Changing Chinatown; Acroyoga Workshop; Bridging Past and Present in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Impact of Recent Changes in Chinatown: Lee Stack
If you walk through Honolulu’s Chinatown at night, you see a very different place from the bustling business center of the daylight hours. Over its history, Honolulu’s Chinatown has seen some better, some not so good, and some terrible times. At various points, the community has focused on efforts to clean it up, make it welcoming and safe. With homelessness, drug activity and changes in the area in recent years, much of that work has fallen to the Chinatown Improvement District. Lee Stack is its President and a charter member and she joins us now
Intro Music: Foxes Mate for Life by Born Ruffians
Outro Music: Dinner Party by Nahko and Medicine for the People
Works of art are meant to inspire, and a great painting or a great play can set off a ripple of creative responses from other artists… generating a kind of wave effect that never needs to end. Joseph Stanton’s new collection of poems is called “Things Seen,” and it’s rich with references to arts as varied as Noh drama, fairy tales, and baseball. he’s with us in our studio.
Intro Music: Pohai Ke Aloha by Bryan Tolentino
Outro Music: Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise by the Modern Jazz Quartet
Civil Beat Reality Check: Capsize Off Kure Atoll
A month ago, in the waters of the federally protected Papahanaumokuakea monument a boat capsized. It left behind an excavator, fuel and other items off Kure Atoll and the spill is raises questions. Civil Beat reporter Chad Blair takes a look in today’s reality check.
Intro Music: Poetry of the Deed by Frank Turner
Outro Music: Building Better Bridges by Listener
Palestine/Israel - Bridging Past & Present: Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Next fall will mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. It was a letter written by then British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, following the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The letter also said that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities." In the 100 years since, including the years following the UN’s creation of the state of Israel, whether and how Palestinians and Jews could live together has been fraught with violence. Bridging past with present is part of the work of Hebrew University’s Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the first Palestinian woman to be tenured in the Israeli University System.
Outro Music: Mirage by Al Marconi
Avroyoga Bootcamp in Lahaina: Amanda Furgiuele
It’s a convergence that probably had to happen eventually: yoga combined with acrobatics, known as “acroyoga.” Both disciplines value strength and flexibility, and those will be put to the test at a weekend-long Circus Camp this weekend on Maui. Amanda Furgiuele will preside over the aerial bootcamp, which is open to all skill levels, and she’s on the line from her Lahaina studio.
Intro Music: Milk Shake (Acro Yoga) by Kundalini
Outro Music: Oriental Chillout Music by Yoga Workout Music In Mind