The Actors’ Group (TAG) and VSA arts of Hawaii-Pacific Announces
2010 VSA Playwright Discovery Competition and TAG Young Playwrights Festival
TAG – The Actors’ Group & VSA arts of Hawaii-Pacific invites middle and high school students to take a closer look at the world around them, examine how DISABILITIES affect their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting. Playwrights may write from their own experience or about an experience in the life of another person or fictional character.
Young playwrights with and without disabilities are encouraged to submit a script. Entries may be the work of an individual student or collaboration by a group or class of students. Teacher and/or adult assistance is allowed. All entries must be one-act plays of fewer than 40 pages in length. Target audience can be children, teenagers or adults. Scripts can be comedies, dramas, or even musicals—be creative!
A selection of the entries will be professionally produced and staged on TAG’s main stage in August 2010 as a part of the TAG Young Playwrights Festival.
One play will be selected for entry in the VSA arts Playwright Discovery Call for Scripts National Competition. The play that wins the national competition will be produced or staged at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Kennedy Center will award the winning playwright $2,000 and a trip to Washington, D.C., to see his or her play performed.
To be considered for both the competition and the festival, all plays must be received by TAG on or before April 1, 2010.
For Official Rules and Guidelines go to TAG’s website (www.taghawaii.net) and click on Play Competition or email tag@hawaii.rr.com. You may also call Brad Powell at 781-9647 or Laurie Tanoura at 741-4699.
VSA arts is an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
For further information on VSA arts go to www.vsarts.org and www.vsartshawaiipacific.org.
For more information on disabilities follow this link: http://www.vsarts.org/documents/resources/general/DAG_2006.pdf
100 x 100
Be a Part of Something Big!
A Unique Sale of Original Art that
Makes Collectors of Everyone!
2010 Pacific Rim Conference at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu
100 x 100 All Original, All Affordable
(100 pieces of art for under $100 each)
VSA Hawaii
Call for Creative Art and Cultural Crafts
Of Hawaii Artists with Disabilities
Hawaii is made up of many cultures and unique environments and its artwork tells the many stories of our communities and the aina. Now you can become a collector of original art made in Hawaii by emerging and master artists with disabilities.
VSA Hawaii is seeking the diverse two- and three dimensional arts and cultural crafts by Hawaii artists with disabilities to exhibit and sell for two days at the Pacific Rim Conference, April 12-13, 2010, at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu.
Hawaii artists with disabilities interested in submitting up to five (5) pieces of work to sell for under $100, contact Kathleen O’Bryan at 808-469-6651, obryanstudio@gmail.com.
Drop off April 5-9, 2010: at VSA Hawaii at the Linekona Center at the Honolulu Academy of Arts 1111 Victoria St., Diamond Head end of Thomas Square.
VSA International in Washington D.C., is an nonprofit organization founded 35 years ago by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts. VSA arts provides educators, parents, and artists with resources and the tools to support arts programming in schools and communities.
VSA Hawaii showcases the accomplishments of artists with disabilities and promotes increased access to the arts for all people. Each year, 7 million people participate in VSA arts’ programs through a nationwide network of affiliates and in 54 countries around the world. VSA arts is an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Prince Jonah Kuhio Day Lau Hala Weaving
Native Hawaiian Cultural Products
March 25-28, 2010
First-time weavers receive a manuwahi – a free lau hala kit for weaving a bracelet, bookmark, or star. Additional materials fees for Lau Hala kits range from $15 to $60. Kits are prepared by the weaving community through the kako`o from Na Mea Hawai`i.
Participate in a hands-on lauhala experience; learn about gathering, cleaning, and rolling Hawaiian lau hala, to preparing, stripping and weaving it. All levels of experience are welcome; everyone can learn to weave!
VSA Arts Hawaiii-Pacific at Linekona A group of Hawaii’s renowned kumu lauhala (expert teachers), Aunty Gwen Kamisugi, Aunty Gladys Grace, and their long-time weavers will gather with you at the Academy Art Center at Linekona.
They will introduce students to the values of ho‘ohanohano (honoring culture with pride and care), aloha (respect and care for each other), malama aina (care of place and resources). All are living aspects of what is learned in the weaving of lau hala. We weave to create relationships and understanding of Hawaiian cultural traditions, knowledge, resources and place.
In the not-so-distant past, weaving the leaves (lau) of the Hala Tree was a traditional practice in most Hawaiian families. Weaving was a way to create objects of beauty for every day living as well as things of wealth, exchange and offerings. The lessons learned through the weaving of lau hala reinforce deeper cultural values, ones that are being embraced and cherished once again by the Hawaiian community and the people of Hawaii.
Novice, intermediate and veteran weavers may come by any time during the four days for a half or full day of weaving, sharing prepared meals and relaxing conversation with new and old friends. New and returning weavers will be able to finish a simple lau hala project in a session or two. For those looking for more involved weaving projects, the commitment of the longer immersion weekend
will bring them the reward of a hat, purse or mat as well as the embrace of a portion of community of lau hala aficionado.
Shorter lau hala projects include making bracelets, earrings, turtles, bookmarks, placemats and baskets. The kumu will help you get started on a weaving project that is geared to the amount of time you have available to weave, and your prior weaving experiences. Advanced projects include: hats, round mats and piko purses.