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OIO Concert: from Piety to Piracy – Ave to Arrgh!

Saturday, May 20, 2017 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Orchid Isle Orchestra will present a concert on Saturday, May 20, 4 p.m., at the East Hawaii Cultural Center/Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art (EHCC/HMOCA) in Hilo. Music includes works by Mozart (Ave Verum Corpus), Vivaldi/Bach, Grieg, Mascagni, Bartok, plus a medley from Pirates of the Caribbean. Walter Greenwood and Cathy Young conduct. The public is invited to this free concert; donations are welcome at the door. Call Cathy Young at 982-9307 for more information. Pictured are 17 members of Orchid Isle Orchestra.

Craig Jenkins = Panchatantra & Ramayana

Friday, May 12, 2017 - 7:30pm

English Storyteller CRAIG JENKINS will tell tales from India in May. Craig tells stories from the Panchatantra (animal teaching tales, India’s Aesop’s fables), and chapters from India’s classic love story, the Ramayana.

Craig wins over audiences across the world with his funny, vibrant, & interactive shows. His animal characters text and use Facebook. His Ramayana has a more respectful tone to bring chapters of this complex epic to life. Nobody tells these tales like Craig, even in India! This is his first visit to our islands. Don’t miss him!

 

Heart Reach: an interactive music outreach fundraising experience

Saturday, May 6, 2017 - 6:30pm

Heartbeat Instrumental and Hilo UrbFarm Present: Heart Reach, an interactive music outreach fundraising experience, a collaboration with the community to build a bridge between sustainable gardening and music. Hilo Urbfarm, located behind the East Hawaiian Cultural Center is a green networking hub to incorporate gardening and sustainable practices in our everyday lives through educational workshops, plant sales, making it easy and and accessible to the community.

DQ_ed.2017

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Friday, May 5, 2017 - 5:00pm to Saturday, May 27, 2017 - 4:00pm

Delineating Queer (DQ_ed.2017) collective show including works from: Amber Aguirre, Tobias Brill, Chad States, Karol Radziszewski, Richard Renaldi, Gerald Lucena, Danez Smith, Mary Babcock, Steve Yee.

NEA Grant De-mystification Workshop

Thursday, May 4, 2017 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Terry Liu of the Hawaii Arts Alliance and former NEA grants specialist will present a FREE NEA Grant De-mystification Workshop.

 2nd floor Performance Space, Thursday, May 4th, 1:00 – 2:00 pm.

This introduction to the Hawai’i Arts Alliance and National Endowment for the Arts will cover

Eligibility, Grant Amount to Matching Requirements, and a walk through the Arts.Gov website.

The workshop is provided to help you successfully complete and submit your Art Works grant by the upcoming July 4, 2017 application deadline. 

SILENT DANCE PARTY 2017

Friday, April 21, 2017 - 6:00pm to 10:00pm

The East Hawaii Cultural Center/Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art (EHCC) in Hilo, Hawaii is hosting its first annual Silent Dance Party & LGBT Film Festival on Friday, April 21, 2017 at the historic Kalakaua Park and we ask for your kokua. The event coincides with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) Day of Silence, a national activity that brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools, illustrating the silencing effect these incidents have on LGBT individuals.

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