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Ong-King Arts Center - Art & Entertainment
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Type: Art & Entertainment
Date: Friday - 11/7/2008
Time: 5pm-2AM
Location:
Ong King Arts Center
184 N. King St. (near River Street)
Honolulu, HI 96817
Contact:
808-306-7823
or 808-428-3233
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Cost: Cost: 10$ (art opening free)

Event: First Friday at Ong King Arts Center

Time and Place: Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St., Friday, November 7th, 5pm-2am
Art gallery opening 5pm-9pm, Performance 9pm-2am

Cost: 10$ (art opening free)

Who Can Attend: All Ages!

More Info: www.ongking.com see@ongking.com,
ong king: 306-7823, see's #: 428-3233

...BUCKS BOYS...TAIMANE GARDNER & ELI CLEMENS & QUADRAPHONIX....LIMINAL DANCE COMPANY...ARIEL EISEN...MICHAEL COOK...AMBER CRAGO...JUGGLER, LOCO MOCO...TANGO DUO...DJ JOULZ...MC SEE

We burst the niGht to weLcome the faLL of boredom, the fall of the mundane, to igNIte frEEdom soaring spIrts to bLossom in youR hearT. Yes, Nov 7th is firSt friDay at onG kING aRts centEr, with 28 performers including: 2 new visuaL artists, one is MichaeL Cook with his giant abstract canvases, and the other is AMber Crago with her surreaL entrancing images. LIMINAL, brings 7 dancers from their upcoming ong king prOduction. BucKZ Boys enjoins 5 reGGae thumping, scanK heavy souLs. QUAdraphonix features Taimane Gardner, and the return of ELI CLemenS! JuGGLer Loco MocO is on. MusicianS ArieL Eisen, Candy Diaz and JOhnnY Tanner awaken the night. TangO dancers Bruce and Yoko Wee let us gLimpse their passion. PLus SLam poet (tba), MC See and DJ JOULZ. ThiS is what why when WHo.

Visual ART
FEAUTURE ARTIST: Michael Cook, his worK is lush and abstract. Inspired by Jackson Pollock, he transforms faces into surreal worLds, creates vivid textures, and pulses the viewer with raw inspiration.

Michael was born and raised in beautiful Portland Oregon
“land of the Evergreen, strip club scene, and year round snowboarding.” Eight months ago he came to Hawaii and plans to stay. “The island life has stolen my heart and I can't imagine living anywhere else.”

“I was mesmerized by a special I saw on television about Jackson Pollock. The way he lost himself the way a writer may loose themselves in a story or a child may loose themselves in a GI Joe. I fell in love with his style right then and there. I've painted for the better parts of my life but I've never painted so . much as I do here in Hawaii. There's something about this place, the views and its people. It's inspirational.”

http://www.artistful.com/MikFrmMichign808_gallery

EMERGING ARTIST: Amber Crago was brought into this world by two gypsy hippies on a small island off the coast of South Carolina. She was always making a mess of the art box as a child, but it evolved during her teenage years as her family crumbled.

"I grew up in Chaos. To survive I learned to thrive in Chaos. My art was my anchor, the one thing with which I could express my pain, joy, anger, hope and love. Words woven into pictures, written in secret strokes of my pen, in a code that I alone could fully understand. Like a two-dimensional invisible friend. And she was a good listener."

These pieces are direct reflections of the situations life was presenting her at the time. They depict, pain and anger, betrayal and confusion. These emotions contrast the ever present joy at all the beautiful things in life; the silver lining realization accentuated by the contrast of unbearable rage and defeat.

"Everything that makes me who I am is going to be on display, hung for the eye to examine, exposed for the mind to dissect. These pieces came from my soul hitting rock bottom."

Amber will do a live painting during the show on a large canvas with her fingers.

MUSIC: Ariel Eisen was born in Florida but grew up and through her most formative years in Santa Barbara, CA. She recently moved to Hawaii in pursuit of a life in harmony and balance with the earth and its life-giving elements. "I have used art and music as tools throughout my life to stay in touch with my true nature and to uncover the essence of whatever I am focusing on."

Ariel has been writing songs born of her unique point of view since her early teens. Her angelic voice carries the listener along the channels of the heart, while her lyrics shape phrases into portraits of experience, and her jazzy guitar carries the words in exquisite partnership. Singing for her generation with an aim to inspire us all to deeply examine our realities and confines, she has performed in venues and gatherings from Santa Barbara to San Francisco, California, and is now living in Kailua, finding a home for her music in the islands.

"Songwriting is a vehicle of discovery and innovation for me. The process of putting words, structure, melody and a foundational base of harmony to my often ethereal mess of feelings is like creating a whole new functional system of life where there had only been uninhabitable swamp lands."

Buckz Boyz is an island-influenced, Rock-Reggae-Ska band. They combine their reggae roots with a little funky jazz, a dab of punk, a bit of classic rock and open hearts with good positive lyrics inspiring love and universal consciousness.

Their young fun dynamic live energy makes for an entertaining performance. Two of their recent tunes, “Simmer Down” and “Another Day” are getting great reviews on local radios and it is selling out regularly on cdbaby.com. In 2008, the Buckz Boyz Band were one of five local bands selected to perform at Bay Fest.

Buckz Boyz musical core is 3 young men, Daniel Rodgers, Jai Rodgers, and James “Tim” Oliver. They are managed by their trombone playing dad, Buck, and educator mom Marilyn Rodgers with seasoned performers Ron Gaines (drummer), sax player/producer Andy “Dr. Sax” Sexton, and Dan Sanchez on the horns.

Their goal is to secure a major entertainment/recording deal, successfully endorse Safe Day Events (www.safedayevents.com), continue to host their TV Show “Star Tracks” and expand to doing movies and eventually tour the world.
info@buckzboyz.com
www.buckzboyz.com

Taimane Gardner is just back from performing her new act 'Taimane Gardner and the Phonix Experience' in Maui for Halloween. She is the uke master, musical child prodigy, who developed her extraordinary skills by performing on the streets of Waikiki to help raise money for the poor. Her new album LIFE; The Art and Beauty of Being Human, is available now on Amazon.
www.taimane.com
www.tribeofnoise.com/TaimaneGardner
www.myspace.com/taimanegardner

QUADRAPHONIX: ELI CLEMENS IS BACK!!! Yes the free flowing all loving percussionist extraordinaire has returned from Burning Man and more....At fuLL force and with special guest, Taimane Gardner, the Quadraphonix are here to ignite the dance fLoor with their prismatic funk groove. Also Featuring Stand up Bass Player: Susan Cropp, Sitar/Guitar Player: Shree Saragopan, and Drummer/Composer Jonathan Heraux.

Candy DiaZ is a singer/songwriter and active band member of The Girlas. Singing since she could walk and growing up with a penchant for torch jazz, Candy writes jazz influenced acoustic folk.

As a Girla, Candy has graced many of Hawaii's stages, she participated in Jack Johnson's 2007 Kokua Festival alongside Matt Costa, Ernie Cruz. Jr, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, and Jack Johnson as well as Paula Fuga's 1st Lilikoi Fair. SHe toured the Pacific NorthWest with Paula in January of 2008. For 2008's Kokua Festival with Mason Jennings, Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds, Go Jimmy Go, and Jack Johnson, Paula Fuga invited The Girlas to sit in during her set at where Candy was featured for her song “Tease”. Candy's debut release with The Girlas is available on iTunes and in stores and is currently working on releasing a solo album of her original work.
www.thegirlas.com_
http://www.myspace.com/candydiaz

Johnny Tanner has been a professional gigging musician for nearly 15 years. With a natural inclination toward jazz, he strives to produce lush accompaniment to any musical situation. His guitar, bass, and vocal work has been featured in venues from Hawaii to Japan, and on two albums for the group Pali one of which, “In Harmony,” won a Hawaii Music Award for Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year in 2004. He even rocked the Honolulu Hale, and the Kapolei Hale with Mayor Mufi Hanneman.

SLAM POETRY: TBA

DANCE: LIMINAL is risk taking, original, challenging, intimate, dance & Theatre. This piece is a sneak peek at the production, LIMINAL, featured at Ong KIng Now 28 & 29. It features work by director Abel Coelho. His piece 'Cold Hands' includes 8 performers covered from head to foot in a chalky white substance (a look based on the intense Butoh movement form), they move unpredictably with startling shifts from stoic to screaming. Cold Hands challenges the borders between individuals.
Cast: Alyssa Oliver, Katherine Aumer, Jason Ellinwood, Marcus Lee
Kuroda Marie, Gwen Arbaugh, Mizumochi Jyunko
Stage Manager: Daniel Sakimura
Directed & Designed by Abel Coelho
Music by Ryan Orsinger

TANGO: Bruce and Yoko Wee were semi-finalists for the 2006 World Tango Festival in Japan. They performed in a production by the Castle Performing Arts Center's "Tango Caliente,” and in the stage show for the Tango Fest Maui.

Bruce Wee began dancing tango back in 1999 and been an avid dancer of the art ever since.

Yoko Wee learned jazz dance and modern ballet at "Koko Kojima Dance Active" Studio where she trained for 13 years and performed regularly. Yoko discovered Argentine Tango in Hawaii in 2002 and changed to this elegant and emotional dance.

Circus: Loco- Moco is back he juggles teLLs bad joKEs, at times his cLothes fall off and he throws cLubs over your head. Check him on the stReeT in Waikiki and....

THE DJ: DJ JouLZ shows up last month and this other dude is on the turn tables and he's totally down and just grooves his hour set in the later time. WHat a chill brother!
“The rhythms....._they are like telescoping, slinky time dilations, sexy and sensual, sliding against my consciousness. Seducing me, tempting me deeper. Writhing wormholes phasing into and out of different time space realities.”
http://phamilygathering.com/Joulz/joulz.htm

THE MC: MC SeE is writing these words. He paints pictures, spits sermons, makes mirth, gets giddy, in a lucid lyrical loose lipped language linking rap n' poetry, classic & karmic soliloquies.
www.myspace.com/honestpuck

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