Don Hibbard and Glenn Mason, coauthors of Hart Wood: Architectural Regionalism in Hawai‘i, will give a presentation and discuss their work on the book on Tuesday, August 3, at 6:30 pm, at the Waikiki Parc Hotel. Books will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation. Free and open to the public, the talk is part of Interisland Terminal’s Reed Space HNL events. Free validated parking is available for Reed Space attendees.
Category: Author Events
Victoria Kneubuhl Thinking Out Loud
Victoria Kneubuhl, author of Murder Casts a Shadow and Hawai‘i Nei: Island Plays, will be a guest on the Japanese Cultural Center’s Thinking Out Loud: Talking Issues, Taking Action (KZOO-AM 1210), Monday, July 26, 6:30-7:30 pm.
Kneubuhl is a winner of the Hawai‘i Literary Arts Council’s Award for Literature. Her plays have been performed in Hawai‘i and elsewhere in the Pacific, the continental U.S., Britain, and Asia. She is currently the writer and co-producer for the television series Biography Hawaii.
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Coeditors Craig Howes and Jon Osorio will be guests on Hawai‘i Public Radio’s (KIPO 89.3 FM) Town Square, hosted by Beth-Ann Kozlovich, Thursday, July 22, 5-6 pm. They will also be “talking story” on the Japanese Cultural Center’s Thinking Out Loud: Talking Issues, Taking Action (KZOO-AM 1210), Monday, August 30, 6:30-7:30 pm.
Talking Hawai‘i’s Story at Pohai Nani Auditorium
Talking Hawaiʻi’s Story: Oral Histories of an Island People editors Michi Kodama-Nishimoto and Warren Nishimoto of the University of Hawai‘i’s Center for Oral History will speak at the Pohai Nani Auditorium (45-090 Namoku Street, Kaneohe) on Tuesday, July 6, from 7 to 8 pm.
The program will include book readings, presented by storyteller Nyla Fujii-Babb and UH English professor Craig Howes, followed by a question-and-answer session. Fujii-Babb will read Edith Anzai Yonenaka’s narrative, “Recollections from the Windward Side,” and Howes will read Alfred Preis’ compelling chapter, ‘Interned: Experiences of an ‘Enemy Alien.’”
The talk and reading is the third event in the Pohai Nani Retirement Community’s Yamashita Lecture Series on Hawaiʻi. The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase from UH Press.
For more information on the event, contact Carolyn Nakamura, Pohai Nani’s resident services coordinator, at (808) 236-7805.
Readings from Andha Yug
A readers theatre production of excerpts from Andha Yug, Dharamvir Bharati’s critically acclaimed play taken from the Indian epic Mahabharata, will be held on Saturday, June 26, at 7:30pm at Orvis Auditorium. For more information on this free event call 808-956-8246 or click here.
The reading will be accompanied by visual images from the Mahabharata and Gamelan music. Translator Alok Bhalla will introduce the performance and play a role as well. A question and answer session will follow the performance.
Understanding Islam in Indonesia Launch and Author Q&A
Last month the USINDO (United States-Indonesia Society) in Washington, D.C., hosted a book launch for Robert Pringle’s Understanding Islam in Indonesia: Politics and Diversity. Read about the launch here, including comments by Mr. Salman Al Farisi, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, and Dr. Jonah Blank, Policy Director, South and Southeast Asia, Committee on Foreign Relations (Majority), United States Senate, and a brief Q&A with the author.
Talking Hawaii’s Story Editors at Na Mea Hawaii
Based on oral history interviews conducted by the Center for Oral History at UH Mānoa, Talking Hawai‘i’s Story: Oral Histories of an Island People presents a rich sampling of the landmark work done by the Center, making accessible 29 first-person narratives that previously only appeared in the COH semiannual newsletter. The book’s three coeditors, Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Warren S. Nishimoto, and Cynthia A. Oshiro will speak at Native Books/Nā Mea Hawai‘i in Ward Warehouse (phone: 596-8885) on Sunday, June 13, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. The free talk is open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and light refreshments. Books will be available for purchase.
Ann Bayer to Lecture on the Nature of Giftedness
Ann Bayer, author of Going Against the Grain: When Professionals in Hawai‘i Choose Public Schools Instead of Private Schools, will join Maenette Ah Nee-Benham, Robyn McMullin, and moderator Ann Brandman to discuss “The Nature of Giftedness, The Nurturing of Leaders,” the first in the 2010 Sakamaki Extraordinary Lectures series. The lecture, free and open to the public, will be held on Wednesday, June 2, at 7:00 pm in the University of Hawai‘i’s Architecture Auditorium. For more information, call 956-2729.
What characterizes a gifted child? What is the best way to nurture their talents? What can we learn from the Native Hawaiian concept of those with outstanding abilities? And what does the public school environment have to teach our future leaders? We explore these and other questions with a panel of experts in their fields.
Talking Hawaii’s Story at HB&M Festival
Narratives from Talking Hawai‘i’s Story: Oral Histories of an Island People will be paired with readings from Bamboo Ridge Press titles at this year’s Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival, on Sunday, May 16, 11 am. The event will be taped live for Hawai‘i Public Radio’s “Aloha Shorts” at the Mission Memorial Auditorium, and the public is invited to attend.
Talking Hawai‘i’s Story editors Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Warren S. Nishimoto, and Cynthia A. Oshiro will be at the UH Press booth later that afternoon from 1:15 to 1:45.
2010 Hawaii Book & Music Festival
University of Hawai‘i Press will be among the local publishers participating in the Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival next weekend, May 15–16, 10 am–5pm, at Honolulu Hale. Admission and parking are free to the general public.
Several UH Press authors will be attending the festival as panelists or speakers. David Heenan, author of Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours: Turning Adversity into Success, will be at the UH Press booth on Sunday, May 16, 2–2:30 pm, for a book signing.
Click here for a detailed schedule of events.
Heenan Interview on BlogTalkRadio
BlogTalkRadio’s “Today on Your Brand with Joanne McCall” features an interview with David Heenan, author of Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours: Turning Adversity into Success:
“At a time when owning a small business resembles a roller-coaster ride on the way down, the stories in this book are instructive and offer suggestions on how we can overcome life’s darkest hours. We’ll discuss the six principles David uncovered as he interviewed each of the 10 extraordinary individuals featured in Bright Triumphs.”
Click here to listen to the interview.
Interviews with David Heenan
Inspirational stories of turning adversity into success are the topic of UH Press author David Heenan’s visit with Jim Blasingame of smallbusinessadvocate.com. Heenan introduces several real-life stories of people who overcame insurmountable odds and claimed success. To play or download this and previous interviews with Heenan, click here.
