Family film fare will be added to food and frivolity at the Haleiwa Farmers Market, starting Thursday and continuing for the summer.
In addition to loading up reusable bags with fresh produce and handcrafted items from local vendors, hungry patrons can dine al fresco on many choices of food. Options include poke, Kona coffee-rubbed brisket sandwiches, “Hawaiian Jerk” chicken sandwiches, tacos made with local line-caught fresh fish, pizza made in a wood-burning oven, crepes, Thai food, slushies, kombucha and more. Vendors include Ke Nui Kitchen, Fire Dance Pizza, Ping Thai and Wicked Hawaii Slushie.
Be sure to check out Uncles’, known for its ice cream sandwiches and especially its popcorn, which should make a perfect snack to go with the evening’s film, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl,” starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. Screening is at 7:15 p.m., said co-organizer Pamela Boyar, director of development of Living Breath LLC, which operates the Haleiwa market and several other farmers markets on Oahu.
Boyar was planning to make the most of the evening’s pirate theme. “I am a Halloween nut,” she said as she was heading to collect her stash of decorative skeletons, a dinghy with skeletons, skeleton mermaids and pirate hats to festoon the grounds.
At past farmers markets with film screenings, about 250 people have attended, bringing blankets or beach chairs to spread out on the grass, Boyar said.
“If it rains we go inside the pavilion,” she said. “We have two screens set up, just in case of rain.”
“There are no drive-in movies anymore,” Boyar said, adding that “we didn’t want to charge people for a fun, community event.” Contributions gladly will be accepted, she said.
The farmers market operates each Thursday from 2 to 7 p.m. at this time of year.
Additional family movies that will be screened over the summer include “Despicable Me,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Toy Story,” “E.T.,” “Frozen” and “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.”