Principal Conductor & Artistic Director of the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra
Chinese-Australian conductor Dane Lam is Music Director of the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra (assuming the post of Music Director in July 2023) and Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Brisbane, Australia to an Australian mother and a Singaporean-Chinese father, Dane played piano, clarinet, and saxophone as a child, and studied conducting under Gwyn Roberts at the University of Queensland.
He was the first conductor in the history of Opera Queensland to be honoured with an official position when he was appointed their Associate Music Director and Resident Conductor in December 2020.
Join us as we transition our leadership from President Joanna Amberger to President Elect Tom Coyne. Our Change of Command celebrations are full of fun, laughter, and yes, even some tears.
In commemoration of Joanna's fun-loving spirit, wear fun head attire!
Register as soon as possible! Come bid Joanna a fond farewell as our President while welcoming Tom in as our new President.
The Rotary Club of Honolulu runs on our member volunteers. We want to acknowledge all the contributions that our members make...big, small, on the stage, behind the scenes, time, treasure, talent.... it all matters! Tell us who you think makes a difference in our club and why! The nominations can be for silly or serious awards. The sky is the limit!
We wanted to thank you all at Rotary so much for all of your incredible hard work, sweat, and passion for helping us get more rooms online so we can better serve the community and move the needle on our mission of helping keep people off the street and empowering them to a better tomorrow.
Your time and talent have been invaluable, and it was a pleasure to get to know all of you and work side by side to improve our building and the experience of everyone who stays with us. Many of our residents have expressed their gratitude and wanted to thank you all as well. They greatly appreciate your efforts and love how the rooms look. We've already had quite a few ask if they could change to the newly renovated rooms.
I would also like to come to one of your meetings later this month and bring you a thank you gift from our residents and the team here. Would you all have a preferred date?
Thank you again for everything you have done to improve the look of the facility and the experience of our residents! It was truly a pleasure to work with you all and have you here.
Incoming President Tom Coyne has been working closely with our current and 2025 Club Treasurer Lucci Pinoliad, as well as with current President Joanna Amberger to finalize our budget for 2025. With membership staying steady at 117 members and with inflation increasing the cost of operating the club, we have little choice but to implement an increase for our membership dues. The chart shows the current dues rate and the new dues rate effective July 1, 2024.
Our incoming Board Director of Service Programs, Nancy Youngren has called us to help support "Monitors for Maui"!
WILL YOU HEED THE CALL?
Do you, or your family, friends, or co-workers, have any gently used computer monitors that need a good home? Please consider donating them to Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies for their project providing computers to students on Maui affected by the wildfires. Any kind, any size will be appreciated.
Please contact Nancy and she will coordinate a pickup from you. Thank you for your kokua in helping to make a difference for the children on Maui.
Greeters! Bring your amazing spirits and smiles! Welcome members and guests!
Pledge Leaders! Even if you are shy, this is a good way to start braving the waters to stand before your fellows and lead them for a few moments!
Inspiration!Everyone has something that has touched them, helped them, or just brought some joy. This might be through a personal experience, a quote, a poem, some wholesome laughter from a funny joke, a short story, ... whatever inspires you or whatever you feel will inspire others - we want to hear from YOU!
Apologies. Apparently, the link isn't working properly, so please email and let me know when and what you can help with! Mahalo!
Wear your Rotary shirts, sunscreen, hats, and bring your water container to stay hydrated! Use the Volunteer SignUp pages. We can never have too many helping hands!
The Honpa Hongwonji Bon Dance will be on Friday & Saturday, June 28 & 29 from 6:00pm - 10:30
Volunteer shifts are 5:30 -7:30pm
And 7:30 - 9:30pm both days.
We’ve been asked if we could cover the Chopa Table with the ministers. Towel sales and succulents are our charge.
Also needed are folks to help fold one thousand dance towels on Thursday June 13 1:00 until completion. Please check in at the Betsuin office for our location.
Bon dance volunteers are asked to park across the Pali Highway at the lot on Hi’aloha Street and walk through the tunnel to the event. See the attatched map.
You are also welcomed to join the dance. It’s open to the public.
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