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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updatedat 5 p.m., Friday, September 14, 2001

America's bloodiest day
Cancellations

Advertiser Staff

Here is a list of cancellations and postponements arising from Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Check with the venue for the latest information.


• Tomorrow’s Aloha Festivals Floral Parade is canceled; new dates for the Aloha Festivals ho‘olaule‘a street festivals, also canceled, will be announced at a future time.

• Orchesta SalsAloha, scheduled to play this weekend at Planet Hollywood, is unable to perform as band members are active military on high state of readiness; deejays will spin Latin music 9 p.m.-2 a.m. tomorrow night instead.

• The Kama‘aina Luau tomorrow at Hilton Hawaiian Village is canceled.

• The Doo Wop Hop tomorrow night at the Blaisdell Arena, has been postponed to Oct. 6. Tickets will be honored on that date. Information: Blaisdell box office 591-2211.

• Bishop Museum and the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa postponed the official opening and blessing of the Bishop Museum at Kalia that was to have taken place tonight; a date will be announced in the future.

• The Hawai‘i State Foster Parents Association sixth annual conference is canceled. It was to begin tomorrow 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. Tickets will be honored then. Information: (808) 880-3023.

• Wave Waikiki has postponed tomorrow 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. tomorrow at Kapi‘olani Park.

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

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

• The Mrs. America Pageant Fashion Preview and Luncheon Sunday, a benefit for Aloha Festivals, has been canceled.

• 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, 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 tomorrow will be honored on Sept. 29; the Sept. 21 and 22 performances will proceed as usual.

• The Hawai‘i Visitors & Convention Bureau has 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" scheduled to begin Oct. 5.

• 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.

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

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

• A state Reapportionment Commission public hearing, scheduled for 7 p.m. today in Kahului, is postponed; a new date will be announced. Call (866) 587-3902 toll-free for information.

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

• Tonight's recital for winners of the fifth annual Art Song Contest at Orvis Auditorium at the University of Hawai'i has been postponed. New date will be announced. Information: KHPR, 955-8821

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

• The Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association's Waikiki Historic Trail free guided walking tour, scheduled for 9 a.m. today, was canceled. Tours will resume tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. at the Duke Kahanamoku statue at Kuhio Beach. Call 841-6442 for details.

• Auditions for Army Community Theatre's "Sayonara" have been rescheduled at Richardson Theatre at Fort Shafter for 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.

• A delegation of city officials, consultants and City Council members postponed a trip to Europe to check out mass transit. The trip was to have begun Sunday.

— Advertiser Staff