Mānoa Arts & Minds
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Aloha!
Aloha! As we approach the mid-semester mark, Mānoa Arts & Minds continues to offer an exceptional combination of music, dance, theater and art events on the UH Mānoa campus.
We hope that you were able to enjoy all that the winter events had to offer, but don't worry if you missed out. The months of March and April bring additional reasons to spring onto the UH Mānoa campus and relish all that the Mānoa Arts & Minds has to spotlight.
Virginia S. Hinshaw
Chancellor, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
vhinshaw@hawaii.edu
For more information on upcoming Mānoa Arts & Minds events, visit http://manoa.hawaii.edu/chancellor/arts_minds/
Mānoa Arts & Minds events include:
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Art Series – Eternal Blinking: Contemporary Art of Korea
February 21 – April 9
Art Gallery
This exhibition brings together about twenty contemporary artists from Korea. The artists are specially selected to highlight the historical dynamism of modern Korea.
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Koʻolau is an intimate and inventive multi-media puppet performance based on the true story of Kaluaikoʻolau, the native Hawaiian paniolo who achieved legendary status by resisting forced exile to Kalaupapa in the 1890s. This tale of sacrifice, love, and the power of the human spirit is revealed in an entrancing production by Tom Lee.
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Music Series – Aura -J
Saturday, March 6; 7:30 p.m.; Orvis Auditorium
Sunday, March 7; 4 p.m.; East-West Center Jefferson Hall
Tuesday, March 9; 7:30 p.m.; Orvis Auditorium
Aura-J, a a Tokyo-based professional musical ensemble that performs new music for traditional Japanese instruments, will be in residence at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Music Department March 5-9, 2010.
- On March 6th, experience a concert of new chamber music for Japanese instruments, featuring works by leading Japanese composers, as well as the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa composition faculty.
- On March 7th, enjoy a concert experience showcasing traditional Japanese music, as well as inspiring new works.
- On March 9th, discover the wonders of chamber music for Japanese instruments, featuring works by leading Japanese composers, as well as the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa composition faculty.
All events are open to the public. This residency is sponsored by the UH Mânoa Music Composition Area, with support from the Japan Foundation, the East-West Center, the UH Diversity and Equity Initiative, and the UH Mânoa Music Department.
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In partnership with the Contemporary Museum of Hawaiʻi, Intersections has invited artist Fay Ku to talk about her work. Ku was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1974. Her intimate and precise draftsmanship opens up a fantastic world of personal folklore that examines the tension between whimsy and aggression in the struggles she faces as a Taiwanese woman.
She has an MFA from Pratt Institute, lives and works in New York, and currently has an exhibition at TCM. She is one of a number of artists that Intersections, the Arts and Art History Department's Visiting Artist and Scholar Program, has invited this spring. To find out more about Intersections and see their full program, please visit them at http://www.hawaii.edu/art/intersections.
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Theatre Series – DANCING GREEN!
Annual Dance Concert
March 11, 12, & 13; 8 p.m.
Kennedy Theatre
Dancing Green takes sustainability to the stage with dances created on environmental themes.
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Music Series – Choir – ANIMAL INSTINCTS
UH Concert Choir and Chamber Singers
Friday, April 30; 7:30 p.m.;
St. Andrew's Cathedral
The UH Concert Choir and Chamber Singers present a concert of "animal music" ranging from the serious to the sublime to the just plain silly. The program will feature Benjamin Britten's glorious Rejoice in the Lamb, Eric Whitacre's "Animal Crackers, Vol. 1" (based on the whimsical poetry of Ogden Nash), as well as selections by Ravel, Handel, Palestrina, Mendelssohn, and John Tavener.
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The Judith of Shimoda: The world premier of the English language version of this rediscovered and restored play by Bertolt Brecht, presented in conjunction with the 13th Symposium of the International Brecht Society conference at UH Mānoa May 19 - 23.
Mahagonny Songspiel: A special performance of this Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical in a production by the Mae Z. Orvis Opera Studio of the Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre.
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