Imiloa, VAC, Pets and more….

Enjoy, learn and honor the art, science and culture of oceanic navigation during ‘Imiloa’s 11th annual Wayfinding Festival, sponsored by the Ama OluKai Foundation, this weekend.

This year’s festival is slated for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 18). Admission is free.

This 2018 festival theme, “Samoa, The Navigator’s Islands,” will feature a special panel discussion with crew members who sailed on Hokule‘a’s voyage to Samoa. Crew members will recount their 2014 visit to the islands that constitute Samoa and share the significance of Samoa, its culture and history and why these islands are considered the “Cradle of Polynesian Civilization.”

“Navigating the deep sea and charting their oceanic voyages using clues from natural surroundings is an admirable feat and we, at ‘Imiloa are thrilled to host our annual Wayfinding Festival to honor our ancestors,” said ‘Imiloa Executive Director Ka‘iu Kimura. “And, at the same time, it is a chance to celebrate our modern day navigators who are inspiring and educating our next generation of celestial navigators.”

The full day’s events will include indoor and outdoor voyaging activities, presentations in the CyberCANOE, star lines presentation in the planetarium and access to ‘Imiloa’s interactive Exhibit Hall. There also will be a children’s show in the planetarium every hour.

To top it off, the first 150 youth to successfully build a canoe model will be able to keep it as a souvenir.

“We are very grateful to Ama OluKai Foundation for its continued support of ‘Imiloa and sponsorship of our 11th annual Wayfinding Festival as we share in the celebration of Hawaiian culture, its ancestral past and exploration,” said Kalepa Baybayan, ‘Imiloa’s navigator-in-residence.

‘Imiloa is a world-class center for informal science education located on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Its centerpiece is a 12,000-square-foot Exhibit Hall, showcasing astronomy and Hawaiian culture as parallel journeys of human exploration guided by the light of the stars.

The visitor experience is amplified with programming using ‘Imiloa’s full-dome planetarium and 9 acres of native landscape gardens.

The center welcomes about 100,000 visitors each year, including more than 10,000 schoolchildren on guided field trips and other educational programs.

‘Imiloa is located at 600 ‘Imiloa Place in Hilo, off of Komohana and Nowelo streets in the UH-Hilo Science and Technology Park.

For more information about the center or the upcoming Wayfinding Festival, visit www.ImiloaHawaii.org or call 932-8901.

Find your passion again and learn tricks that can pull you out of any drawing funk.

Artist Rose Adare offers the “Inspired Figure Drawing” workshop from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday (Nov. 17) at Volcano Art Center’s Ni‘aulani Campus in Volcano Village.

A variety of drawing techniques will be covered, including “The Tornado” and “Pop &Lock Draw,” to give students fresh ways to view drawing. Learn how different music influences drawings and how stance and movement also can play a role.

This is an “out-of-the-box” way of drawing a model and connecting with materials, the model and creativity.

Cost is $65, or $60 for VAC members, plus a $10 model fee. Students are asked to bring a pen, notebook, drawing materials such as charcoal, pencil, erasers, and a large pad of paper at least 11-by-14 inches big.

Adare is a graduate of the San Francisco Academy of Art University and trained under the esteemed living master David Hardy. She began her fine art career at The Muse Studio in Berkeley, Calif.

Struck by a municipal train in 2005, Adare spent the following years in physical rehabilitation and retaught herself how to paint, returning to the art scene in 2009.

To register for the drawing workshop, call VAC at 967-8222 or visit www.volcanoartcenter.org.

The Ni‘aulani Campus is located at 19-4074 Old Volcano Road in Volcano Village.

Volcano Art Center is a nonprofit educational organization created in 1974 to promote, develop and perpetuate the artistic and cultural heritage of Hawaii’s people and environment through activities in the visual, literary and performing arts.

Rainbow Friends Animal Sanctuary  Olivia, Newton and Corgi on Saturday during an adoption event at Aloha Pawz in Hilo. The sanctuary will host another pet adoption event from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 18) at Petco in Hilo.