Finkenberg to teach Latin dancing
Aloha Performing Arts Company is offering a four-session workshop titled “Latin Fever” to help actors and dancers prepare for upcoming auditions in the spring musical theater production “Evita.” Juanita Finkenberg, choreographer of “Fiddler on the Roof” and movement coach for “Waiting for Godot” and “Jekyll &Hyde,” will teach this introduction to basic social partner dancing that includes, foxtrot, rumba and tango. Emphasis will be placed on footwork, floor patterns, framing, rhythm and style and simple sequences will be introduced.
All ages and skill levels are welcome. Men should wear dress or dance shoes and women should wear secure heels or dance shoes. The workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays, Nov. 22 and 29 and Dec. 6 and 13 at the Aloha Theatre. Tuition is $40 and students must commit to at least three sessions.
To register and request one of the few scholarships available, contact Suzanne Murdock at 322-9924 or info@apachawaii.org. For workshop content details, call Finkenberg at 333-5927.
Shortini displays digital photos
Innovations Hair Salon invites the public to attend an exclusive showing of “The Digital Photography of Kirk Shorte.” A meet the photographer event is scheduled from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the salon.
On display will be his photos of the sites, scenes and faces of Hawaii. The show continues through the month.
Buehring showing coffee artwork
Cheryl Buehring is one of about six artists around the world who makes painting with coffee her primary artistic medium. However, what’s unique about Buehring is that she paints her coffee watercolors with 100 percent Kona coffee. Her sepia-toned paintings often are focused on scenes from nature, including flowers and animals particularly familiar to residents of Hawaii.
Born in the Northwest, Buehring lived in Kona from 1979 to 1984, where she met and married her husband, Dave, and gave birth to their first child. Moving to the mainland, they grew as a family and raised their children. When their children became young adults, Buehring rediscovered her artistic abilities through a friend who had done a painting with coffee. Since then, she’s combined her love for Kona with her passion for painting .
During the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival, Buehring will be in town to display three of her original coffee watercolors at the Donkey Mill Art Center in Holualoa as part of the Kona Coffee Art Show and Competition. They include one of her most treasured works, “Honu’s Playground,” as well as “Big Island Church,” a familiar site to those living in and around Kealakekua; and a favorite among admirers of her work, “Old Faithful,” depicting a dependable, well-worn farmer’s lantern.
Buehring and her family currently reside in Franklin, Tenn.
