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Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:00 AM

HAWAI‘I BOOK AND MUSIC FESTIVAL

Posted on 2/12/2008 1:13:00 PM

Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18, 2008
10:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m.
Honolulu Hale grounds

Bamboo Ridge Press continues its year-long 30th anniversary celebration with the Bamboo Ridge Writers and Readers Reunion at the Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18, 2008, on the grounds of Honolulu Hale. If you are one of the more than 850 authors and artists published in BAMBOO RIDGE over the past 30 years, or if you are a reader or teacher familiar with our publications, please contact us at BRreaders@gmail.com or call us at 808.626.1481. We want to hear from everyone we have touched over the years! We are especially interested in hearing from BR authors willing to do short readings of their work at the Festival. For more information, visit www.bambooridge.com.

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HAWAI‘I BOOK AND MUSIC FESTIVAL 05.17.2008

HAWAI‘I BOOK AND MUSIC FESTIVAL 05.18.2008

Celebrate Bamboo Ridge's 30th Anniversary in 2008.

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The Seven Orchids
ISBN: 0-910043-73-6
The koa canoe is one of the most important symbols in Hawaiian culture today, a link between Hawai‘i's simpler past and its sophisticated present. Ian MacMillan takes us over to Moloka‘i where a crew of misfit paddlers—women who are dealing with alcoholism, divorce, depression, and more—find an old koa canoe stored in a rundown shed. In a powerful and gripping story centered around the canoe, MacMillan puts us in the boat with the crew. First, we train, and then we paddle in the world championship of outrigger canoe racing, the Moloka‘i to O‘ahu race. A symbol of life, the koa canoe changes each woman, helping her to refocus her life. As they cross Ka Iwi Channel, they leave their misfit status behind in the wake of the canoe. In the midst of his story, MacMillan thoroughly documents the sport of outrigger canoe paddling as only an insider could. He's been there and done that and we ride with him through one of the best accounts of paddling the channel in Hawaiian literature. The Seven Orchids entertains and educates us at the same time. You couldn't ask for more. — John Clark, author of six books on Hawai‘i's beaches