Point In Time Count; Blues Musician - Dave Specter; 2nd Annual Hawaii School Empowerment Conference; The Mousetrap
Point In Time Count: Marc Gannon
Starting next week on O‘ahu, outreach and service providers will walk the places where homeless people live. The annual Point in Time Count is an attempt to survey all of the island’s homeless individuals and families. The data collected will compare the demographics and status of different homeless populations, where progress has been made, and what yet needs to be done. The data also informs funding requests for programs and funding. In a year when homelessness is at the top of the list for the Governor and lawmakers, those numbers will likely get additional scrutiny. Aloha Untied way vice president of community impact, Marc Gannon, is the chair of the network of O‘ahu outreach workers and service providers, Partners in Care and he joined The Conversation for a discussion prior to this year’s Point in Time Count.
- Intro Music: My Happy Dance by David Nevue
- Outro Music: Paradise (Instrumental) by The International Contemporary Dance Ensemble
Music has given Dave Specter a pretty good life. The singer-guitarist has taken the blues music of his native Chicago around the world and it has put him in the company of some of the greatest blues musicians of his generation. It has brought him to Hawaii for a weekend of performances with James Ronstadt and the Shuffle Kings, Hawaii-based blues players who speak his language. We got a chance to talk with him about his music. Specter will perform tonight (1/22) at Surfer, the Bar, at on O’ahu’s North Shore and tomorrow(1/23) at Hawaiian Brian’s in Honolulu.
- Intro Music: New West Side Stroll by Dave Specter
- Outro Music: I Found A Love by Dave Specter
2nd Annual Hawaii School Empowerment Conference: Ray L'Heureux
With the Every Student Succeeds Act returning state-driven control to school systems, many states must retool their strategies. They still will have to close the gap between students in the bottom 5% and those above them by developing their own evidence-based interventions. All kids in grades 3 through 8 and once during high school will be tested in math and reading. How Hawaii reshapes its school system comes up this weekend as educators gather for the 2nd Annual Hawaii School Empowerment Conference. It’s sponsored by the Education Institute of Hawaii and the organizations vice president, Ray L’Heureux joined the show to talk about it.
- Intro Music: Blue Eyes by MIKA
- Outro Music: Low Down by The Album Leaf
What’s a weekend at an English country home without a murder, a houseful of guests, and a gathering in the drawing room where a local police inspector sorts it all out? It’s one of the delightful conventions of mystery fiction, and of course Agatha Christie was the grande dame of the genre. The fun of the whodunit has made her play The Mousetrap the longest-running ever in the British theater and Rob Duval, director of the upcoming production at Diamond Head theater, talked with us about the joys and challenges of putting the show together. The show opens next Friday (1/29) and runs until February 21st at DHT.
- Intro Music: I Can't Tell by The Better Mousetrap Treatment
- Outro Music: Miss Fisher Title Music (Alternative Version) by Greg J. Walker
