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Improve your presentation skills

Improve your presentation skills

The College of Continuing Education and Community Service at the University of Hawaii at Hilo is offering a workshop for supervisory and management personnel on improving presentation skills from 5-8 p.m. March 23 in Wentworth Hall, Room 9.

Tuition is $45.

“Present with Poise, Power, and Punch” will teach participants how to communicate effectively, persuasively and with presence using their own style. Participants will learn how to use body language for impact, discover ways to keep the attention of the audience, how to develop and organize a presentation in an easy framework and respond to challenging questions.

Instructor Siniva Pota has extensive supervisory and management experience.

For more information or to register, call CCECS at 932-7830, email ccecs@hawaii.edu or visit hilo.hawaii.edu/academics/ccecs/courses.php.

Put some spring in your dance step

Try something new this year by enrolling April 5 for Wednesday night dance classes with the Big Island Ballroom Dance Club at Church of the Holy Cross on Lanikaula Street in Hilo.

Learn the American tango, cha-cha or East Coast swing and make new friends. There is a $15 cost for a yearly membership and a $6 fee for 10 weeks of lessons through June 7. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. and classes start at 7.

The club will be hosting its 10th anniversary dance April 29 at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Seating will be limited so buy your tickets early.

For more information about the classes or the dance, call Judy at 935-1433.

‘He Named Me Malala’ screening

In observance of Women’s History Month, the public is invited to a free screening of “He Named Me Malala” at 5 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, UCB Room 100.

The film is a portrait of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani educational activist who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her and her friends’ school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley in 2012. The then 15-year-old teenager, who had been targeted for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education, was shot in the head, sparking international media outrage.

Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading advocate for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014 became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

The event is sponsored by the UH-Hilo Women’s Center. For disability accommodation, contact Lehua McClung at 932-7380, 932-3334 (TTY), or lmcclung@hawaii.edu.