2nd Annual Maui Art Glass Expo December 20, 2009 to February 28, 2010
Address:
3700 Wailea Alanui Drive, Wailea, HI 96790
Time:
8 am - 10 pm Daily
Place:
Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa
Phone:
808-879-1922
The Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa will be holding the 2nd Annual Maui Art Glass Expo. This momentous occasion will feature 35 talented artists and a whopping 350 piece display. Over the course of 30 years, the Global Art Expo has produced 30 events in locations across the world. It includes places like, Paris, Tokyo and Hawai'i.
Annual Juried Exhibition 2010 January 9, 2010 to February 18, 2010
Address:
2841 Baldwin Ave., Makawao, HI 96768
Time:
10 am - 4 pm
Place:
Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center
Contact:
Hui No'eau
Phone:
808-572-6560
Fax:
808-572-2750
Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center is holding their Annual Juried Exhibition featuring Jurors Inger Tully and Theresa Papanikolas. This grand multi-media art competition showcases pieces created by Hui members . Both Jurors are also Curators and will combine their artsy skills to judge and critique these pieces.
Essence of Maui, Group Invitational January 12, 2010 to February 20, 2010
Address:
One Cameron Way, Kahului, HI 96732
Time:
11 am - 5 pm
Place:
Maui Arts and Cultural Center - Schaefer International Gallery
Admission:
Free
Phone:
(808) 242-SHOW (7469)
The Maui Arts and Cultural Center invited artists from the Maui community to create an art piece that simply represented the essence of Maui in its entirety. This promises to be an intriguing exhibit filled with unique island pieces that will surely capture your attention and grip your artistic and creative focus.
Celebration of Hawai'i 2010 January 14, 2010 to February 16, 2010
Address:
3620 Baldwin Ave., Makawao, HI 96768
Time:
Open Daily 10 - 6
Place:
Viewpoints Gallery
Admission:
TBA
Contact:
Viewpoints Gallery
Phone:
808-572-5979
Fax:
808-572-5979
The lovely Viewpoints Gallery up in Makawao will be holding their next art exhibition throughout January and February. The main focus? Kapa. This beautiful art style will be seen throughout the gallery. Paintings, Quilts, Photography, Baskets, Ceramics, Glassware, Sculptures and Kapa will all be on display. A variety of workshops and demonstrations are scheduled online at their site.
Night in Wailea January 22, 2010 to January 30, 2010
Address:
51 N. Market St., Wailuku, HI 96793
Time:
7:30 pm
Place:
Gallerie Ha in Wailuku
Admission:
$5
Contact:
Pat Masumoto
Phone:
808-244-3993
Maui playwright Brian Peoples is moving away, but before he leaves he will present his fifth and final play on Maui, "A Night in Wailea." The play is about a man who had everything but is now only left with his fame, wealth and Wailea estate. Derek Nakagawa directs this adult comedy. The show will include a preview of "My Mama Monologues, 2010" read by Pat Masumoto-curator, artist and owner of Gallerie Ha. Tickets are priced at $5 each, and can be purchased at Gallerie Ha.
Maui Slam Poetry & Spoken Word Competition January 28, 2010
Address:
1188 Makawao Avenue, Makawao, HI 96768
Time:
9:30 pm - finished
Place:
Casanova's in Makawao
Admission:
$5
Maui Slam is back at it again! They will be holding another slam poetry competition at Casanova's in Makawao. What's up for grabs? The usual $100 cash prize. DJ Boomshot will be bringing the tracks for an awesome boogie night!
Haleakala Waldorf School: Open House January 30, 2010
Address:
4160 Lower Kula Rd., Kula, HI 96790
Time:
10 am - Noon
Place:
Haleakala Waldorf School
Admission:
Free
Contact:
School Administration
Phone:
808-878-2511
Fax:
808-878-3341
Haleakala Waldorf School will be holding their interactive guided tour for parents who are interested in enrolling their children with them. During the tour you will go over the unique curriculum, tour the entire campus, meet the teachers and explore a student work exhibition. Please be on time, and remember that this tour is adult oriented.
Seniors 60+:$35; Adults: $40; Children 5-10: $20; under 5 are free.
The Japanese Cultural Society of Maui will be holding their annual New Year's Celebration Dinner. The Shinnen Enkai Dinner will welcome in the Year of the Tiger. It will begin at 5:30 pm with a otoso (sake welcome) with a no-host cocktail hour to follow. The buffet dinner will begin at 6 pm. Performance will be by Uluwehi Guerrero. A silent auction and the installment of newly elected officers will be presented.
The PONO Foundation was created by two friends who wanted to help people in their community. Every year a recipient is chosen, and this year's recipient is Mike Pullman. Mike is the Project Manager at Betsill Brothers Construction, who is diagnosed with Follicular Lymphoma. Follicular Lymphoma is a rare cancer that affects the lymph nodes. He now requires a bone marrow transplant that will take place at the City of Hope in Pasadena, California in the month of February 2010.
The tournament will cost $125 per player. It will include the cart, golf, breakfast, lunch buffet, awards ceremony and prizes.
Graduate of Julliard, Alpin Hong is well established as a pianist. His unique combination of witty charm and creativity allows him to grasp the attention of audiences of all sorts of age groups. His talent spans all the way from the beginning at the age of ten. His background includes skateboarding, snowboarding, martial arts, and video games, all of which helps in his personal style of teaching methods.
Often, along the roadsides and lower forest byways, you will see a sprawling, coarse-looking weed with long. unbranched flower stalks which often extend a foot above the top of the plant and bear a few small but lovely blue flowers about a half-inch in diameter partway up its length. The effect can be lovely in a forest where the color blue is uncommon.
Jamaican vervain (Stachytarpheta jamaicense) is native to tropical America but is now widespread throughout the tropics. Jamaican vervain was first recorded in Hawaii in 1913 and is now common in dry, disturbed places, scrub forest and roadsides at up to the 1250 foot elevation, as are all the other varieties of Stachytarpheta. It especially favors the windward side. It is part of the Verbena family, which includes lantana, fiddlewood, verbena and vitex.
There are three other Stachytarpheta varieties in Hawaii. They differ in flower color ranging from pinkish and bluish to violet, and leaves vary greatly in smoothness. S. dichotoma, for example, differs in being more erect and having thinner spikes and hairy leaves. The earliest arrivals were probably cultivated here before 1871. All of the varieties are called owi or oi in Hawaiian and at least one variety was used in medicine for cuts and bruises, applying it externally and later sprinkling the affected area with the powdered root of the arrowroot plant. It has also been applied as a poultice for broken bones, sprains and rashes. Related species are used to cure eye diseases in Central America, and, in Uruguay, for fertility control. (One source says the flowers taste a bit like mushrooms.)
A subshrub that is about a foot or two tall, the plant is distinguished by its low growth habit. It has opposite, simple blade-like leaves with serrated leaf margins and long, thick spikes with embedded solitary lavender or blue flowers that are long and tubular with 5 lobes. The tiny fruits are oblong nutlets (small, discreet, one-seeded capsules) enclosed within the flower calyx that split into two black segments.
The Portuguese were among the first Europeans to come to Hawaii. The first Portuguese plantation laborers arrived in 1878. Most of the Portuguese laborers recruited in the 1880s came from the Azores and Madeira. At first they worked on the coastal Maui sugar plantations, but as their contracts expired, they moved Upcountry to ranch and farm. One of their first needs was a church.
Kula's famous landmark, the octagonal Holy Ghost Church that is visible from the Kula Highway, was designed by Father James Biessel, the parish priest of the time, and was built by his parishioners. Some say its shape grew out of Father Biessel's boyhood memories. (The priest grew up near the octagonal chapel built by Charlemagne in Aachen, Germany. )
Others say the church was built as an octagon to resist strong winds. They claim this is why many of the Catholic churches in Portugal are octagonal buildings as well.
One storyteller recounts how an 18th-century queen of Portugal prayed to the Holy Ghost to save her drought-stricken country from famine. When the rains came, she gave her crown to the church. Ever afterwards churches honoring the Holy Ghost in Portugal were built as octagonals, echoing the eight-sided crown. Another story says the church pays homage to Lisbon's Church of the Holy Ghost, an octagonal church built by Portugal's Queen Isabella as thanksgiving for divine intervention and salvation from a plague that was spreading across Europe.
Construction of the church at Waiakoa started in 1894. It was completed two years later, but the first mass was celebrated in 1895 although the church was not completely finished.
It is said that a silver crown was commissioned by the parishioners from craftsmen in the Azores using funds raised through house-to-house solicitations. It arrived in 1895. On Easter Sunday, fifty days before the feast honoring the Holy Ghost (Pentecost), a drawing was held. Those who drew tickets numbered one through seven were allowed to keep the crown in their houses. The family holding ticket number seven kept the crown from Holy Ghost day until Easter of the following year.
The church's gilded altar, an elaborate replica of a Gothic cathedral embellished with fine detail work, and the ornate, rich paints and statuary of the Fourteen Stations of the Cross are considered museum-quality examples of 19th century ecclesiastical art. They were gifts from the king and queen of Portugal after the church was built and were made by a master Austrian woodcarver, Ferdinand Stuflesser. The artwork was shipped in sections from Austria. It traveled around Cape Horn and arrived on Maui in 1897. The pieces were then hauled up Haleakala by oxcart and installed in the church.
As Holy Ghost Church neared its centennial year, the parishioners were told that the structure was infested with termites. There were two choices: tear it down and move the wood carvings to a museum, or restore the building (at an estimated cost of $1 million.)
The restoration was financed through the sale of pao doce (Portuguese sweet bread), which was baked every week for a decade by the ladies of the church. The debt for the restoration was paid off in 2000, but for years afterwards the bread was still available at the church and in some local stores.
Holy Ghost Church is listed on the State and Natural Registers of Historic Places. Services are still held at the church, and the parishioners still celebrate the Feast of the Holy Ghost with a community luau and mini-carnival and bazaar.
Cut pork into strips and season with salt and pepper in a deep frying pan with your cooking oil, stirring occasionally for 3 minutes on high heat.
Add 1 tablespoon of Kikkoman shoyu and continue frying pork for another 3 minutes on medium heat.
While waiting chop the onion into thin strips, then add to pan and cover.
Next chop the red bell pepper and break apart the broccoli into bite-sized chunks and add into the pan and cover.
Chop the carrot into thin strips and the eggplant into bite-sized chunks. Add vegetables in along with the remaining Kikkoman shoyu, the Aloha shoyu and the oyster sauce. Stir until everything is evenly coated and mixed well, then cover.
Chop zucchini into bite-sized chunks and the mushrooms in half. Add to stir fry and mix carefully.
Cut the tofu into thin square slices and add to the stir fry, mix it into everything else carefully so that it doesn't break apart. Cover and turn off heat, let it sit for at least 5 minutes before enjoying.
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Pork Stir Fry with Tofu and Vegetables