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MAY ARTS & CULTURE CALENDAR
Friday, May 7, 2021 – Deadline for Proposals
Kauai Community Players accepting proposals for 2022 season
Season runs January to May with four productions
Contact KCP President, Bailey Hutton, at Speakwithbailey@gmail.com
or by cell at (808) 635-2812 w/ any questions or concerns in completing the proposal or budget.
Info: kauaicommunityplayers@gmail.
Friday, May 7, 2021 – Deadline to Submit
Any Kekaha resident, ages 4 – 18
Kaunalewa invites you toll
“Color My Kekaha” Multimedia Art Contest
One entry per person
Media: tempera, acrylic, crayon, felt pen, colored pencil, pastel, watercolr, collage, digital photography, videography, sculpture, music & mixed media
Rules, prizes and how to enter on attached poster
Info: info@kaunalewa.org
Sunday, May 9, 5:30 – 8:30 pm
Na Lei Hiwahiwa Featuring KUPAOA
A Mother’s Day Wine and dine
Moa Moa Restaurant
at the Sheraton Kauai Coconut Beach Resort
$200 includes 5 course Wine Pairing Dinner
Live Hawaiian Entertainment, Silent Auction and more
For tickets: Call Puka at (808) 442-2321 or
Venmo us @Malie-Foundation w/ your info
Tuesday, May 11, 8:00 am HST
How to Renovate Housing Policy in a way that really works
A Conversation with Stanford Economist Rebecca Diamond
Professor Rebecca Diamond is uniquely qualified to answer these questions. With a wide-ranging research agenda, she has published on gender gaps in the gig economy, the geography of unequal consumption, rent control, affordable housing development, income redistribution, and the effects of foreclosure. She will be interviewed by Colin Moore, Director of UH’s Public Policy Center, and joined by Hawai‘i guest Carl Bonham, executive director of the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO).
Presented by the Hawaii Community Foundation, Kamehameha Schools and the UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series
Free and open to the public
Register online at Hawaii Community Foundation
May 14 to May 30
Thursdays- Saturdays, 7:00 pm
Sundays, 4:00 pm
Kauai Community Players present:
“The Glass Menagerie”, a Comedy Drama by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Arnold Meister
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play, and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield.
Only 19 seats available for each performance; six feet between parties; masks must be worn at all times inside the theater; production contains strong language & adult content
Tickets: kauaicommunityplayers@gmail.
Professional Development for
Early Childhood Educators and Teaching Artists
Hawai`i Wolf Trap and Hawai`i Arts Alliance invite your participation in
Virtual Early Arts Learning Modules In Music, Drama and Dance
with Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists
DATES OF VIRTUAL SESSIONS (VIA ZOOM)
Early Arts Learning: Dance Module
Session with Valerie Branch, Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist
Saturday, May 15, 2021, 9:00 – 10:00 am, HST
Dance Strategies – Let’s Practice Session
Monday, May 17, 2021, 4:00-5:00 pm, HST
Info: Hawaii Arts Alliance
JUNE ARTS & CULTURE EVENTS
Thursday to Saturday, June 17 – 19, 2021
Thursday to Saturday, June 24 – 26, 2021
Thursday to Saturday, June 1 – 3, 2021
Kapa and Ink Making Workshop (3-Day Workshop)
Learn how to make kapa and inks from a variety of Hawaiian plants and materials during a 3-day workshop (3 choices)
At the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG), Kauai
How Much: $375 per person; $275 for Kama’aina
Sign up: You can sign up for this by visiting instagram: Mslarsensbotanicalinks in the bio or in these links below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
Info: www.ntbg.org/events
OCTOBER ARTS & CULTURE EVENTS
Saturday, October 9, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Kauai Entry Receiving
Sunday, October 10, 9:00 1m – 12:00 noon
Artist Pick-Up
Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2022
Exhibit Dates: January 11 – March 20, 2022
Prospectus Available at KSA Gallery, Kukui Grove Center
Location: Kauai Veterans Center, 3215 Kauai Veterans Memorial Highway, Lihue (across Lihue Airport)
Jurors: Carl Jennings, O’ahu; Codie King, Hawai’i; Jan Sato, Maui
Info: Neida Bangerter, Director, Schaefer International Gallery;
neida@mauiarts.org
Contact: Jonathan Clark, Exhibits Coordinator; jonathan@mauiarts.org
October 23 – November 17, 2021
Hawaii Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2021
Online registration: September 1 – October 1
Juror: Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Museum of Arts and Design Assistant Curator, NY; Curator, writer, arts administrator of contemporary art and craft, LA & NY; www.angelikvizcarrondo.com
Site: Downtown Art Center, Second Floor Exhibition Hall,
1041 Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu
Prospectus online at https://www.hawaiicraftsmen.
ONGOING and Multi-Day EVENTS
ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART
HSFCA CALL FOR ENTRY ON CAFE
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & The Arts
asking interested artists to submit qualifications
for various commissioned works in upcoming
HSFCA public art projects. Register with
Cafe www.callforentry.org/
website developed by Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) to
facilitate calls for artists & artworks. Registration is free, secure and
offers access to visual arts opportunities nationwide.
Go to www.callforentry.org/index.
answers to FAQs, tech tips, image prep and Questions forum.
Plein air pastel lessons w/ Helen Turner
One-on-one or two max in the field; beginners or advanced
All materials provided
Plein air oil painting lessons w/ Helen Turner
One-on-one in the field; beginners or advanced
All materials provided
Waimea Studio, 10:30 am-2:30 pm weekdays,
9665 Kaumuali’I Hwy; across Shrimp Station
Info: (808) 346-9357; www.helenturner.com
COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY
AIRPORT WINDOW DISPLAYS
HAL side: “A Gem of a Garden – Princeville Botanical Garden”
United side: “Save Our ‘Ohi’a – Lifeline of Hawaii’s Forests & Watersheds”
Brought to you by Garden Island Arts Council
Funded by a grant from the County of Kauai OED
(open to all passengers in transit)
Info: giac05@icloud.com
Kauai Community College Office of Continuing Education
Online Classes offered
Kauai Community College Free Classes
Are you a Kauai resident? Have you been affected by the pandemic? Lost your job? Decrease in work hours? Take a class to increase your employability
Info: https://ocet.kauai.hawaii.edu/
Call (808) 245-8313 to register.
Email: ocet@hawaii.edu
Register: ocet.kauai.hawaii.edu; or call KCC-OCET (808) 245-8318
Kumu’s Cupboard is Open (former Payless Shoes location)
The Free School Supply Store for Kauai Educators
Regular Store Hours:
Tuesdays: 3:30 – 7:00 pm
Fridays: 3:30 – 7:00 pm
Saturdays: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Sundays: 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Covid-19 Safety Rules in effect
Info: kumuscupboard1@gmail.com
www.kumuscupboard.org
Farmers Markets Weekly Schedule:
Weekly Sunshine Markets: Fresh ingredients, holiday foods & gifts, taro products, tropical plants and flowers, coffee, holiday pies & baked goods,
goat cheese, health & beauty items from goat’s milk and more.
Monday Pau Hana Market at Kukui Grove – Mondays, 3:00 – 5:30 pm
Kealia Farm Market – Monday 3 – 6 pm
Coconut Marketplace – Tuesday 9 am – 1 pm
Waipa Farmers Market – Tuesday, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Kapaa Sunshine Market – Wednesday, 3 – 4:30 pm
The Farmers Market, Shops@Kukuiula – Wednesday 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Hanapepe Sunshine Market – Thursday 3 – 4 pm
Coconut Marketplace – Thursday 9 am – 1 pm
Kealia Farm Market – Friday 3 – 6 pm
Puhi Park Produce – Saturday 10 am – sold out
Anaina Hou Community Park – Saturday 9 am – 12 pm (Kupuna 9 – 9:30 am)
Hale Halawai Farmers Market – Saturday 9:30 am – 12 pm
The Kauai Community Market at KCC closed due to COVID-19 and campus closure to the public
Murals on view in Lihue:
NirMANAfest, Kauai’s mural festival will premier mural painting by 15 mural artists on five walls at the end of Umi Street off Rice Street. These 15 artists were selected out of a broad range of applicants by a panel of experts including Carol Bennett, Elsa Alvarez, Carol Yotsuda, Vanessa Owens and Addison Bulosan. There is a youth mentoring component as part of this Rice Street Project. Public viewing of muralists at work will be available.
Locations: former Big Save Market façade facing north to the shoppers parking lot; former Lihue Café Restaurant and adjoining apartment complex at makai end of Umi Street.
Please check out the NirMANAfest website and promote it in conversations you have about Rice Street Creative Community development:
https://www.nirmana.info/
https://www.facebook.com/
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces
Re-instatement of Public Visitation to K?lauea Point National Wildlife Refuge
Beginning July 9, 2020, K?lauea Point NWR will re-instate public visitation
NTBG (National Tropical Botanical Garden) will open its Kauai gardens:
Limahuli Garden, north shore
McBryde Garden and Allerton Garden
All tours require a reservation
Garden admission fees have been modified to accommodate every member of the community;
Reservation: www.ntbg.org; or call (808) 742-2623 for McBryde & Allerton; (808) 826-1053 for Limahuli
Media contact: media@ntbg.org
The Mokan Nokan Show
Latest Music Video “Golden Child”
Sent with Love to Inspire & Uplift You in these challenging times
https://www.youtube.com/embed/
New movie short/music video “I Remember”
https://youtu.be/-sA-KCdsokY
New music video “Hold Onto Love”
https://youtu.be/Ss2mMFnKlfw?
New Episode: “It’s Not Easy Being Me”
Broadcasting 5 times a week on OC16 Channel 12
Kauai Profile and Interesting Things Happening on Kauai
View Episodes — http://mokannokan.com/the-
Info: Mel Bell-Grey, (808) 431-4711
www.eyeswideopenproductions.
www.mokannokan.com
Second Saturday of each month, 8:30 pm until lunch
Friends of the Path Clean Up
Ke Ala Hele Makalae, the path that goes by the coast
Potluck lunch at 11:00 am
Meet at the rest pavilion makai of the Kapaa Neighborhood Center
Info: Brett, (808) 639-4561
Every third Wednesday, 3:30 pm
Dolphin Touch Wellness Center
Reiki Circle — Energy Therapy
Free and open to all; no experience necessary
Info: Jeanne Russell (808) 822-4414; info@dolphintouch.org
www.dolphintouch.org
CULTURE CULTURE CULTURE CULTURE
Wednesdays, 5:00 – 6:00 pm (ON HOLD DURING PANDEMIC)
Hula ‘Auana Class
Instructor: Sherri “Puni” Patrick
New session begins every quarter
At the Kaua’I Musuem
No charge
Info: Kauai Museum, (808) 245-6931
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm (ON HOLD DURING PANDEMIC)
Hula for Kupuna – by invitation only
Instructor: Sherri “Puni” Patrick
Waimea Neighborhood Center Courtroom
New sessions begins every quarter
No charge
Info: Sherri “Puni” Patrick (808) 651-5744
Halau Hula O Leilani Registration for Hula and Tahitian Classes
Call (or text) kumu Leilani Rivera Low at 808-651-0682 to register now through December for hula classes and Tahitian classes in Kapaa and Koloa.
Mondays – hula classes at Ka Ui o ka Aina center in Coconut Marketplace, Kapaa. Kaikamahine ages 5-12 at 5:00 pm. Teens & wahine 6:30– 8:00 pm
Tuesdays – Koloa Neighborhood Center, hula classes for girls ages 4-12 from 3:45 pm
Wednesdays – Tahitian classes for kaikamahine by Ariel Leilani Bond
at 6:00-6:45 pm at Courtyard by Marriott Hotel.
Thursdays – Tahitian Class for teens, Koloa Neighborhood Ctr, 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Saturdays – Tahitian classes for teens & wahine by Ariel Leilani Bond,
11:00 am- 12:00 pm at Hawaiian Cultural Center in Coconut Marketplace.
Info: Leilani Low or text (808) 651-0682 or email darryl.leilani@
NO OPEN CLASSES TO THE PUBLIC AT THIS TIME
Ongoing Thursdays, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Aloha International’s
“Halau Hula Na Lei Kupua O Kaua’i”
Dance, Chant, Language & Legends
Under the direction of Ho’opa’a Fern Merle-Jones & Kumu Susan Pa’iniu Floyd
Under the guidance of Hula Loea Kawaikapuokalani Hewett
At private location (call to inquire)
Info: Call Fern Merle-Jones, (808) 828-1342; bless2u@aloha.net
Waimea Plantation Lifestyle Tour
Ongoing – Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,
volunteer guides lead walking tours through
the Waimea Plantation Cottages and the Waimea
Sugar Company “camp” houses, which date from the
turn of the 20th century. Tours take approximately
90 minutes and are limited to 12 people.
Waimea Town
Info: (808) 337-1005
DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE
Kauai Dance Theatre?
Ballet and Tap Dance classes for ages 5-adult
For current schedule visit KauaiDanceTheatre.com?
Join us for our 35th season of “Quality Instruction in the Art of Dance”
Janie Crane, Director, 332-9737
For more info: visit www.KauaiDanceTheatre.
Kauai Dance Center
Professional dance training ages 3 through advanced.
Beginning Adults welcome.
Dance classes for all ages and abilities
Ballet, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Spanish dance & Modern Dance.
Directors, Jennifer Bell-Grey & Mel Bell-Grey
Dance season Aug 2018-May 2019 – enrolling now
Start lessons anytime throughout the year
Performing opportunities available
Schedule your free trial class today.
Tel: (808) 823-9588 Cell/text (415) 990-5145
Accredited teacher graduate of the Royal Ballet School London, England. Diploma Royal Academy of Dancing.
Home Studio located at Eyes Wide Open Productions Nawiliwili/Lihue as well as a satellite studio on the North Shore, Princeville community center.
Aloha Dance Studio — Enrolling now
full schedule online at www.AlohaDanceStudio.com
Professional instruction for ages 3 through adult
Hip Hop, Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Pointe, Modern,
Flamenco, Contemporary and Lyrical jazz
Elite Company Groups
Freaky Fridays at Kukui Grove Center every October
Beginner through Advanced welcome
Info: Tiffany Dodge, (808) 245-1810
MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC
Every Evening
Rice Street Business Association hosts
Online music concerts Live video broadcasts from home of musicians; local businesses promoted
https://www.facebook.com/
Call to make arrangements:
Private `Ukulele Lessons by Kirk Smart
Hanalei Strings and Things, Ching Young Village, Hanalei
Info: Kirk Smart, kirksmart1@yahoo.com; (808) 826,9633
EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE
First Saturday of the Month Open House, 6:00-9:00 pm
Info: Jeanne Russell (808) 822-4414; info@dolphintouch.
Monday, 1:00 – 2:00 pm — Basic
Thursdays. 1:00 – 2:00 pm — Advanced
Qi Gong Golden 8
Qi Gong Classes – ONGOING via ZOOM
?https://us04web.zoom.us/j/
Promotes balancing the body for greater health, increasing vitality,
and radiating more energy
Free for all ages
Info: (808) 635-0306; Peter Sterne
Pu’uwai Fitness Kauai
Fitness Classes in Kalaheo and Poipu
Barre, Yoga, Pilates, TRX, Circuit
Location: Southside sports Center (Poipu) and Private Studio (Kalaheo)
Covid-19 Safety Details are followed
call (808) 332-6320 for directions
Info: Jodee Burris, ACE Certified Group Fitness Instructor, 212-4034,
puuwaifitness@gmail.com
Current schedule & fees online: www.puuwaifitnesskauai.com
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“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you’re finished”
–Nelson DeMille
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