HBMF2015: Writing da Tail

by Misty on May 6, 2015
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WRITING DA TAIL 2015 Mahalo to everyone who wrote a sentence and participated in our collaborative community story at the 2015 Hawaii Book and Music Festival. Our “sequel” wasn’t quite as long as the story last year, but it was equally entertaining with sudden twists that were humorous, dramatic, and poignant at every turn. Writing […]

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HBMF2015: Ten Favorite Photos Through the Years

by Alex on April 28, 2015
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This weekend will mark the Tenth Annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival. For ten years, the musicians, dancers, authors, booksellers, food vendors and volunteers have worked towards making this the biggest book event of the year. In celebration of this milestone, Hawaii Book Blog wants to share some of our favorite photographs we have taken […]

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Hawaii Book & Music Festival Day 2 (Photo Gallery)

by Alex on May 17, 2012
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It’s been a little over a week now, but here are just a few of our photos from the second day of the 7th Annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival. Misty and I were so burned out from all the preparation and the execution, that it took me several days to get even this many […]

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Hawaii Book & Music Festival Day 1 (Photo Gallery)

by Alex on May 6, 2012
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The first day of the 7th Annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival is all pau, and Misty and I are exhausted!  I did want to share with you just a few of the great photographs we took at this literary celebration, to hopefully entice you to come back on Sunday.  Here they are: [gn_divider] If […]

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Bamboo Ridge Issue #100 and the 100 Word Challenge

by Misty on May 3, 2012
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Join Bamboo Ridge at the Hawaii Book & Music Festival Author Pavilion this Saturday, May 5th at 11:00 am to celebrate the 100th Issue! This year, instead of just reading, there will be a chance for the audience to participate, if they want of course, in Bamboo Ridge’s Flash Fiction Contest. It’s a tribute to the […]

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HBB on ‘Lei Chic’: Repost of Summer Recommendations

by Misty on May 17, 2011
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Last week, HBB was featured (sort of) on the local lifestyle website Lei Chic. They’d asked for our help in compiling a list of the top five current local books we’d recommend for summer reading. This was a tough question for us, we could have easily given them five picks each in fiction, non-fiction and keiki […]

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Hawaiian Word of the Day: Hapapūlima

by ʻŌlelo on May 14, 2011
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[wpaudio url=”http://www.hawaiibookblog.com/mea/2011/05/hapapulima.mp3″ text=”Hapapūlima”] Autograph, signature Ma ka Hawaiʻi Book & Music Festival kākou e loaʻa ai nā hapapūlima a kō ʻoneʻi mau mea kākau punahele a me Sarah Vowell. The Hawaiʻi Book & Music Festival is where we’ll get the autographs of our favorite local authors and Sarah Vowell.

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Hawaiʻi Book & Music Festival

by Alex on April 22, 2011
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The 10th annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival presented by Bank of Hawaii takes place on the weekend of May 4-5 on the spacious grounds of the Honolulu Hale civic center.  Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday*, with FREE admission and FREE parking in several […]

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Hawaii Book & Music Festival THIS WEEKEND!

by Misty on May 13, 2010
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The 5th Annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival (HBMF) is this weekend, and we’re all abuzz with excitement here at HBB! Although we won’t have a table set up we’ll definitely be around wearing our “Shaka for Books” t-shirts and handing out fliers. If you see us around, stop us and say hello, we’d love to […]

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