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This week, we hear from HPR Digital Content Producer, Sylvia Flores.
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Aloha Social Club pals,
We're well into the new year. How is it going for you? It's been kind of a wild ride for so many folks, it seems. To be honest, last year was quite a blur for me, and these first few weeks moved at a very quick pace. It doesn't help that I'm a textbook geriatric millennial with an incredibly distracted attention span and the tendency to jump from one thing to the next, always chasing that next dopamine hit. One of my resolutions this year is to slow down. It's time to savor more moments and move with intention rather than urgency.
This weekend brings forth the opportunity to do just that. There are a few events happening around Honolulu that invite us to take time to pause and reflect, remember and move forward with purpose.
On Friday, Jan. 16, the ʻOnipaʻa Peace March and Rally, organized by a coalition that includes The Queens Court, Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi Peoples Fund and more, begins at the Maunaʻala Royal Mausoleum at 9:30 a.m. and ends at ʻIolani Palace, where speakers and performers come together to uplift the community as we remember the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
On Monday, Jan. 19, spend your morning celebrating the life and legacy (and birthday!) of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the annual MLK Jr. Day Parade from Ala Moana Blvd. to the Waikiki Shell. It starts at around 9 a.m. and is expected to have over 700 marchers participating.
Over on Kauaʻi, spend your Sunday (Jan. 18) afternoon taking part in the Kauaʻi Day of Service, joining Kauaʻi Pride, Surfrider Kauaʻi and Kūkulu Kumuhana O Anahola for a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service beach cleanup at Anahola Beach Park. It starts at 3 p.m.
These are just a few opportunities available to show up thoughtfully in our community. You can peruse our community calendar to find more events, and keep scrolling to see a few hand-picked selections. If you have an event you'd like to share with the HPR team, submit it to our community calendar. We may feature it in a future newsletter.
Until we meet again,
Sylvia
HPR Social Club Picks of the Week
SUSTAINABLE STORIES: Kauai Pau Hana Mixer
Kauai Pau Hana Mixer
Hā Coffee
4286 Rice st. in Līhuʻe
Kauaʻi
Friday, Jan. 16, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
"Cane Fire" Film Screening at 6:30 p.m.
Free for new attendees, space is limited, advance registration requested
The Chamber of Sustainable Commerce invites you to its first pau hana of the year on Kauaʻi. Connect with entrepreneurs, creatives and community builders who are shaping a more sustainable, equitable, locally rooted economy for Hawaiʻi. Stay for a screening of "Cane Fire," a film that critically examines Hollywood's portrayals of Kauaʻi as an island paradise. Free for new attendees, space is limited, advance registration requested
BOOKS TALK: Two Nails, One Love: Author Talk & Book Signing
Two Nails, One Love: Author Talk & Book Signing
da Shop
3565 Harding Ave. in Kaimukī
Oʻahu
Saturday, Jan. 17, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Free and open to all
Author Alden M. Hayashi sits down with playwright Lee Tonouchi to dive into "Two Nails, One Love." The book, about a recently single gay man living in New York whose estranged mother unexpectedly visits, makes its world premiere as a play this month at Kumu Kahua Theatre. Hayashi and Tonouchi reprise their conversation, Q&A and book signing at Native Books on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 2 p.m. Both events are free and open to all
KONA GROOVES: Kona Jazz Experience
Kona Jazz Experience
Aloha Theatre
79-7384 Mamalahoa Hwy in Kainaliu
Hawaiʻi Island
Sunday, Jan. 18, 2:30 p.m.
Tickets are $35, available online
The Kona Jazz Experience brings live jazz to Kainaliu, Kona, with a benefit concert supporting the Aloha Theatre. Featuring the Bill Noble Jazz Ensemble, proceeds raised from the concert support the theatreʻs productions and community education programs. Black Moon, an improvisational groove jazz group, opens the evening. Special guests include up and coming youth performers. Tickets are $35, available online
BROADWAY MATINEE: Maui Pops Orchestra: Broadway Rocks
Maui Pops Orchestra: Broadway Rocks
Castle Theater at The MACC
One Cameron Way in Kahului
Maui
Sunday, Jan. 18, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tickets range $37 - $80, available online
Enjoy an afternoon of Broadway music with powerhouse guest vocalists LaKisha Jones and Dan Domenech. Together with the Maui Pops Orchestra, they'll deliver an exciting concert filled hits from rock and contemporary Broadway classics, including selections from Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, Wicked, Mamma Mia!, Beautiful and more. Tickets range $37 - $80, available online
CONSERVATION CAFÉ: Honolulu Science Café: From microbes to megafauna
Honolulu Science Café: From microbes to megafauna
Pho Viet Thien Hong in Manoa Marketplace
2756 Woodlawn Dr., 2nd floor in Mānoa
Oʻahu
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.
Open to all, no-host dinner available at 5:30 p.m.
Honolulu Science Café brings together folks who enjoy talking about science every third Wednesday of the month. This month, Dr. Lindsay Young, of the National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas Program, discusses findings from recent conservation efforts of the remote tropical Pacific. No-host dinner begins at 5:30 p.m., talk begins at 6:30 p.m. — open to all
Celebrate Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, Live from the Atherton in February with our fourth annual Mele Hawaiʻi Performance Series.
Tickets are now on sale — see the line up and get tickets at hprtickets.org.
Mahalo to HMSA for their sponsorship of Live from the Atherton.
