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May 16-17, 2009
10 a.m.- 5 p.m.
with FREE Sunset Concert each day!

Bank of Hawaii Presents

The 4th Annual Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival
A Celebration of Story and Song

At the Civic Grounds in Historic Downtown Honolulu

Bigger and Better than Ever!
12 venues, 190 events, over 600 Presenters

FREE! and Free Parking


Richard Chamberlain & Martin Rabbett  at HBMF

Best-Selling  National Authors Terry Brooks,
John Saul, James Rumford, Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Best-Selling Hawaii Authors Ben Cayetano,
Stuart Coleman, Lisa Linn Kanae and MORE

Keiki Pop-Up Book Kings
Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart

Govs. Aryoshi, Waihee, Cayetano
look at Hawai’i’s next 50 years

MUSIC MAINSTAGE
Royal Hawaiian Band, Roy Sakuma, Kenneth Makuakane, Mihana, Michael Pili Pang, Anita Hall, Roy Sakuma, Willow Chang, AND MORE!


Matt Catingaub at HBMF

NEW! TWO EVENING CONCERTS
5-8 p.m.

May 16--Target Presents
JAKE SHIMABUKURO

May 17-Outrigger Presents
KANI KA PILA and a 6-Band Competition

BANK OF HAWAII BOOK SWAP

NEW! Book-to-Movies
Witi Ihimaera/WHALE RIDER
Herb Kane’s new animated film VOYAGERS

 PANELS on LATEST FICTION AND NONFICTION 
by Hawaii Authors  on Crime, Romance,
Baseball, Golf, History, Hawaiiana, Obama,
Howard Dicus with Hawaii Business leaders on the Economic Crisis,
and How You Can Cope

 NEW! HAWAII  CHORUS SHOWCASE
8 spectacular choruses
Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus, Windward Choral Society, Sweet Adelines, Sounds of Aloha, Honolulu Gay Men’s Chorus
La Pietra, Iolani, MidPac

 NEW! ENVIRONMENT AND CLEAN ENERGY PAVILION
from
Hawaiian Electric Company and Kanu-Hawaii
Clean Energy Initiative, Energy conservation at home,  Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind, Wave, Ocean 

NEW! “SENSE OF PLACE” PROGRAM
Fiction, Poetry, Planning, Architecture, Design, Song, Drama
Hawaiian, Preservation, Tourism

 HAWAIIAN CULTURE AND LANGUAGE PAVILION
Akaka Bill, Origins of Hawaiian Literacy,

Haena
, Hawaiian Blood, Native Men Are Made
Mythology, Fiction and Nonfiction
Hula, Chant,
Akaka Bill, Ceded Lands, Origins of Hawaiian Literacy

 TALK STORY STAGE
Hawaii’s Best Storytellers
Jeff Gere, Tita Cathy Collins, Ed Chevy, Nyla Fujii-Baab, Sandra MacLees, James McCarthy, Lopaka Kapanui,
Playwright Slams, Youth Speaks Hawaii Slam, and MORE


Keiki (Children’s) Stage audience

FOR THE KEIKI

KEIKI STAGE
Musicals, Drama, Comedy Improv, No Sweat Shakspeah,
Ukulele demo, Fight Choreography,
Terence Knapp/Hans Christian Andersen,
Billy Sage/Dr.Seuss

 KEIKI AUTHORS PAVILION
with 28 new Keiki Authors & Illustrators

 TARGET ACTIVITIES PAVILION
with Bullseye, Board Books, Pop-Up Demos,
ASL Program for deaf children, Keiki Book Bags, Artprints.
 

PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS,
CAFÉ, GOOD FOOD,
ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL AGES


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