Craft fairs urged to send in details
The season for craft fairs is fast approaching, and the Star-Advertiser’s Today section will publish a Fall and Holiday Craft Fair Guide for events happening from mid-September through December.
Email details about your sale — date, time, location, sponsor, description, contact information — to craftfairs@staradvertiser.com by Sept. 9.
Samoan author to share poetry
Award-winning writer Sia Figiel will headline an afternoon of poetry at Revolution Books.
The Samoan author has published two volumes of prose-poetry as well as three novels. One of her books, 1997’s “where we once belonged,” won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book in the Southeast Asia-South Pacific region.
Well known as a performance poet, Figiel is a frequent guest at literary festivals.
Poets from the University of Hawaii — No‘u Revilla, Tgi Qolouvaki and Marie Alohalani — will be part of the program that starts at 3 p.m. Sunday at the bookstore on 2626 S. King St. Admission is free. Call 944-3106.
Family Sunday features crafts
Hawaii’s diversity will be celebrated at the Honolulu Academy of Arts’ Bank of Hawaii Family Sunday, with the Artists of Hawai‘i exhibit providing inspiration for one of the planned activities.
From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., families can build their own “plate-lunch robots” using styrofoam food containers. During that same time period, Photo Ops Hawaii will be set up in the education lecture hall, complete with costumes and props, to provide a free photo for families.
The museum’s central courtyard stage will feature the students of the Chuck James Music Studio, jugglers, music from Celtic Keiki, and yoga for children to round out the day. The Doris Duke Theatre will have two showings of an hourlong program of animated shorts from this year’s Children’s Film Festival. Theater admission is $3 for adults and $1 for children 13 and under for the 11:10 a.m. and 1 p.m. screenings.
Family Sunday runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and admission is free.
