8 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2016 BIG ISLAND ENTERTAINMENT SCENE | WEST HAWAII TODAY EVERYTHING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EVERYTHING Kona Brewers Festival set ➠ Continued from page 5 Nonfiction book club discussing audition for “Jesus Christ Superstar” Dec. 19-20. Workshop participants will be encouraged to audition. The tuition for the three-session workshop in $30. Info/register: 322-9924. Announcements APAC announces ‘Christmas on Broadway’ cast Aloha Performing Arts Company has announced the cast for “Christmas on Broadway,” a heartwarming, whimsical new musical revue by Rick Lewis. Lewis spent 1.5 years compiling and designing the show, which combines the pizazz of Broadway and the magic of Christmas, for its world premiere in Portland, Oregon. APAC’s production is the Hawaii premiere with performances at the Aloha Theatre in Kainaliu from Dec. 2-18. Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees are at 2:30 p.m. Kaitlin Moore portrays the irreverent tour guide who leads a quartet of stranded tourists through an empty Broadway theater on Christmas Eve. The second female lead is played by Alana Baxter, who, along with Moore, recently appeared in “Plan 9 from Outer Space.” Jaquelynn Collier, a Kailua- Kona native who now calls New York City home, is the third female lead. An award-winning off-Broadway actress, Collier will return to the Big Apple after the holidays. The male leads are played by Bryan Riley and Brett McCardle. Riley has appeared in APAC’s “The Wizard of Oz” and “My Son Pinocchio,” as the Scarecrow and Gepetto, respectively. McCardle, a recent arrival from Kentucky, will exercise his comedic skills in this show. In addition to the adults, “Christmas on Broadway” features a youth choir with children from age 6-14, who hail from as far south as Ocean View and as far north as Kona Palisades. Kids in the choir are Alessa Stephens, Alexa Solomonson, Caiden Mireles, Country Denis, Kristen White, Leilani Penaloza, Lola DeMotte, Noelani Loughery-Kawailoa and Olive Schaal-Girouard. Kira Kane TICKETS FOR 22ND ANNUAL EVENT GO ON SALE DEC. 17 Volunteers Dave Worsham, left, and Paul Gleed sample a brew after setting up the 2016 Kona Brewers Festival. PHOTOS BY LAURA SHIMABUKU/WEST HAWAII TODAY The 22nd annual Kona Brewers Festival will be held March 11 at Courtyard Marriott King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel in Kailua-Kona. Ticket sales for the fundraising celebration will begin at 11 a.m. Dec. 17. Tickets will be sold for two sessions, the “Afternoon Delight,” from noon to 3 p.m., and the “Sunset Session,” from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Tickets are $75 and include craft brew samplings from 40 Hawaii and mainland breweries, and samplings of a variety of local food prepared by top Big Island chefs. The festival also features live music and entertainment, including the Trash Fashion Show, a performance highlighting creative fashions made entirely from recycled material. In addition, festival volunteers divert more than 90 percent of festival waste from landfill by transforming refuse into compost for local school gardens. The Kona Brewers Festival has raised awareness, visibility and funding for more than 40 nonprofit and community organizations supporting the wellbeing of Hawaii’s youth, environmental conservation, and cultural traditions. Info: www.konabrewersfestival.com. WEST HAWAII TODAY ‘The Billion Dollar Spy’ this week Kona Stories hosts a nonfiction book club discussing “The Billion Dollar Spy” by David E. Hoffman on Tuesday. The group meets at 6 p.m. at the store. Book groups are free if books are purchased at Kona Stories, or a $5 donation is requested. Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, “The Billion Dollar Spy” is a feat of reporting and a true story of intrigue in the final years of the Cold War. Hoffman is a contributing editor at The Washington Post and a correspondent for PBS flagship investigative series, “Frontline.” He is the author of “The Oligarchs” and “The Dead Hand,” about the end of the Cold War arms race, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize. He lives with his wife in Maryland. Info: 324-0350, www.konastories.com. New book describes diverse food challenges faced by Hawaii A rich compilation of case studies by island scholars and writers, “Food and Power in Hawaii: Visions of Food Democracy” explores the diversity of food challenges faced by the state. Edited by Aya H. Kimura and Krisnawati Suryanata of University of Hawaii at Manoa’s College of Social Sciences, the UH Press publication includes discussions on land use policies, a gendered and racialized farming population, benefits and costs of biotechnology, stratified access to nutritious foods, as well as ensuring the economic viability of farms. Defying the reductive approach that looks only at calories or tonnage of food produced and consumed as indicators of a sound food system, “Food and Power in Hawaii” shows how food problems are necessarily layered with other sociocultural and economic problems, and uses food democracy as the guiding framework. Info: www.uhpress.hawaii.edu. Donna Hanano struts during the 2016 Trash Fashion Show. Continued on page 11 ➠
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