Okinawan koto performance set
Okinawan koto performance set
The College of Continuing Education and Community Service at the University of Hawaii at Hilo invites the public to a free Okinawan koto performance from 3-4 p.m. Sunday at the Imiloa Astronomy Center’s Moanahoku Room.
The So-shin Kai group will honor their late leader, Shizuko Akamine, with a performance that will feature some of her students as well as local guest performers (sanshin, dance, voice).
Darin Miyashiro, So-shin Kai’s current leader, has been working through the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Apprenticeship Program to sustain the group. Miyashiro teaches koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa music department and is pursuing his master’s degree in ethnomusicology.
To attend, call 974-7664, email ccecs@hawaii.edu, or register online at hilo.hawaii.edu/academics/ccecs/registration.
B&G Club gets $230K grant
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs awarded Boys &Girls Club of the Big Island a $230,000 grant over two years for the Hua Ola Project.
Meaning “seeds of health” and “wellness results,” the Hua Ola Project is designed to build knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits leading to lifelong healthy lifestyles for young project participants.
The project will focus on fitness and nutrition programs that increase fitness and long-term health and wellness.
Specific program components will include Hawaiian culture-based gardening, enhanced physical activities, family events and education.
For more information. call 961-5536
Model to depict pre-1960 Hilo
The 50th anniversary of the Wailoa Center and the Wailoa River Recreation Area will be celebrated in 2017. As part of a display on the history of the park, local resident Bill Sewell is creating a scale model of the area as it looked before the 1960 tsunami.
In 1959, the area from Pauahi Street to Hilo Iron Works and from Kamehameha Avenue to Kilauea Avenue was known as Shinmachi Town.
Sewell is seeking the names and locations of streets, businesses and private homes. He is specifically looking for pre-1960 maps and photographs of the exterior of businesses and other large buildings.
Sewell can be contacted by email at wsewell100@gmail.com, or through the Wailoa Center at wailoa@yahoo.com.