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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Thursday, May 29, 2008

Community calendar

TODAY

WOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAI'I launches its Fertile Grounds for Reproductive Justice Campaign with a talk by legal scholar Dorothy Roberts, who writes and lectures on the interplay of gender, race and class in legal issues, 5:30-8 p.m. at Downtown @ HiSAM, 250 S. Hotel St.; $75 including original menu by Chef Ed Kenney. Information: 737-1904, 221-2102 (Piia Aarma).

Hawaiian Historical Society, 6:30 p.m. meeting at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies auditorium; 7 p.m. screening of the documentary "Lahaina: Waves of Change" by Eddie and Myrna Kamae; free; public welcome. Information: 537-6271.

UPCOMING

MIDWAY MIRACLES AND MYSTERIES, lecture by Midway expert Alan Lloyd, 2 p.m. June 1 and 7 p.m. June 2 at Pacific Aviation Museum — Pearl Harbor; find out how Pearl Harbor's second bombing, the Doolittle raid, the Aleutian attack and the Battle of Midway relate; Laniakea Cafe will be open for dinner before the lecture, as will the museum shop; $14, children $7 (Hawai'i resident and military $10 and children $5), museum members free. Reservations required: 441-1008 by May 28. Information: www.pacificaviationmuseum.org.

BURMA (MYANMAR) CYCLONE RELIEF FUNDRAISER, 5:30 to 9 p.m. June 3 at Aloha Tower Marketplace on the water front; featuring Hawai'i's best chefs and top local entertainment, no-host cocktails, a silent auction with exotic and unique products; general admission $50, reserved seats $100, silver table of 10 $3,000, gold table of 10 $5,000. Information: 851-7010. (Those unable to attend may send checks made out to Myanmar Association of Hawaii to: Burmese Cyclone Victims, 720 N. King St., Honolulu, HI 96817.)

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A WRITTEN HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE, lecture by Peter Salter, senior resident historian at Mission Houses Museum, noon-1 p.m. June 3 at Mission Houses Museum, 553 S. King St.; free. Information: 261-0705 (Nanette Napoleon).

THE BEAD SOCIETY meeting on patriotic challenge, 7 p.m. June 25 at Academy Art Center at Linekona; visitors $5. Information: 422-0612.