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University of Hawai'i |
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For Immediate Release: |
October 20, 2000 |
Contact: Jim Manke - University Relations, 956-6106
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| Events at UH Campuses for the Week of Oct. 22-28 |
Pianist Katya Skanavi, a finalist in the 1997 Van Cliburn Competition, will make her Hawai'i debut with a recital of works by Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. 4 p.m. Oct. 22. Orvis Auditorium, UH Manoa. Tickets: $12 general, $8 students. For information, call 956-8742 or e-mail uhmmusic@hawaii.edu. Visit www.hawaii.edu/uhmmusic for upcoming music department events.
UH Manoa Outreach College continues its International Cinema Series with the Japanese film "Dr. Akagi," which was directed by Shohei Imamura. Set on a small Japanese island in the final days of World War II, the film is the story of one man's obsession to retain his decency and stamp out a deadly disease. 1:30 p.m. Oct. 24 and 26. Krauss Hall 12, UH Manoa. For more information, call 956-3836 or visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu.
On behalf of UH Manoa Department of Information and Computer Sciences, President Kenneth Mortimer will accept the donation of an IBM supercomputer in a special program. Pacific Ocean Science and Technology building, UH Manoa. Oct. 25. For details, call Jim Manke at University and Community Relations at 956-6106.
Learn about the latest products and technologies from MacWorld New York at the free "Apple Technology Update," sponsored by the UH Manoa Outreach College and the Pacific New Media. Oct. 25. The time of the talk will be announced at a later date. Krauss Hall 12, UH Manoa. For more information, call 956-3836.
Nanette Purnell of the Hawai'i Cemetery Research Project will lead this week's free Brown Bag Biography discussion, "Raising the Dead: A Slide-Show Tour of Gravesites of Famous People of Hawai'i." Noon-1:15 p.m. Oct. 26. Cottage 96-36 between Burns Hall and Hale Manoa, UH Manoa. For more information, call the Center for Biographical Research at 956-3774.
The Waikiki Improvement Association and the Friends of the UH William S. Richardson School of Law will sponsor a public First Amendment issues forum titled "Balancing Safety, Aesthetics and Free Speech." The panel will discuss peddling, panhandling, publication racks, street performers and harassment along public rights of way. 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Oct. 26. Hyatt Regency Waikiki Ballroom. For more information, call 923-1094 or e-mail wia@aloha.net.
Fred Lau of the UH Manoa music department discusses "Inventing and Appropriating Chineseness: Amateur Music Clubs in Bangkok" in this week's anthropology colloquium. 3 p.m. Oct. 26. Social Science 345, UH Ma noa. For more information, call Mary Ambrose at 956-7153. For upcoming anthropology events, visit www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/colloquia.htm.
UH President Kenneth Mortimer will discuss "The Freedom to Be a University?" at a luncheon sponsored by The Hawai'i Society of Corporate Planners. The event is part of the organization's ongoing discussion of Hawai'i's transition into the new global economy. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Oct. 26. Hawai'i Prince Hotel, Mauna Kea Ballroom. For information, call Roberta Cullen at 537-2356.
Leeward Community College Theatre presents its version of "The Rocky Horror Show," a raunchy pastiche of rock 'n' roll in a brilliant musical spoof of a horror story. 8 p.m. Oct. 27, 28, 31 and Nov. 3, 4. Order tickets online at http://alaike.lcc.hawaii.edu/theatre/.
High school students and their parents have been invited to the second annual UH Manoa Rainbow Day, designed to familiarize them with admission requirements, financial aid, academic programs, housing and student life. The program will begin at the Campus Center Ballroom at UH Manoa. 8:30 a.m. Oct. 28. For details, call Ray Allen at 956-4839.
The UH Institute for Astronomy will hold a free open house at its Manoa headquarters. Visitors will be able to view sunspots, see a computer planetarium show, tour the instrumentation laboratories and listen to scientists give short lectures on an array of topics. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 28. The IfA is located at 2680 Woodlawn Drive, next to the Manoa Public Library and across the street from Noelani School. For more information, call the Open House Hot Line at 956-8355 or visit www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~heasley/open-house.html.
UH Manoa Outreach College with the Korea Society and Korean Studies present "The Sound of Ecstasy and Nectar of Enlightenment," a Buddhist ritual of song and dance from Korea performed by monks from the Young San Preservation Group. 5:30 p.m. Oct. 28. Kennedy Theatre, UH Manoa. For tickets, call 956-6878.
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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events calendar at www.hawaii.edu.
