proceeds can fund civic programs throughout the year.
There will be continuous island entertainment with loads of food, craft and game booths, a beer garden, contests, and lots of sporting events. The fun starts on Friday at 4:30 pm and on Saturday at 10 am. There will be free live entertainment featuring local greats of Hawaiian music and more until 11 pm both nights.
Waimea Town Celebration Events:
Friday, February 19
Round-Up Rodeo
Mountain Ball Tournament
3-on-3 Basketball Tournament
Hat Lei Contest
Saturday, February 20
Captain Cook Caper Fun Run
Kilohana Long Distance Canoe Race
Round-Up Rodeo
Ukulele Contest
Hat Lei Contest
Ice Cream Eating Contest
Mountain Ball Tournament
3-on-3 Basketball Tournament
Swim Meet
Radio Control Car Races
Benefit Silent Auction
Sunday, February 21
Mountain Ball Tournament
Graham Nash Curates Rock And Roll Photographs
Taking Aim: Unforgettable Rock ‘n’ Roll Photographs Selected by Graham Nash is an exhibit of iconic images. The exhibition, organized by Experience Music Project, showcases some of the most memorable photography in the history of popular music, chosen by Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills & Nash) who now lives on Kauai. As guest curator, Graham Nash, brings a rich musical history and keen eye to an exhibition of rock ‘n’ roll images taken by the world’s greatest music photographers, including Anton Corbijn, Annie Leibovitz, Jim Marshall, Neal Preston, Mick Rock, Francesco Scavullo, as well as Graham himself.
This astounding collection of some of the most famous rock ‘n’ roll photos ever taken includes a naked John Lennon in bed hugging Yoko, taken by Annie Leibovitz on Dec. 8, 1980, just hours before Lennon was shot and killed. It includes Janis Joplin slumped on a backstage couch, clutching a bottle of Southern Comfort. It includes Johnny Cash getting ready to sing for prisoners at San Quentin in 1969, and when asked “Hey, John, you got a word for the warden?” giving a defiant finger gesture.
The exhibit also shows a young Elvis reaching out to girls in the audience in 1956 when singing at a Mississippi state fair. And Pete Townshend of The Who making his trademark leap in the air at 1982 show. And a smirking Jerry Lee Lewis in London in 1958. Nash himself has four photos in the exhibit. His favorite is a close-up, silhouette he took of Johnny Cash, offstage, in Nashville in June of 1969. You cannot see any details, just the outlines. But it is Cash, unmistakably. “This really, to me, is the man in black,” writes Nash.
In the photo above at the exhibit (by Alan Berner), Graham reflects on and is reflected in his 1969 photograph of Johnny Cash in Nashville taken when Nash accompanied Joni Mitchell to her appearance on Cash’s TV show. Taking Aim is on exhibit at Experience Music Project, 325 Fifth Ave. N., Seattle from Feb. 6 through May 23. Graham says he jumped at the chance to show through the exhibit’s photos “what is so difficult to put into words: how the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll is mainly an attitude, an attitude of ‘get out of my way. I have something to say here.’ “
