International Education Week 2005

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“International Flair,” a festive IEW event co-chaired by UH Hilo students Edward Johns and Ann Inouye, takes place Tuesday, November 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Campus Center Plaza. Live music and entertainment include Koburo Taiko Drumming, Sisters of the Calabash belly dancers, the Brigham Young University of Hawai‘i steel drum band Shaka Steel, Times Five, the UH Hilo Cheerleaders and UH Hilo Samoan Club. Student clubs will display various cultural demonstrations and there will be information on study, work and volunteer abroad opportunities including Peace Corps, UNICEF, Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET), U.S. Fulbright Program and Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE).

“Voices of the World,” a foreign language speech contest and open microphone chaired by UH Hilo student Ariela Marshall, is Wednesday, November 16, 8 a.m. on the Campus Center Plaza. Students from several foreign language classes will participate in the speech contest. In the Open Microphone category, students will be given five minutes to share, in any language, a speech, prose, reading or song on a subject of their choice.

There will also be free public screenings of foreign films during IEW. All movies start at 6:00 p.m. The schedule is as follows:

November 14th: “Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain” (French film), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and featuring Audrey Tautou; Wentworth Hall, Room 1.
November 15th: “Ka'ililauokekoa” (first-ever Hawaiian language feature-length film) and winner of the 2001 Kahili Award; UCB 100.
November 16th: “Goodbye, Lenin!” (German film), winner of six prestigious European Film Awards, including Best Picture and 2004 Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film; Wentworth Hall, Room 1.
November 17th: “Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke)” and “Hoare no Hake (Grave of the Fireflies)” (Japanese Films); UCB 100.