Misa Maruyama (left) and Ayu Nitta (right), both Hospitality majors at Kapi\u2018olani Community College, perform “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran during KCC’s Got Talent. (Photo by Shawna Takaki)<\/p>\n
KCC\u2019s Got Talent, a talent show featuring Kapi\u02bbolani Community College students and faculty, took place on Friday for two hours at the Ohi’a Cafeteria.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried to bring everyone together and share students’ talents to the community as well as encouraging them to be more outgoing,” said Panha Sok, a 19-year-old member of the Board of Student Activities who came up with the idea of the talent show and performed in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There were many talents showcased, such as a magic show, vocalists, and dancers. Twenty-two people performed in front of the audience in 15 separate performances.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s good to make good memories. There are many talented performers,\u201d said Benjamin Byeon, a 24-year-old exchange student from Seoul who sang a “A Whole New World.”<\/p>\n
One of these performers was Casper MacDomhnaill, a 31-year-old Astrophysics major who created an original composition on the piano and performed first.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just an opportunity where you got to play for the first time publicly since COVID hit,” McDonhnaill said. “\u2026 It was neat to see a bunch of different people that were here.”<\/p>\n
Free snacks and beverages were offered, with a popcorn machine giving out bags of popcorn for people to eat during the intermissions of the talent show. There were musubis and even sushi given to people who attended the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think BOSA really worked hard for this,\u201d said Minsoo Kim, a 24-year-old Liberal Arts major who watched the talent show.<\/p>\n
Forty people RSVPed to attend, and there were many walk-ins to the talent show as well. The only requirement to enter was a green pass on Lumisight, and people were given wristbands so they could leave and reenter the building easily.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would do another one in the future for sure,” said Sok, who danced\u00a0to multiple KPop songs.. “This is one of our biggest events yet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Misa Maruyama (left) and Ayu Nitta (right), both Hospitality majors at Kapi\u2018olani Community College, perform “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran during KCC’s Got Talent. (Photo by Shawna Takaki) By Shawna Takaki | Staff Writer KCC\u2019s Got Talent, a talent show featuring Kapi\u02bbolani Community College students and faculty, took place on Friday for two hours at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":20369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campusnews","category-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}