WWSpecialEvents2009May

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Celebrating ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE Month!

Wonderwall Music Shoppe & Emporium presents
1st Annual UKULELE ART SHOW!
MAY 1 - 31, 2009

In celebration of one of Hawai'i's best exports to the
world, the ukulele, and the upcoming 50th anniversary of
Hawai'i's statehood of being the 50th state in the nation,
Wonderwall owner and Honolulu native,
GiGi Wong-Monaco is happy to announce this very special
art show highlighting this little 4-stringed instrument
that always puts a smile on people's faces.

Artists Reception: FRIDAY MAY 1 6P-10P
Eastgate Cafe' 102 Harrison St Oak Park IL 60304
Live Ukulele Music by Oak Park's favorite Ukulele group:
The Harrison Street Ukulele Players!
Learn to 'hula' to one of Hawai'i's favorite songs, "Hukilau",
taught by Honolulu native and Wonderwall owner,
GiGi Wong-Monaco, founder of the Harrison Street Ukulele Players
(aka Oak Park Ukulele Meetup Group)
Questions? Please contact Wonderwall.

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Wonderwall Music Shoppe & Emporium, *Oak Park Ukulele Meetup Group,
*Ke Ali'i Victoria Ka'iulani Hawaiian Civic Club, and *Kupa'a Pacific Island Resources
presents a fund-raising event:

SATURDAY MAY 16 11:30AM - 1:00PM
"UKULIZE IT! - POWER STRUM 101"
Touring Ukulele Workshop of Power Strums
with Chicago's C. Lanialoha Lee
A touring workshop of power 'ukulele strums.
A fun and challenging experience!

Location: 203 Harrison Street Oak Park IL 60304
(One-day only workshop at this location)
Fee: $25 non-members ($20 *members)
Please RSVP with GiGi at Wonderwall.
wonderwallemporium@yahoo.com or call 708.948.7986

Learn ukulele techniques from a 'master ukulele player',
one of Chicago's most highly respected music veteran and
educator in Hawaiian music, dance and culture, Lanialoha Lee.
Here are a 'few of Lanialoha' s outstanding credentials are:
Faculty member of Old Town School of Folk Music;
Executive Director of Kupa'a Pacific Island Resources;
boardmember of Ke Ali'i Victoria Ka'iulani Hawaiian Civic Club;
Check also Lanialoha's MySpace page.

Of Lanialoha's many community-oriented activities of 'giving back', her latest programs is "Hanai A Child, Hanai An Ukulele", a non-profit program: Putting 'Ukulele rigs into the hands of the hands of the children of homeless native Hawaiians residing on the Leeward side of O'ahu.

"Hanai" is Hawaiian which means 'to help raise, care for, nuture, foster, adopt'.

As founder of this non-profit program, Lanialoha personally delivers and teaches our native Hawaiian keikis. 'Please kokua (help). Wonderwall is proud to co-sponsor this program.