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Laughing All The Way
 UH
Manoa's Kennedy
Theatre presents Kyogen:
Laughter for All Time on the mainstage Dec. 6–14, 8 p.m. and Dec.
15, 2 p.m. Kyogen is a collection of three short comedies of the classical
"kyogen" theatre of Japan. Kyogen will be performed in English,
translated especially for this production. The plays feature a cast of UH Manoa
students, trained under the guidance of master artists from Japan. Each play
is a light comedy that uses farcical situations, physical humor, mime and moments
of song and dance.
Tickets for Kyogen: Laughter for All Time go on sale Nov. 25 at the Kennedy
Theatre box office, (808) 956-7655; TicketPlus, (808) 526-4400 or at the TicketPlus
Web site. Prices are $12 regular, $10 for seniors, military, UH faculty
and staff, $8 for youth and non-UH Manoa students, and $3 for UH Manoa students
with validated ID. TicketPlus sales include applicable service charges.
Dreaming of a Baroque
Christmas
UH Manoa Outreach College
welcomes the Aulos Ensemble as part of the University of Hawai‘i Presents
Series and the Honolulu Chamber Music Series. The Aulos Ensemble will be performing
"A Baroque Christmas" with vocalist Julianne Baird on Dec. 6, 7:30
p.m. at Orvis Auditorium. They will present works by Bach, Vivaldi and Scarlatti
as well as a selection of traditional carols. The Aulos Ensemble will be available
for a free "meet the artist" session on Dec. 6, 6:30 p.m. at the UH
Manoa Music Building, room 36.
The ensemble includes Christopher Krueger, flute; Marc Schachman, oboe; Linda
Quan, violin; Myron Lutzke, cello and Arthur Haas, harpsichord. All are known
for impeccable intonation resulting in the highest level of music making. They
have been hailed as musical pioneers, setting a standard for stylistic expertise
that is rarely matched.
Tickets are $24, $15 for students and are available at the Campus Center ticket
office, or charge by phone at (808) 956-6878. For more information on the Aulos
Ensemble with soloist Julianne Baird, call (808) 956-3836 or visit the Outreach
College Web site.
More
Events
Oil Painting Collection
at Kapi‘olani CC Dining Room
Kapi‘olani CC’s
Koa Gallery presents Land and Sea, a collection of oil paintings by local
artists Mari Kuramochi and Tom Smith. These paintings of Hawaiian flora and
oceanscapes are displayed at the college’s Ka‘ikena Fine Dining Room
in the Ohelo Building. Land and Sea will be on display through Dec. 11.
The exhibit is open to the public. Ka‘ikena Fine Dining Room is open Tues.–Fri.
for lunch, seating times 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and noon, and dinner, seating times
5:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. For dining room reservations call (808) 734-9499. For
Koa Gallery information call (808) 734-9375.
Reading by Karen Tei
Yamashita
 Karen
Tei Yamashita is the insightful, courageous and innovative author of Brazil-Maru,
one of the Village Voice 25 Best Books of the Year and Through the Arc of
the Rain Forest, winner of the American Book Award. Yamashita will be giving
a reading on Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m. at the UH Manoa Art Auditorium. She will read
from her most recent books, Tropic
of Orange and Circle
K Cycles. For more information call (808) 956-3049.
East-West Center Craft
Fair
The UH Manoa East-West
Center presents the 2002 Holiday Craft Fair Dec. 5–6, 11:30 a.m.–1:30
p.m. in the John A. Burns Hall. The fair features angel dolls and pins, baked
goods, jewelry, baby quilts, hand painted glassware, ornaments, scented soaps
and much more.
Stanford Professor
Lectures on Education at UH Manoa
Linda Darling-Hammond presents her lecture "Ensuring Access to Highly Qualified
Teachers: Meeting the Challenge" on Thurs., Dec. 12, 7:30–8:30 p.m.
at the UH Manoa School of Architecture Auditorium. Darling-Hammond is the Charles
E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she teaches
education policy courses and oversees the teacher education programs. The lecture
is presented by the Fifth Annual Alice and Carl Daeufer, UH Professional Assembly
and College of Education Lecture. For more information, contact the Hawai‘i
Institute for Educational Partnerships at (808) 956-5078.
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