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Music at the aquarium

Na Hoku Hanohano award-winning trio Na Palapalai will take the stage under the stars tomorrow for the first of five Ke Kani O Ke Kai summer concerts at the Waikiki Aquarium.

The event will feature food from Tiki's Grill & Bar and focus on endangered Hawaiian monk seals, with a take-home craft session for keiki and aquarium galleries and exhibits open throughout the evening.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., educational activities begin at 6 p.m. and the concert starts at 7 p.m. Admission is $18 for adults and $10 for ages 7 to 12. Free for ages 6 and under. Members of the Friends of Waikiki Aquarium receive a $3 discount. Members can also buy tickets for all five concerts in the series for $60.

Ke Kani O Ke Kai continues through the summer with performances by Hapa (July 12), Na Leo Pilimehana (July 26), Keola Beamer (Aug. 9) and IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre (Aug. 23).

Each concert features the sale of food from a Honolulu restaurant, as well as educational activities related to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Proceeds support the creation of a Northwestern Hawaiian Islands exhibit at the aquarium. Call 923-9741.

L&L shares the wealth

L&L Drive-Inn is hosting customer appreciation week at the Keeaumoku Wal-Mart today through Sunday, with games, giveaways and taste tests offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

KSSK will spin its prize wheel for giveaways on Friday.

Call Lisa Chang at 951-9888.

Awamori at Jackie's

Jackie's Kitchen at Ala Moana Center will host an awamori (Okinawan sake) tasting dinner at 6 p.m. tomorrow, featuring a five-course prix fixe menu.

Cost is $35. Call 943-2426.

Make peace at KCC

Thought the peace movement was over after the 1960s? Well, wear your love beads on the Fourth of July and check out the opening ceremony for Kapiolani Community College's "Portable Art -- Portable Peace, Instrument of Mass Construction" art exhibition.

The free event, from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the Koa Gallery courtyard, also marks the start of KCC's "2005 Center Your Creativity" summer workshops.

Festivities "pay homage to creativity, peace and the fulfillment of human potential" and include performances by Melinda Carroll, Tokiko Hiyama DeSola, Gerardo Maza, the African drumming group Mambazi-Marimba and Korean drummers.

Performers will lead visitors in a blessing dance. There will also be art and drumming demonstrations, and food. Participants are encouraged to bring a potluck dish to share.

"Portable Art -- Portable Peace" is a traveling exhibit that focuses on world peace. The show was started by Kapiolani's Koa Gallery and will travel around the world. Each country on the tour circuit will contribute artwork so the exhibit will grow as it travels. The show runs through Sept. 30 at the college.

"Center Your Creativity" workshops comprise 17 noncredit courses, starting July 5. Call 734-9374.

Heed call of the stage

"Curtain Up," a new two-week musical theater intensive training and performance program, begins July 11 at the Kailua Music School, 145 Hekili St., Suite 200.

Meant for youngsters ages 8 and up, the new program features small classes and will be led by familiar local theater folk such as Shari Lynn (musical theater voice), Deanna Luster (Broadway dance styles) and Annie MacLachlan (acting for musical theater).

Students will study acting, singing, movement and dance, as well as basic theater skills. The program will end with a show featuring production numbers from three Broadway musical eras.

Classes are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday through July 22. Enrollment is $350, with full and partial scholarships available. Call 261-6142.

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