The troupe formerly known as Iona Pear is presenting the second in a salon series designed to take their brand of modern and butoh inspired dance to interactive environments. “Paint By Number” is a collaboration with the Quadrophonix {a rock solid band)involving music, movement and live body painting a la Jackson Pollock. Tickets through the Hawai’i Theater, check www.iona360.com for more.
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Ebb and Flow Arts is presenting another international celebration of contemporary music and art March 17th through June 17th on O’ahu and Maui. Esteemed Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker is attending, along with Mitsuru Tanaka, one of Japan’s rare new music composers. Art song settings of e.e. cummings and Vietnamese poetry are among the many highlights which also include a musical planetarium show at WCC on O’ahu and a New Music Marathon March 23rd at HPR’s Atherton. Check www.ebbandflowarts.org.
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You have to check out these Farmers’ Markets—high quality all local grown or processed foods. The idea is to meet the makers and build a relationship with your food! It’s fun. Check www.hfbf.org for complete listings on who and what will be available at each market. It’s a good thing!
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Incidence of autism has increased from 1 in 10,000 children to 1 in 166 in just the last 30 or so years. Unbelieveable, and not the result of changes in diagnosis, according to Dr. Maggie Coven, interviewed here—environmental factors are suspected. Check www.cureautismnow.org for more. Matthew Ulanski, a young man living with a form of autism, also contributed greatly to this story.
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Artist Rebecca Horne has taught many art classes in Honolulu, but by her own account, some of the most rewarding were with the inmates of the Federal Detention Center. I’ve received a lot of comments about the strength of their work exhibited at Honolulu Hale—here, reflections on their intensity and development through art making.
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Little known Blacks from the U.S. continent and the Caribbean have made lasting and colorful contributions to Hawai’i’s progress. A few notes from that history are offered here with thanks to Professor of Africana Studies Kathryn Waddell Takara and retired professor Miles Jackson who has written two histories of Blacks in Hawai’i: And They Came and They Followed the Tradewinds.
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