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Culture & Art

Make Your Own Mother’s Day Gift

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Molokai Arts Center News Release

Hint, hint! Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 13. Aunty Rae Young will conduct two workshops at Molokai Arts Center on Saturday, April 21 for young people who wish to make Mother’s Day earrings.

The first workshop will be for boys and girls ages 4 to 10 years old, although kids under 7 should be accompanied by an adult. It will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Aunty Rae will have earring kits prepared so each keiki can make at least two sets of earrings for their mom, aunty, grandma or special person.

The second workshop will be for youths from 11 to 17 years old and will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m.…

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The Rakefish Makes a Splash

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

The Rakefish Makes a Splash

Kaunakakai Elementary sixth graders learn about ocean pollution.

What fish is 4 feet long, has a rectangular body, can travel on land, and has helped bring awareness to ocean pollution across the nation? Answer: the Rakefish.

The Rakefish is not a real fish but a large fish-shaped sculpture with a broken rake as a fin. The “fish” has journeyed from A.W. Cox Elementary School in Guildford, Connecticut to teach Kimberly Ka`ai’s sixth grade class at Kaunakakai Elementary school about ocean pollution. Kaunakakai Elementary will be the sculpture’s only stop in Hawaii before continuing to its next destination in Washington, D.C.

Molokai parent Suzette Onofrio, whose niece attends the elementary in Connecticut, acted as a liaison in the process of bringing the Rakefish Project to Hawaii.…

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Celebrate National Library Week

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

 Hawaii State Public Library System News Release

Whether you are a job seeker looking for resources to find a new job, a parent looking for free activities for children or a student searching for your next favorite book, you belong at your library. Help us celebrate this year’s National Library Week from April 8-14 with a series of programs around the state, and on Molokai.

John Keawe, a self-taught slack-key guitarist, is a multiple Na Hoku Hanohano and Hawaii Music Awards recipient and a contributing artist on Hawaii’s first Grammy winner, “Slack Key Guitar Volume 2” (2005). Keawe will offer a tribute to the slack key style and include selections from the music of Raymond Kane, Leonard Quan, and others, in addition to presenting his original compositions, at the Molokai Public Library on April 11 at 3 p.m.…

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Aeroponics at Kilohana School

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Aeroponics at Kilohana School

Community Contributed

By Val Hart, Horticulture Instructor

Students at Kilohana School are learning some high-tech agriculture during a 21st Century grant horticulture class. Using a technique called aeroponics, students will grow fruits and vegetables without the use of soil.

Using an Aeroponics Grow Kit, students will have the opportunity to learn this aero hydroponic gardening technique. Increasing the aeration of your nutrient solution, by using sprayers, foggers, nebulizers or other devices, more oxygen is delivered to plant roots, stimulating growth and preventing algae formation. Plants form oxygen from carbon dioxide only on the green parts of themselves, so enhancing the dissolved oxygen at the root zone enhances the metabolism and growth of plants.…

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Play the Uke

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Molokai Arts Center News Release

Molokai Arts Center is pleased to announce that a weekly open house for ukulele practice will be held on Sundays at 1 p.m. beginning Sunday April 8. Bring your uke and music to strum and sing old and new favorites.

This kanikapila style get together will be hosted by April Torres. Afterwards, you may wish to attend the weekly concert by Na Ohana Hoaloha on the deck at Coffees of Hawaii from 3 to
5 p.m. The Essence of Ohana coffee shop is open on Sundays serving their famous Mocha Mamas as well as soups, salads, sandwiches and local food favorites such as saimin and spam musubi.…

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The Hunt is On!

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

The Hunt is On!

Easter celebrations kick off with Hawaii’s biggest Easter egg hunt.

Molokai keiki participated in fun games, learned the story of Easter, and hunted for eggs at Hawaii’s biggest Easter Egg hunt, hosted by King’s Cathedral at Kaunakakai Ball Field on Saturday.  It was a free event for young and old, with thousands of prize filled eggs for the finding.

 

 



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Bead-Making Workshop

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Molokai Arts Center News Release

Molokai Arts Center is pleased to announce a new class offering beginning in April 2012. Yoellah Yuhudah will teach the art of glass and clay bead making beginning on Tuesday April 17 2012 from 4 to 6 p.m. for an eight-week session. This art is also called “lampworking.”

In this structured curriculum, students will learn to make perfectly round beads as well as glass techniques like flowers, raking stripes and dragging techniques to create shapes and feather colors. The emphasis will be on safety and proper use of tools including the mandrell, the torch and various materials.…

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Frenzied Writers

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Community Contributed

By Alestra Menendez

Write Out Loud, a group of Molokai High School writers, has been meeting on Friday mornings to draft, revise and share their writing since November, 2011. This April, they are trying out a new genre: screenwriting. Write Out Loud will join the international movement of Script Frenzy that occurs each April and is made possible by the organizers of National Novel Writing Month in November.

Students have been preparing themselves by reading actual screenplays that were made into movies, such as “Benny and June.” They have been introduced to the infamous three act structure and the concept of the sought-after McGuffin.…

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Mother by Day, Artist by Night

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Mother by Day, Artist by Night

Kala`e Tangonan: the business of sharing beauty

Tucked between towering cabinets and buckets of paint-dye in her garage-studio, Molokai artist Kala`e Tangonan is home.  Standing over an old table, she paints milky wax designs over a blank silk scarf – it is the humble beginnings of what will become a color-drenched masterpiece.  The tip of her brush dips into hot wax and then glides freely over the gauzy material, hardening into the free-hand patterns that will appear after the dying process.  She peels the scarf from the table and dunks it into a bucket of violet dye – a technique called batik. …

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Micah G Concert

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

Micah G Concert

Molokai music lovers flooded the dance floor when Micah G and his six-piece band took the stage at Paddler’s on Saturday night. Guests danced and sang the night away to an eclectic mix of cover and original songs performed by the Lovers Rock Reggae artist, brought to the island by Molokai’s own Paulele Alcon and his promotion company, Hawaii’s Finest . Micah G celebrated the release of his second album, which will feature his new singles “Good Man” and “All for You,” as well as filmed his “Rude Boy Love” video. Molokai band Str8 Vibe’n also made a guest appearance at the concert.…

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