4 | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 BIG ISLAND ENTERTAINMENT SCENE | WEST HAWAII TODAY NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE Check out our $8.95 Lunch Specials On Saturday, September 17, 2016, from approximately 10am -11am a portion of Mamalahoa Hwy in Waimea will be temporarily closed for the Waimea Paniolo Parade. Parade Route begins at Church Row, down Mamalahoa Hwy., through Waimea Town, right on Lindsey Rd. to Waimea Park. More information, http://www.hawaiiislandfestival.org/ or 936-3706. Mon-Friday 11am-2:30pm Located at the Keauhou Shopping Center Mon-Fri 11am-9pm Sat-Sun 12pm-9pm 322.8424 www.RoyalThaiCafe.com 20% Discount on dinner with this ad *Excludes alcohol *Expires 9/30/16 COURTESY PHOTO Soft Pastel Still Life Workshop Sept. 24 Exaggerate! Be bold with colors and yourself using lights and darks and enjoy the marks you make on paper using a proven signature rotational method for success with soft pastels. Now Big Island artist and instructor Patti Pease Johnson can help you gain the confidence and techniques of this centuries old medium. Patti supplies the instruction and materials along with guidance and inspiration for this process along with some handy tips for your creative journey. Grow your knowledge of composition, color and correcting problems! Learn about the different types of pastels, different papers, fixing and mounting paper and on backing. Then use newsprint to get the flow of arm movements to keep loose. Next, you’ll begin forming shapes and move into colors on pastel paper. Students will complete a 10x12 inch project. The Soft Pastel Still Life Workshop will be held Saturday, Sept. 24, from 9 a.m. to noon at Volcano Art Center. Cost for the workshop is $50 and $45 for VAC members plus a $10 supply fee per person. Beginner and intermediate artists are welcome. For more information or to register call VAC at 967-8222 or visit online at www. volcanoartcenter.org. Patti Pease Johnson’s artwork can be found at galleries and shops across the state and in collections around the world. The Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus is located at 19-4074 Old Volcano Road in Volcano Village. ■ SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY EVERYTHING Wow Business Book Club meets WOW (Women of Waimea) Business Book club meets the third Tuesday of every month to discuss a business book the group has read. Meetings are usually at the Mana Church meeting rooms in Waimea at noon. The month’s book is No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing by Dan S. Kennedy and Kim Walsh-Phillips. Info: Sue Moss at 885-5587. Nene Readers kick off Nene Readers is a reading club for fourth through sixth graders that focuses solely on reading, enjoying, analyzing, and discussing Nene Awardnominated books. Attend our kick-off meeting from 11 a.m. to noon at the Kailua-Kona Public Library to learn more about how to participate. Read quality books nominated by your peers! Info: 327-4327. Falling off the Map, A Fighting Chance, focus of book clubs Kona Stories community bookstore offers many choices of book clubs. Groups meet monthly to discuss books of fiction, travel and non-fiction. Fiction group meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month, travel meets the third Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. and the nonfiction group meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. Book groups are free if books are purchased from Kona Stories or a $5 donation is appreciated. Bring a pupu or beverage to share and come prepared to discuss the following books. You can choose to attend any or all of these groups. Kona Stories is located in the Keauhou Shopping Center in the courtyard shops on the KTA side. Info: Brenda or Joy at 808-324-0350 or check it out online at www.konastories.com. Sept. 20, Travel Group: Falling off the Map by Pico Iyer The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world’s loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious. Only some of the lonely places covered in this book (North Korea, Argentina, Cuba, Iceland, Bhutan, Vietnam, Paraguay, Australia) are isolated by geography, but all are culturally or politically isolated. That few tourist itineraries include these misfit countries increases their sense of being alone in the world. Pico Iyer, a journalist for Time and Conde Nast Traveler, writes in a cool, ironic style similar to that of the late Bruce Chatwin. Sept. 27, Non- Fiction Group: A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren tells the story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works and really doesn’t. Continued on page 11 ➠
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