Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 4, 1 April 2006 — HAWAI I BOOK & MUSIC FESTIVAL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAWAI I BOOK & MUSIC FESTIVAL

By KWO Staff Bank of Hawai'i and a slew of other organizations, including OHA,

have teamed up to sponsor the first Hawai'i Book & Music Festival, whieh will be held on the grounds of Honolulu Hale on April 22 and 23.

The free event will feature 200 loeal, national and international authors, poets, storytellers, playwrights, songwriters, composers and musicians. Loeal artists participating in the event will include Native Hawaiian writer Kiana Davenport, novelist John Saul and cooks Roy Yamaguchi, Alan Wong and Sam Choy. There will also be nearly 100 different booths at the festival, from various Hawai'i publishers, and book and music stores. Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann said the event will

highlight Hawai'i's unique mixture of cultures: "Hawai'i has a proud literary tradition: the oral and written histories of the Hawaiian people, pidgin English stories that capture the diversity of our multicultural society, photo books that showcase the beauty of our islands, or scientific tomes that represent the caliber of research and scholarship in Hawai'i." OHA will sponsor a "Hawaiian pavilion" at the festival, featuring presentations on Hawaiian language, chant, hula and music. S