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EVENTS ARE LISTED BELOW CHRONOLOGICALLY:
Kreative Kitchen on Thursdays 9/11 at MM12
Agriculture: Science Series Fridays 9/12
Open Mic Night 9/17
Tapping into Wealth! 9/18
Master the Mental Skills of Pleasure 9/20
Permaculture Series - The Modern Ahupuha'a: The Next Step 9/20
Fundraiser for the Hilo Theater Organ Society & Hilo Palace Theater-Silent Movie: Teddy at the Throttle 9/20
Puna Culinary Festival 9/21-9/28
1st Annual Hawaii Island's Women Deep Renewal & Spiritual Sustainability Gathering 9/24
Autumn Permaculture Series at MM12 9/27
Neighborhood Watch 9/27
Vipassana Meditation 10/15
East Side Seed Exchange & Harvest Festival 10/4
EFT Tapping Workshop 10/24-10/26
COMMUNITIES ARE LISTED BELOW ALPHABETICALLY
Hawaiian Sanctuary
Kalani Activities
Kupukupu Center
Palace Theater
Polestar Gardens
SPACE
Volcano Art Center
Yoga Oasis


Animals & the Lava Flow!!!!

Go to www.HelpPuna.org.

It's like a Craigslist where people needing homes for their animals due to the lava flow can find others who have space. People can also offer services for moving animals.

It's free to post an ad. But people can charge for their space or services. All plans and financial dealings are between the parties. We are just offering a free venue where people in need can meet people with the solution.

And please help spread the word with friends, neighbors, and on social media.

Thank you for HELPing Puna. -- Syd


Tapping into Wealth!
Find the Star Within Series!
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7 classes at Kalani: 

Thursdays

Sept. 18-October 30th

$85 series

$15/drop in 

or by Teleclass 

Go to: www.FindtheStarWithin.com
for more info and to sign up!
Lava Flow Community Informational Meeting 9/22

Monday September 22nd from 6:00-7:00 pm.
Kua O Ka La NCPCS Mauka Campus
14-15322 Kalapana-Kapoho Rd. 

We will be presenting our plans on continuing to provide educational programs AND the establishment of a disaster relief distribution center for the lower Puna Community.  If you have any questions, call Angie at 965-2193

 
EVENTS ARE LISTED BELOW CHRONOLOGICALLY:
 

 

 
Wednesday, September 17 open mic
Open Mic September 2014
8:00pm - 10:00pm

 Kalani - 

Join as at Kalani Open Mic to share live music, readings, and performances. Hear new and old musical favorites, listen to stories and poetic verse, and be entertained by the extraordinary local talent in our community.

We ask performers to sign up at the entrance and perform one song/piece only at less than 5 minutes. We will also be requesting live performances only (we have other opportunities for short films.)

Host: John Maestu 

Admission: Free / Donations Gratefully Accepted  


 


 

 

 


 


Rescheduled for Saturday September 20th: 1pm-4pm
at Hawaiian Sanctuary

 

 
Puna, now is the time to take the Next Step.

Join us for the most important permaculture collaboration our district has seen, as we explore, together, how to create modern ahupuaʻa, and share the abundant knowledge we have in Puna.

This initiative involves all of the key leaders in permaculture and sustainability in Puna: it is co-stewarded by Kalani and Hawaiian Sanctuary, and actively supported by Laʻakea, the Keliihoomalu ʻOhana in Kalapana, many of Puna's local permaculturists, and financially supported by the County of Hawaiʻi through the stewardship of Greggor Ilagan. The collaboration to put this initiative together is unprecedented.

On Saturday, September 20th, the kickoff will feature a dynamic talk story with Hunter Heaivilin, who will lay down the framework for the Modern Ahupuhaʻa. Enjoy networking with other permaculturalists over pupus, bean-to-bar hand made chocolates, and a closing potluck, celebrating the abundance of Puna. Come to this event with your ideas to share on what the Modern Ahupuhaʻa means to you. The goal of the Modern Ahupuaʻa Permaculture Series is to gather knowledge, practices and social strategies to remember and share our best resources.

It is time for Puna to collaborate and build this "Next Step" together. Save the third Saturday of each month for this valuable time together, as we learn and grow our modern ahupuaʻa, together.Community Arts Programming is one of the most significant contributions Kalani makes to our local community. 

Speaker Bio:
Hunter Heaivilin holds a degrees in Tropical Forest Ecosystem and Agroforestry Management, and Sustainable Community Development. He has worked and taught on projects throughout Hawaii, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and South America. 

Hunter is lead designer at his consultancy firm Pono Permaculture and the coordinator of the Oahu Farm to School Network. He is currently completing his Masters of Urban and Regional Planning at the University ofHawaiʻi with a research focus on policy levers to support urban agricultural programming in Honolulu,Hawaiʻi.

Location: Hawaiian Sanctuary - Hwy 130, Mile Marker 12, Pahoa, Big Island Hawaii
Admission: Free

 


 


Puna Culinary Festival 2014

Sunday, September 21 - Sunday, September 28
2:00pm - 10:30am

Take your place at the table.  Join us for the 2014 Puna Culinary Festival on Hawaiʻi Island September 21st-28th!

The Puna Culinary Festival is your invitation to experience the cutting-edge, farm-to-fork practices of the Puna district, in concert with Hawaiʻi Island's unique blend of cultural influences. The Festival joins together Hawaiʻi residents and visitors in a harmonious celebration of Puna's vibrant, locally-grown produce and delectable cuisine.

 

The Puna Culinary Festival features locavore meals prepared with aloha by skilled chefs, cooking classes, workshops, film, market visits, farm tours, and other exclusive tastings and events. The 2014 Festival opens with a Hawaiʻian Style Kālua Pork Dinner at Kalani on Sunday, September 21, followed by DELICIOUS: A Feast for the Senses art show. The 2014 Festival culminates with the PupuPalooza appetizer competition on Saturday, September 27, where food enthusiasts will present a single appetizer in a judged competition and public tasting.

 

Please visit our dedicated Puna Culinary Festival 2014 webpage for the full festival schedule and purchase tickets online - no fees!


 

Contact us for more information and to make reservations by phone.

Special festival accommodation packages are available - come, stay, eat and play!

 

This not-for-profit festival is sponsored by Suisan, and stewarded by Kalani, where most festival activities will take place.  Various events during the festival will raise funds for Hawai'i Island Food Bank, an island-wide, supplemental food network that collects and distributes nutritious, high-quality food to the Big Island's most vulnerable populations.


 

Visit PunaCulinaryFestival.com for details and to purchase tickets.


 
Lava Flow Community Informational Meeting: 

Monday September 22nd from 6:00-7:00 pm.
Kua O Ka La NCPCS Mauka Campus
14-15322 Kalapana-Kapoho Rd. 

We will be presenting our plans on continuing to provide educational programs AND the establishment of a disaster relief distribution center for the lower Puna Community.  If you have any questions, call Angie at 965-2193


 
Autumn Permaculture Series at MM12
with Zach Mermel

Edible Mushroom Cultivation

Saturday, Sept 27th

10am - 2pm  $65 
Mushrooms are an excellent source of vegetarian protein and nutrition that are easy to grow! Gain hands-on experience inoculating your own mushroom kits + logs, which you'll get to take home!

REGISTER  HERE for the Saturday, Sept 27th!
$65 To Reserve Your Space for 1 (plus taxes)

MycoRestoration

Sunday, Sept 28th
10am - 2pm  $30
In this "learn by doing" session, discover how to partner with fungi to repair damaged environments and enhance the diversity and resilience of you farm, garden and home. You'll inoculate (and take home) two mycorestoration toolkits!

 

Pollinators Welcome

Creating Habitat for our Insect Allies
Saturday, Oct 11th
9am - noon    $20
Explore the basic strategies for encouraging these essential organisms in our landscapes. You'll take home 3 pollinator havens you've constructed!

 

Zach Mermel, Instructor

One part ecologist, one part horticulturist, one part land designer, Zach works to cultivate healthy human habitats at the household, community and island levels. He was born and raised on Hawai'i Island.

For more info, call him at 808-987-1816.



 Neighbors meeting Neighbors, All Organized Neighborhood Watch groups are welcome! Everyone interested in forming or learning about Neighborhood Watch are also welcome! Come down at High Noon to enjoy the fun!

 
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East Side Seed Exchange & Harvest Festival!
Where: La'akea Permaculture Community Meadow Space, Puna (see contact for directions)
What:  Seed and Plant Exchange AND Local Foods Potluck
When:  Saturday, October 4th, 2014    9:30am - 2:30pm
Cost:  FREE!
More info:  More information and schedule in future emails  

Contact : [email protected]

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Bring Seeds, Plants, Cuttings, or Keiki - MUST BE FIRE ANT TESTED prior to transporting to La'akea

Bring your favorite dishes using only locally grown food for the 3rd Annual 100% LOCAL FOOD CONTEST AND POTLUCK!!

 

 


 
Community Events and Schedules are listed below in Alphabetical Order!
 


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1/2 Mile South of Pahoa on the right at Mile Marker 12, Hwy 130:

Hawaiian Sanctuary is a practicing permaculture farm in Puna. We use the word sanctuary in our name because we like to give our friends and family a place to get away from the day-to-day challenges of life and to come rejuvenate with us.

Join the Health Community to tend to your body's best!  We have daily classes to support body, mind, spirit with some of the best teachers in Hawaii.  Join us at the 12 mile marker, Hwy 130 outside of Pahoa for daily classes for your well being. 

 Sept Classes at MileMarker 12

Click here for more details & Hawaiian Sanctuary current schedule!      

  


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Note that this schedule is updated weekly and contains current information hot off the press for this week. Classes are located in Emax unless otherwise noted.

Check out Kalani's weekly Menu's here 



    

 

 

 Click here to see schedule for closely!

 

 

Upcoming Workshops & Events:
   




Our mission is to provide a Center where diverse cultural and healing art forms can be shared and practiced with the aims of transforming our community, ourselves and uplift spirits. We are located right in the heart of Pahoa Village across from Kaleo's restaurant.
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Get On Up

Sunday, Sept. 14th and 21st at 2:30 PM

Monday and Tuesday September 15th, 16th, 22nd and 23rd at 7 PM

Directed by Tate Taylor, Biography, Drama, Music, Rated : PG-13, 138 minutes

Starring Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Nelson Ellis, Lennie James, Tika Sumpter

Based on the incredible life story of the Godfather of Soul, the film will give a fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of Brown, taking audiences on the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.

"This movie will never need reviving. Brown's innovative rhythms will always make his music sound contemporary." The New Yorker


OUR FALL MUSICAL - "LA CAGE AUX FOLLES"

The Palace Theater's longtime musical director Quack Moore will join forces with Director Douglas S. Scheer and Choreographer Michael Misita to bring the Broadway musical La Cages aux Folles to our stage over the first three weekends in October. The musical, based on a farcical French comedy, won six Tony Awards for its original Broadway production in 1983, and additional Tonys for each of its Broadway revivals in 2004 and 2010.

Advance tickets are on sale now for performances starting at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings October 3, 4, 10, 11, 17 and 18; and for Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. on October 12 and 19. As always, the Palace's Fall Musical is great community entertainment. This will be a fabulous production. Don't miss it -- buy your tickets now.

 

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Weekly Polestar Schedule:

Daily Yoga and Meditation (Monday thru Friday) We have guided group meditations every morning and most evenings in the Polestar Temple. We start with Paramhansa Yogananda's energization exercises and a short hatha yoga session, followed by chanting and meditation. Mornings: 5:45 to 7:15 am Mid-day: (Meditation only) 12:15 to 12:30 pm Afternoons: 5:45 to 6:30 pm

Mondays: Raja Yoga Class Series 5:00 to 7:00 pm
These classes start with energization, hatha yoga, and meditation. This is followed by a discussion of the raja yoga teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda as applied to daily life. Suggested donation $10

Wednesdays: Kirtan (sacred music) & Potluck 5:45 pm / 7:00 pm Our favorite event at Polestar. Kirtan chanting (with a 10-minute meditation mid-way) begins at 5:45 pm. It is followed by a vegetarian potluck dinner at about 7:00 pm. A dinner donation of $10 is suggested for those who want to attend but can't bring a dish.

Fridays: Volleyball 4:30 pm Open to all ages and skill-levels. Experience the fun and joy of this energetic and accessible sport.

Saturday & Sunday Morning Meditations 6:00 to 9:00 am
On weekends we host a three-hour meditation (with chanting breaks) starting at 6:00 am (come early for energization and yoga). The regularly scheduled chanting breaks are at 7:30 and 8:30 am, closing with Healing Prayers at 9:00 am (please only enter and leave during the breaks).

 

   
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Weekly Schedule:

Mondays:
7:30-9:00  
Partners in Practicum:
Learn and practice social dancing, including Swing, Salsa, Tango and Blues 
with Reza. 

Wednesdays:
3:30-5:00  Hiccup Circus for Kids age 7+ (Starting September 10th)
Do you want to ride a unicycle? Walk on stilts? Curious about juggling? No experience necessary. Taught by Graham, Tristan and visiting circus instructors. Cost $5

5:00-6:00 Adult Aerial Silks with Luna Sophia
 
Thursdays:
7:30-9:30 Juggling Night
Beginning October 9th : Ninja Acrobatics from 3:00-5:00pm

Fridays: 
3:00-5:00 Performance Troupe Class

Sacred Sundays Coming in October!

Questions???? 
Call 965-8756 or email: [email protected]


 
Click here to see VAC's Calendar of Events!   

 


TINY TREASURES II: Sculpture & Jewelry Show

Show dates September 13-December 9th, 2014
 
Opening Reception: September 13, 5-7pm

 

Showing the works of: 
Lisa Louise Adams, Henry Bianchini, Brenda May Ching, Wayne Keeth, Amy Flanders, Kimberly Langston Hagen, Bea Israel, Heather Mettler, Elizabeth Miller, Stone O'Daugherty, Pat Pearlman, Daniel E. Rokovitz, Jeff Roth, Tad Sewell, Jamie Stokes and Ivy Torres.


 

Paper Making Workshop

Instructor Lisa Louise Adams will hold the Paper Making workshop on Saturday September 20, from 10am - 4pm at the Volcano Art Center's Niaulani Campus. Cost for the workshop is $60 for VAC members and $70 for non-members. There is also a $25 supply fee. Attendees are asked to wear clothing that can get wet.
 


 
 Daily Yoga Classes 


Yoga class schedule is as follows:  

Everyday class is 8:30 - 10:00 AM  

Monday - Hatha Yoga with Adele

Tuesday - Kundalini Yoga with Corinne Anter Kaur

Wednesday - Jivamukti Yoga with Banka

Thursday - Kundalini Yoga with Corinne Anter Kaur

Friday - Jivamukti Yoga with Banka

Saturday - Hatha Yoga with Adele

 
Sunday - Kundalini Yoga with Corinne Anter Kaur

 

Click here for more details on Yoga Oasis!