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27 years of meals, faithfully delivered
Hawaii Meals on Wheels celebrates its 27th year of service with a fundraiser dinner and silent auction at the Honolulu Country Club on Saturday.
The agency began delivering meals to six homebound clients with just six volunteers. Today, more than 860,000 meals are delivered to 7,800 clients by 500 volunteers.
"Meals From the Heart" begins with a silent auction and cocktails at 6 p.m. Dinner is served at 7 p.m. with entertainment by Melveen Leed.
Tickets are $75. Platinum album sponsor tables are $3,000; gold, $2,000; and silver, $1,000. Call 988-6747 or visit www.hawaiimealsonwheels.org for details.
The therapeutic sounds of music
The fifth "Sounds of Joy" music therapy seminar will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the auditorium of the John A. Burns School of Medicine in Kakaako.
Speakers include doctors, music therapists and musicians who have key roles in developing music therapy education locally. Admission is free.
A benefit concert will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday at Orvis Auditorium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, to raise funds for music therapy programs and to establish a local music therapy training and degree program.
The concert features doctors and therapists including Dr. Aida Won on violin, Dr. Elizabeth Chen Christenson on harp, Dr. Robert C. Marvit with the Jazz Quintet, Dr. Thomas A. Cummings, a percussionist familiar with African music and more. Tickets are $20; $10 for seniors, students and disabled. For tickets, visit www.soundingjoymt.org.
Pearls of wisdom offered in seminars
3 Pearls International offers free mini-seminars on the unique growing, harvesting and selection of the Nukuoro Black Pearl.
Participants will learn more about life on the island of Nukuoro and how to buy and care for pearls and pearl jewelry.
Seminars are 1 to 2 p.m. every Saturday in November beginning this week, at Native Books/Na Mea Hawaii at Ward Warehouse. Call Ke Kai at 927-2343 for reservations.
Contest celebrates Filipino legacy
Artwork and essays that illustrate the theme "The Sakada Legacy: Footprints of the Future" are eligible for cash prizes of up to $500 in a contest sponsored by the Honolulu Filipino Junior Chamber of Commerce.
The statewide Future of Filipinos in Hawaii: Art & Essay Competition celebrates the Filipino Centennial. The art competition is open to students in grades kindergarten through 12; the essay contest to high school students only.
The 12 winning art pieces will be featured in the chamber's 2007 Centennial Young Artists Calendar. The Top 3 essays will be printed in a chamber publication.
In the art competition, three cash prizes will be awarded in each of four age groups -- kindergarden to Grade 2, grades 3 to 5, grades 6 to 8 and grades 9 to 12. Prizes are $150 for first place, $100 for second and $50 for third. In the essay contest, prizes will be $500 and an Apple iPod Nano for first place, $300 for second, $200 third.
Winners will be recognized at the Legacy Musical Extravaganza Dec. 16.
Entries must be postmarked by Nov. 24. Send them to HFJCC, Art & Essay Competition, P.O. Box 29514, HonoluluI 96820. Entry form and rules may be found at www.filipinojaycees.com/centennialcontest.
COMING UP
Poet laureate to discuss reason for rhymes
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser will host a series of readings and workshops next week.
Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004 to 2006, has traveled extensively in the United States Kooser with a mission of reaching out to those who might consider poetry too abstract. "I'm for any way you can get people interested in poetry -- slam poetry, rap poetry," he has said. "I think those are doors through which people can enter. I'm for holding them all open."
The schedule for "Kooser Week in Hawai'i":
Next Monday: "Ted Kooser: A Reading and Conversation," 7 p.m., University of Hawaii-Manoa Campus Center Ballroom. Free.
Nov. 7: "Do-It-Yourself Poetry: A Session for Writers," 2 to 4 p.m., Windward Community College. Cost: $25; $35 including the book, "The Poetry Home Repair Manual."
Nov. 8: Poetry reading, 7 p.m., KMC Theatre, Volcanoes National Park, Big Island
Nov. 9: "Local Wonders: Poetry and Place," a reading and conversation with Kooser on finding inspiration in everyday life; 7 p.m., Paliku Theatre, Windward Community College. Free.
Nov. 10: "What Makes Poetry? (And Why Teachers Should Care)," 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. workshop, WCC. Cost is $50, including lunch and two of Kooser's books.
To register, visit library.wcc.hawaii.edu/kooser or call 236-9236.
