Oct. 9 FRIDAY - SPOOoOKIES!

6pm MOIRA MAEDA-NAKAMINE* ‘sees’ spirits. A Waipahu girl, she keeps many plantation tales from the First Generation of Japanese immigrants. She shares chillingly true tales of the Waipahu Elementary School.
DAN KELIN  II* is the nationally recognized Drama Education Director for the Honolulu Theater for Youth. He has written Marshall Islands Legends and Stories, and shares one about an ‘unimaginable’ being here.
BEN MOFFAT, Windward Community College drama professor, is creating a mask dance show for Leeward Community College (April). He tells Calliope on the Railing, graphically depicting what can happen if you sleep in a graveyard.
7pm LYN FORD  (Ohio, 3rd visit) is featured in many Story Festivals because of her spooky tales. Here she tells I Live Here, Too, about a haunted house across from her great-grandparents' home & Zori, which she warns is ‘gross & weird’.
KATHY COLLINS* co-founded Maui’s eclectic, non-commercial, fiercely independent Mana'o Radio, brings Tita out to share a horrific local tale.
ALTON CHUNG*  (local boy living in Oregon) this year was a ‘Teller in Residence’ at the International Storytelling Center (Tennessee) and performed at the Congress of Asian Storytellers in Singapore...He tells Shanghaied, his personal tale of a ghost tour of Old Portland where the shadows did talk back!
8pm LOPAKA KAPANUI* leads the ‘Mysteries of Honolulu’, Hawai'i’s best ghost tours, continuing what his mentor Glen Grant started. He promises ‘chickenskin’ with his latest Legends of Morgan’s Corner.
MR. FOX This ‘group tell’ is a reprise of a spontaneous performance given two years ago on tour after Alton Chung said he didn’t like this macabre version of ‘Bluebeard’. Lyn Ford and Jeff Gere then pulled him up to tell it with them.

 

* Performed representing Hawai'i at the Talk Story Conference, the first National Storytelling Conference ever held in Hawai‘i, this past July.