Writing from the Heart workshop this weekend
The most powerful writing comes from the heart.
What do you care about? What inspires you?
What is special in your life?
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang — journalist, essayist, speaker, educator and poet — will teach participants how to write about the people, places and memories that matter to them during the Writing from the Heart workshop from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday (July 21) at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village.
Write to touch, inspire, move, persuade and provoke readers. Write with emotion, write with spirit. Write from your own truest self to help others find theirs.
This workshop explores the kind of writing that changes people, oneself included. And it begins honestly, one word, one day at a time.
Wang’s writing has appeared in NBC News Asian America, PRI Global Nation, New America Media, Pacific Citizen, Angry Asian Man, Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review and several anthologies, journals, and art exhibitions. She teaches courses on Asian/Pacific Islander-American media and civil rights law at the University of Michigan and she teaches creative writing at the University of Hawaii Hilo and Washtenaw Community College.
Learn more about Wang at franceskaihwawang.com.
The cost to attend this workshop is $75 or $65 for VAC members. Participants are asked to bring a notebook, pen and lunch.
To register, call 967-8222 or register online at www.volcanoartcenter.org.
The Niaulani Campus is located at 19-4074 Old Volcano Road in Volcano.
Coed basketball league for youth announced
The Hawaii County Department of Parks and Recreation announces a coed basketball league for keiki ages 6-6 and 7-8 to be hosted beginning in August at Andrews Gym.
The age cutoff date is Dec. 31.
An organizational meeting is slated for 5 p.m. July 30, at the Gym. All teams interested in the league must send a representative to this meeting to obtain league information.
For more information, call 938-2014.
Kanikapila for Hale Iki Village slated next month
Whether you play like ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro or the late entertainer Tiny Tim, or if you sing like Braddah Iz, you are needed.
The Church of the Holy Apostles invites the community to participate in kanikapila for Hale Iki Village starting at 1 p.m. Aug. 26 at the church located at 1407 Kapiolani St. in Hilo.
Come to help raise funds to build Hale Iki Village, a village of tiny homes for those displaced by the Kilauea volcano eruption in lower Puna. Admission is $5 per person, and extra donations will be happily accepted.
Come and play your ukulele, guitar or ipu, sing or dance hula. Or just come to listen. All proceeds go to Hale Iki Village.
For more information, visit www.episcopalchurchhilo.org.
Candidate forum to be hosted in North Kohala
The League of Women Voters and Sustainable Kohala are hosting a candidate forum at 5 p.m. today (July 18) at the North Kohala Civic Center located at 54-3900 Akoni Pule Highway in Kapaau.
Candidates will share their positions and policies with the public during this free event.
Participating candidates confirmed are County Council District 9 Councilman Tim Richards and candidate Maya Parish and state Rep. Cindy Evans and candidates David Tarnas and Tom Belekanich.