Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 10, 1 ʻOkakopa 1990 — Talking Island Festival set for Oct. 27 [ARTICLE]

Talking Island Festival set for Oct. 27

The second annual Talking Island Festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 27, at McCoy Pavilion, Ala Moana Park from 1:30 to 9 p.m. This free puhlie event celebrates Oahu's people through storytelling and oral history. It is sponsored by the City and County of Honolulu's Park and Recreation Department, the Govemor's Commission eelebrating the "Anniversary of 150 Years of Puhlie Education in Hawaii" and Bank of Hawaii. It is the largest, live celebration of storytelling and oral history in the state. having attracted some 1,000 listeners last year. Four different stages will offer 45 minute programs every hour, starting on the hour from 2 p.m. and ending at 9 p.m. The stages are thematically organized with an Education Stage, an Oral History Stage, a Children Stage, and a Pacific Island

Stage with slack key artist Raymond Kane, the life histories of Tau and Rose Moe, the reflections of Big Surf elder, Fred Van Dyke and Oahu's Marshall Islands and Tongan communities. A session remembers fhe great Hawaiian athlete, Duke Kahanamoku.

For further information 'on the Talking lsland Festival, or Polynesian Storytelling eall Jeff Gere, 522-7029 or Margy Hamai 946-6176. The festival will be on Kauai on Oct. 25 and 26, on the island of Hawai'i Nov. 1, 2 and 3, on Maui Nov. 4. 5 and 6 and on Lanai Nov. 7.