Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 7, 1 July 1990 — Big Isle July events feature art, music, games [ARTICLE]

Big Isle July events feature art, music, games

The Volcano Art Center and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts is sponsoring a leeture series on Pele and her young sister Hi'iaka who is goddess of the hula and the forest. All storytelling will be at Kilauea Military Camp in Kilauea Theater. The story-telling schedule is: July 6 at 7:30 p.m. with Woody Fern and July 27 at 7:30 p.m. with Keolalani Hanoa.

As a special addition to the Pele-Hi'iaka series, there will be a special performance bv Peter Moon on Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ohia Room at KMC. As part of a hula series the center will present a performance on Saturday, July 21, at noon at the Ka'auea platform in the center's art gallery with Kumu Hula Ray Fonseca and his Halau O' Kahikilaulani in a program of kahiko (ancient) hula. After the one-hour performance the public is invited to stay and participate in Hawaiian crafts demonstrations. The Fonseca halau placed second in both the men's and women's divisions in his year's Merrie

Monarch Festival and halau danrer Patricia Maluo was the runner up for Miss Aloha Hula. On Aug. 11 at noon, Halau Hula Na Pua Ui O will perform under Kumu Hula Etua Lopes of Kona. On Sept. 15 at noon Na Hula O Ka O Hikukapulani will perform under the direction of Kumu Hula Kapu of Kaua'i.

An Elderhostel nature eamp for senior citizens will take plaee at the Kilauea Military Camp July 29 through Aug. 4. Anyone interested in attending should eall Susan McGovern on Hawai'i at 9678222 for information. For a complete schedule of events in the PeleHi'iaka series. contact the Volcano Art Center at 967-8222. The Hilo Orchid Society Show will be held July 1 through July 4 at the Butler Building of the Civic

Auditorium in Hilo. For information eall Mike Shewmaker, 935-5585. The Parker Ranch Rodeo will be held July 4 at the ranch in Waimea starting at 8 a.m. For information eall the ranch at 885-7311. The Hapuna Rough Water Swim is scheduled for July 7 at Hapuna. For information eall Mo Matthew at 775-7718. The h'awaiian Girls Golf Tournament to benefit the Blossom Evans Scholarship for Hawaiian children, will be held July 7 at the Volcano golf course and July 8 at the Sea Mountain course in Punalu'u. For information contact Colleen Cochran at 969-4273.

Hulihe'e Palaee Band Concert to honor Gov. John Adams Kuakini will be held July 15, at the palaee in Kona at 2 p.m. For information contact Fanny Auhoy at 329-1877. The Big Island Bonsai Show will be held at Hilo in Wailoa Center on July 24. For information contact Pudding Lassiter 961-7360.