 Event: First Friday at Ong King Arts
Center
Time and Place: Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St.,
Friday, Sept 4 09, 5pm-2am
Art gallery opening
5pm-9pm, Performance 9pm-2am
Cost: 10$ (art opening free)
Who Can Attend: All Ages!
....ELYSE BUTLER AND MATT MALLAMS... PAUL LIPMAN...
HABERDASHERY... MAHOGANY BROWNE.. QUADRAPHONIX... TAIMANE GARDNER...
FREESOUND....
That the light of artistS may coMMUnicate a better
world, we oFFer you First Friday August 7th. Stunning photography presented
to us by Elyse Butler and Matt Mallams. Inspiring words by Paul Lipman and
Mahogany Browne. Upliftin’ melodies by FREE SOUND. Feel the enticing
gypsy rhythms of Haber Dashery. Trance of the tribe is pyscadelic Quadraphonix,
with star soloist Taimane Gardner on the uKE. THe eventing is hosted by Your
Friendly Neighborhood Samoan, Tui-Z. ....expect drums and words, visions and
dance, creation and
iLLusion....------------------
Visual
ART
FEATURE ARTISTS: Matt Mallams and Elyse
Butler are photographers currently based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Matt has a passion
for exploring the streets, working in response to what is given to him, and
creating compositions mixing light, color, subjects, reflections, and
interactions between people and their environments. Elyse has a fervor and focus
on documenting social issues and creating story-telling visual art; she makes
pictures to better understand her life as she's living it.
Their
clients and publications include Aurora Photos, Contour by Getty, the New York
Times, the FADER, Discover, Revolver, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many
more. Recently they exhibited their work at the San Francisco Exposure
Gallery, and the Visions Gallery in Ventura, California. They are both graduates
from the Brooks Institute of Photography and are founding members of the Aevum
photo collective.
POETRY:
Paul
Lipman slid into this reality on September 24,
1975. He has been sliding on his ass ever since. Following a not so glamorous
academic stint, (ending with his illustrious college drop out) he decided his
best move would be to live in a tent for three years while doing renaissance
fairs. After this exercise in non-reality, he moved on to Denver, Colorado (his
home for the last six years). During his tenure there, he discovered the Slam.
He has yet to shut up.
Mahogany L.
Browne
The Cave Canem Fellow is the Editor of
His Rib: Stories, Poems & Essays by
HER & Barbershop Chronicles, and authored
three books including Destroy, Rebuild & Other Reconstructions. Mahogany has
released four LPs including the international hit
Black Secret
Soul and the newest live album
Sheroshima. As
co-founder of the Off Broadway poetry production, Jam On It, and co-producer of
NYC’s 1st Performance Poetry Festival: SoundBites Poetry
Festival, Mahogany bridges the gap between lyrical poets and literary
emcee. Her freelance journalism can be found in magazines KING, XXL, The
Source, Canada's The Word and UK's MOBO. She also facilitates performance poetry
and writing workshops throughout the country, focusing on women empowerment and
youth mentoring. She is the owner of PoetCD.Com, an on-line marketing and
distribution company for poets and is the host and curator at the Nuyorican
Poets
Cafe
MUSIC:
HABER
DASHERY Formed on the north shore of Oahu
and refined on the streets of Waikiki, Haberdashery is an act unlike anything
you have ever seen. A relatively new band, who dedicate all of their
performances to their late friend James Don Warren III, their line up includes
anywhere between 8 to 11 members who play instruments as odd and unique as the
people who play them. Their sound contains influences from all over the
world but could be best described as avant garde dirty gypsy anti-folk
rock. They are a treat for both the eyes and the
ears.
FREE
SOUND Imagine a band of brothers that harness
the mystic energies of the universe, then delivers them unto you through sound.
That is FreeSound. Remember great music......Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Led
Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Sublime.... bands that change the way you see music and
the world...That is what FreeSound does and they are doing it NOW.
FreeSound is a 5 piece band from Hawaii and the San
Francisco Bay area that melds the sweet roots reggae sound of the Islands with
the blues/funk & psychedelic rock of the S.F. Bay area in its
prime.
QUADrOPHIX We
got a smokin’ new bass PLayer in KEVin, SHree Saragopan is the maestro of
the looping gitar/Sitar, and JONATHAN HerAUX is the da da da DRUMMAH!
they are joined by....
Taimane
Gardner! SHe is a uke master, one of the busiest
performers on Oahu. You can now pre-order her new album LIFE; The Art and Beauty
of Being Human on Amazon.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.taimane.com"
www.taimane.com
HYPERLINK
"http://www.tribeofnoise.com/TaimaneGardner"
www.tribeofnoise.com/TaimaneGardner
www.myspace.com/taimanegardner
SPECIAL GUEST
HOST
Tui-Z
is Your Friendly Neighborhood Samoan. Born
and raised in the arms of Hawaii, poetry was no stranger to his ancestors.
Host of Hawaii's only weekly poetry show, mentor and coach to the 2008 and 2009
YouthSpeaks
Hawaii Champions at the International Brave New Voices festival, his committment
to enhancing the growth of art in the islands is one of a
kind.
psst..Love Love
Love
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