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2008 Hawaii Book & Music Festival

Altogether we had 11 venues, with 175 events featuring over 500 participants. (See the Program Grid).

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  Over 4,000 books were traded at the popular Bank of Hawaii Book Swap.   HBMF drew attendees of all ages.
       
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  A young dancer responds to the magic of fiddler Lisa Gomes on the Starbucks Café stage.   Several generations of Richard Chamberlain fans.
       
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  A young reader gets down to business.   Roger Jellinek, Executive Director of HBMF, and Blair Collis, HBMF Board Chair, accepting a check from Mayor Mufi Hannemann,  and Al Landon, CEO of Bank of Hawaii, Title Sponsor.
       
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  Michael Ondaatje, Canadian prize-winning author of DIVISADERO and THE ENGLISH PATIENT.   Gavan Daws, co-editor of HONOLULU STORIES.
       
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Julia Whitty, who received her 2008 Kiriyama Prize for Nonfiction at the Festival.
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      Eric Chock,  co-Founding Editor of Bamboo Ridge Press, which celebrated it’s 30th Anniversary with a two-day program  in the Hawaii Council for the Humanities Pavilion.
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Richard Chamberlain celebrating Martyin Rabbett’s new children’s  book, FOREVER BUSTER.
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      Richard Chamberlain reads from Martin Rabbett’s FOREVER BUSTER
       
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  Mia King and Jane Porter, Romance novelists.  

Ben Finney, a founder of the Polynesian Navigation Society, and co-author of  VAKA MOANA: Voyages of the Ancestors.

       
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  Poet and essayist Kathleen Norris.   The judges of the First Annual Na Mo’olelo Kulaiwi Writing Competition.
       
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  Proud Author.   Michael Titterton, President and General Manager, Hawaii Public Radio, reads Kipling stories on the Keiki (Children’s) Stage.
       
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Master storyteller Jeff Gere.
 

Event coordinator Amy Hammond with Wanda Adams, Honolulu Advertiser Food, Books, and Travel Editor, here overseeing Cookbook Collectibles silent auction, which benefitted Hawaii Literacy and ReadToMe International.

   
       
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Sharon Wezelman and Paul Mitri look on dubiously as Eden-Lee Murray gets to the point in a pidgin version of Romeo and Juliet in No Sweat Shakespeah.
  Aunty Pauli Jennings, Founder of World Invitational Hula Festival, taking part in a panel about the late Nona Beamer.    
       
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  James McCarthy talking story to the keiki.   Betty Shimabukuro, Features Editor of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, and author of WHAT HAWAII LIKES TO EAT.
       
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  Shari Lynn conducts the La Pietra Select Chorus.   Tony Pisculli explains the principles of fight choreography.
       
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Diamond Head Shooting Stars waiting to go on stage.
  Editor and food writer John Heckathorn makes a fine point in the Food & Cookbook Pavilion.    
       
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Bamboo Ridge playwrights Yokanaan Kearns, and Victoria Kneubuhl with performance poet Kealoha Wong.
  John Rampage, Srtistic Director of Diamond Head Theatre, introducing the Shooting Stars.    
       
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  Matt Catingub, Director of the Matt Catingub Orchestra, Conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Pops Orchestra, plays the sax, along with  guitarist Jeff Peterson and Bassist   Manoa DNA.
       
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Author-illustrator Yuko Green gives a hands-on demo.
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      Keiki Activities.
       
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See the 2008 Program

  The Target team. Target was the new Keiki (Children) Festival Sponsor.