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May
16-17, 2009
Bank of Hawaii
Presents
The 4th Annual
Hawai‘i Book & Music
Festival
A Celebration of Story and Song
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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
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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:
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Bank of Hawaii’s Book Swap--thousands of books were
exchanged
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Starbucks Cafe--an open-air oasis
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4,000 cloth book bags donated by Target for Keiki
(Children) to decorate and take home
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International and national Authors like Michael
Ondaatje, Linda Sue Park, and James Rumford
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The best of Hawaii’s own Authors
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Great music from artists like Maunaloa, Matt
Catingub and Friends, MightyJ, Jimmy Borges and
Shari Lynn, Roy Sakuma, and many more
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Many of the best of the Islands’ storytellers, like Jeff
Gere, Tita Cathy Collins, James McCarthy, Billy
Sage and more
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Improv comedy, musicals, and drama --even pidgin
No Sweat Shakespeah!
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A unique Hawaii Collectible Cookbook Silent Auction
Click
here to view Festival Gallery |
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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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