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4th Annual Youth Art Month Kalākaua Park Project

Special Event
Related People: 
Kellie Miyazu
Marisa Miyashiro
Saturday, March 2, 2024 - 10:00am to Friday, March 29, 2024 - 10:00am
The 4th Annual Youth Art Month Kalākaua Park x EHCC Project
Presented by the Youth Arts Series and the Waiākea Intermediate School Art Club
On view in Kalākaua Park March 1–29, 2024
 
The East Hawai‘i Cultural Center (EHCC) Youth Art Month community art installation is an annual project on view in Kalākaua Park each March. The collaborative art display celebrates the importance of arts education for keiki and teens.

A Red Dragonfly Music Series Concert

Performance
Related People: 
Gustav Highstein
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 7:30pm
A Red Dragonfly Music Series Concert
Monday, February 19 · 7:30 - 9pm HST
East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center's Kahua 'Elua Theatre (2nd Floor) located at 141 Kalakaua Street Hilo, HI 96720
 
Please join us for an evening of chamber music with musicians of Hawaii Symphony, The Knights chamber orchestra, and the Big Island’s Cheryl “Quack” Moore. Program including movements of Handel’s Water Music, Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in d minor, J.S.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Performance
Friday, January 12, 2024 - 7:00pm to Sunday, January 28, 2024 - 3:00pm

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Kahua ʻElua Theatre (2nd Floor at the EHCC)

A play by Hilo Education Arts Repertory Theatre

Directed by Larry Reitzer

A play by Dale Wasserman, adapted from Ken Kesey's 1962 novel. Synopsis: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the unforgettable story of a mental hospital and its inhabitants. When a brash new inmate arrives, the rigid program of the ward, headed by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, is thrown up for grabs.

Colors Of The Season

Performance
Monday, December 18, 2023 - 7:00pm
 
Orchid Isle Orchestra celebrates the “Colors of the Season” in an evening concert on Monday, December 18, 7 P.M. at the East Hawaii Cultural Center in Hilo.
 
Included in the musical canvas are brushstrokes from the classical, romantic, jazz, modern and holiday genres -- arrangements of Haydn Symphony No. 86 Finale; Fandango Asturiano from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, Op.

Book launch of Vita: Sculptor at work featuring Michael Shewmaker

Special Event
Saturday, December 2, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
 
Sculptor Michael Shewmaker has spent the last 15 years building an iconic three acre sculpture garden in Pepeʻekeo. Working in collaboration with photographer and book designer, Andrzej Kramarz, and renowned curator, Thomas Moran, they have created a unique, innovative book on the work and garden.
 
Please join us for this free event on December 2nd for the launch of Vita: Sculptor at work on an Active Volcano.

3rd Annual Holiday Sale & YAS²

Special Event
Friday, December 1, 2023 - 5:00pm
Join us for the Youth Arts Series' 3rd Annual Holiday Sale! Get your handmade items from local artists:
  • Dena Nakahashi
  • EHCC Ceramics Studio
  • Hawaiʻi Handweaversʻ Hui
  • Jelly Cakes Hawaiʻi
  • N3rdy Hawaiʻi
  • Waiākea High School Key Club & Waiākea Intermediate School Art Club
Join us Friday, December 1 from 5:00-8:00 PM in the annex- behind the main building.
We’ll also have a special YAS², holiday themed free art activity for keiki.

Voices of Hilo: A reading by two poets

Performance
Related People: 
Alan Young
Sunday, November 5, 2023 - 3:00pm
Voices of Hilo: A reading by two poets
A reading by two local poets whose poems explore the lessons they have learned from decades in Hawai’i.
 
Sunday, November 5th 3:00- 4:30pm HST
 
Join us at EHCC on Sunday, November 5 for a live reading by two local poets whose poems explore the lessons they have learned from decades in Hawai’i, about love and loss, about caring for the land, about finding meaning in a world that seems on the verge of collapse.

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