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Support the Haleiwa Arts Festival by purchasing a reproduction of an original work by Rebecca Gates. "Our First Year," a 16-by-20-inch color poster of a barefooted toddler holding a hose and watering his feet instead of a tiny tree next to him, is being sold for $10, 1-3 p.m. Saturday at Xcel Wetsuits Hawaii in Ward Village. At that time, purchasers can also have their posters autographed.

Gates will also be signing and selling the commemorative poster at the arts festival, which will be held 10 a.m.-6 p.m. July 18-19 at the south end of the North Shore Marketplace, 66-250 Kamehameha Highway.

Highlights of the festival include a bagpipe parade, storytelling, music and dancing.

Keiki can also check out an art corner offering such hands-on activities as "Chalk on the Walk" drawings, face painting and balloons.

Students in first through eighth grades have a chance to become part of the "Old Hawaii Through the Eyes of the Keiki" photography exhibit by sending photographs taken by themselves that represent "old Hawaii." Attach a 3-by-5-inch index card with a short description of the photo and send entries to: Haleiwa Arts Festival, P.O. Box 1141, Haleiwa, Hawaii 96712.

Other artists being featured at the festival include: Alice Ching, Jacobus Baas, Gina Overton, Beverly Nomura, Juan Olipant, Jerome Heck, Robbrecht Troost, Bob McWilliams, John Marr, Georg Glaser, Leihulu Greene, Maile A. Benoza, Stephen Geritz, George Marino, Chris Mitts, Paloma Marchetti, Omer Kursat, Dennis Green and Maxine O'Neill.

For information call 838-4888 or the festival hotline, 637-1987, ext1. 42

Enjoy Filipino folk arts

Artists, musicians, dancers, craftspeople and folklorists participate in the Honolulu Academy of Arts' Filipino Folklife Festival Sunday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. The event is free.

Some of the participants are stopping in Hawaii on a return trip from the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival held in Washington, D.C. in connection with the celebration of the Philippine Centennial of Independence. Others are Hawaii artisans.

For more information, contact the Philippine Centennial Committee -- Hawaii at the Philippine Consulate General's office at 595-6316.

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