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Ong-King Arts Center - Art & Entertainment
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Type: Art & Entertainment
Date: Friday - 12/5/2008
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, December 5th, 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

...TERRA NOVA...ERIN MCULLOUGH....AARON CHAR...
JANICE GILES...THE BROHEMIANS...TAIMANE GARDNER in QUADRAPHONIX...CAPOEIRA CORDAO DE OURO...GABRIELA M. FRIETAS...AINSLEY BURROWS...THE GOAT GOD PAN...MC SEE

WOOO, oh my..yes! Elegant strangeness rings the December rains to drench us in a multitude of beauteous provocations. The lady with the brush of innovation is Erin Mcullough, her work branches into new surfaces, and a story of painful renewal. SHe brings Beach-boy EMerging Artist Aaron Char into the light, along with jewel wizard Janice Giles. The sonorous sensations are a multitude starting with surf-psycadelia from The Brohemians, and then the one and onLy Taimane Gardner with the quintessential Quadraphonix, last up on the music biLL is Terra NOva, a multi-linguistic latin funk band we will dance our butts off with. SLam Poet Ainsley Burrows arrives from Brooklyn. African fusion dance is represented by Gabriela. Capoiera de Ouro jams the Brazilian kung fu. Then the goat god Pan gets ritualistic with his nymphs. yes, art becomes a culture of abunDanCe....

Visual ART
FEAUTURE ARTIST: ERIN MCULLOUGH. This shrew is a product of random acts of inspiration tempered by circumstance. Erin is hanging her third show at onG kinG, and this one is a very different.

First many of the pieces are not paintings on canvas, but rather utilitarian works done on jewelry boxes.

“The idea of taking paintings off the wall into the realm of object has been bouncing around in my head for some time. First I experimented with stackable blocks and tables. Then I was handed a jewelry box by a friend and became intrigued by the idea of utilitarian paintings.”

I asked Erin about several of her jewelry boxes which have drawers that can not be opened.

“I feel a philosophical battle regarding the nature of craft making, versus fine art. The jewelry boxes that only mimic usefulness are my attempt at acknowledging those that might argue my object pieces don't constitute art.”

In the creation of this show Erin faced a new obstacle. She hurt her right arm surfing and was unable to use it to paint. The obstacle quickly became an opportunity and she started to craft objects in new ways.

“I looked to my fastly deteriorating easel with longing to complete my paintings and was struck by its beauty.”

The easel became a dream like sign post, awash in colors and tiny mirrors.

“It now joins my pieces and offers viewers a glimpse of what artists will do to remain productive when faced with a challenging situation.”

EMERGING ARTIST: Aaron Char has a signature style, full of life and replete with images of beach life. Aaron is the son of two artists, born and raised in Hawaii, it was fated that surf and art would become his passions.

“Being a Waikiki Beach-boy I am on the beach living the dream. The images I create are reflections of my life, the people and places that fill it.”

One look at Aarons pieces will make many a mainlander jealous. His drawings maintain an accessible, comic style with long lines and curves depicting the outlines of experience. The colors and faces of the big waves, and good friends, are up to the viewer to create.

“welcome to my beach-boy life.”

Janice Giles loves jewelry. Her diverse world collection led her to discover the beauty she could create. These jewelry creations include precious stones, sterling silver and gold. For this collaboration with Erin Mcullough she has created unique pieces that exemplify the beauty of humanity.

MUSIC: THE BROHEMIANS are the psycadelic surf dub vision of Ryan Nadoonek and Joshua Dawson. THis is a power trio of spontaneous fusion mixing surf, dub, jazz, and punk, rock. “the music is coming from our souls, it's got groove, drive, energy, and, well...soul.”
This collaboration of fate is inspired by the ocean and surfing on mushrooms.
www.myspace.com/brohemians

Terra Nova is Latin Fusion (latin-reggae-rock-blues) with energy to keep the crowd groovin' always! Kona (Tempo Valley) plays Lead Guitar, Jorge on Rhythm Guitar/Vocals, Jeff James on Bass,
his friend on Drums & Enrique Zender on Percussion/Vocals... we sing in Spanish, English & Portuguese! Ride this journey from South America to the Caribbean to Hawaii..
haz1976@hotmail.com

Taimane Gardner is practicing new tunes and melodies with 'Taimane Gardner and the Phonix Experience.' 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: At fuLL force and with special guest, Taimane Gardner, the Quadraphonix are here to ignite the dance fLoor with their prismatic funk groove. Sitar/Guitar Player: Shree Saragopan,
Drummer/Composer Jonathan Heraux,
Conga player ELI Clemens.

SLAM POETRY: Ainsley Burrows is an internationally acclaimed poet. He has performed at festivals, cafés and institutions across Europe, America, Canada and the Caribbean, receiving numerous awards. Including: Best International Performer of 2001 and 2002 from the Farrago Poetry Café in London, Munich's International Poetry Slam Championship award in 2001 and awards from the Nuyorican Poet's Café in 2001 (for participating in the National team) and the in 2004. In addition, Ainsley has conducted many workshops from London's to New York's Julliard School of Music.

Life began for Ainsley on the Caribbean island of Jamaica where he attended Kingston College whose motto “Fortis Cadre Cedre Non Potis” means “the brave may fall but never yield.” The impressionable “fortis” migrated to Brooklyn, New York as a teenager in 1990 to join his family.

Ainsley discovered his penchant for writing while a student at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, where he and a friend started a band - Ainsley was the lyricist. “I enjoyed writing,” says Ainsley, “because it allowed me to express myself in a way that I couldn't before.”
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A life altering experience occurred in 1997 when Ainsley decided, since his life was spared from what could have been a horrific tragedy, to pursue his passion-- poetry. From that day on, Ainsley Burrows has been a literary force to be reckoned with.

To promote his products, the ever-determined Ainsley Burrows purchased a bus ticket and began a guerilla tour “Babylon by Foot” across the United States. Since then, Ainsley Burrows has become a lean, mean, poetry machine having toured at least eight months of each of the last eight years. He has performed in almost every state in America, as well as several venues in Canada, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Germany. To date, Ainsley has published two collections of poetry, Black Angels with Sky Blue Feathers and The Woman Who Isn't Was and released four audio discs Cataclysm, The Groove Electric, Climax, and Rockstar. His work has also been anthologized in several books including Planet Slam, TwentyFourTwo, and Graphic Poetry. He has also appeared on BETJ's “Word Sound Power”; New York Linkz TV, Brooklyn Community Access Television and Manhattan Neighborhood Network television and his music has been programmed on Music Choice. In August, 2007, Ainsley embarked on his 10th Babylon by Foot tour which took the literary powerhouse to 75 cities across United States, Canada, and the European Union.

For 2008, Ainsley is set to release his fifth recording, EVOLVER on the Burrows Ink record label. The ten track disc full of socio-political musings coupled with hypnotic, pulsating rhythms showcases.
www.myspace.com/ainsleyburrows
TSO Productions (info@tsoproductions.com or 718-421-6927)

Capoiera: Capoeira Cordao de Ouro Hawaii rocked a sweet class at ong kinG for a bunch of months. TO say a sweet farewell they bust a groove.

Cord�o de Ouro means "the belt of gold". The name Cord�o de Ouro was created by the founder of the group in Brazil. Mestre Suassuna, one of the biggest names in capoeira worldwide.

Originally from Minas Gerais in Brazil, he has been training Capoeira for 14 years. He holds an "instrutor" belt from Contra-Mestre Fuinho of Cordao de Ouro group.

Their new location is at this dance studio called Dance Artistry.
16 Merchant Street (next to Murphy's Bar & Grill on the corner of Nu'uanu Ave & Merchant St.)
http://www.cdohi.com

DANCE: AFRICAN FUSION: Gabriella Masakoe Freitas began her dance training at the age of three. While developing technique in Hip Hop, Ballet, African, Modern, Jazz and Tap dance forms, she performed throughout her elementary and teen years with Young extensions Dance Theatre and Daughters of the Sun West African Dance Co. At 14 she attended the American Dance Festival in North Carolina and traveled to Moscow, training and performing with world renowned companies such as, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Taylor, Martha Graham and David Parsons. Inspired by her experience she committed herself to becoming a dance educator. Gabriella attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has choreographed and performed in over 200 pieces while pursuing her dream. She has performed with Patricia Reedy and Dancers, her own company About Time Productions and taught dance to children, teens and adults in studios and recreation centers throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area. She has recently become an Oahu resident and looks forward to raising her daughter here in Kailua and sharing her passion for dance with the community.

RITUAL DANCE: Pan the Goat God arrives. Michael Hamilton brings wood nymphs and ancient poetry to spring a ritual of the winter solstice. Inspire, deepen and get strange.
www.lotusspace.com

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

thus this...gadzOOks

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