About this Event
Live from the Atherton Storytellers' Series:
Talking Story with Pidgin Writer Lee A. Tonouchi
Thursday, June 4 at 6 p.m.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
On Thursday, June 4 at 6 p.m., Russell Subiono and Lee Tonouchi going talk about small kid time growing up in Hawai‘i speaking Pidgin a.k.a. Hawai‘i Creole. Braddah Lee going share several of his Pidgin pieces, both poetry and prose, an'den he going tell da secret origin on how he came for be known as "Da Pidgin Guerrilla."
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Lee A. Tonouchi stay Hawai‘i's Poet Laureate. His Pidgin poetry collection Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son wen go win da Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. He won planny prizes for his Pidgin plays and Pidgin short stories too. One pretty trippy ting he did late last year wuz he got invited for perform his Okinawan grandma story for The Moth at one sold out show at da Hawai‘i Theatre.
Lee will be joined by Russell Subiono, HPRʻs Vice President of Programming and Content Development and host of the HPR podcasts "This Is Our Hawaiʻi" and "Feathers and Fire."
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Atherton Performing Arts Studio, 738 Kāheka Street, Honolulu, United States
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