BAMBOO RIDGE E-News for 04/23/11

Aloha and a very Happy Easter to all you great supporters of BAMBOO RIDGE. I hope you've all been very nice so that the Easter Bunny will bring you everything you want.

We are in the second month of The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 – 100 contest. The two theme choices for April are "Inheritance" and "Ass Why Hard." Please post your April entries on the Bamboo Shoots page before 2:00 p.m. HST on April 30:

http://www.bambooridge.com/bambooshoot.aspx?bid=965

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ALOHA SHORTS hits the road for the first time. Catch them at the recording session on Maui, Sunday, May 1:

http://www.bambooridge.com/event.aspx?pid=3&eid=392

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On Friday, May 6, the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers' Association will hold their annual Ka Palapala Po`okela Awards Ceremony, honoring Hawaiʻi's best books, authors, and illustrators. Juliet S. Kono is nominated solo and with her sisters in renshi, and both book designs could win awards for Rowen Tabusa:

http://www.bambooridge.com/event.aspx?pid=1&eid=382

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The Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival well take place May 14 – 15 on the grounds of Honolulu Hale:

http://www.bambooridge.com/event.aspx?pid=1&eid=379

As part of the festival, BR will celebrate the release of Issue #98. On Saturday, May 14, readers at the launch will include Donald Carreira Ching, Gail N. Harada, Jeffrey J. Higa, Brenda Kwon, Don Matsuda, Lee A. Tonouchi, and Peter van Dyke:

http://www.bambooridge.com/event.aspx?pid=1&eid=389

The launch celebration of Issue #98 will continue on Sunday, May 22 at Native Books — Na Mea Hawaiʻi. Readers will include Amalia B. Bueno, Shoshana Hannemann, Lanning Lee, Wing Tek Lum, Patrick Mosher, and Mark Thiel:

http://www.bambooridge.com/event.aspx?pid=1&eid=390

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Until we meet again, everyone take good care, stay well, and keep on writing.