Noe Tanigawa

Arts & Culture reports from HPR's Noe Tanigawa

First Friday and the Uptown Getdown on Maui, August 2011

ShareThis Today is the first Friday in August and First Friday celebrations are gearing up for end-of-summer energy. HPR’s Noe Tanigawa offers a sampling of sights and sounds. First Friday festivities are free and run from 5pm until about 10 tonight in Chinatown, Honolulu. Parking is always cheap & plentiful at Marks Garage ($5 flat rate) and the huge lot at Kukui Plaza, behind the Pali Longs.
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Alexei Melnick's Tweakerville: Life and Death in Hawai'i's Ice World

ShareThisThis summer’s best local read is Alexei Melnick’s Tweakerville: Life and Death in Hawai’i’s Ice World. Melnick won this year’s Cades Literature award for emerging authors and spoke with HPR’s Noe Tanigawa about the book that has Hawai’i taking a second look at itself. Alexei Melnick’s Tweakerville: Life and Death in Hawai’i’s Ice World was published by Mutual Publishing in 2010.
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Asia-Pacific Dance Festival: Crossroads of Contemporary and Traditional Dance

ShareThisA new Asia-Pacific Dance Festival premieres this weekend. The collaboration between UH Manoa’s Outreach College and the East-West Center Arts Program highlights Hawai’i as a crossroads for contemporary and traditional dance.
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Stephan Jost, the new Director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts

ShareThis Two of Hawai’i’s premier art institutions, the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Contemporary Museum, merged earlier this year, and their future has been entrusted to a new director.
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Ka Himeni Ana

ShareThis Ka Himeni Ana is a unique night of acoustic Hawaiian music, performed the way it began, by family and friends. The Richard Towill family founded the annual event 27 years ago to support Hawaiian music in the “real old style”. HPR’s Noe Tanigawa gives a taste of what’s in store. The deadline for entering Ka Himeni Ana is July 29th and the concert is set for August 27th at Hawai’i Theatre.
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