MEDIA ADVISORY: July 30, 2007 
Senator Daniel Inouye, Hoku Award winner Paula Fuga
among Heroes of Forgiveness honored CONTACT: Trish Ellis, 781-7617 HONOLULU: JULY 30, 2007 - Hawai'i International Forgiveness Day announces awards to outstanding people in the Hawaii community and worldwide, who have dramatically demonstrated forgiveness in their lives. Senator Daniel Inouye, Paula Fuga, Gene and Jan Jones, and Andrea Przbylinski are diverse: the elder statesman of the U.S. Senate, a hot young Hawaiian singer-songwriter and recent No Hoku Hanohano Award winner, international aid and disaster workers from Kabul, Afghanistan, and a local mother. Awards will be presented in a free festival for people of all ages and walks of life, open to the public. Doors open at 1:00 p.m., Sunday August 5, Kaimuki High School. Directions: http://snipr.com/kaimuki The Awards: The four honored at this year’s 5th annual festival share one thing in common: their proven inner strength, finding forgiveness in the darkest circumstances and acting on it. Senator Inouye will be represented by his Chief of Staff, Jennifer Sabas, and is honored for his forbearance in the face of racial prejudice during and after World War II. Paula Fuga is honored for her triumph over tough circumstances as a youth in the State’s foster-care system and will share her poignant music. Gene and Jan Jones are honored for expressing forgiveness through times of terrorism, in Kabul Afghanistan. Andrea Przbylinski, from local Waianae Valley, is honored for her forgiving response to the murder last year of her daughter. Other Key Events: Hawaiian leader Nalani Olds begins with a dramatic remembrance of Queen Lilu’oukalani and her prayer about forgiveness. Kupuna Kawohiokalani (Aunty Betty Jenkins) brings the Queen’s story into the present, with the Bowl of Light, a celebration of cleansing. Opening and closing oli will be led by Kupuna Kaunani Awai and her son, Hawaiians from Waimea Valley, O'ahu. IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre sends a dancer from their upcoming new show, “The Living Tarot,” called The Fool. The de-facto poet-laureate of Honolulu, Jeff Gere, brings a medieval “light puppet” performance of The Return, the story of knights returning from Jerusalem. An interpreter of American Sign Language sponsored by the Honolulu Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church will make the whole event accessible to the hearing-impaired. This festival is part of International Forgiveness Day, now held in 80 countries; Honolulu's celebration is one of the largest. The Hawai’i Forgiveness Project is a non-profit, non-religious group, helping to weave forgiveness into the fabric of life in Hawai’i. Press package at http://www.hawaiiforgivenessproject.org/press/ Speaker, interview schedule through Roger Epstein, 521-9222; repstein@hawaiiforgivenessproject.org