SATURDAY

>> Aloha Festivals showcase local entertainers

Aloha Festivals brings top Hawaiian entertainment to Waikiki for its 66th Annual Ho‘olaule‘a on Saturday.

Music and dance will be featured on four stages along Kalakaua Avenue, which will be closed to vehicle traffic.

At the Royal Hawaiian Center, hula halau led by kumu hula Ulukoa Duhaylonsod, Kaleo Trinidad and Kapua Dalire-Moe will be featured.

In front of the Moana Surfrider, long-time favorites Kapena and Brother Noland will perform, with Ho‘okena with Moon Kauakahi and Malia Gibson closing out the night.

At the Hyatt Regency, Hawaiian Airlines’ dancers and singers will start the evening, followed by the Kama Hopkins Trio and the great Makaha Sons, while the Diamond Head side of Waikiki will have a Polynesian revue.

Food booths from Hawaii eateries large and small will keep you full for the evening-long party, and you can get some early Christmas shopping in at more than 30 craft vendors.

SATURDAY

>> History is retold at Hawaiian Mission Houses

Learn about Hawaii’s missionary movement and the lives of the missionaries at an open house for Hawaiian Mission Houses.

The event will include free tours of the site, which includes renovated houses and buildings on a site used by the first missionaries to Oahu, who came in the 1820s. The event is one of only two days a year where admission is free. There will bedemonstrations of lauhala weaving and candle making; visitors can also write with traditional quill pens and play 19th-century games.

In a one-man show, actor Kevin Keaveney will perform as the Rev. William Richards, who brought Western knowledge in economics and politics to Hawaii’s ali‘i and helped develop the constitution for the Hawaiian Kingdom Constitution.

If you haven’t been to Hawaiian Mission Houses in a while, you might be interested in seeing the re-creation of the medical dispensatory of Dr. Charles Judd, an advisor to King Kamehamea III, and Levi Chamberlain’s Depository, which exhibits some ofthe basic staples of missionary life. Both exhibits opened in 2014. The site includes the 1821 Mission House and the 1831 Chamberlain House, the two oldest houses on their original locations in Hawaii, and the 1841 Printing Office, which includes areplica of the first printing press in Hawaii.

SATURDAY-OCT. 7

>> Hawaii’s Woodshow highlights art made from local-grown trees

There’s art, wearable art, and there’s this beautiful koa-veneer dress, one of the highlights of Hawaii’s Woodshow, which opens today with a reception and continues through Oct. 7.

The dress, created by Paul Schurch of California, is among 72 items on display in the juried exhibition, sponsored by the Hawai‘i Forestry Industry Association and highlighting woods from Hawaii-grown tree species.

Sculpture, turned bowls, furniture and musical instruments made of koa, mango, kamani, milo, Norfolk pine, macadamia nut and kiawe wood will be on display, including slab-style tables from Hawaii island craftsman Joshua Bowles, and a 7-foot long wallpanel carved out of milo wood by award-winning master artisan Scott Hare.

Jurors for the show are Irving Jenkins, a writer and artist who was a juror in the the inaugural woodshow in 1993; Sean Browne, a sculptor known for his large works such as “Spirit Way” at Kapiolani Community College; and Alan Wilkinson of Wilkinson KoaFurniture.

THURSDAY

>> Comedian and musician Creed Bratton hits Blue Note

Comic and musician Creed Bratton brings his oddball, life-meets-art act to Blue Note Hawaii this week.

These days, Bratton is best known for his role on the Emmy Award-winning show “The Office,” where he played a crochety quality assurance manager who would make references to a colorful previous lifestyle of drugs, sex and rock ’n’ roll.

The character was named Creed Bratton, suggesting that much of it was based on reality, and in fact, Bratton was a member of The Grass Roots, a 60’s rock group known for the hits “Live for Today” and “Midnight Confessions.”

He’s continued with his music career, recently releasing his seventh album “While the Young Punks Dance” – and isn’t that a title that one would expect from Creed Bratton, the TV character? His performances are talk-story, play-music experiences in which he talks about his acting career and sings tunes from both past and present.