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First Friday Hawaii
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Ong-King Arts Center - Art & Entertainment
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Type: Art & Entertainment
Date: Friday - 5/1/2009
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, May 1^st 2009, 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
ong king: 306-7823, see’s #: 428-3233

...PRESSURE DROP... RYAN GREENLY.... THE FOOL TRUTH... UNSEEN... QUADRAPHONIX.... ON THE SPOT: IMPROV THEATRE... DJ EKO..TAIMANE GARDNER... DA KINI BELLYDANCE...
ACRO-YOGA.... WILLIAM GILES... JOCELYN NG..MC SEE

May one? One may...MaY I tell thee of MAY one? We shaLL have THEATRE: ON THE SPOT brings improv theatre, THE FOOL TRUTH is a new play, DA KINI BELLYDANCE is experimental movement, WILLAIM GILES and JOCELYN NG are wordsmith poet wonder twins, THINGS UNSEEN is an art installation by ArieL Eisen with live models and theatre kine stuff, and ACRO-cRazy Mary CHapman and Shayene are back. OH and yes more ART abounds with RYAN GREENLY doing a giant installation/mural/fine art thanG. ANd their shall be music! With PRESSURE DroP bringing the irie vibrations, and QUadraphonix with Taimane Gardner getting the psycadelic dance groove. And in from CALifornia is DJ EKO spinning the best breaks and booms into grooves and bLooms.

Visual ART
FEAUTURE ARTIST: Ryan Greenly

“Good Times, Bad Times, Recession, Depression”
Mixed Media 2009

My work deals with issues of Armageddon, abandonment, despair, war, state hospitals, and political turmoil. The work attempts to juxtapose the “naive” nature of the 1950’s, with the harsh reality of social injustices taking place behind the scenes.

Ryan Greenly (cont) The 1950’s represented that quintessential dawn of current social problems apparent today. The work centers on the depiction of “truth versus false” realities. The paradigm of independent media interpretation of history versus corporate media interpretation is the departure of my content. My current work functions as a gateway to personal narrative in conjunction with a global and sociological narrative. I am also interested in the power of ambiguity within narrative structure.

BODY ARTIST: ArieL Eisen, “THINGS UNSEEN” is a body art project. Several models will be canvases and co-creators of a reality below the surface.

MUSIC: Pressure Drop: PauL Isaac leads this reggae roots band, they get us movin and have so much love. The rocked out EARTH Day at UHM, oh yes.

QUADraPHonIX: oh yes we can not have enoUGH! Bass is on Bret, SHree on the Sitar, ELI CLemens on the congas and chANT, and JONATHAN HerAUX is the da da da DRUMMAH!

Taimane Gardner is the love of ong kINgs reality. SHe is a uke master, maybe a solo certainly a jam with QUAD’s. The Art and Beauty of Being Human, her album is due out soon!
www.taimane.com
www.tribeofnoise.com/TaimaneGardner
www.myspace.com/taimanegardner

THEATRE and DANCE:

OTS (On the Spot) has been performing for 9 years and is Hawaii’s only Adult Improv troupe. Like most improv troupes OTS started as a short form college improv team who made a name for themselves by specializing in “short form” improv games. Through the years the troupe has expanded their repertoire by adopting an improv style which favors character arc & storytelling, moving from traditional improv to alternative improv or Alt Improv. Alt improv uses the same theory and practices as traditional improv but presents it more like a theatrical production.

This style of improvised theatre has allowed OTS to showcase an arsenal of original themed shows like, "The Unwritten Works of William Shakespeare", "OTS the Musical," and the group’s latest production, the live-action 1920's Silent Movie-esque show, "HUSH!"

OTS is Garrick Paikai, Rod Cachola, Jordan Savusa, Alissa Joy Lee, Troy Apostal, and Art Koshi. The Group regularly performs on the first Saturday of the month at the Arts at Marks Garage.

http://www.myspace.com/ots_hawaii

DAKINI: Formed in late 2008, Dakini Dance Company is Honolulu's first experimental bellydance troupe. Combining Tribal Fusion and American Tribal Style bellydance with an avant-garde edge, Dakini Dance Company adds a theatrical sensibility to crisp technique and electrifying performances. The troupe currently consists of Beth Biller, Jessica Rose, and Sarah Sonnett. Dakini Dance Company members teach classes on Wednesday evenings at Manoa Dance Studio!

THE FOOL TRUTH: A one man show of verse, based on the fool in the old days of Shakespeare and the fool today who is you. See this.

SLAM POETS: WILLiam GILES and Jocelyn Ng

William Giles just rocked the 2009 Hawaii Slam Finals. He was the 2008 Youth Speaks Hawaii Grand Slam Champion, was Member of the 2008 Youth Speaks Hawaii Brave New Voices Champion Team! Will is a Mentor/Assistant Outreach Director/Artist in Residency with Youth Speaks Hawaii, and is currently appearing in the upcoming HBO documentary on Brave New Voices.
http://www.myspace.com/williamgiles

Jocelyn Ng was born and raised in Kaimuki, this 19 year old poet got started in Kalani High School winning 3 Interscholastic Poetry Slams in a row and being apart of the 2007, 2008, and now the 2009 Youth Speaks Hawaii poetry slam team.

In 2008 she and 4 other AWESOMELY AMAZING poets from Hawaii ended up winning Brave New Voices National Poetry Slam Competition in Washington DC, which can also be seen on HBO. She currently co-mentors with Will Giles at Kalani High School and is attending Kapiolani Community College. Jocelyn says she doesn't know what she wants to do with her life but HEY who does?!

.:::DJ EKO:::. "I feel loved and respected in the music community. I hope that is because my love of music and my intention to amplify the best and most beautiful shines through with every set.”

DJ EKO was born into a deep friendship with music. That relationship was fortified through 12 years of djing on the radio. While at KZSC, Santa Cruz EKO took on the mantle of Hip Hop Music Director and built a strong interconnected web with djs and artists all over the country. Outside the station, she contributed to the organization and strengthening of the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition, which succeeded in linking all of the non-commercial urban djs in order to empower them with the record labels and get recognition as well as equal access to the recording artists that college-radio stations were breaking in the 90’s like Common, Mos Def, Outkast, Busta Rhymes and Wu-Tang Clan.

By 2000, Eko started writing music reviews for Urb Magazine as well as being invited to as a panelist for both the Gavin Magazine and CMJ music conferences, seated alongside Jean Grae, Talib Kweli, Toure and Sarah Jones.

Currently, DJ Eko also known as “ekogirl” has been consistently rocking crowds at several residencies in Santa Cruz (Beat Generation, Kiss, Aqua Lounge) and the greater Bay Area (Spaces & Places, UnGrammar).

spins: hiphop. soul. bailefunk. afrobeat. downtempo. dubstep. dancehall.l atin.funk. electrofreestyle. house. love

www.ekogirl.com
www.myspace.com/ekogirl
www.nikitaclothing.com
www.urb.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

yesness bless this.....booF!

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