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STAR-BULLETIN / 2001
Foods of Hawaii will be featured at the Ulupalakua Thing, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Ulupalakua Ranch and Tedeshi Vineyards on Maui. The focus is on agricultural products, but other made-in-Hawaii items will also be on display. Ted Krawczyk, left, and Barbara St. Sauver of Maui Tropical Soaps worked the 2001 event. Admission is $20. Call (808) 878-2839 or visit www.ulupalakuathing.com.
Yes, we can, with our cans
Saturday marks the 2004 Food Drive, the Hawaii Foodbank's big push to collect canned goods and cash to feed the state's hungry.The major collection point will be Restaurant Row, where a "Sea of Tuna" is being built of donated cans of tuna. Entertainment will run from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 836-3600, ext. 240.
More ways to give:
Shopping center celebrations: Make donations and stay for the entertainment Saturday at Koko Marina, McCully Shopping Center, Pearl City Shopping Center, Town Center of Mililani, Waianae Mall Shopping Center, Windward City Shopping Center and military retail outlets. Cash donations only will be taken at Kapolei and Market City shopping centers.
Bag Up Hunger: Foodland and Sack N Save stores have $5, $10 and $15 bags of pre-packaged groceries available for instant giving through Saturday.
Give and get: Victoria Ward Centres is offering $5 cash for five cans of food; the Jamba Juice Banana Man will pass out smoothies to donors at Waiokeola Congregational Church; Curves is waiving its service fee in exchange for a bag of groceries; Waikele Premium Outlets offers a coupon book to donors.
Drop-off points: Kozo Sushi at Windward City Shopping Center and 7-Eleven stores, through Saturday. First Hawaiian Bank branches, Oahu fire stations, T-Mobile retail outlets and King Windward Nissan, through April 30.
Special events
Advanced Knife Skills Workshop: Chef Göran Streng of the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki explains the classic cuts of brunoise, concasse, julienne, alumette and baton, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Lyon Arboretum. Cost is $28; $25 for arboretum members. Call 988-0456.May Day Food Fair: Vegetarian Asian and Samoan specialties will be served, 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Windward Adventist School. Entertainment includes Kenny Endo's Taiko Drummers and the school May Day program. Call 261-0565.
An Evening in Aiea: Dishes from Don Ho's Island Grill, Gordon Biersch, Bucca di Beppo, Mediterranean Café and Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar, will be featured at a benefit, 6 to 9 p.m. May 1 at Our Savior Lutheran School. Event includes entertainment, silent auction, children's activities. Cost is $50; $25 for children. Call 488-0000.
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Ho'ike at Ali'iolani
The Friends of the Judiciary History Center's spring benefit, a May Day Ho'ike featuring Ku'ulei Jeffrey's halau and a grand luau, runs 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 30.The event takes place at Ali'iolani Hale, at 417 S. King St., behind the Kamehameha statue.
On the menu will be kalua pig, chicken long rice, squid luau, lomi salmon, poke, poi, rice and haupia. Tickets are $15, available from the Judiciary History Center, 539-4999. Proceeds will support the center's educational programs and activities.
Herbarium specimens from the Bishop Museum Botany department's collection of ornamental lei flowers will be on display. Botanists, ecologists and naturalists use the pressed samples to identify and define plant species. Collections provide a "dictionary," or base, by which scientist measure change, adaptation and risk to plants.
The event will feature a drawing for two nights at the Outrigger Reef on the Beach hotel in Waikiki. Call 539-4999.
Jam with Dan Crary
Bluegrass flatpicking guitar pioneer Dan Crary will host a workshop and master jam, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at The Arts at Mark's Garage, 1159 Nuuanu Ave.Only 60 reservations will be taken for this event, structured similarly to Pete "Dr. Banjo" Wernick's workshop/jam late in March. Cost is $14, or register in advance for $11. Listeners will be charged $6 admission. Call 622-1077 or e-mail c@wrightforyou.com to register.
A wine and cheese reception at 1 p.m. will precede the 1:30 p.m. workshop. The workshop is for bluegrass musicians of all skill levels. The only experience required is the ability to make simple chord changes. Participants should bring their banjos, fiddles, guitars, mandolins, resophonic guitars, autoharps, dulcimers or upright basses.
Crary will lead an hourlong master jam session after the workshop. Event organizer and Bluegrass Hawai'i founder Caroline Wright invited some of Oahu's most accomplished acoustic musicians to join Crary, a founding member of the legendary Bluegrass Alliance and the award-winning ensemble California.
More information is available via the Web site www.bluegrasshawaii.com.
In step with Phoenix
The Hawaii Foundation for Chinese Culture and Arts is will host its 2004 annual luncheon gala from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Pacific Grand Hotel Grand Ballroom.There will be a buffet, photo exhibit by Jim Dong, entertainment by the Phoenix Dance Chamber and a silent auction featuring Chinese artifacts. Cost is $35; $16 children.
The Honolulu-based dance company has toured internationally and sponsored several exchange tours to China since its inception in 1989. It has won several international awards and received the 1997 Cultural Preservation Award from the Hawaii State Dance Council for "White Cloud Trilogy," an original work by Diane Letoto, the chamber's dance director.
The company offers a Chinese dance curriculum featuring classical, folk, contemporary and ethnic minority Chinese styles.
Call 988-2009 (Chinese) or 550-0509 (English).
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