23 12 2024
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Holiday 2024 calendar
10 11 2024Usually I wait until Thanksgiving Day has passed before preparing for Christmas, but there are events of art and music to put on your calendar now.
Sunday, Dec. 1, Handel’s “Messiah” singalong, 4 p.m., Christ Church Uniting in Kailua, Oʻahu. Bring your scores or ask to share. If you wish attend as audience, please do come!
Friday, Dec. 6, Opening Reception for “The Holiday Art Fair,” 5 to 7 p.m., ARTS at Marks, 1159 Nuuanu avenue at Pauahi street, Honolulu Chinatown. The art exhibit runs noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday through the closing reception on Dec. 27. Visual art by the Windward Artists Guild and the Association of Hawaii Artists.
Sunday, Dec. 15, Windward Choral Society Concert, 4 p.m., St. Anthony of Padua Church, 148 Makawao Ave., Kailua, Oʻahu.
Come one, come all!
With love and blessings for the holidays,
Rebekah
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The dogs took us for a walk
15 10 2024JJ and Massimo took us for a walk today at Swanzy Beach Park in Kaʻaʻawa. It was breezy and high tide.
There’s a good view of the most recently built houses across Kamehameha Highway, and looking the other way there’s the surf.
The barricade marks where the ocean has undercut the concrete walkway. Oceans continue to rise.
Be well and stay safe.
~Rebekah
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Maʻafala
10 09 2024
Maʻafala, the Samoan and Tongan breadfruit variety, apparently has cherished value. The tree I planted from a pot is bearing well now. This year’s first round of picking went to the residents of our immediate neighborhood. The second round was distributed to my friend Taueva, who is Tongan—she offered me money and I told her the breadfruit was a gift, Caroline who refilled my bag with bananas and cucumbers, cousin Julie who refilled my other bag with cookies and crackers, and artist friend Esperance who presented me with his original oil painting of outrigger canoes at Kailua Beach. So generous! I am loving the notion of trading.
I’m grateful for the blessings.
Be well.
~Rebekah
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Art at Honolulu city hall
23 08 2024
Honolulu Hale at Punchbowl and King streets is the venue for the 64th annual member exhibition of the Windward Artists Guild. The juried art show, “Islands of Diversity,” runs through September 11, 2024, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The building itself, designed by Charles Dickey, is a work of art. But we came to see the creations of current visual artists. The awards reception was yesterday afternoon. With 97 pieces on display, I was bound to run into long-lost friends such as Shelley S. M. Miller, who changed her name. I did not recognize her, but she recognized me. Shelley won Honorable Mention for “The Temari Tree.”
DH made this bird’s eye view from the second floor:
Below are my “Rain Fantasy” oil on canvas and “Lava Flows to the Sea” paper collage.
My friend Bernadette Chan submitted her 2D piece along with her ceramics. “Something different,” she said proudly.
DH admired “ʻUkulele” pictured here with its artist George Evan David.
The Susan Rogers-Aregger Best in Show was awarded to “The Dog Days of Summer (A Goddess of the Star Sirius)” by Vanessa McCowan.
As juror Robert Mace wrote, “I truly wish we could have given every work in the exhibit an award, because they are all winners. Keep making art my friends. This world needs it.”
Be well.
~Rebekah
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Of boats and lei garlands
4 08 2024Once again Kaneohe Yacht Club welcomed sailboats that made the sea journey from San Francisco in the Pacific Cup race that occurs in even-numbered years. In the last week of July, a land crew crafted lei garlands to present to the yachts when they arrived.
My friend Georgia Schmidt organized the effort of rounding up fresh plant material from gardens and the people to make the lei, each six feet long.
Here are some photos made by lei maker Lisa Leydon and me.
Many, many thanks to everyone who helped with this volunteer project. Aloha nō!
Be well ~
Rebekah
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FestPAC 2024
8 07 2024Aloha, studio fans!
The events of FestPAC in Hawaii, the 11-day festival of Pacific Arts and Culture, are past, but its impact will be long lasting. Occurring last month in June, Kanaka Maoli in Hawaiʻi hosted the most diverse cultural gathering on the face of the planet, representing 27 Pacific Islands nations.
The theme was “Hōʻoulu Lāhui —Regenerating Oceania” (or, “Increase and Preserve the Nation”). Another such event will not occur in Hawaiʻi for another 50 years.
I donʻt want you to think I had my head in the sand, hence this late post. My ʻohana and friends wanted to participate, but how to choose where to go? We watched the arrivals of the waʻa kaulua (double-hulled canoes) to O’ahu on television.
The next day we went down to nearby Hōkūleʻa Beach at Kualoa Regional Park where there were craft booths and music playing, as well as the canoes! 
We ran into friends Kura & David Tovey there.
We went to Honolulu to the “Festival Village” at the Hawaii Convention Center.
There I bought a souvenir flower for my hair from the Marshall Islands village. It’s woven from coconut leaf fiber. I ran into my Hawaiian language teacher Bill Keoua Nelsen, who is also a lauhala weaver. He was hosting a booth displaying woven lauhala crafts.
Bill Keoua Nelsen
My takeaway is that the Hawaiian Islands are at the top of the Pacific triangle, and that we would do well to look South of us for additional perspective to ideas West and East.
I just read that the Cook Islanders delegation arrived home at Rarotonga within the past 24 hours.
Be well.
~Rebekah
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