10 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 BIG ISLAND ENTERTAINMENT SCENE | WEST HAWAII TODAY Iolani Luahine Hula Festival coming up The 15th annual Iolani Luahine Hula Festival will be held Jan. 27-28 at the Sheraton Kona Resort and Spa at Keauhou Bay. The festival was established in 2003 with to perpetuate the hula, and it also serves as a way to honor the memory of Iolani Luahine and her contributions to the preservation of hula and Hawaiian culture. This year, the festival will again include hula presentations, and a challenge to kumu hula with a prize for the one who best demonstrates the values of Iolani Luahine: education and Hawaiian culture. The festival will feature hula workshops presented by Miss Coline Aiu, Kumu Iwalani Kalima, Kumu Sonny Ching and Loea Kawaikapuokalani Hewett. A Niihau shell jewelry workshop with Kumu Kele Kanahele featuring lei in the kipuna style will also be held. Registration and information for the workshops are available at www.iolaniluahinefestival. org. Hula presentations begin at 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, and will feature makuahine, makuakane and kupuna hula presentations. Saturday’s presentations will begin at 1 p.m. and feature keiki, wahine and kane presentations. A new category has been added this year: Palua or couples hula. The hula presentations on both days are a free community event and everyone is invited to attend. Donations will be accepted. Evening musical entertainment featuring Matt Sproat, David Kamakahi and Nathan Grace on Friday, Jan. 27, will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. On Saturday, the festival will offer Hawaiian arts and crafts by local artisans beginning at 11 a.m. I n fo: www. iolaniluahinefestival.org. Workshops & classes O’Malley to lead drawing workshop The Society for Kona’s Education and Art hosts a leaf contour drawing workshop with Susan O’Malley on Feb. 4. During the noon to 2 p.m. event, O’Malley will teach participants to make a quick and easy masterpiece by choosing a leaf, making a contour drawing on high quality paper, and and filling it in with watercolors. O’Malley is an experienced artist and teacher. Cost is $20 for SKEA members and $25 for nonmembers. Info/register: 328-9392, skea@hawaii.rr.com. Announcements TV special chronicles Hawaii’s endangered forest birds The latest DLNR & You TV special, “The Endangered Forest Birds of Hawaii,” documents the efforts of dozens of organizations and hundreds of people across the state to halt the extinction of critically endangered forest birds. It airs this weekend on KFVETV (K5). Show times are 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:30 p.m. Sunday on KFVE-TV. It will be available online for viewing after 7 p.m. on Saturday at https://vimeo. com/199157463. Photographed over the course of nearly two years, “The Endangered Forest Birds of Hawaii, transports you deep into the Alakai Plateau on Kauai, where the Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project is working with numerous partners to try and save three endangered species of tiny birds on the brink of extinction (Akikiki, Akekee and Puaiohi). The most recent estimate for the number of Akikiki is 450 birds, give or take 50, said Lisa “Cali” Crampton, the KFBRP project leader. “The worst thing that could happen is for any of these forest birds to join the list of twenty-three endemic bird species that have gone extinct since 1778. All of our partners and everyone working to reverse these trends are excited to show viewers around Hawaii some pretty astonishing projects underway to save these amazing forest dwellers and their native homes,” Crampton said. The show chronicles some of these remarkable projects and the people working in some really tough environments, toward the common goal of preventing further population reductions and ultimately extinction. In one segment you can watch as a staffer from San Diego Zoo Global climbs a freely suspended ladder, 40-feet in the air, to collect marble-sized eggs from a treetop nest in an ohia tree. Another segment is dedicated to “The Alala Project,” which for several decades has worked toward the reintroduction of captive-raised Alala, back into the Puu Makaala Natural Area Reserve on Hawaii Island. You’ll see, first-hand, the tremendous amount of work being done by a broad collaboration of federal, state and nonprofit partners to be sure the birds continue to exist and thrive in their natural habitats. This is the third DLNR & You television special. In 2016, “Renegades, Risks and Rewards of the Napali Coast,” traced the work of the DLNR Division of State Parks and Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement to clean up the fabled Napali Coast State Wilderness Park. The second show, “The Endangered Sea Birds of Kauai,” describes the plight of native seabirds, very much like the same issues facing forest birds. Airtime for all three programs is provided by the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Stamp contest deadline extended The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife has extended the dealine to submit entries in an art con test to depict hunters during a hunt for game birds and mammals for its 2017-18 Hawaii Wildlife Conservation and Game Bird Stamp. All entries must now be received by Feb. 15. Notification of the winner will be made on Feb. 28. The winner will receive a maximum award of $1,000. The conservation stamp is required on the Hawaii State hunting license, and the game bird hunting stamp is required for those intending to hunt game birds. Both stamps (differing slightly in text) will be available to wildlife stamp collectors. Funds from sales of the stamps go into the state Wildlife Revolving Fund to support wildlife populations and habitat, and to manage hunting in the state. Info: Email Jason.D.Omick@hawaii.gov or call 587-4159. Chorus celebrates 23rd season; new members sought Waimea Community Theatre’s spring concert rehearsal season has begun in preparation for “The Joint Is Jumpin’,” the group’s 23rd annual Spring Choral Concert in June. The show is described as “The Great American Songbook, Volume 2” and will build on the group’s 2016 show, which featured the songs of “Tin Pan Alley,” or the early 20th century. For “The Joint is Jumpin’,” Barbara Kopra, WCC’s choral director since 2006, has selected songs that evoke differing styles and moods of the swing era of the 1930s, including selections from big band, jive, gospel, R&B, jazz and other traditions that fueled the vast growth of American music in the pre- World War II years. While the show will feature men’s and women’s numbers, along with small groups and solos, it will also focus on more intimate accompaniment than the group’s holiday concerts, which include orchestral arrangements. Planned for June 3 and 4, the concerts will be held at Kahilu Theatre in Waimea. Tickets go on sale in May. Averaging 60 voices, Waimea Community Chorus has been entertaining North Hawaii since 1994 and a number of members from those early days still sing with the group. The chorus is actively seeking new singers, both to maintain vocal balance in the group’s composition, and to maintain the strong community flavor that has characterized WCC since its inception. The spring concert rehearsal season began Tuesday at the St. James Episcopal Church on Kawaihae Road in Waimea. However, participants can register during the next two Tuesday rehearsals, which commence at 7 p.m. in the church hall, which has been the chorus rehearsal home for many years. While no audition is required, those wishing to join must be free to attend rehearsals consistently on Tuesday evenings until the June shows. I n fo: www. waimeacommunitytheatre. org, 885-5818. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ➠ Continued from page 5 Waimea Community Theatre’s spring concert rehearsal season has begun in preparation for “The Joint Is Jumpin’,” the group’s 23rd annual Spring Choral Concert slated for June. COURTESY PHOTO/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY
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