Saturday, 8 May from 5:00-7:30pm at Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu, HI
Co-Sponsored by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, PERMIAS, the University of Hawai’i Department of Dance and Drama, and the University of Hawai’i Music Department

5:00-5:30pm Open House
5:30-6:30pm Performance
6:30-7:30pm Dinner

Ticket price: $50/person – VISA, MC, and check are accepted. Reservations required. Seating is limited.

Celebrate the dance and musical traditions of Islamic Southeast Asia as performed by students and scholars from the University of Hawai’i and members of Hawaii’s Southeast Asian community in a special evening at Shangri La.

Van service to Shangri La will begin at 4:45pm from the Kapiolani Community College, Parking Lot B, 4303 Diamond Head Rd.
Please note there is no parking at Shangri La or in the surrounding neighborhood.

RSVP by Friday, 30 April 2010 via shangrilaevents@ddcf.org or +1 808 792 5503

Saturday, 24 April 2010 at 7:30p.m. in the Barbara Smith Amphitheatre, UH Mānoa
Presented by UHM Music Department in cooperation with the Hawaiʻi Gamelan Ensemble

I Made Widana, director, UH Balinese Gamelan
Byron Moon, director, UH Javanese Gamelan Ensemble
Pak Hardja Susilo, director emeritus

The UH Gamelan Ensembles present an evening of Javanese Gamelan music and Balinese Gamelan music & dance at the UH Music Department’s Barbara Smith Amphitheater on Saturday, April 24, 2010, 7:30 p.m. The concert will feature a full Javanese Gamelan orchestra, a Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar, and duets of traditional Balinese Gender.

more info | Price: $12 general admission, $8 students & seniors at the door

Explore Balinese music through hands-on experience with the different instruments in a Gamelan ensemble. Practical experience is complemented by explanations of the performing arts and their role in Balinese society. Gain cultural awareness as you discover how the music and the dance of Bali work together. No musical background is required.
Course Information: Jun 2-Jul 14 • Wed/Mon • 5:30-6:20pm • 12 mtgs • No class Jul 5 • Location TBA (Please check later for room assignment) • $95

Please register by no later than May 27, 2010
Call 808•956•8400 or go to www.outreach.hawaii.edu/noncredit today

I Made Widana, BA in Balinese Traditional Music, has taught Balinese Gamelan music to students from Japan, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and England since 1996. Widana started learning traditional music and dance with his family as a child. He later received formal training at KOKAR, the performing arts high school in Sukawati, Bali and then received his BA in traditional music at the Arts Institute in Denpasar, Bali. As a musician in a performing arts ensemble, Widana has participated in tours to the US, Japan, and Europe. When in Bali, Widana teaches traditional gamelan music in villages, formal music studios, and dance studios. Since taking up residency in Honolulu, Widana has begun exposing local students and audiences to Balinese Gamelan music.

Anna Reynolds received her BA in Music composition from San Francisco State University and MA in Asian Studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. She will begin her doctorate in Asian Theatre with a focus on Southeast Asian performing arts at the University of Hawai‘i in Fall 2010. She has been passionate about Balinese culture and performing arts since residing in Bali to undertake intensive study of Balinese music and dance in 2003.

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February 29, 12:00 p.m.
Presented by Professor Surapone Virulrak, Chulalongkorn University

This research aims at studying the status of performing arts in this reign, starting from the first year of his Accession to the Throne in 1946 until the Celebration of His Majesty the King’s 72nd Birthday in 1999. The research focuses on all kinds of theatre and dance seen in Thailand during this period. All information is gleaned from documentaries, observations, interviews, and the researcher’s own experiences.

Surapone Virulrak is a Professor in Performing Arts, a Professor Emeritus in Communication Arts and a Member of the Royal Institute of Thailand. He has written three plays for the stage in Thailand and published extensively on the performing arts under the reign of Kings Rama V and Rama IX, in addition to authoring works on the performing arts in Indonesia and Thailand. Virulrak earned a Ph.D. in Drama and Theatre (Asian Theatre) from the University of Hawaii in 1980.