Festival is dedicated to literature

2nd Annual Hawai'i Book & Music Festival Place: On the grounds of Honolulu Hale Time: 9:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday Admission: Free Info: hawaiibookandmusicfestival.org

Once again this year, the Hawai'i Book & Music Festival on the grounds of Honolulu Hale promises a plethora of author appearances and readings, music performances, panel discussions, storytelling, children's theater performances, poetry slams, Hawaiian arts and crafts, and other things literature-wise.

Here are highlights of this weekend's festival (for a complete schedule, visit starbulletin.com/2007/05/15/
features/story03.html):

Saturday

Mission Memorial Auditorium

» Noon: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, "Three Cups of Tea" (2007 Kiriyama Prize winner for nonfiction)

» 1 p.m.: Gail Tsukiyama, "Dreaming Water"
» 2 p.m.: Kaui Hart Hemmings, "The Descendants"
» 3 p.m.: Michael Scott, "The Alchemyst"
» 4 p.m.: James Rumford, "Don't Touch My Hat"

Panels Pavilion

» 10 a.m.: "Pidgin Flyin' High" with Lee Tonouchi and Eric Chock
» 11 a.m.: "Memoirs" with Mona Kahele, J. Arthur Rath, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Craig Howes
» Noon: "Local vs. National Publishing" with Ian MacMillan and Chris McKinney
» 1 p.m.: "IZ: 10 Years On" with Rick Carroll, Jon deMello, Oz Stender and others
» 2 p.m.: "Travel Classics and Moderns" with Tom Chapman, John Heckathorn, Rita Ariyoshi and Jocelyn Fujii
» 3 p.m.: "Criminal Minds" with Robert Mann and Deborah Atkinson

Storytelling Pavilion

» 11 a.m.: Tita Cathy Collins
» Noon: "Aging Is Not for Sissies" with author Pratibha Eastwood and cast
» 2 p.m.: Dramatized stories from Bamboo Ridge by Marie Hara and Juliet Kono
» 4 p.m.: Youth Speaks Hawaii poetry slam

Hawaiian Culture Pavilion

» 11 a.m.: "Ho'olaupa'i, Hawaiian Newspapers, Voice of History" with Puakea Nogelmeier
» 3 p.m.: 'Oiwi Fiction: Imagining Hawaii without the Missionaries
» 4 p.m.: "The Hawaiian Way of Knowledge" with Manulani Meyer

Music Stage

» 10 a.m.: The Royal Hawaiian Band
» 11 a.m.: Tony Conjugacion
» 1 p.m.: HAPA
» 2 p.m.: Sean Tinwanak and Roland Cazimero
» 4 p.m.: Benny Chong

Keiki Mainstage

» 10:30 a.m.: Stage combat demonstration with Tony Pisculli
» 11 a.m.: Ohia Productions' "Peril in Paradise"
» 11:30 a.m.: Halau Mohala 'Ilima
» 1 p.m.: Hawaii Young Actors Ensemble's "Midsummer Night's Dream"
» 2 p.m.: Terence Knapp reading "Riki Tiki Taki Tavi"
» 3 p.m.: Hui Mele Ensemble, Kamehameha Schools
» 3:30 p.m.: Mihana

Keiki Authors

» 1:30 p.m.: Mora Ebie and Jon Murakami, "Going to the Zoo"
» 4 p.m.: Rick Carroll, "Spooky Tales"

Sunday

Mission Memorial Auditorium

» 10 a.m.: Graham Salisbury, "House of the Red Fish"
» 11 a.m.: James Bradley, "Flags of Our Fathers"
» Noon: James D. Houston, "Bird of Another Heaven"
» 1 p.m.: Ben Cayetano, "From Street Kid to Governor"
» 2 p.m.: Maxine Hong Kingston, "The Woman Warrior"
» 3 p.m.: Lisa Yee, "Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time"

Panels Pavilion

» 11 a.m.: "Romancers" with Jane Porter, Jill Landis, Sally Sorenson, Ann Dillon and Michael Little
» 1 p.m.: "Just Americans: The 100th/442nd" with Michael Markrich, Robert Asahina and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
» 2 p.m.: "Broken Trust" with Randall Roth and Judge Samuel King

Storytelling Pavilion

» 10 a.m.: Lopaka Kapanui
» 11 a.m.: Poets Brenda Kwon, Kealoha and Joseph Stanton
» Noon: Jeff Gere
» 1 p.m.: Sandra MacLeese
» 2 p.m.: Improv comedy with Loose Screws
» 3 p.m.: Slam poetry competition

Hawaiian Culture Pavilion

» 10 a.m.: Meleanna Meyer, "Kumulipo: Hawaiian Science"
» 11 a.m.: Puakea Nogelmeier, "Epic Tale of Hi'ikaikapoliopele"
» Noon: Lua (Hawaiian martial arts)
» 2 p.m.: Davianna McGregor, "Na Kua'aina: Living Hawaiian Culture"
» 3 p.m.: "The Uses of Culture, the Politics of Place" with Cristina Bacchilega, Gaye Chan and Edgy Lee
» 4 p.m.: "Just Ask a Tita" with Moana Meyer and Haunani Kay Trask

Music Stage

» 10 a.m.: Hawaiian Hall of Fame Serenaders
» 11 a.m.: Mighty J
» Noon: Sonya Mendez
» 1 p.m.: Brother Noland
» 2 p.m.: DJs for Youth
» 3 p.m.: Sean Na'auao

Keiki Mainstage

» 11:30 a.m.: Terence Knapp reads Harry Potter
» 2:30 p.m.: Paliku Theatre's "James and the Giant Peach"

Keiki Authors

» 1 p.m.: Sue Cowing, "My Dog Has Fleas"