The University of Hawaii-Manoa Summer Session presents the 1997 Hawaii Guitar Festival beginning Saturday with concerts on Oahu and the neighbor islands and two workshops. Stringing along at Summer Session
The events include:
Concert with B.B. Shawn, Jake Shimabukuro and Tracey Terada, 8 p.m. Saturday, Orvis Auditorium.
Concert admission is $10-$12; call 956-3836 for information. Workshops, at the UH-M Music Building, Room 36, are $30 each or $50 for both; Call 956-7221.
There will also be 7:30 p.m. concerts with Shawn, Cobo, Pisano and Byron Yasui, June 15 at Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center, June 19 at Maui Arts and Cultural Center, and June 20 at UH-Hilo Theatre.
The Hawaiian Humane Society celebrates June as Love-A-Cat month by focusing on finding homes for felines and addressing welfare concerns regarding felines through adoption specials, giveaways and drawings. June focuses on felines
June specials include:
All adopted felines will be neutered/spayed, have a permanent microchip ID and initial vaccinations. New owners will receive a certificate for a free veterinary exam.
The Society will also hold drawings for free spay/neuter surgery for 100 cats. Each Sunday, 20 winners will be called to set appointments for their cats that week. Entries are available at the Society, or cat owners can mail or fax their name, address, phone number, cat's name and sex to: The Hawaiian Humane Society, 2700 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96826, Fax: 955-6034. One entry per cat.
Also on Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Society and veterinarians Shelby Young, Jill Voeks and Eric Ako will offer microchip ID for cats at $5. No appointments necessary and no limit on cat IDs, but cats should be brought in carriers.
Cat owners can drop by the Society between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily to receive free cat ID tags and collars.
Entrants are being sought for the AT&T Hawaii Dragon Boat Festival July 12 at Ala Moana beach park. Race a dragon at boat festival
The festival features races among boats decorated with dragon heads, tails and scaly bodies.
Applications for entries are due June 20. Race divisions are junior, ages 13-17; novice; women; open (professional and nonprofessional paddlers); masters, over 40 years old; and seniors, over 60 years old.
Teams must consist of 16 paddlers, a helmsman, a flag catcher and a drummer. Boats will be provided.
The race course consists of three straight lanes, 600 meters long. Competitors race to a finish line where the the flag catcher retrieves a flag for the buoy and carries it to the finish line.
The festival will also include cultural performances, food booths and artists as well a carnival games.
Information and race applications: 532-7300.
The 1997 Hawaii Production Index may be the bible for film makers wanting to do productions in Hawaii is here. So you want to make a movie?
The index, produced with the cooperation of the state Hawaii Film Office through Media Index Publishing Inc. of Seattle, lists hundred of sources for whatever your production needs may be, including crews equipment and support services.
There are listings for accountants, acoustic consultants, dialogue coaches, aerial camera operators, animal operators, location directors, movie production trucks, make-up artists, propmasters.
The 336-page book on heavy stock paper also contains maps of every island, phone numbers for state film officials, detailed information about available sound stages, and several reference sections that include major events and regional holidays in Hawaii, how to obtain county and state permits, child labor laws, animal quarantine rules and guidelines for explosives and firearms.
The nine, tabbed sections include Producers/Production Companies, Crew/Props/Stage, Post Production, Equipment/Expendables, Sound/Music, Talent, Production Support, Index/Reference, and Table of Contents.
To order the Hawaii Production Index, $20, call the Hawaii State Office at 586-2570 or Camille Hendrickson by calling 236-1065.
Eighteen Folk Arts Apprenticeships were awarded from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts this year. Apprentices learn their masters' knowledge and community values which is intertwined with their artforms. The apprenticeships are: Folk art awards
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