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Cancellations

Advertiser Staff

Here is a list of cancellations and postponements in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Check with the venue of any event you plan to attend for the latest information:

• Aloha Festivals executive director Janet Hyrne announced that tomorrow night’s Downtown Ho‘olaule‘a has been postponed. Saturday’s Aloha Festivals Floral Parade at 9 a.m. in Waikiki is on, however. The Waikiki Ho‘olaule‘a, 7-10:30 p.m. Sept. 2, is expected to be held as planned. Festivals organizers will meet with city and police officials to discuss whether additional security might be needed. However, Hyrne said that the organizers already have arranged for police and security guards to be on patrol.

• The Doo Wop Hop, scheduled for Saturday at the Blaisdell Arena, has been postponed to Oct. 6, according to Tom Moffatt of Entertainment Enterprises Hawaii, Inc. Tickets will be honored on that date. Information: Blaisdell box office 591-2211.

• The Hawaii State Foster Parents Association 6th Annual Conference is cancelled. It was scheduled for Saturday at the Sheraton Waikiki.

• The Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel Sam Choy Poke Festival has been postponed from this weekend to Dec. 7-9 at the Mauna Kea Resort. Current tickets will be honored then. Information: (808) 880-3023.

• Tomorrow night’s recital for winners of the Fifth Annual Art Song contest at Orvis Auditorium at the University of Hawai‘i has been postponed; a new date will be announced later. Information: KHPR, 955-8821.

• Wave Waikiki has postponed Saturday night’s “99 Bottles of Bud Lite on the Wall” event and is waiving the door charge that night for all members of the military.

• The bed race portion of the Honolulu International Bed Race Festival has been canceled. The festival, now called the Aloha Festivals Family Fun Day, will be held 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Kapi‘olani Park.

• Te Vaka, the 10-piece New Zealand band that had been scheduled for performances on Maui and O‘ahu, has been unable to leave New Zealand. Its Maui performance scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled. However, the Pacific Pride concert will still be held with other entertainers, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Kapono’s at Aloha Tower Marketplace.

• Lana‘i Visiting Artist Chef Guillermo Tellez of Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago will not appear at the Lana‘i resorts this weekend; the dinners and cooking classes will be rescheduled.

• Auditions for Army Community Theatre’s “Sayonara” have been rescheduled at Richardson Theatre, at Fort Shafter, for 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.

• A state government trade mission to China, scheduled for this fall, will be postponed until December.

• The 2001 Hi-Tech Summit, scheduled for this week, has been postponed until later this fall or spring 2002.

• The Mrs. America Pageant Fashion Preview and Luncheon, a benefit for Aloha Festivals, has been canceled. It was scheduled for 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, Coral Ballroom, Hilton Hawaiian Village.

• The Hawai‘i Visitors & Convention Bureau has postponed its inaugural tourism conference and luncheon, which was to have begun Monday. The three-day conference is expected to be rescheduled in the fall.

• Japan Travel Bureau, the largest wholesale supplier of Japanese visitors to Hawai‘i, has canceled all outbound package tours to Hawai‘i, Guam and the Mainland tomorrow and Saturday, said company spokesman David McNeil.

• Army Community Theatre has postponed this weekend’s performances of the musical “My Fair Lady” and its Readers Theatre offering, “The Debutante Ball.”
--“The Debutante Ball” has been postponed until Sept. 30, with the Sept. 23 performance date intact. Information: 438-4480.
--Tickets to “My Fair Lady” for Saturday will be honored on the rescheduled dates, Sept. 28 and 29; the Sept. 21 and 22 performances will proceed as usual.

• The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism’s trade mission to China, to promote Hawai‘i business opportunities, has been postponed until the first week of December. Gov. Ben Cayetano was scheduled to lead the delegation.

• The Hawai‘i Visitors & Convention Bureau canceled the following: “Experience Aloha!,” the bureau’s touring marketing event in Detroit originally scheduled for the weekend; its global in-store promotional efforts of a Hawaiian music CD called “Aloha Friday” and scheduled to begin Oct. 5.

• The city’s Bandstand Concert scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at Kapi‘olani Park Bandstand and the Kuhio Beach Torch Lighting and Hula Show scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Kuhio Beach hula mound are both canceled. Call 843-8002 for more information.

• The Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association’s Waikiki Historic Trail free guided walking tour scheduled for 9 a.m. is canceled. Tours will resume Saturday at 4:30 p.m. at the Duke Kahanamoku statue at Kuhio Beach. Call 841-6442 for more information.

• A delegation of city officials, consultants and City Council members have postponed a 10-day trip to Europe to check out new mass transit systems. The trip, which would have cost about $60,000, was to have begun Sunday.

• A lunch program tomorrow by the Waikiki Improvement Association at the Hilton Hawaiian Village will be refocused to remember victims of the East Coast terrorist attacks, with remarks by Mayor Jeremy Harris and an appearance by the Brothers Cazimero, according to city spokewoman Carol Costa.

• A fund-raising event for Kumu Kahua Theatre, originally scheduled for 7:30-9:30 p.m. tomorrow at Hula's Bar & Lei Stand, has been postponed. The new date has not been determined. Call 536-4222 for information.