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Leisure The Hanford Sentinel Thursday, April 30, 1992 fiUtft at Sunday Uciiau tot ant 'TUtoUay RUSSIA i CHINA Enn4 ft KOREA JAPAN rJ s. Korea Tokyo Jk A THE SENTINEL STAFF Last year the Hanford-Setana Sister City Committee hosted a delegation from the Japanese city linked to Hanford and sponsored a concert by a world-class pianist to help defray the costs of the visit. This year, the committee will reverse the flow by sending some students to Sctana, but one thing has not reversed. Classical pianist John again will tickle the ivories to benefit the committee and its activities. Kamitsuka will perform at 2 p.m.

this Sunday at the Fox Theatre. Tickets still are available from committee members, at Daugherty Travel and at the Fox door. Cost is $15 general, $7.50 for students and $10 for senior citizens. In tandem with Kamilsukas performance, the associate curator of Japanese an at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco will give a lecture on Japanese art Monday at the Kings Art Center. Dr.

Yoko Woodson will speak at 7 p.m. There is no cost, but voluntary donations are appreciated. Woodson was educated in art history through the University of California system, earning a doctorate in Japanese art history from Arthur Kamitsuka is a Presbyterian minister and missionary who worked with Heifer Project International, a private, interdenominational church-based effort which began with providing donated dairy cows as a lever for advancement. The elder Kamitsuka travelled throughout Japan, including the northern island of Hokkaido where Sctana is located, working both for Lite church and for HPI. Sctana itself received 10 bred dairy cows from HPI, some of those cattle coming from the Hanford area.

Arthur had taken a special interest in Setana, which had been hurt severely when the herring its fishing fleets depended on disappeared. HPI still is a vital entity which provides a helping hand to poor or developing countries around the world. One of provisions is that the recipient is to share the offspring with others, in a neighbor-hclping-ncighbor program. Today, the contributions include poultry, bees and other livestock as well as cattle. Cut to the present.

Japan has risen from the ashes. Arthur Kamitsuka is still a minister, and he still maintains tics with: Hanford, where he guest See SETANA: Page 3B Pacific Ocean 250 km Berkeley in 1983. She has published extensively on Japanese and Oriental art, including pieces on Western influences. Kamitsukas part in the Hanford-Setana connection is deeper than his benefit performance during the committees debut year or the fact that hes an American with a Japanese surname. His ties go back to his father, Arthur, and the work done by Americans to lift Japan and other (then) third-worldish countries out of the ashes of World War II.

hings to Forum opens Saroyan test FRESNO A symposium, William Saroyan: After a Decade Later, will open the three-day eighth annual William Saroyan Festival in Fresno on Friday. The symposium will be from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Student Union at California State University, Fresno. The event is free and open to the public. Leading the symposium will be John Leggett, official Saroyan biographer, and Dickran Kouymjian, CSUF professor of Armenian studies.

Leggetts topic will be Autobiographical Reflections on William Saroyan: Three Post War Novels" and Kouymjian will talk on Saroyans Teachers: Whitman and Others. On Saturday, friends and visitors will meet at 8:30 a.m. in front of the Saroyan Theater of the Fresno Convention Center for the 1 '2-hour guided walk to Saroyan sites in the area known as Armenian Town. Also on Saturday, starting at 8 a.m. will be a new event, the Saroyan Bicycle Road Race, leaving from 325 Pollasky in Clovis.

Applications for participants are available at Valley Sports, 6511 N. Blackstone Ave. The second annual Saroyan Criterium bike race will start at 8 am. Sunday in back of the Saroyan Theater. A program of Fond Saroyan Vignettes, at the Second Space Theater has been postponed to Saroyans birthday on Aug.

21. The presentation will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Good Company Music Hall. Prizes will be awarded to student winners of the Saroyan Writing contest during the Saroyan-in-thc-Park band concert at Woodward Park on June 1. Saroyan, once a newsboy on the streets of Fresno, became a world famous author and playwright.

His childhood home at 3204 E. El Monte Way has been added to the Fresno local Register of Historic Resources, a monument has been constucted in his honor at the soulhwst comer of the Fresno County Courthouse, Van Ness Avenue and Tulare Sheet, and the Convention Center theater has been named for Saroyan. He was the first American writer to be awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle award in the same year (1940) for the play The Time of Your Life." He won an Oscar in 1943 for The Human Comedy. hi addition, Saroyan produced an extensive catalog of published works, including short stories, plays and books, as well as a voluminous collection of unpublished manuscripts, journals and letters. Bom in Fresno on Aug.

31, 1908, the son of Armenian immigrants, Saroyan died there on May 18, 1981. On May 22, 1991, he became the first native-born United States citizen to be honored with a joint first day issue of a U.S. postage stamp and a USSR stamp in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. Cinco de Mayo VISALIA -The MECHA Club at College of the Sequoias will sponsor a Cinco de Mayo celebration from 1 1 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tuesday in the college quad. Activities will include food booths, entertainment and crowning of a king and queen. At 1 p.m., mariachis will perform in the COS gym. The public is invited to attend. For further information, call 1730-3955 or 730-3832.

Art entries invited KINGSBURG Kingsburg Arts Center has announced the annual Swedish Festival an exhibit will be on display at the Swedish Village Mall starting at 9 a.m. May 16. Anists arc welcome to enter two pieces of work in each of two categories: Framed art (paintings, graphics and pastels) and other media (such as ceramics, sculpture, wood, metal, cloth painting, stained glass, stitchery). All work must be Fantasia on Greensleevcs based on two English folk songs, and Johan Sibelius tone poem, The Swan of Tuonela. Also included is Russian Sailors Dance from Glieres popular Red Poppy ballet.

The major work on the program is Hindemiths Mathis der Maler, the symphonic version of the opera by the same name. Tickets are $16, $12 and $5. The symphony also is offering a special pre-Mothcrs Day package. Those who buy one ticket can receive another ticket free to lake their mother to the concert. Tickets for the 1992-93 season also will be on sale.

For further information, call 732-8600. Old English affair CLOVIS More than 600 costumed inhabitants of mythical Bardletford will He entertaining on See THINGS; Page 3B original and display-ready. Entry fee is $2 per piece for nonmembers. Awards will be given for first, second and third places and honorable mentions. A cash prize of S25 will be awarded for best of show, based on votes cast by the public.

Some items will be selected to hang in the Arts Centers gallery until July 10. For further information call 896-1920. Season concludes VISALIA The Tulare County Symphony will close its 1991-92 season with a concert of light classics on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the LJ. Williams Theater.

Much of the originally-announced program has been changed because a large enough chorus could not be assembled to do the major choral works. Selections will include Blue Danube, Johann Strauss most famous waltz; Vaughn Williams Agustin Lira, Alma return for program COALINGA Making a return visit to West Hills College, Agustin Lira and the group Alma will present a musical program about the Chicano Latino experience Friday at 8 p.m. in the Coalinga campus theater. Lira and lead guitarist Patricia Wells Solorzano have performed together for more than 10 years. Other musicians in the group include Ravi Knypstra, bass and vocals; Harold Muniz, master drummer, and Beatriz Godinez, percussion.

The group blends traditional Mexican, Afro-Latin, American folk and contemporary styles. A co-founder in 1965 of the acclaimed El Tcatro Campesino, Lira received the New York Off-Broadway Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award in 1967-68 and in 1969. He and Alma recently released a recording titled World Music of Struggle. The recording resulted from the 1990 Festival of American Folklife at the Smithsonian Institulionin Washington, D.C. Lira includes in his program such original compositions as Scr Como el Air Libre, Noche Azul," Todo es Para Ti and Tata Dios.

Most of them are drawn from the California farm worker experience. Tickets may be purchased at the Coalinga campus bookstore between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and during office hours at the Kings County campus in Lcmoore. Admission is $4.50 for adults, $2.50 for senior citizens and children under 12, with a $12 family rate.

Admission is free for WHC students with student body cards. For further information call 935-0801 or (800) 266-1 1 14. Fiesta Days celebrated FRESNO Fiesta Days, a springtime fair which recognizes the Hispanic community and its contributions to the San Joaquin Valley, will be celebrated once again this weekend under sponsorship of the Fresno District Fair board of directors. Last years inaugural celebration drew more than 70,000 persons. The three-day festival includes Hispanic entertainment, exhibits and cuisine.

Admission will be $5 for adults, $2 for senior citizens and children age 6 to 12. Hours will be from 3 to 11 p.m. Friday, with opening ceremonies at 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.

to 10 p.m. Sunday. A special childrens one-kilometer run, first of its kind in the Central San Joaquin Valley, starts at 8 a.m. Saturday. Registration is $5 before race day, $7 on Saturday.

Proceeds will benefit Valley Childrens Hospital. Fiesta Days will feature 90 hours of special entertainment including the Texas Tornadoes featuring country singer Freddy Fender at 7:30 and hip-hop artists Ce Ce Peniston and Tony Terry at 9 p.m. Friday; best-selling Mexican singer Luis Miguel at 7:30 pm. Saturday and the queen of Mexican television, Veronica Castro at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

All of the shows will be at the outdoor Paul Paul Theater. Exhibits in the Industrial Arts and Photography Building will feature work by local Hispanic photographers, native Mexican art, art-inprogress, student youth art, Alfredo Zalce art, ceramic works, fine arts, and posters from the What My Hispanic Heritage Means to My Community, a contest which drew more than 5,000 participants in grades 2 through 12 in the Fresno Unified and county schools. In the Wine and Rose Garden will be a number of booths and live entertainment. Agustin Lira and Alma will fill return engagement at WHC. Shew plays at COS Flowers bloom at center A profusion of flowers, both real and painted, greeted the visitor to the Kings Art Center for start of the current show, Flowers in Bloom.

The combination of watcr-color flowers and flower arrangements surrounded the viewer as if standing in a garden. VISALIA Jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew will be guest soloist for College of the Sequoias annual jazz festival at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the COS Theater. Shew has played with Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman and Buddy Rich as well as such performers as Della Reese, Robert Goulet, Steve Allen, Elvis Presley and Tom Jones. Also performing will be the colleges three jazz ensembles under direction of Harry Buyuklian, Jeff Bildcn and Bill Butts.

Shew will conduct a trumpet clinic at 3 p.m. in die COS band room. Students can attended the clinic free. Tickets for the festival concert are $5 and must be purchased in advance. They arc available from the COS administration office, music dcpiirtment ar.d jazz ensemble Reid is a Southwest artist who currently maintains a studio in Cambria.

She has exhibited all over California and is represented in major public and corporate collections. Her works may be seen in La Jolla at Riggs Galleries and in Bakersfield at C. L. Clark Galleries. She has won numerous watcrcolor awards.

The jurors entry, Sunflowers, shows the skill and artistic interpretation Reid applies to her own painting. Her sunflowers are extremely active with lots of movement created by the stem, leaf and petal patterns. The colors, as well as the patterns created, are vibrant, with colors of yellow, gold and amber set off by a variety of greens. Although the floral theme was constant, there was much variety of perspective ranging from an overview of trees in bloom with a mountain range background as in Jane Geyers Spring Has Sprung, to detailed closeups of blossoms, such as Wesley Osbums The Matilija See FLOWERS, Page 3B The fresh flowers now are gone, but the watercolors remain through May 10. The art show was a juried show.

Due to space requirements, only. 50 works were selected out of 75 entries. Judge for the show was Tracy Reid and it was her job to select the entries to be shown. A formidable task as there were many outstanding paintings entered. Bobby Shew.