Pa’ipa’ilima “To acknowledge and applaud important events”

Performing Arts Learning Centers make their matches

September, 2010
Hawai‘i Arts Alliance received a generous gift of $110,000 to enhance arts education opportunities within the Hawai‘i State Department of Education. The gift focused on the Performing Arts Learning Centers (PALC). These centers provide performance skills to thousands of students per year, and countless others who are exposed to the arts as audience members. This generous contribution forestalled potential disastrous cuts to the PALCs this past year, and ensured at least another year of youth performing arts education.

Aurora Fruehling, Alliance Board Chair, and Kim Coco Iwamoto, Board of Education (pictured), delivered one of the final checks to the Central Theatre Arts Academy at Mililani High School on September 7, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. to celebrate the PALC’s achievements.

The momentous gift was a challenge grant. Each Center had to raise matching donations to the initial $5,000 to receive a second grant installment. Eight of the nine PALCs have successfully matched their grants.

High School Performing Arts Learning Centers are located on Oahu, Maui, Hawai‘i Island, and Kauai, and they are:

Baldwin High School Performing Arts Learning Center

Castle Performing Arts Center

Hilo High School Performing Arts Learning Center

Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center

Kauai Performing Arts Learning Center

Central Theatre Arts Academy - Mililani

Nanakuli High and Intermediate Performing Arts Center

Performing Arts Center of Kapolei

Alliance for Drama Education’s T-Shirt Theatre at Farrington High School

The Department of Education continues to suffer budget strains, and often, the arts are the first to leave the classroom. The performing arts learning centers represent an important educational tool. These centers also build life skills, confidence, and demonstrate the wider breadth of career possibilities to our youth who need to be creative thinkers for the future wellbeing of our community.

Please contact Hawai‘i Arts Alliance at 533-2787.

Call-for-Applications

Applications for the 2011 Kennedy Center / National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute, in Washington, DC, will be available in November. Eligibility is for young musicians ages 15-20, and they will have the opportunity to spend their summer in Washington, DC at the Summer Music Institute. Application can be found in now at hawaiialliance.org/ index.php/ecenter/schools/.

The 2011 Arts Excellence Award applications are available. All middle/intermediate level schools are encouraged to apply. Schools are selected on merit of arts excellence based on the administration and teachers’ commitment to an arts-integrated curricula; demonstrating how all the arts are used in their students day-to-day learning, and overall incorporation of all the arts to build their campus community. Application can be found now at hawaiialliance.org/index.php/ecenter/schools/. Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information.

Professional Development Opportunities for Teaching Artists

Professional Development Opportunities for
Teaching Artists

Pedagogy Primer: A Workshop Trilogy on Core
Principles of Teaching and Learning
Presented by Jamie Simpson Steele, PhD

Pedagogy is the art and science of how something is taught and how students learn it; its Greek origin literally means, “to lead the child.” In this series of three workshops, teaching artists will understand and practice principles core to teaching and learning in today’s educational landscape.

If you can only attend one, each workshop stands alone, but also complements and builds upon the others in the series. They are ideal for emerging teaching artists, but are also designed to help experienced practitioners flex their pedagogical muscles.

Part I: Goals
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Hawai‘i State Art Museum

Part II: Assessment
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Honolulu Academy of Arts

Part III: Instructional Strategies
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Hawai‘i State Art Museum

To sign up or learn more, you can call Marcia Pasqua at the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance at (808) 533-2787

Slow Art Friday

Join arts supports at Slow Art Friday at The ARTS at Marks Garage, 6 to 9pm, every Third Friday

Live acoustic music at a new location, across from Hawai‘i Theatre between Bethel and Nuuanu. Organic food & wine, from Brasserie du Vin; scrumptious local desserts from Otto Cake. Park your bike with the extraordinary Bike Valet, and relax at our 35-foot table in the middle of the street, with canvas tablecloths & candlelight.

Inspired by the international “Slow Movement”, Slow Art Friday does not replace First Friday, but provides an alternative, pedestrian-friendly experience keeping our money in our local economy. Don’t wait to “see if it works” or let this little revolution happen without you! Slow Art Friday is an answer for those who feel that First Friday is too hectic.

2010 Preis Award Celebration

Hawai‘i Arts Alliance announces the 2010 Alfred Preis Honoree, Marie McDonald. The Alliance will celebrate her contributions as one of Hawai‘i’s most respected kupuna in lei and
kapa arts.

She will be recognized for her lifetime contributions to the arts of Hawai‘i December 18 and 19. For more information on Marie McDonald and these two special events please visit
http://www.hawaiiartsalliance.org.

The Alfred Preis Honor is named after the founder of Hawai‘i Arts Alliance, and the first executive director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Established in 1982, the honor recognizes those who have demonstrated a lifetime commitment to the arts and arts education for all the
people of Hawai‘i.

National Symphony Orchestra - student reflections

Summer in Washington, DC, at the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute
by Monica Luat and Rory Onishi

Spending four weeks 5,000 miles away from home for the opportunity to study with accomplished musicians and other peers who have a passion for music performance was made possible when we received our letters in the mail confirming that we were selected to represent Hawai‘i at the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute program.

We thank the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance for coordinating the applications process, and we are honored to have the chance to tell you about our experience.

Rory’s story: It was a dream to spend the summer rehearsing, studying, and performing in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts halls. I learned so many fine points of music under the direction of Ms. Schulze and the other guest clinicians. It was a great experience to participate in the conducting class, the cadenza writing class, chamber music, and performing with members of the National Symphony Orchestra. Studying under the Orchestra’s French hornist, James Nickel, was a thrill. He helped to prepare me for the responsibility of serving as principal French hornist for the first major concert. I also valued the opportunities to see the sights of Washington, DC, and to attend performances, such one by the President’s own Marine Band. I quickly acclimated to dorm life, and I cooked garlic shrimp and spam for the other students. On my birthday, some of the students baked me a cake. It was great to make new friends who also love music as much as I do. Attending the Summer Music Institute has reinforced my desire to make a career in music.

Monica’s story: Last summer I was blessed with the chance to walk the halls of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a daily basis; the process felt natural to me within days. All of us experienced what many aspiring musicians hope to achieve: the chance to perform and rehearse where some of the greatest musicians have done. In fact, on my second night, we watched Yo-Yo Ma perform with the National Symphony Orchestra in the concert hall. It was a surreal performance, and truly his every note reached my heart. I was enthusiastic and ready to become a better musician. My teacher, Orchestra cellist James Lee, was awe-inspiring and simply amazing—his lessons helped me to believe in myself. On our last night in DC, we performed a final concert including Dvorak’s New World Symphony. I believed that during the 2nd movement, which is simply beautiful, we collectively expressed feelings of nostalgia, gratefulness, and hope from our summer experience. All of us were grateful to perform there, wished to stay, and dreamed of the chance to return. I hope that someday I will be reunited on stage with my friends and fellow musicians from last summer.