PAPER IN PARADISE · KONA, HAWAII
October 23 - 26, 2008

Timeline for “Paper In Paradise”

• Keepsake Participation Form DUE August 15, 2008
• Welcome Reception images DUE September 8, 2008
• Early Bird mail-in Registration DUE September 15, 2008
• Scholarship Applications DUE September 15, 2008
• Keepsakes, if you ARE NOT attending meeting, DUE Oct. 1, 2008
• Final day for mail-in Registration DUE October 10, 2008
• Final day for ‘Petite Paper Exhibition’ submissions, if you ARE NOT attending meeting, DUE October 15, 2008

PreConference
• Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008 Preconference: Native Plants
• Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 Preconference: In-Depth Papermaking
• Thursday Oct. 23, 2008 PreConference: Ethnobotanical Gardens

Conference - begins Thursday evening, Oct. 23, 2008
• Thursday Oct. 23, 2008, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., - Welcome Reception
• Friday & Saturday, Oct. 24-25, 2008 - Presentations
• Friday & Saturday, Oct. 24-25, 2008 - Trade Fair (scheduled hours)
• Friday evening, Oct. 24, 2008 - ‘Paper & Fire’
• Later Friday evening, - ‘Bowling for Dullards’
• Saturday evening, Oct. 25, 2008 - Auction & ‘Kings Garden Banquet’
• Sunday morning, Oct 26, 2008 - ‘Planning Meeting for 2009’

HAWAII CALLS THE FRIENDS
October 23 - 26, 2008

When the airport shuttle pulled up in front of the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, I could see the young people at the front desk smiling at me. I could see them because there are no walls, no glass, no doors. There is just an overhang from the reception desk to the curb, in case of rain. I saw the ocean spilling over black lava rocks a few yards away, palm trees swaying, heard birds calling, and felt the languid air. Tensions I didn’t know I had were falling away. This was my welcome to Hawaii.

Later I had a chance to climb on the rocks the ocean is crashing against – a view we will each have from our windows. The lava is by turns jagged and smooth, which reminded me to bring my Tevas the next time I went out on them. The tide pools are full of fish: tiny ones in busy schools, bigger fish swimming alone. Crabs skitter across the shoals and chase each other around the rocks. There is a fish that jumps out of the water and skips over it, just like it was a flat rock lobbed from the shore. There are sea urchins that cleverly camouflage themselves with bits of shell (another reason for shoes you can wear in the water.) But by far and away the most amazing sight are the green sea turtles.

The Hawaiian green turtle is a native to these waters and here, at
the Outrigger, they come right in to shore. You see their heads poking up while you are eating your mahi-mahi sandwich and drinking your papaya smoothie (best smoothie I ever had.) You see them when you walk along the coastline, eight or nine basking on the rocks. Going down to the snorkeling beach next to the hotel (some say the best snorkeling on the island) I saw one out of the water and stepped carefully on the lava to get a closer look. Mistaking the back of another for black rock, I almost stepped on it as it munched seaweed in the shallows beneath my feet. With this amazing prehistoric creature not three feet from me I sat down and took out pen and paper to draw. Every once in awhile it would stop nibbling and lift its head out of water. Then I was looking into its big eyes and translucent beak as it spat a stream of water and paid no attention
to me.

This reminds me to say bring your art tools — pencils, pens, watercolors, cameras. The sunsets, water, trees, shadows, flowers, and wildlife are impossibly beautiful. Just the silhouettes at dusk are breathtaking. This is truly paradise for artists.

PAPER IN PARADISE · KONA, HAWAII 2008

PRE-CONFERENCE
Which brings me to the pre-conference events. On Wednesday, October 22nd, Marilyn Wold, our site host, is planning to demonstrate the process of preparing Hawaiian plants for papermaking. This includes gathering, stripping, cooking, washing, etc. The fibers will include banana, breadfruit, and Hawaiian kozo (wauke.) This will be at the Donkey Mill Art Center. See the PreConference Info for more details.

Marilyn Wold (right) with Friends and Hawaiian fiber examples

On Thursday, October 23rd, you will have a choice: you can continue working with the fibers prepared on Wednesday and finish making them into paper with Marilyn at Donkeymill. Your other choice is to go to The Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden. The idea is for people to learn to peel and clean wauke bark and pound it into kapa. Participants will make traditional dyes from native plants, learn to carve ohe kapala, the bamboo stamps, and decorate their kapa pieces using the stamps they made, with their dyes, using hala keys as paint brushes (this is a traditional use of the hala tree fruit section, or keys.) See the PreConference Info for more details.

Hawaiian kozo (wauke) plant

PRESENTATIONS
Marilyn has had an enthusiastic response from paper makers in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Japan. This promises to be our most international Friends meeting to date, and a good start on our becoming more connected around the world. Our final selection of presenters will be announced soon.

KEEPSAKES & MEMBERS' WORK
Allison Roscoe has already made colorful paste paper envelopes for the keepsakes and we have a new idea for an art show, keeping in mind that shipping costs can be high. Both of these will emphasize smaller work and we encourage you to bring your work and assemble the show/keepsake on the Island. See the Keepsake Form and the Petite Paper Exhibition pdfs for more information. This same information will also be in the annual meeting registration packet to be mailed to current members in July. So save your pennies, pack your sunscreen, and think of ukulele songs you want to hear. Hawaii is bewitching, and it is calling.

Jill Littlewood
Vice President Annual Meetings
jill(at)littlewoodstudios.com

Our hotel venue for the meeting will be the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, 78-6740 Alii Drive, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740. More details will be forthcoming as they become finalized, please check back periodically. Annual Meeting Registration Packets will be mailed this summer to our current membership.

FDH Annual Meeting, October 2008 · Kaliua-Kona, Hawaii.

FDH Annual Meeting, October 2008
Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, Kaliua-Kona, Hawaii.

FDH Annual Meeting, October 2008
Meeting Site at the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, Kaliua, Kona

FDH Annual Meeting, October 2008
Poolside at the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, Kaliua, Kona

FDH Annual Meeting, October 2008
Garden Pond at Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, Kaliua, Kona

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ABOUT FDH SCHOLARSHIPS
Cash donations and money brought in each year at our auctions is used to pay for scholarships for the following year's meeting. These scholarships allow students and others of modest means to participate in our meetings. If you would not otherwise be able to afford this year's meeting, perhaps a scholarship would help to make it possible.

There are three levels of FDH scholarships available: Regional Scholarships: $175, for members who live within the annual meeting designated area (State of Hawaii). Full Scholarships: $250, for members who live outside the annual meeting designated area (other 49 states), and the Elaine Koretsky International Scholarship: $400, for members who are traveling from outside the United States. You must 18 years of age and a current member of the Friends to apply for a scholarship. Please mark the Scholarship checkbox on the Annual Meeting Registration Form to become a candidate. Annual Meeting Registration Forms are mailed in July of each year to our entire membership. This same Registration Form will be posted on our website a month later. This permits our current paid members to have the first opportunity to fill out the Registration Form and make their event selections (another benefit of membership in the Friends). As a scholarship candidate, your completed Annual Meeting Registration Form must be mailed before September 15th.
Do not send any money with the Registration Form. Payment arrangements will be made after selection notification.
Please Note: you are ineligible for consideration, if you have already received a FDH scholarship within the last three years. You may apply again after the three year waiting period.

Selection is based on the amount of funds available. If, in any given year, the number of applicants exceeds the amount of funds available, a random drawing of applicant names will take place by the FDH Executive Committee. All applicants will be notified in a timely manner after the September 15th deadline to allow for the completion of their travel plans. See the 2008 Scholarship Application Form for more details about applying for this year's meeting in Kona, Hawaii.

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