Maui Arts & Entertainment

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has awarded a $ 7,000 grant to the East Maui Taro Festival to support its annual event held in Hāna, Maui.

Now through Christmas Day, Scuba Claus and Elf will make daily underwater appearances at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the aquarium’s Open Ocean Exhibit to spread holiday cheer and talk about the aquarium’s marine life.

Country music superstars Lee Brice and Tyler Farr will perform at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s A&B Amphitheater/Yokouchi Pavilion on March 6, 2016. Opening the show will be Maui’s rising star, singer-songwriter Lily Meola.

The band’s new three-piece string section brings Soul Kitchen’s chef count to nine musicians, who will be serving up hot dance tunes on Saturday, Dec. 19, from 7 to 9 p.m

The Maui Film Festival’s 17th annual FirstLight: Academy Screenings on Maui event at the Maui Art and Cultural Center’s Castle Theater is offering three days of award-winning movies on Sunday, Dec. 20, Saturday, Dec. 26 and Sunday, Dec. 27.

Koa will perform on Lahaina Restoration Foundation’s Baldwin Home Museum lawn at the corner of Dickenson and Front streets on Thursday, Dec. 17, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Members and the general public are invited to attend Japanese Cultural Society of Maui’s Oshogatsu Traditions Dinner on Monday, Dec. 28, at 5:30 p.m. at Wailuku Hongwanji social hall.

Kumu Hula and Nā Hōkū Hanohano award winner Napua Greig will perform with her hālau at The Shops at Wailea’s Wailea Le‘a event on Wednesday, Dec. 16, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the fountain courtyard.

Konomi Dance Works will present THE MIX 2015, the studio’s second annual dance-off, on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s McCoy Studio Theater.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center and Bishop Museum’s exhibit of lau hala artifacts from the museum’s collections and the work of contemporary lau hala weavers in Hawai‘i at Schaefer International Gallery will be on display through Dec. 20.

Renowned for his super-fast and complex finger work, ‘ukulele wizard Jake Shimabukuro will return to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Castle Theater on Friday, Dec. 11, with special guests from the Maui Songwriters Festival as part of its Ho‘onanea Series.

Maui’s Ryan Ursua, a 5th grader at Pōmaikaʻi Elementary School, has been cast in the Christmas comedy movie “Aloha Santa” staring comedian/actor George Lopez.

The MACC is presenting an evening of diverse entertainment tonight, Thursday, Dec. 10: Last Comic Standing Live Tour and Joshua Radin & Friends.

Tasty Pie Productions & Kit Kat Club Cabaret will present All I Want for Christmas, a night of a sexy and swanky burlesque and dancing, on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, at Casanova Italian Restaurant in Makawao.

Residents and visitors are invited to celebrate the holidays with family and friends at the Second Annual Holiday Tree Lighting event from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 12, the grounds of MauiWine at ʻUlupalakua Ranch.

Twelve Maui residents are among the 50 Hawai‘i’s artists featured in Contemporary Publications’ Aloha Expressionism by Contemporary Hawaiʻi Artists, which was released in September 2015.

Soul Kitchen’s new three-piece string section brings Soul Kitchen’s chef count to nine musicians, who will be serving up hot dance tunes on Friday, Dec. 11 from 7 to 9 p.m

This year, the Maui Chamber Orchestra and Maui Masterworks Chorale director, Maestro Robert E. Wills promises a Handel’s Messiah “you have never heard it before!”

Maui Now’s Malika Dudley visited the Shops at Wailea to find out what’s happening there this holiday season. It’s the first year that Santa has been…

This Friday night, join Lahaina’s Second Friday celebration with merchandise specials, kama‘āina discounts, delicious food and live music, participate in LahainaTown Action Committee’s biggest fundraiser of the year and check out Art Night.