Tuesday, October 17. The Hawai?i Arts Alliance represents 105 organizations and hundreds of individuals statewide who are committed to the power of the arts to transform lives. HPR?s Noe Tanigawa reports on this weekend?s celebration honoring an arts supporter whose efforts are shaping the character of Hawai?i. This Saturday night, the Hawai?i Arts Alliance [...]

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Friday, October 13. “Project Runway,” the hit fashion reality program, will have a Honolulu spin-off this Saturday. Forty budding designers are presenting over a hundred garments on a red carpet catwalk in Chinatown for the Fresh F.A.C.E. of Nu?uanu Street Festival. HPR?s Noe Tanigawa spoke with the fashion festival?s organizers. This month?s Second [...]

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Thursday, October 12. Five key members of the UH Manoa Art Department retired last year, including the Department Chair, John Wisnosky, a prominent local painter who passed away just a few months ago. Fiber artist, Pat Hickman, Japanese art history professor Willa Tanabe, gallery director Tom Klobe and department secretary Amy Oshiro all left [...]

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Friday, October 6. An ambitious multi-media opera, “Naupaka - A Hawaiian Love Story” premieres Saturday night at Leeward Community College Theater. In Hawaiian with English super titles, “Naupaka” combines chant, kiho’alu (slack key), dance, drama, and digital sound and projections in a unique theater experience. HPR’s Noe Tanigawa offers this preview. “Naupaka: [...]

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Thursday, October 5. French Polynesia is composed of 118 atolls and islands, including 5 archipelagos stretched over a nearly 100 thousand square mile area in the South Pacific. Tahiti is the largest island, home to about 70% of French Polynesia?s 250 thousand inhabitants. HPR?s Noe Tanigawa continues a discussion with authors featured in [...]

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Tuesday, September 19. Last year more than forty five hundred people revved up for recycling at Honolulu?s Discover Recycling Fair, discovering easy ways to convert their ?opala, or refuse, into new uses, including fundraising. O?ahu schools have already made over a million dollars through recycling bins on their campuses. HPR?s Noe Tanigawa checks [...]

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