Benefit show set up against Super Bowl
The Honolulu Piano Teachers Association is offering counterprogramming for those not interested in Super Bowl XLVIII with its seventh annual Scholarship Benefit Concert at 4 p.m. Sunday in Orvis Auditorium at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The concert will feature
a wide range of music, from pop and jazz to show tunes and classical. Performers include stage veterans Kristian Lei and Gavin Vinta, Hoku Award-winning jazz pianist Pierre Grill, and violinist Duane Padilla and guitarist Sonny Silva of the Hot Club of Hulaville. Padilla also will perform with pianist Ruth Shi?roma Foster and clarinetist Norm Foster.
On the classical side, Jonathan Korth, a UH professor of piano, and his wife, soprano Rachel Schutz, will perform. Student pianists from UH and Kapiolani Community College will join in.
Tickets are $20 ($10 for students). Call Carolyn Stanton, 779-5363, or email carolynstanton@hotmail.com.
Discussion to follow film about dyslexia
Filmmaker Harvey Hubbell V will appear at a free screening of his documentary, "Dislecksia: The Movie," at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Mamiya Theatre on the Kaimuki campus of Saint Louis School.
Hubbell calls his film "a comic documentary on the serious and misunderstood subject of dyslexia, created to enact change and to stop dyslexics from suffering unnecessarily through school … and life," according to a news release.
A panel discussion moderated by the filmmaker will follow. The event is hosted by Assets School, which provides educational services to gifted and dyslexic children. Reserve tickets online at assets-school.net.
Panelists to speak on Tuskegee Airmen
The stories and legacy of the first African-American military aviators who served in World War II will be the topic of a Feb. 8 Hangar Talk hosted by Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor.
Philip Baham, an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen who lives in Hawaii, will participate in the event from 2 to 4 p.m. Also appearing will be Cha?mi?nade University professor Dorothy Goldsborough and a panel of black-history experts as they discuss "Tuskegee Airmen Then and Now."
The talk is free with museum admission of $25 for adults, $15 for ages 4 to 12 ($15 and $10 for Hawaii residents and military). Call 441-1007, email Education@PacificAviationMuseum.org or visit PacificAviationMuseum.org.
Volunteers needed for Honolulu Festival
The 20th Annual Hono?lulu Festival is seeking volunteers to assist with events and exhibits showcasing the cultural arts and performers of the Pacific Rim and Hawaii during the festival weekend, March 7-9.
Events and performances will be held at the Hawai’i Convention Center, Waikiki Beach Walk and Ala Moana Center. Highlights include the Grand Parade down Kalakaua Avenue and a
20-minute fireworks display off Waikiki.
Volunteers are needed for a range of activities and services, such as working with visiting school groups, providing information to
visitors and selling festival goods. Helpers also are needed to build and march the Dai?ja?yama (fire-breathing dragon) float in the Grand Parade, and to work at the Ennichi Corner, a children’s activity area at the convention center.
To register online or for information, visit the "Volunteers" section of the Hono?lulu Festival’s website at honolulufestival.com.
Ex-newspaper editor wins poetry honors
Retired newspaper editor John E. Simonds of Aina Haina has won Hawaii Pacific University’s James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry.
His poem, "Happy Hours," will be published in an upcoming edition of the new online version of Hawai’i Pacific Review, HPU’s literary magazine.
Contest judge Patrice Wilson, an associate professor of English at the school, said the poem, set at a beach park, was effective in showing contrasts.
"The poem captures the pre-sunset time and place of people jogging to work out. Even though the title is ‘Happy Hours,’ we find sadness and irony because of the images of the poem," Wilson said in a statement. "Light and dark, good and bad are present in this poem in a very creative way, as its form and rhythm emphasize the jogging and other habits that are going on in the park."
Simonds will receive a $250 cash award and be recognized at HPU’s 17th annual Ko’olau Writing Workshops, scheduled for April 12, at the Hawaii Loa Campus in Kaneohe.
ALSO OPENING TODAY
For complete movie listings and schedules, see today’s TGIF.
"Frozen Sing-Along"
Disney has released another version of its holiday film about a princess looking for her sister, this time with on-screen lyrics for the audience to sing along. The original film got four stars.
"Miss Granny"
Korean comedy about a 74-year-old woman who, thanks to a special photographer, finds herself to be 24 years old again after she has her portrait taken. Stars Na Moon Hee and Shim Eun Kyung. Directed by Hwang Dong Hyuk. At Pearlridge West.
"Bride for Rent"
Rocco Espiritu (Xian Lim) wants the trust fund his grandmother set up for him. However, to get the money, he must be married. He puts out an ad for a bride to which Rocky (Kim Chiu) responds. Rocky needs the money to provide for her impoverished family. Filipino comedy directed by Mae Czarina Cruz. At Pearlridge West.
SPECIAL SCREENING
Oscar Classics: "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
This 1957 film won seven Academy Awards, including best picture, best actor (Alec Guinness) and best supporting actor (Sessue Hayakawa). A British colonel and Japanese POW camp commander join forces to build a railway bridge. 7 p.m. Thursday at Ward Stadium 16. ($7)
