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Event Calendar ItemOng-King Arts Center - Art & Entertainment
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Date: Friday - 6/5/2009
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, June 5th, 5pm-2am
Art gallery opening 5pm-9pm, Performance 9pm-2am
Art gallery opening 5pm-9pm, Performance 9pm-2am
Cost: 10$ (art opening free)
Who Can Attend: All Ages!
CLIMBING POETREE... ASIWOULDSAY... TRAVIS WELLER... MARIA REMOS... CAROL TAWANGA... BIANCA CHAVEZ... T-TYM...MATTY CHAMBERLAIN.... QUADRAPHONIX... SHAKTI DANCE MOVEMENT... .MICHAEL HAMILTON...THE
FOOL TRUTH... TAIMANE GARDNER
FROM ACROSS the UniVerse to briNG minD bending
boisterouS beauty into being, yes inDEedOOO its firSt friDay JUnE 5th
@ onG King Arts Center. WelCOme summer with asIwouldsay a San Francisco based
arts group presenting two amazing artists: One is visuaL artist Travis Weller,
the other musician and old friend Maria
Remos/songbird.
Loving the walls with Art odes are emerging artist:
Bianca
Chavez and Carol Tagawa. In from Brooklyn to
open for Erykah Badu is Climbing
Poetree (Alixa & Naima) the most amazing
poet duo in the land! Jeffery
James has a new groove soul band call
T-TYM (tea
time). Bringing funky strange performance art is
Michael
Hamilton as Pan and see with
The FooL
Truth. Plus
SHakti Dance
Movement may just droP a dance number in the
stew. MATTY
ChamberLain starts it, as
QUadraphonix
finishes us with amazing psycadelic sitar
artistry combined with Taimane
Gardner’s uke madness. Yes we love this,
with u...
Visual
ART
FEAUTURE ARTIST: Travis Weller currently resides in San Francisco, CA spending his days drawing, burning screens, cutting stencils, and hand pulling silkscreen prints until his fingers don’t function properly.
FEAUTURE ARTIST: Travis Weller currently resides in San Francisco, CA spending his days drawing, burning screens, cutting stencils, and hand pulling silkscreen prints until his fingers don’t function properly.
Event: First Friday at Ong King Arts
Center
Time and Place: Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St.,
Friday, June 5th, 5pm-2am
Art gallery opening 5pm-9pm, Performance 9pm-2am
Art gallery opening 5pm-9pm, Performance 9pm-2am
Cost: 10$ (art opening free)
Who Can Attend: All Ages!
CLIMBING POETREE...ASIWOULDSAY...TRAVIS WELLER...MARIA
REMOS...CAROL TAWANGA...BIANCA CHAVEZ...T-TYM...MATTY
CHAMBERLAIN....QUADRAPHONIX...SHAKTI DANCE MOVEMENT....MICHAEL HAMILTON...THE
FOOL TRUTH...TAIMANE GARDNER
FROM ACROSS the UniVerse to briNG minD bending
boisterouS beauty into being, yes inDEedOOO its firSt friDay JUnE 5th
@ onG King Arts Center. WelCOme summer with asIwouldsay a San Francisco based
arts group presenting two amazing artists: One is visuaL artist Travis Weller,
the other musician and old friend Maria
Remos/songbird.
Loving the walls with Art odes are emerging artist:
Bianca
Chavez and Carol Tagawa. In from Brooklyn to
open for Erykah Badu is Climbing
Poetree (Alixa & Naima) the most amazing
poet duo in the land! Jeffery
James has a new groove soul band call
T-TYM (tea
time). Bringing funky strange performance art is
Michael
Hamilton as Pan and see with
The FooL
Truth. Plus
SHakti Dance
Movement may just droP a dance number in the
stew. MATTY
ChamberLain starts it, as
QUadraphonix
finishes us with amazing psycadelic sitar
artistry combined with Taimane
Gardner’s uke madness. Yes we love this,
with u...
Travis Weller: He sometimes gets the chance to surf
the relentless sandbars of Ocean Beach in between, which makes him smile ear to
ear. Travis has smashed through a myriad of the best art programs on the East
Coast arming himself with a Master’s degree in printmaking and drawing,
sometimes referred to as “screenprintcrushology”. Having been known
to hand pull 1,200 zine covers and 4-dozen t-shirt designs in an evening, Travis
does not stop until his work his done.....(perfectly, by the way). Arriving in
California via the coast of North Carolina, he is armed with an East Coast
mentality of letting his work ethic speak for his work, and his work speak for
himself. While Travis has been compared to a machine, it has been proven that
when a machine has a heart, he is no longer working for the man.
Travis has shown and continues to show his work at
galleries and museums around the country. While collaborating on an asiwouldsay
collective group show in San Francisco in 2008, Travis was asked to join the
collective, and relocated to San Francisco soon after. He has been heavily
involved with asiwouldsay ever since; creating artwork, designing logos,
printing zines, printing clothing, while sharing meals and cans of Budweiser.
Currently, Travis curates bi-monthly art happenings at asiwouldsay gallery,
located at 141 Gough Street in San Francisco. Yep, he is busy.....but would love
to talk to you about any kind of artistic collaboration, and looks forward to
it.
www.travisweller.etsy.com
www.travisweller.etsy.com
EMERGING ARTIST: BIANCA CHAVEZ. Born in the
fog--Blanketed over me, drunk in through my skin, allowed to obscure all but the
cloudiness of a whirling mind. Sometimes I paint, watching the dead dance in the
caverns of my chest, enraptured with the rhythm of the images I find there. But
mostly I dream, dream to realize form and lose it, to build a world out of the
sound of waves, fog, twigs, inkwells, and honey and wake up from it. Drink a cup
of tea, read a poem, spin around in circles and fall down. Get back up
again.
Emerging Artist: Carol Tagawa...more info to
come...
MUSIC:
T-TYM(tea time). we play a variety of groove music incorporated from our favorite artist Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Musiq Soulchild, etc. We consist of 4 musicians..guitar, bass, drums, keyz. John Francis on drums, John Abreu IV on keyz and vocals, and Bassman 3000 on bass, and Jeffrey James on guitar and vocals. We are Mililani Grads that love to get groovy and show our soul. T-TYM.
T-TYM(tea time). we play a variety of groove music incorporated from our favorite artist Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Musiq Soulchild, etc. We consist of 4 musicians..guitar, bass, drums, keyz. John Francis on drums, John Abreu IV on keyz and vocals, and Bassman 3000 on bass, and Jeffrey James on guitar and vocals. We are Mililani Grads that love to get groovy and show our soul. T-TYM.
QUADrOPHIX: 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!
Maria Remos/songbird: You will not soon forget
the songs of this woman. She is known in some reggae circles as, "Dovey, the
Conquering Songbird of Zion.” SHe has played in Honolulu for years, but
moved to SF to discover ‘asiwouldsay’ and grab the nickname "The
songbird.” With old roots rekindling and new branches to share Maria,
Maria Remos, songbird is here.
Taimane
Gardner is
the love of ong kINgs reality. SHe is a uke master, but this time perhaps she
wiLL dance. You can now pre-order her new album LIFE; The Art and Beauty of
Being Human on Amazon. It will officially be released in the U.S. on AUGUST 26TH
2008!
www.taimane.com
www.tribeofnoise.com/TaimaneGardner
www.myspace.com/taimanegardner
www.taimane.com
www.tribeofnoise.com/TaimaneGardner
www.myspace.com/taimanegardner
Matty Chamberlain 26 year old freestyle folk musician
seeks audience for short term commitment, for a night of no strings attached
fun, possibly more. Me: from Vermont, traveler, composer. You: Lively,
attentive, likes to laugh and hear stories. Passion for original song writing a
must. No Covers!
www.myspace.com/mattchamberlainmusic
www.myspace.com/mattchamberlainmusic
POETS: CLIMBING
POETREE: Critical,”
“powerful,” “fulfilling,” “heart-wrenching,”
“motivational,” “magical”, “intoxicating,”
“thrilling,” “moving,” “raw,” and
“inspiring” are some of the words audience members have used to
describe Climbing
PoeTree’s performance in the emails and
letters that pour in after every show from individuals who profess that they
have been forever changed by Alixa and Naima’s words and presence. There
is something in their voices so refreshing yet timeless; Alixa and Naima are
artists of the words the world is thirsty for.
CLIMBING POETREE cont...With roots in Haiti and
Colombia, Alixa and Naima reside in Brooklyn and track footprints across the
country and globe on a mission to overcome destruction with creativity. With
flawless cadence and impeccable lyricism, these soul-sisters weave together
their voices to tell powerful stories of suffering and injustice, courage and
love in a world plagued with fear.
To date, Climbing
PoeTree has catalyzed over 500 crowds from
Oakland to Miami, South Africa to Cuba with artists such as Amiri Baraka, Nikki
Giovanni, Danny Glover, The Last Poets, and Dead Prez. They’ve been
featured at festivals from Women Center
Stage in New York City to the
National Blacks Arts Festival
in Atlanta, in performance venues from Da Poetry
Lounge in Los Angeles to The Hawaii Hut in Oahu, state institutions such as
Rikers Island and New Haven Correctional Center, and over 50 colleges and
universities including Cornell University, Michigan State, NYU, Brown and
Columbia. Through compelling artistry, these multi-talented, tireless, and
driven young women channel hope into vision, shatter assumptions that bind the
status quo, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible.
www.climbingpoetree.com ~ love@climbingpoetree.com
www.climbingpoetree.com ~ love@climbingpoetree.com
DANCE: Shakti Dance
Movement is the Tribal Fusion Belly Dance
company in Honolulu, Hawaii. An all women’s dance collective, Shakti
Dance Movement is proud to bring women together for classes, workshops, and
great events. Shakti Dance Movements founder, Kalae Kaina, has been belly
dancing for 13 years and began teaching in 2004. The group has gone through many
changes over the years and has grown into a very motivated group of women who
wish to share their love of dance with others. Shakti has been performing at
night clubs, cultural events, fundraisers, and private parties in Honolulu and
abroad since 2004. Their all original choreography, cutting edge performances,
and exquisite technique have gained them notable recognition in the dance
community.
Shakti Dance Movement along with their sister company
Origins Dance Collective have been sponsoring events and workshops in their
hometown of Honolulu since 2006. They have sponsored BellyDance Superstar Kami
Liddle in 2006 & 2008, belly dance extraordinaire Zoe Jakes in 2007&
2008, and the beautiful Sabrina Fox in January 2008 and September 2009.
Shakti Dance Movement is dedicated to inspiring the
community to embrace the divine feminine. Through their love and passion for
the dance they hope to curl a smile on the faces of their audience.
www.myspace.com/shaktidancemovement
www.myspace.com/shaktidancemovement
Michael Hamilton: Is the Goat God Pan. A new
performance featuring nymphs. Orations shall be called out and interactive dance
will happen.
THE FOOL TRUTH is one man show is dedicated to the
fool within. The Fool is MC See, he sings, raps, and riddles the stage with
original rhymes. The speeches are penned in the spirit of traveling players, and
mystic poets who cast answers as questions, and question all answers. It is a
psychological satire, flipping reality into absurdity and back
around.
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
www.myspace.com/honestpuck
let the sWeAt begin...
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