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Oct. 10 SATURDAY - REAL LIFE TALES
Celebrating our 21st Annual Storytelling Celebration

 

6pm

MICHAEL PARENT (Maine) is one of the voices that ignited the American Storytelling Revival thirty years ago. He performs Garbage Hero, one of his celebrated original tales. He has toured O'ahu libraries this week.
 

 
 

 


DAN KELIN II* is a new Fulbright Research Scholar! He'll spend 6 months in India working with folklore, mythology and elementary school children. He tells an Indian tale of a Bowl, Food, and a Beating and other humorous events. Huh?

 


 


ALTON CHUNG*  tells Pigs From The Sea, the true tale of Hawai'i's Okinawan Community's arduous efforts to send pigs to starving Okinawa after World War II. It is part of his new show premiering October 24 at the Okinawan Center.

 


 

 

7pm
KUNIKO YAMAMOTO (Florida, originally from Japan) has come to vacation with her mother. A favorite at the Kennedy Center and Story Festivals across America, she presents Japanese Fish Folk Tales with origami (paper folding art).


 

 

KATHY COLLINS* is Maui's most popular comedian/storyteller. She tells her story, Life (Mine) After Death (His), an ongoing bitter-sweet series of comedy sketches chronicling life after her husband's passing.

 

 

 

PAT MASUMOTO  is a Maui painter, slam poet, and producer of the My Mama Monologues, an ongoing series of true stories about Mothers. This is her own Motherhood Story. 

 

 

8pm - 3 VOICES from the 'Papayas and Bitter Melons' women's story collective.

 

GRACE ALVARO CALIGTAN offers stories that honor her Lola Mary and her special mountain home, Tadian, Mt. Province, Philippines. She just visited there.

 


 

 

PUANANI BURGESS, long-time Hawaiian activist, community builder, and noted poet from Wai'anae. She will share selections from her Guts On the Table series.

 

 

 

HO'OIPO DeCAMBRA is another social activist poet from Wai'anae, who here remembers her mother.

 

 
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