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University of Hawai'i |
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For Immediate Release: |
November 3, 2000 |
Contact: Jim Manke - University Relations, 956-6106
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| Events at UH Campuses for the Week of Nov. 5-11 |
Former East-West Center fellow David Earle will give the free seminar "Kia Tu Rangatira Ai Te Ao Maori: Reinventing Government Responsiveness to Maori." Earle, the manager of program and service evaluation in the Te Puni Kokiri-Ministry of Maori Development in New Zealand, will discuss the new government's approach to improving the social and economic outcomes of Maori. Noon Nov. 6. Social Science Building Room 704, UH Manoa. For more information, call Tisha Hickson at 956-2652. For upcoming Center for Pacific Islands Studies events, visit www.hawaii.edu/cpis/.
Nov. 7: Election Day. No school.
Artist-architect Daniela Minerbi will give the free public lecture "Urban Space, Human Space: the Piazza of Italy." View the famous piazza of Italy as well as public multifunctional and social spaces through this slide lecture. 7 p.m.-8 p.m. Nov. 7. Krauss Hall 012, Yukiyoshi Room, UH Ma noa. For upcoming Outreach College events, visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu.
The UH Manoa School of Architecture presents Adjunct Professor Richard Green in the free lecture "Practice Case Study." Green serves as chairman of The Stubbins Associates in Cambridge, Mass. 5 p.m. Nov. 8. School of Architecture Room 215, UH Manoa. For more information, call Heidi Chang at 956-3469.
Fiber artist, sculptor and performance artist Nick Cave will present a free, public lecture sponsored by the UH Manoa Department of Art's Visiting Artist Program, "Intersections." Cave's work employs movement, music and costuming to explore race, gender and sensuality. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8. For more information, call Debra Drexler at 956-8474.
The Hawai'i Small Business Development Center Network will hold the seminar "Customer Relations: Policies and Policies," designed for small-business owners and entrepreneurs interested in attracting and keeping customers for life. Consultant Bill Beadle of the Better Business Bureau of Hawai'i will speak. The network is a partnership program between UH Hilo and the U.S. Small Business Administration. 10 a.m.-noon Nov. 9. Business Information & Counseling Center, 1111 Bishop St. Suite 204. For registration, call 522-8131.
Jean Toyama, professor of French at UH Manoa, will give this week's Brown Bag Biography lecture "Memoir: (Re) Writing the Self, Rousseau and Beckett." Noon-1:15 p.m. Nov. 9. Cottage 96-36 between Burns Hall and Hale Manoa, UH Manoa. For more information, call the Center for Biographical Research at 956-3774.
The UH Manoa Rainbow Marching Band will host the 21st Annual Meadowgold Rainbow Invitational Marching Band Festival. Seventeen bands - all from O'ahu high schools - will march and play in this non-competitive exhibition of musical talent. 5:30 p.m. Nov. 9. Aloha Stadium. Admission: $6 for adults, $4 for students. For more information, call the Music Department at 956-7756.
All UH campuses will be represented with exhibits at Hawai'i's 26th Annual Career and College Fair Nov. 9-17. The schedule is as follows:
3 p.m.-8 p.m. Nov. 9; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 10, Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall
9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Nov. 13, Outrigger Kaua'i Beach Hotel
5 p.m.-7 p.m. Nov. 14 and 9 a.m.-11 a.m. Nov. 15, Maui War Memorial Center
9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Nov. 16, Hilo Army National Guard Armory
9 a.m.-11:30 Nov. 17, Mauna Lani Orchid Resourt, Kailua-Kona
Nov. 10: Veterans Day (Observed). No school.
Internationally renowned concert pianist and teacher Nelita True will give a performance sponsored by the UH Manoa Music Department and Hawai'i Music Teachers Association. True has recorded more than 100 works and served on several international piano competition juries. She is the chair of the piano department at the Eastman School of Music. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10. Orvis Auditorium, UH Manoa. Tickets: $15 general /$10 students. For more information, call 956-8742. Visit: www.hawaii.edu/uhmmusic.
Dubbed "a modern classic," David Hirson's "La Bete (The Beast/The Fool)" will be performed at UH Ma noa's Kennedy Theatre. The play is a rambunctious tribute to the comic genius of 17th-century playwright Moliere and features rhymed couplets with a modern flair. 8 p.m. Nov. 10-11, 16-18 and 2 p.m. Nov. 19. For tickets, call the box office at 956-7655. Visit www.hawaii.edu/theatre for more information.
UH Manoa's "Late Night in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre" presents "A Way Home," an original play written and directed by Bill Carr. The program, which features dance and poetry, tells of a woman's struggle to find her way home after being captured by a brutal gang whose rituals lead them into a killing frenzy. 11 p.m. Nov. 10, 11, 17 and 18. Ernst Lab Theatre, UH Manoa. Tickets for Late Night productions go on sale at the door one hour prior to curtain. For upcoming events, visit www.hawaii.edu/theatre.
The Kapi'olani Community College Koa Gallery presents its latest exhibit, "The Keepsake," new constructions by artist Helene Wilder. The gallery displays 17 wood boxes containing figures resembling ancient Egypt's mummified cats or tops from canopic jars. Each "keepsake" also includes a hand-rubbed print of the engraved lids to each box. Now-Nov. 16. Koa Gallery, KCC. For more information, call 734-9375.
The East-West Center Gallery and the UH Manoa Art Gallery feature concurrent exhibitions of work by 60 contemporary Native Hawaiian artists from Hawai'i and throughout the world. "Mai Na Kupuna Mai, Ho'i I Ka Pu 'olo," or "That which comes from the ancestors is returned as gifts," is running now-Dec. 22 at the East-West Center Gallery at John A. Burns Hall and will also run through Nov. 3 at the UH Manoa Art Gallery. For information, call 944-7341 or 956-6888.
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