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Week of Friday, April 8, 2016 | Vol. 4, No. 15

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‘PAKAA LANAKILA’

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IN THIS ISSUE:

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY

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SUNDAY ‘IT’S ONLY A PLAY’ 4 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Hilarious comedy send-up of show business directed by Arnold Meister. $20

TRAIL WORKDAY 8 A.M. TO 2 P.M., KALALAU TRAIL Help keep the Kalalau Trail clean.

2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI:

GLEE CLUB 5 P.M., KCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kamehameha Schools Concert Glee Club is coming to Kauai for a one-night performance. Tickets can be purchased at www.ksbe.edu/showtimes

6. BOOK REVIEW:

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3. PERFORMANCE:

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Tale of ‘Pakaa Lanakila’ JENNA CARPENTER TGIFR!DAY

Photos courtesy Jon Magnussen

The Chamber Music of Hawaii wind quintet will be performing “Pakaa Lanakila,” April 14 at Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center. BELOW: B.K. Cabigon, a Hawaiian language story teller, will be narrating “Pakaa Lanakila.”

Hawaiian musical performance to debut on April 14 at KCC

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t took Jon Magnussen and B.K. Cabigon about two months to translate a musical performance from English to Hawaiian.

The performance, called “Pakaa Lanakila,” translated as Pakaa, the Winner, takes inspiration from the centuries old tale, “The Wind Gourd of Laamaomao,” said Magnussen, a composer with Chamber Music Hawaii.

The tale chronicles the life of a Kauai boy who receives an ancestral gourd that gives him the power to control the wind, he said.

Magnussen, a professor at the University of Hawaii West Oahu, first composed the performance in English.

But he wanted to pay homage to the Hawaiian culture so he decided to compose a Hawaiian language version.

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A funky backyard for health nuts I t all started with food.

That’s how the owners of Hippie Café @ Caffe Coco — a quaint, romantic, all-organic restaurant set in a “funky backyard” met 18 years ago.

Hollan Hamid was just a traveler to Kauai when she fell in love with her server — now husband — Haleem Hamid at a South Shore restaurant in Poipu.

The two foodies struck up a conversation and Hollam was sold on the idea of Kau-

ai. The duo then branded Hippie Café food items and eventually purchased the 20-year-old Caffe Coco five years ago and have since rebranded the restaurant to be a place for health nuts to enjoy breakfasts and dinners.

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Everything on the menu can be made vegan, she said. But she also serves organic chicken, fresh local fish, shrimp and of course tofu for protein option.

But Hollan wasn’t always vegan.

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the way it’s supposed to, I’m in heaven.”

So she created her own and it inspired a restaurant.

Constantly growing and adding new healthier foods to the menu, Hollan said she wants people to know that Hippie Café in the morning is great place to get a healthy breakfast and Caffe Coco by night is a place to enjoy a relaxing evening The dining area outside Caffe Coco. and stay true to your healthy Coconut Mac Nut Local Catch or Tofu served over jasmine rice, made with Caffe Coco’s own crust of mac nuts coconut with diet. the tastes that we were of the food I loved.” ginger and garlic and herb infused oil with a side salad of From 8 to 1:30 p.m. every used. So it’s really about takThen a new challenge Kailani Farm greens. day customers can enjoy ing all of my comfort foods presented itself. and making them as healthy Acai Bowls, smoothies, “I wasn’t impressed with change her eating habits of food and ingredients,” as can be without compris- “drinky drinks”—including the products that were eight years ago and convert- said the California Culinary cold brewed coffee, Tahitian ing flavor. If I can have it ed to a vegan.

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Hawaiian

“The boy grew up between Kapaa and Kealia,” he said. “I knew exactly where that is.”

Continued from page 3 The performance focuses Hawaiian, so the music would on the boy’s life on Kauai, flow correctly. Composing the Magnussen added.

“There’s a moment in the music was a different animal story where he is frustrated than translating it.” because he feels he’s big On April 14, the Hawaiian enough to go fishing with version of “Pakaa Lanakila,” the fishing fleet, but his mom performed by a Chamber Music Hawaii wind quintet, will holds him back,” he said.

The boy ends up joining the debut at the Kauai Commufleet, and competes in a rownity College Performing Arts ing race with the “big muscled Center. men,” Magnussen said.

“It’s important to me that “They leave him in their this story becomes known to dust, but pretty soon, they see new audiences,” Magnussen a speck of dust on the horizon,” said. “And whether you speak he said. “The boy catches up Hawaiian or English, this is a great example of the wonder- with them and wins the race.”

Cabigon, a Hawaiian-lanful literature of Hawaii.” guage story teller, will be The performance is debuting in Kauai because of its ties narrating the performance. to the island, said Magnussen, He will be accompanied by a flute, oboe, clarinet, French who grew up on Kauai.

horn and bassoon.

The performance also has an educational aspect.

A CD of the performance, as well as a workbook, was created to give teachers access to music education resources.

“Music is such an important part of our fabric of society,” Magnussen said. “We hope the teacher’s workbook will encourage teachers to bring art, music and literature into the classroom.”

A PowerPoint presentation with the English translations will be at the KCC performance, so English speakers won’t be left out, he said.

“But I hope that the beauty of the Hawaiian language will inspire people to learn it,” he said.

The performance starts at 6:30 p.m. April 14. Admission is free.

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Be brave, even when facing a dragon

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uthor Edward Packard was the pioneer and originator of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” style of books, where the CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS reader can make SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY different choices throughout the book and almost always find a different story with each reading. (Anybody else remember “Sugarcane Island”?) They had immediate success in the 80s and 90s, and still have a following today. Although Packard still writes books of this style under the “You-ventures” series, he recently explored a different and more traditional avenue of young people’s books, one we found to be as equally engaging.

“The Good and Bad Dragon” is an all-new story that sets itself in the old-world style of fable-like storytelling. Set amidst the backdrop of Europe’s Pyrenees Mountains, the intro reads, “This is a story of a very large but not very smart dragon that can be good-hearted, but usually is not. He sleeps for hundreds of years at a time in his mountain cave. Whenever he wakes up, he just about scares to death all the dogs, sheep, goats, and people for miles around. The dragon is curious and he is hungry.

Goodness knows what he’ll eat and what damage he’ll do before he goes back to his cave. Only one person has a chance of stopping him, an old woman with a weak body and a very strong will.”

Nearly every page of this charming story has vividly animated illustrations by Beth Ogden, some with very evocative landscapes that easily transport the reader into the cozy village nestled in the valley of the dragon. “The Good and Bad Dragon” is a wonderful reminder that things are not always as they seem, and that any of us can face the things that frighten us once we choose to not be scared of it. A good lesson at any age!

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“This is a service project,” Tabata said. “Originally, we were going snorkeling, but with this cleanup needing to take place, snorkeling was inappropriate.”

Ron Blackstad, Scoutmaster for Troop 334, said he asked the leaders of the 34 Scouts visiting from Yokohama, Japan, and they were all agreeable to helping clean the park of debris which

washed down Wailua River during the heavy rains.

Nearly 80 scouts, parents, and leaders from the visiting Yokohama troops, Kauai troops 148, 133, and 334 joined the cleanup efforts spearheaded by Tommy Noyes of the Friends of Kamalani and Lydgate Park.

“This is awesome,” said Devi Berg. “The scouts walked over from their camp at Kamalani, and after the cleanup, they will hike up Nonou Mountain before bicycling the path to Moloaa, and have a luau, afterwards.”

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