Wednesday January 28
Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED
4155 Diamond Head Road, Jan. 28, and 31, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $110. Get trained to recognize and care for victims of illness and sudden injuries and life-threatening respiratory or cardiac emergencies in adults, children, and infants and learn how to use an AED. (1-800-733-2767, redcross.org/take-a-class)
Adult First Aid/CPR/AED
4155 Diamond Head Road, Jan. 28 and 31, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m., $90. Get trained to recognize and care for victims of illness and sudden injuries and learn how to administer CPR and use an AED for life-threatening respiratory or cardiac emergencies on adults. (1-800-733-2767, redcross.org/take-a-class)
Apple iPhone: Getting Started
Verizon Wireless at Pearlridge Center, 9-10 a.m., free. Learn how to use your new iPhone. (https://vzwworkshops.verizonwireless.com/vzwworkshops/)
Estate Planning Seminar
Hawaiian Humane Society, 5:30-6:30 p.m., free. Rhonda Griswold, Esq., a partner in Cades Schutte LLLP, discusses how to leave a legacy of love for pets by creating an estate plan that outlines how you want them taken care of if something happens to you. Pre-registration required. (356-2224, development@hawaiianhumane.org)
Healthy Pregnancy Class
Castle Medical Center, 6-8 p.m., $10. This one-hour class for couples will help prepare you for a healthy pregnancy. You will learn valuable and important information such as prenatal nutrition and exercises that will help keep you healthy and at low risk during pregnancy. (263-5400, castlemed.org)
Intro to Tanglang Quan
UH-Manoa’s Hemenway 208, Mondays and Wednesday through Feb. 25, 6-8 p.m., $100. Discover the Chinese martial art of Tanglang Quan, involving quick and constantly changing eye, hand, feet and body movement. (956-8244, outreach.hawaii.edu/noncredit/courses)
Patent & Trademark Searching
Aiea Public Library Auditorium, 99-374 Pohai Place, 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m., free. This seminar presents inventors, entrepreneurs, legal professionals and the general public a step-by-step guide and strategy for conducting patent and trademark searches and lessons learned from local entrepreneurs. Pre-registration required (586-3477)
Spring 2015 Ocean Rec. Program
Haleiwa Surf Center at Alii Beach Park, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays through April 30, 2-5:30 p.m., free. Surf, SUP, tiny toto, junior guard lessons and more. (637-5051)
Wednesday Night Wedding Workshops
Ward Warehouse conference room, 6:30 p.m., free. Focus on one aspect of wedding planning with The Wedding Cafe to make the process easy, efficient and fun, moving onto picture-perfect photography. (theweddingcafe.net)
Boys & Girls Club Annual Meeting
Pacific Club, 1451 Queen Emma St., 6-8 p.m., free. One hundred past and present board members, staff and other constituents will be present to recognize incoming corporate board members and award outstanding supporters from the past year. (949-4203)
Cancer Support Group
Kaiser Permanente Mapunapuna Medical Office, Maile Room, 2828 Paa St., Jan. 28, Feb. 25, March 25 and April 22, 5:30-7 p.m., free. Meet with others who have had similar experiences living with cancer. Share challenges, talk about your concerns and learn how others have dealt with the same problems you may be facing. Benefit from speakers who will be invited to present topics of interest to the group. (432-8538)
Community Listening Sessions
Leilehua High School, 6:30-9 p.m., free. The Department of the Army will discuss the proposed Army personnel reductions with the public, with an opportunity to provide impact as to how a force reduction would affect them. (656-3158, usaghi.pao.comrel@us.army.mil)
Cookies with the Law School Admissions Director and Students
UH-Manoa Law Library, 2525 Dole St., 4-5 p.m., free. Please join us for an informal Q&A session with Law School Admissions Director Elisabeth Steele Hutchison, Financial Aid Manager Cyrelle White and current Richardson law students. This is a great chance to get quick answers about the Law School and the admissions process. RSVP appreciated. (surveymonkey.com/s/lawandcookies)
Pro Action Cafe
ProtoHUB Honolulu, 458 Keawe St., 6-8:30 p.m., $5-$20. Pitching at Pro Action Café allows you to bring forth your business, startup, project or question to a number of people from all different corners of the community. You will have the chance to dissect your problem or question in ways you never thought possible. Pre-registration required. (eventbrite.com/e/pro-action-cafe-tickets-15293106092)
Town Hall Meeting
Kailua District Park, Multi Purpose Room, 21 N. Kainalu Drive, 6:30-8 p.m., free. Kailua Neighborhood Board’s Disaster Preparedness Committee presents a town hall meeting on flood warnings in Hawaii. (783-5396, ctomasa@gmail.com)
YWCA Oahu Benefit Clothing Sale
Laniakea YWCA Lobby, 1040 Richards St., 10 a.m.-2 p.m., free. This sale features amazing bargains on new and used women’s clothing and accessories, with all profits supporting economically disadvantaged women re-entering the workforce. (538-7061)
Latin Flava
Jazz Minds Art and Cafe, 1661 Kapiolani Blvd., 9 p.m.-2 a.m., $5. (945-0800)
Mango Season Duo
Nico’s Pier 38, 6-9 p.m., free. Enjoy sun-kissed island soul jazz. (253-9099)
2015 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
UH-Manoa Art Gallery, exhibit runs until Feb. 13, Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday noon-4 p.m., free. Hugh Cannon, Jennifer Chua, and Tom Walker, graduate students from the Department of Art & Art History at UH, concurrently present their MFA thesis works in separate and distinct areas of the gallery. (956-8364)
All Things Hawaiian Art Show
Honolulu Country Club, 1690 Ala Puumalu St., exhibit runs through Feb. 28, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., free. Featuring 2-D artwork in oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, mixed media and photography, all available for purchase. (286-5675, 393-1040)
’Becky’s New Car’
Manoa Valley Theatre, show runs Jan. 15-Feb. 11, Wednesdays-Thursdays 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m., $39/general. Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage — with no prospects for change on the horizon. Then one night she stumbles onto an opportunity at nothing short of a new life … and the audience is offered a chance to ride shotgun in a way that most plays wouldn’t dare. (988-6131, manoavalleytheatre.com)
Dream Art Car Contest
Honolulu Academy of Arts School, 1111 Victoria St., exhibit runs through Jan. 31, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., free. Check out last year’s winners of the Toyota Hawaii Dream Car Art Contest, with entries for this year’s contest due by Jan. 31 to Toyota dealers. (toyotahawaii.com)
Mountain Minorities: The Tamang and Rai Cultures of Nepal
UH-Manoa’s East-West Center Gallery, 1601 East-West Road, Jan. 25-May 10, weekdays 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday noon-4 p.m., free. Learn more about the Tamang and Rai peoples of Nepal, with photos, village art and more. (944-7177)
REHAB’S Creative Arts Program
Honolulu Museum of Art School Main Gallery, 1111 Victoria St., Jan. 22-Feb. 3, Tuesdays-Saturdays 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sundays 1-5 p.m., free. Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific’s Creative Arts Program will exhibit work created by patient-artists to celebrate the program’s 20th anniversary. (rehabhospital.org)
Theresa Marie Heinrich
Waikiki Parc Hotel’s Promenade Gallery, exhibit runs through March 27, 6-8 p.m., free. Theresa Marie Heinrich displays her ceramic and mixed media sculptures. (956-8364, gallery@hawaii.edu)
Undercurrents of Tradition
Gallery on the Pali, First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, 2500 Pali Hwy., exhibit runs until Feb. 12, Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 2-6 p.m., reception Jan. 17 from 5-7 p.m., free. This show is a triad reflection on the mana of Hawaii by Rochelle Weidner, Anita Bruce and Rebecca Snow. (595-4047)
Winter Footholds
UH-Manoa’s Earle Ernst Lab Theatre, 1770 East-West Road, Jan. 28, 29, 30 and 31 at 8 p.m., Feb. 1 at 2 p.m., $8-$18. Roxy Takaesu performs her senior project piece, “The Journey,” along with Terry Slaughter, Kapono Aiwohi-Kim, Tomomi Jane Hara, Mareva Minerbi, Jessica Dzienkowski, Faith Im and Laurie Hubbs. (944-2697, etickethawaii.com)