10 | FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2017 BIG ISLAND ENTERTAINMENT SCENE | WEST HAWAII TODAY ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT for 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on March 18 at the Botehlo Building. The festival features music, hula, cultural activities, and family fun. The event opens with the blessing of HCC’s exhibit hall and unfolds to feature performances by Sonny Lim, Hula Me Ka Honua, Hawane Rios, Halau Waika, Hualalai, and Brad Bordessa. Meet the folks behind Pohaha I Ka Lani, Lalakea Fishpond, 101 Financial, Leiola Designs, and more at vendor booths featuring crafts, informational displays, and cultural activities. There will also be a silent auction and Hawaiian plates and vegan dishes. The Hawaiian Cultural Center of Hamakua is a multi-cultural, multi-generational community center situated in the heart of Honokaa on Hawaii Island. It is a space for residents to deepen their connection with Hawaiian culture through community classes in arts, hula, language, history, agriculture, philosophy, and more. The center hosts special events, guest speakers, community service projects, and cultural exchange programs, creating a foundation for future generations. Info: www.hccoh.org. Hula Kahiko continues March 18 at VAC Volcano Art Center’s 2017 Hula Kahiko series continues at 10:30 a.m. on March 18 with a performance by Kumu Hula Pele Kaio with Unukupukupu, presenting students of Unulau and Papa Huelepo. Combining ancestral knowledge with the rigors of academia, Kaio, of Hawaii Community College, presents Unukupukupu with students of Unulau and Huelepo. These dancers express hula as a process for deep inner reflection and analysis. Through hula they define and exercise their unique contribution to this world we live in. 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 oneof 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. National Park entrance fees may apply. Info: www.volcanoartcenter.org. Film screenings Dramatic operas, ballet to be screened in Kailua-Kona Giuseppe Verdi’s drama of passionate love, “La Traviata,” will be shown in HD, live from the great stage of the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday in Kailua-Kona. Violetta Valery, a beautiful courtesan, has kept her heart free as she tells us in splendid aria, “Sempre libera.” Then, she encounters Alfredo Germont (Michael Fabiano). His ardent heart wins Valery (Carmen Giannattasio), and she gives up all to live an idyll with him. Before long, however, his father, Giorgio Germont (Thomas Hampson) arrives in anger. He has arranged a marriage for young Alfredo and also fears that the scandal of the liaison with Violetta will thwart the engagement of Alfredo’s innocent and pure sister. The old count expects Violetta to be a heartless mercenary woman but finds that the frail, ill Violetta not only has given up all for Alfredo but will give up even more. Too late, the father and son discover her true nature and in some of opera’s most tragic music, express their remorse. On March 25 is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Idomeneo,” a tale of what happens when a refugee from defeated Troy, Princess Ilia, daughter of most royal Priam, encounters the young Prince of Crete, the handsome Idamante. Love quickly blossoms only to be quickly endangered. The King of Crete, Idomeneo, caught in a gale at sea, vows to sacrifice to Neptune the first creature he encounters if he reaches shore safely. This turns out to be his son, Idamante. An Athenian Princess, Elettra, in love herself with Idamante and harboring no kindly feelings toward the Trojan refugees, makes things even more fraught. Both operas will be shown at the Stadium 10 Regal Theater at the Makalapua Center in Kailua-Kona and performances start at 12:55 p.m. with doors opening around 12:30. Tickets, which are available at the theater box office or at www.fathomevents. com, are $22 for seniors and $24 for others. Encore performances are at 7 p.m. the following Wednesday. On March 19, live from Moscow, the Bolshoi Ballet performs “A Contemporary Evening.” This pairs three contemporary composers with three contemporary choreographers and the superbly trained Bolshoi dancers. The evening will be a treat for those who want to explore beyond the exquisite but somewhat formulaic classic ballets. Expect somewhat edgy choreography and great music, where the performers bring the best of the older forms into distinctively modern settings. The performance is likely appropriate for audiences at least 18 years of age and older. Tickets, which are available at the box office at the Stadium 10 Regal Theater and www. fathomevents.com, are $16 for seniors and $19 for others. The performance begins at 12:55 p.m. ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to be screened in Naalehu Naalehu Public Library screens an afternoon family movie at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. The library shows a different family-friendly movie each week at no cost. This Tuesday, the library will screen Walt Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” Free popcorn will be served, while supplies last. Info: 939-2442. Library to show historical Peace Corps Training footage Historical footage of Peace Corps Training on Hawaii Island during the years of 1962-71 will be shown at the Thelma Parker Memorial Public and School Library in Waimea. The screening is free and will run from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Calls for entries Kona Coffee Cultural Festival seeks signature art The Kona Coffee Cultural Festival announces its call for art entries for the official image of the 2017 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival. Local artists are invited to submit original Kona coffee art in all art forms including fine art, graphic design and photography. Artwork should reflect the festival’s mission to preserve, perpetuate and promote Kona’s unique nearly 200-year coffee heritage. The winning design will become the official image of the 2017 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival and will be featured on all official merchandise. The winning design will also be featured on the festival’s magazine cover, website and other promotional materials. Artists of traditional media including oil, acrylic, tempera, watercolor, illustrations as well as computer graphics and photographers are invited to participate. Typography should not be included within the art. There is no entry fee to participate and the competition is open to all Hawaii Island residents 18 and older. Submissions are due by April 14 and should be delivered to Malia Bolton at the Kona Coffee and Tea Company located on Palani Road in Kailua-Kona. Entries can also be submitted electronically via email to maliabolton@gmail.com. Be sure to include “Festival Submission” in the subject line with electronic entries. Announcements APAC fundraising gala March 18 Aloha Performing Arts Company will hold its annual major fundraising gala on March 18 at the Aloha Theatre in Kainaliu. This year’s event, “Superstars of APAC,” gets underway at 6 p.m. and will feature fine wine, local beers, and gourmet pupus, as well as two acts of entertainment featuring APAC volunteer performers. A silent auction will feature artwork, hotel and restaurant gift certificates, jewelry, specialty goods and services, various island activity packages, and more. A theater lobby and restroom redesign and upgrade will be featured as part of a brief live auction. Entertainment will consist of a special presentation by Aloha Teen Theatre, numbers from shows past and sneak previews of coming attractions, as well as a few surprise guest artists. The annual gala event helps APAC continue to provide quality live theater productions and educational opportunities to the West Hawaii community. Tickets are $85 and can be purchased online at www.alohatheatre.com, or by phone from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Info: 322-9924. Artists in the Schools grant applications due The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts is now accepting Artists in the Schools grant applications for the 2017-18 school year. There is a new category of funding for select neighbor island schools. All public schools, including public charter schools, may apply for grants of up to $6,000 per school for artist residencies to be conducted during the 2017- 18 school year. Schools must contribute 10 percent of the grant amount received, in cash, towards residency expenses. AITS grants are meant to enhance a school’s fine arts curriculum, not supplant it. The new funding for neighbor island schools requires the school to have an HSFCA Art in Public Places commissioned work of art on campus that was installed after 1993. Included Hawaii Island schools are: Ernest B. De Silva Elementary, Haaheo Elementary, Kalanianaole Elementary and Intermediate, Ka’u High and Pahala Elementary, Keaau High, Kealakehe High, Kohala Elementary, Pahoa High and Intermediate, and Waikoloa Elementary. The grant program provides students with an engaging, creative and fun learning experience based on the fine arts standards through residencies with teaching artists. Many of these artists integrate their art form with other core curriculum areas, such as language arts, math, social studies and science, meeting both fine arts and other core standards. The application must be completed online. Interested schools should visit (sfca.hawaii.gov) for more details. Applications are due by 4 p.m. May 2. Info: http://sfca.hawaii.gov. ■ ➠ Continued from page 9
bie
To see the actual publication please follow the link above