Adventurers Club Honolulu May 18, 2023

 

A D V E N T U R E R S ' S  C L U B  O F

  H O N O L U L U 

MAY MEETING
T H U R S D A Y , MA Y 1 8, 2023

Aloha Adventurers,
    As Spring transitions into Summer, we are heating things up with a set of new programs, starting with members Ted & Judy Simon, titled, "Ring of Fire: Dance of the Warriors". Check out page 2 for the program description.
       May will take us back to the Natsunoya Tea House where we will enjoy their Japanese buffet. Remember it's BYOB, and don't forget your bottle openers and glasses. We need your help please to make the registration line move more quickly. We are asking members to please make your checks out in advance and be sure to use our full name, Adventurers’ Club of Honolulu. Recently, our bank has been rejecting checks that don’t use the full name. Also, since we don’t carry change at these events, if paying in cash, please be sure to have the exact amount.
      Please see page 3 for parking details and directions. We appreciate your kōkua! We would love to hear about your adventures! Should you, or someone you know be interested in sharing, please contact our Program Chair, Brigitte Visser via email at brigitte6182@gmail.com.
       And as we mentioned before, we are always looking for new members to share our enjoyment of these programs and one another's fellowship! Contact our membership chair, Terrilea Burnett, if you know of anyone interested in joining, terrileaburnett@outlook.com.
      We hope to see you on May 18th - don't delay, make your reservations today (seats are limited).
     Mahalo,

Carolyn Gire & Lowell Angell
Club Co-Presidents

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Reminders & Notices:

Natsunoya Tea House is BYOB. Members who choose to bring their own beverages should also bring their own glasses, bottle openers etc. 

Shoes need to be removed upon entry.

Please see page 2 & 3 for meeting, RSVP and parking details.

Our June meeting will be held on Wednesday, 6/14/23, Waikiki Yacht Club.

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       Ring of Fire: Dance of the Warriors"

                               by members Ted & Judy Simon

         In this movie from the 1970s, two young English brothers, Lawrence and Lorne Blair, sail to Komodo Island in Indonesia and film the giant carnivorous lizards on Dragon Island. On the nearby island of Sumba, they witness a ritualized form of human sacrifice by equestrian warriors. They then journey 50,000 years into the past to live with Asmat headhunters in the remote West Papua regency of New Guinea.

          Ted and I visited Komodo in 2022 and also several Asmat villages in 2022 and 2016. In 2016 we were formally adopted into an Asmat tribe, yet nothing we experienced in our visits to the Asmat compared to what the intrepid Blair brothers experienced and documented on film. In the early 1970s, these two brothers set off on an audacious adventure to follow in the footsteps of the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) through many of the 17,000 islands of the Indonesian archipelago. Like Wallace, who developed his theory of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin, the brothers journeyed across a nation that covers two million square miles of ocean, among lands which harbor still uncategorized varieties of creatures, dragons, pirates, healers and headhunters. Their travels were performed without permits, radios, compasses, insurance or emergency supplies. 

        Their 19-year odyssey of discovery was documented in the television series, Ring of Fire, which aired on both the BBC and PBS in the early 1990s. The Dance of the Warriors video we have selected is the second episode in this series of 5 short films that have since been digitized on DVD.

Natsunoya Tea House
1935 Makanani Drive
Honolulu, HI 96817

6:00 PM - BYOB

6:30 PM - Dinner

7:15 PM - Program  (approximately)

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Japanese Buffet   (includes water & tea)

Members = $43     /  Guests = $53

Checks Preferred or Exact Cash

RSVP INFORMATION & DEADLINE

RSVPs due by 5/11/23  to Gretchen Arnemann,via email bg.arnemann@outlook.com

(Late cancellations and no shows will be billed)

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