4 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 BIG ISLAND ENTERTAINMENT SCENE | WEST HAWAII TODAY ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Shows & events Artist talk with Adrian Arleo this evening Adrian Arleo, a ceramic sculptor living outside Missoula, Montana, will discuss her work this evening at the Donkey Mill Art Center in Holualoa. Arleo studied art and anthropology at Pitzer College and received her master’s degree in fine arts in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. She was artist in residence at Oregon College of Art and Craft in 1986-87 and Sitka Center For Art and Ecology in 87-88. For nearly 30 years, Arleo has focused her work on the human figure, often combining it with animal imagery, and other elements of the natural world. Some works allude to a relationship of understanding or connection between the human and animal realms. In others, human figures possess animal features in a way that reveals something hidden about the character or primal nature of the human. The free artist talk will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Attendees should bring a potluck item to share. Info: www.donkeymillartcenter. org. The Harmony People to play free concert The Harmony People will offer a free concert Saturday at the Queens’ Marketplace Coronation Pavilion in Waikoloa. Part of Queens’ Marketplace’s Monthly Mini-Concert Series, the 6 to 8 p.m. event features Gary Garrett and Anjalisa Aitken performing original music featuring unique vocal harmonies. Info: www.queensmarketplace. net. VAC’s Hula Kahiko series continues Saturday Volcano Art Center’s 2016 Hula Kahiko series continues at 10:30 a.m. Saturday with a performance by Na Kumu hula Pelehonuamea and Kekoa Harman with Halau i Ka Leo Ola Wiliwili Festival Art Sale benefits nonprofit o Na Mamo. The students of Halau I Ka Leo Ola O Na Mamo come from the Hawaiian language immersionschool, Ke Kula o Nawahiokalaniopuu. For the past five years, their mission has been to perpetuate the Hawaiian language and culture through mele and hula. The free performance is part of a year-round series sponsored by the center. For the series, hula halau from across Hawaii are invited to perform each month in a one-of-a-kind outdoor setting at the kahua hula (platform) in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. These performances are presented authentically in an outdoor setting, rain or shine without electronic amplification. Audience members are encouraged to bring sun/rain gear and sitting mats. Held in conjunction with this performance, Kumu Hula Ab Valencia and members of Halau Hula Kalehuakiekieikaiu will share “Na Mea Hula” (all things hula) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Volcano Art Gallery lanai. Participants will learn a hula, use various hula implements and try their hand at lei making. Info: www.volcanoartcenter. org. In conjunction with the sixth annual Wiliwili Festival on Saturday, the Waikoloa Dry Forest Initiative is hosting a pop-up art gallery in Waikoloa Village. The work of six artists that regularly feature native Hawaiian species in their creations will be highlighted during the event, which runs 5 to 7:30 p.m. at Waikoloa Stables. The artists are woodblock printer Andrea Pro, fine art photographer Joshua McCullough, conservation artist Calley O’Neil, Chinese brush painter Shay Niimi Wahl, fine art photographer Charla Thomspon, and woodblock printer Margaret Barnaby. This show will give the community a chance to meet these artists and learn more about one of the forests that inspires them to give back through their artwork. All sales will benefit the Waikoloa Dry Forest Initiative and its forest restoration and community programs. Tickets are $30, which includes pupus, beer and wine, and live music by slack key guitarist John Keawe. University of Hawaii Professor of Geography Jonathan Price is the guest speaker. The Waikoloa Dry Forest Initiative is a nonprofit working to preserve the existing resources within the Waikoloa Dry Forest area, promote the natural regeneration of common and rare native plants, and restore the native dry forest community. Info: www.waikoloadryforest.org. WEST HAWAII TODAY ABOVE: Woodblock printer Margaret Barnaby, whose work is pictured here, is among the six artists who will participate in the Wiliwili Festival Art Sale. BELOW RIGHT: Calley O’Neill, a conservation artist, will also display her work this evening. COURTESY PHOTOS/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY WORKS BY SIX ARTISTS TO BE HIGHLIGHTED Continued on page 5 ➠
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