Posted on: Friday, August 8, 2008
Chinatown celebrating 8/8/08, Olympics all day
Advertiser Staff
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TODAY'S SCHEDULE
11 a.m.-7:50 p.m. Visit participating businesses and get "8" merchant marks/stamps to qualify for hundreds of prizes, including original art, gift certificates, and money. Tie "As you Wish" bookmarks on the bamboo thickets. Special paper will be available at each participating gallery and store for anyone wishing to write their wishes for the world, the nation, the state, their families and themselves. The written wishes will be taken to the Seicho No Ie, Jisso Center as offerings.5:30-7:30 p.m. Wine tasting sponsored by HASR Wine Co. Chinese lion dancing 2,000 bottles of soap bubbles will be given away free at participating galleries5:30-10 p.m. Entertainment on-stage includes the Cherry Blossom Cabaret, Doolin Rakes and Squirrel Hunters. Wine and beer garden on Hotel Street Craft fair Opening ceremony of the Beijing Games, starting at 6 p.m. on the 16-by-20-foot screen8:08 p.m. Howard Dashefsky of KHNL8 will count down to the Bubble Wishing Moment. Everyone is invited to participate by making their wishes as they are blowing the bubbles.
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The Honolulu Arts and Culture District is celebrating the "luckiest day of the millennium" with a day of art, crafts, food, music and more throughout the day.
To take advantage of what some cultures believe to be a particularly auspicious date, participating merchants in Chinatown will be offering bookmarks that people can write wishes on before hanging them from bamboo thickets. If that wish isn't enough, at 8:08 p.m., there will be a mass bubble-wishing moment followed by lion dances.
In the evening, arts merchants will host a street fair with live entertainment and a broadcast of the 2008 Olympics' opening ceremony.
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