Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 10, 1 October 1989 — Talking Island Festival set for October 14 [ARTICLE]

Talking Island Festival set for October 14

Storytellers, artists, crafts instructors, singers, dancers and musicians will gather Saturday, Oct. 14, at McCoy Pavilion, Ala Moana Park, for the first "Talking Island Festival." The public is invited to attend the afternoon and evening event sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department of the City and County of Honolulu. Thirty-seven speakers will be clustered in three ethnic areas on five stages within the McCoy Pavilion. The European, USA and Americas will be at the Diamond Head fountain area. Hawai'i and the Pacific Islands will be in the main courtyard under the trees. The Asian group will be in the Ewa lanai. Festival director Jeff Gere said "Talking lsland Festival" is expected to be the largest storytelling festival in Hawai'i. A crowd of three to four thousand is expected and planned for, he said. The events will start at noon and continue through the day with the last presentation scheduled for 7 p.m. Eaeh presentation, Gere said, will be about 45 minutes long. The Hawaiian schedule is: Noon - "Tales From The Back Porch" by Brenda Freitas-Obregon and Nyla Fujii, featuring folklore and modern literature from Hawai'i and the Pacific Rim; 1 - "Hawaiian Legends And Personal Tales" by Makia Malo; 2 - "Waimanalo Oral History Project" by a panel including George Roset, Jim Keanini and Yoko Oji

will talk story about early times; 2 - "Voyaging Under Sail" will center on Portuguese-Hawaiian history including the recent 23-day sail from Hawai'i to California, with narrator Miehael Martin, president of the Hawaiian Council on Portuguese Heritage; 2:45 - Samoan music and dance; 3 - "The History Of Samoan Tatoo" will be discussed by Paluli Opetaia Aii, including the ritual of tatoo as a rite of masculinity; 3 - "Kabuki In Hawai'i" will be David Furumoto's topic; 3:45 - Raymond Kane plays slack key guitar; 4 - "Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar" features Raymond Kane telling the history of slack key, personal stories and where the art is today; 5 - "Hawai'i 100 Years Ago" features the people and times of Kig Kalakaua by Paul Wilcox; 5 - "History Of Manoa Valley" is told by Beatrice Krauss, a resident of the area for 80 years, a teacher of botany at UH, and author of a book about the area; 6 - "The Ebb and Flow of Hawaiian Fishponds" is about ancient and present day uses and future possibilities by Carol Araki Wyban; 6 - "Stories From 01d Generations Past" includes the legend of the Lady With The T yphoon Fart and other stories of the Marshall Islands by Keola Downing and Patrick Lang; 7 - "Hawaiian Reef Fishing" is a visit with Bill Panui who was taught by his grandfather on remote Keei Beach.