SAVE THE DATE!

May 16-17, 2009

Bank of Hawaii Presents

The 4th Annual
Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival


A Celebration of Story and Song

The 3d Annual Hawaii Book and Music Festival (HBMF) May 17-18, 2008 was a resounding success!

We grew again! Our first year, 2006, the two-day free, nonprofit Festival drew some 10,000 attendees. Our second year, 2007, HBMF drew 20,000. This past Festival drew 30,000!


Keiki (Children’s) Stage audience

Our new configuration (see our Map) on the beautiful Civic Grounds in historic downtown Honolulu enjoyed perfect May weather with light trade winds. We added three pavilions: one for Food and Cookbooks, and another for Keiki (Children’s) Activities sponsored by Target, our new Keiki Festival sponsor, and a third sponsored by another new sponsor, the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, which this year celebrated the writers of  Bamboo Ridge Press for their 30 years of championing local literature.

Among the many popular features:

  • Bank of Hawaii’s  Book Swap--thousands of books were exchanged

  • Starbucks Cafe--an open-air oasis

  • 4,000  cloth  book bags donated by Target for Keiki (Children) to decorate and take home

  • International and national  Authors like Michael Ondaatje, Linda Sue Park, and James Rumford

  • The best of Hawaii’s own Authors

  • Great music from artists like Maunaloa, Matt Catingub and Friends, MightyJ,  Jimmy Borges and Shari Lynn, Roy Sakuma, and many more

  • Many of the best of the Islands’ storytellers, like Jeff Gere, Tita Cathy Collins, James McCarthy,  Billy Sage and more

  • Improv comedy, musicals, and drama --even pidgin No Sweat Shakespeah!

  • A unique Hawaii Collectible Cookbook Silent Auction


Click here to view Festival Gallery

 

 


MESSAGE
FROM MAYOR
MUFI HANNEMANN

Hawaii Book &
Music Festival
Honorary Chairman


It is a great pleasure to extend my warmest aloha on the occasion of the Third Annual Hawaii Book and Music Festival. This celebration of story and song is indeed an occasion to celebrate.

This unique event will showcase the proud literary and musical traditions of our islands in a way that is fun, accessible and memorable for people of all ages, backgrounds, and tastes. Hawaii’s publishers strive to introduce Hawaii’s books and music to the world and to introduce Hawaii to new worlds of books and music. They honor our host culture, including the oral and written histories of the Hawaiian people, and highlight lifelong literacy for all of Hawaii’s people.

The festival will feature pidgin English stories that capture the diversity of our multicultural society, photo books of Hawaii’s natural beauty, scientific tomes that represent the caliber of local research and scholarship, and programs devoted to the music of Hawaii.

Each year, extensive planning and preparation go on into making this event a success. I commend the festival board, sponsors and volunteers for their endeavors in presenting a celebration that creates joy and excitement about our culture all year round.

On behalf of the City and County of Honolulu, I invite you enjoy this year’s festival, which features more than 150 different events and 350 presenters.

From “talk story” for keiki to national book award winners, from Hawaiian slack key to Broadway musicals and jazz, you’re sure to find something to delight, intrigue, educate and entertain.

E komo mai.

 

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Title Sponsor
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Beneficiaries