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Big Island Celebrate Reading Festival (April 21)

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Hawaii Preparatory Academy hosts the free Big Island Celebrate Reading Festival 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday April 21.

Students from sixth grade up through college, their interested relatives and friends, and readers and retirees of all ages in the community are welcome.

Gail Tsukiyama

Between the opening and closing reading performances at the Gates Performing Arts Center, authors will be available to read and/or talk with, in three half-hour sessions.

Jonathan Kamakawiwoole Osorio will be emcee,perform and talk about the art of telling stories and composing lyrics drawn from Hawaiian history.

Cathy Song will discuss her poetry (School Figures), Kate Elliott her science fiction/fantasy Spirit Walker trilogy (Cold Magic), and Mark Panek will talk with you about his powerful non-fiction Big Happiness, about Percy Kipapa’s success as a sumotori in Tokyo ended tragically when he came home to Hawaii and the ice epidemic.

Sue Cowing will lead conversation on her internationally published middle-grade novel (You Will Call Me Drog) and Matthew Kaopio will skype with readers of the sequel to Written in the Sky (Up Among the Stars).

Meet San Francisco author Gail Tsukiyama, who will read from her seventh book (set in China like her first historical novel, Women of the Silk, and converse about The Street of A Thousand Blossoms, set in Japan.

Bring a brown bag lunch or order a $5 lunch from Lois Inman (email: linman@hpa.edu; phone: 881-4024) Register with Cathy Ikeda (email: caikeda@ksbe.edu, phone: 937-8363).

For more information including the festival program, contact Lorna Hershinow via email hershinow@gmail.com or phone 808-239-9726, or visit www.hpa.edu

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