Women’s History Month Celebrated

Windward CC celebrates Women’s History Month with Women: Builders of Communities and Dreams through March. Check out the website for all events. (808) 236-9211

• March 15, 12:30 p.m., Hale Akoakoa 105—DreamWorlds II: Desire, Sex and Power in Music Video screening. This film illustrates the systematic representations of women in music videos, and how these representations tell a dangerous and narrow set of stories about what it means to be female or male.
• March 16, 12: 40 p.m., Paliku Theatre—KGMB9 News Anchor Kim Gennaula talks about her experiences as a female news anchor in Hawai‘i
• March 23, 12: 40 p.m., Hale Akoakoa 105—Nancie Caraway, director of Women's Human Rights Project at Manoa speaks on global human trafficking.

More Events

This Week (arranged by date)

Disabilities Conference

The Pacific Rim Conference on Disabilities will be held March 13–15 at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel and Resort. Topics covered in this year’s conference are Healthy Choices-Healthy People-Healthy Living, Community Inclusion, Education and Transition for All, Early Childhood, Modernizing the Workplace: Employment and Prosperity-Making Work, Work! For People With Disabilities. (808) 956-7539

Property Law Lecture

Carol M. Rose

Carol M. Rose, professor at Yale School of Law and University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, presents The Road to Shelley v. Kraemer: Radically Restrictive Covenants from the City Beautiful Movement to the Postwar Housing Boom—and Beyond on Mon., March 13, 5 p.m. at Manoa’s Law School Moot Court Room. Rose’s research focuses on the history and theory of property and the relationships between property and environmental law. (808) 956-5163

Stolen Waters Screening

Honolulu CC screens Stolen Waters on Wed., March 15, 11 a.m. Stolen Waters documents the battle over the water in Waiahole Ditch on the island of O‘ahu, where taro farmers and long-time residents seek to reclaim the natural stream waters that were taken in the early 1900s by sugar plantations. (808) 844-2344

Chinese Studies Seminars

Manoa’s Center for Chinese Studies presents two seminars as part of the Spring 2006 Research Seminars on China. Both presentations are at noon at Moore Hall 319. Ruth Hayhoe speaks on Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators on Wed., March 15. Gerard Postiglione talks on Education and Social Change in China: Inequality in a Market Economy on Thurs., March 16. (808) 956-8891

Historical Fiction Lecture

Dorthea N. Buckingham gives the lecture On Writing Hawai‘i-Based Historical Fiction on Thurs., March 16, noon at Manoa’s Center for Biographical Studies, Henke 325. Buckingham is a librarian and author of the historical fictions Poisoned Palms: The Murder of Mrs. Jane Lathrop and My Name is Loa. (808) 956-3774

Churchill Lecture

Thomas Churchill

Thomas Churchill discusses his book Triumph Over Marcos: Filipino American Union Cannery Organizers, Their Assassination and the Trial That Followed on Thurs., March 16, noon at Manoa’s Moore 328. Triumph Over Marcos is a true story based on Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo and their struggle to reform cannery workplaces. It aslo covers their assassination and the trial that followed. (808) 956-8700

Solomon Islands Forestry Lecture

Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka

Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka speaks on Global Capital and Local Ownership in the Solomon Islands Forestry Industry on Thurs., March 16, 3 p.m. at Manoa’s Saunders Hall 704F. Kabutaulaka discusses interactions between global and local by examining natural resource development with a focus on the Solomon Islands forestry industry. (808) 956-7700

Dance Concert

Kiplinn Sagmiller (front) with Jennifer Sherburn, Mikaela Brady and Sarah Hartley (from right to left). Photo by Karis Lo.

Manoa’s Kennedy Theatre presents the Annual Dance Concert, March 17–26. This year’s concert, Dance: Connection and Extension, is a series of works that explore the use of props that connect the dancer to the earth and environment. Check out Kennedy Theatre’s website. (808) 956-7655

Macbeth Films at Leeward

Leeward screens two films on Fri., March 17, as part of the Semester of Shakespeare: Celebrating 400 Years of Macbeth. Throne of Blood, a loose adaptation of the Shakespeare play by the legendary Akira Kurosawa, screens at 10 a.m. at Leeward’s Theater mainstage. Macbeth, the Orson Welles classic, screens at 7 p.m. at the Leeward Lab Theatre. (808) 455-0355

International Night at Manoa

Manoa celebrates International Night 2006: A Mixed Plate Under the Rainbow on Fri., March 17, 6:30 p.m. at the Campus Center Ballroom. This cultural extravaganza features music, ethnic performances, cultural booths and fun cultural games from different countries. (808) 956-4491

Benefit Concert at Windward

Violinist Ignace Jang leads a benefit concert at Windward CC’s Paliku Theatre on Fri., March 17, 7:30 p.m. Joining Jang will be pianists Thomas Rosenkranz and Jessica Choi and cellist I-Bei Lin. The first half of the concert features Rachmaninoff’s Sonata in G minor, Opus 19 for Cello and Piano. The second half showcases original works by Donald Reid Womack. (808) 235-7433

Drawing Workshops

Kapi‘olani CC offers two workshops on Sat., March 18, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. at KOA 204. The first is Fundamentals of Figure Drawing—develop the ability to draw with skill and imagination. The second workshop is Dynamic Figure Drawing—kick you figure drawing skills into high gear. (808) 735-3879

Jeff Peterson Performance

Jeff Peterson

Windward CC’s Paliku Theatre features Grammy winner Jeff Peterson on Sat., March 18, 3 and 7 p.m. This concert showcases Peterson’s newest CD, Slack Key Jazz, a landmark recording that effortlessly joins slack key and jazz guitar styles for the first time. Peterson will be joined by singer and composer Dana Hanchard, drummer and ukulele player Abe Lagrimas and bass player Ernie Provencher. (808) 235-7433

Ballet Folklorico de Filipinas

Ballet Folklorico de Filipinas

Ramon Obusan`s Ballet Folklorico de Filipinas performs The Mysterious and Unknown Rituals of the Philippines on Sat., March 18, 7:30 p.m. at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. Ballet Folklorico de Filipinas is a folk dance company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila. The company`s reputation has continued to grow, thanks to its exceptional artistic qualities, the competence of its creator Ramon Obusan and its untiring pursuit of ethnographic research. Visit the Outreach College website. (877) 750-4400

Manoa Music Concerts

Donald Womack

Manoa’s music department presents two concerts this week. Both concerts will be at Orvis Auditorium. Thomas Yee performs a solo piano recital of music by Mozart, Chopin and Schumann on Sat., March 18, 7:30 p.m. Donald Womack celebrates his birthday with DW40: Works by Donald Womack on Sun., March 19, 4 p.m. Faculty members Thomas Rosenkrantz, Ignace Jang, I-Bei Lin, Anna Womack and Todd Yukumoto perform pieces composed by Womack. (808) 956-8742