27th season
Kids At Kahilu
The Kids At Kahilu programming is funded by 20% earned and 80% unearned income. Please join with us today to support this program that provides the youth of our community with important arts education. Thank you to the generous supporters of this year's events.
gallery
The Gallery is open Monday - Friday 9am - 3pm. Concert ticket holders are invited to visit the gallery during our performances and take a few minutes to explore the pieces of sheer beauty as well as those that offer something beyond the familiar.
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A Visual Journey to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Photographer and author Susan Middleton will take students on a visual journey to the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument which is the largest protected marine area in the world. She and collaborator David Liittschwager worked for two years on the islands, atolls, reefs and shoals of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to create the National Geographic book and exhibition: Archipelago: Portraits of Life in the Most Remote Island Sanctuary. Susan's movie presentation will feature the flora and fauna, land and seascapes, and after she will answer questions and share experiences from her fieldwork in this vast, remote, and little known part of Hawai`i. |
A multi-media performance created by Prince Dance that illuminates current environmental issues through the exploration of the relationship between man, nature, and culture. Presented in four acts: Creation, Consumption, Consumers, and Chaos. Performed by local dancers with music by Hualalai. Slightly mature themes, please call the box office with any questions. |
Featuring Masateru Ando with Tamaki Ando, koto, and Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, shakuhachi. Koto is the 13-string traditional zither-like instrument of Japan, and sounds somewhat like a harp; shakuhachi is the ethereal end-blown bamboo Japanese flute. Performed together, they represent the most characteristic and distinctive of the classic Japanese musical moods. |
Two violins, a viola and a cello meld to create an impressive repertoire spanning continents, cultures and history. The New York Times says, "If there is a string quartet currently in circulation that produces a more beautiful sound than the Shanghai Quartet, the name doesnt immediately come to mind." |
The special essence of Hawaiian music with Hawai'is masters of slack-key guitar and `ukulele. |
"To say that Shimabukuro plays the `ukulele is like saying that Tiger Woods plays a little golf." - NUVO WEEKLY |
Mauna Kea inspires a sense of awe. The film "Hawaiian Starlight" aims at sharing that magic through a multi-media experience: striking time-lapse cinematography scored with beautiful and engaging music. Intermixed within these clips are animated sequences of stunning images of the cosmos captured by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. This movie will be narrated by an astronomer who will also be available for questions and answers. |
Doug Varone and Dancers made its debut in 1986. Since its first performance critics have applauded the company's body of work as among the most compelling in the contemporary repertory. Varone's unique talent has produced that rare phenomenon in the creative arts: something new, revolutionary. His dancers communicate an authentic yet indefinable reality to the audience. Every movement, every gesture, resonates. |
A group of four talented Tuvans present Xoomei. Unusual in that distinct pitches emerge simultaneously from a single vocalist: a primary note, and high above it, a sequence of harmonies. It is considered one of the world's oldest forms of music. |
Named after a deep and mysterious lake in the shadow of Errigal Mountain in Irish-speaking northwest Donegal, no traditional Irish band in the last decade has had more impact on audiences and fans than Altan, founded in the early eighties by Belfast flute-player Frankie Kennedy and Gweedore singer and fiddler, Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh. |
For more than four decades Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago has delivered the dazzle and excitement of jazz dancing to audiences the world-over. |
The Claremont Trio offers a refreshing blend of standard repertoire and contemporary music. The Trio interprets the works not only of Mozart, Beethoven, and Dvork but also of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Leon Kirchner, Paul Schoenfield, and Mason Bates. |
A Hula Drama of Maui's Paramount Warrior Chief. One of Hawai'i's premier hula masters, kumu hula Hokulani Holt has created a masterpiece of Hawaiian dance and drama reawakening the slumbering story of Kahekili. Kahekili was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpiece: Dance initiative, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts. |
This multimedia dance performance highlights themes of sustainability through changing perspectives using a circus vocabulary. Dancing ringmasters, clowns and trapeze artists will aid the audience in examining the various ways life is perceived and how perception impacts our behavior. Community dancers and youth performers aged 5-35 will be performing. For more information please go here. The proceeds from this community project will support the work of Mala`ai: The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School. |
