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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 - 1/2/2009
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, October 3rd, 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

...NABAHE....FAMILY DINNER...BUCKS BOYS...CHRISTINA NELSON...ACRO-YOGA....NUCLEAR NICK....CHERRY BLOSSOM CABARET...TAIMANE GARDNER..ISHLE PARK...DJ JOULZ...MC SEE

i ResoLVe to dissOLve into creaTion, to fLower...the seCond of January...the firSt friDay of the new year. onG kinG aRts cenTer wiLL become a graFF art marveL with the briLLIant Nabahe BeLLany and coLLab partner shaping the waLLS. MusicaLLY we brINg ChrisTIna Nelson her MandoLin, her fRieNds James Shether, BLAKe and ?. TheN BUcks BoYs spring us with radIanT reGGae. FiNaLLy croWd favorIte, FamiLy Dinner trUmpets us forTh with MC JOEL spIRal. CherrY BLossom CabareT senDs MS. KITTy CHow to burLesque us. WOrLd traveling AcrO-YOGA artist Samantha Miller fLips her body with a new partner. SLaM poet ISHLe ParK who roCKs natIonal stages, briNgs it home. Add to thiS the who KnowS whaTS goNNa hAPPEn asPEct, and surprise....

Visual ART
FEAUTURE ARTIST: Nabahe Benally is one of Hawaii's most influential hip hop and visual artists. Whether he is organizing events, showing art or performing, he doesn't let up an inch. ON the mic he has expanded beyond Hawaii's borders with a solo album that features some of hip hop's finest.

Nabahe's paintings are full of unique dynamics and raw, vivid characters. Connections appear between lilies and tentacles, pinK elephants and ribbons, and new characters from collaborating artists. This is local hip-hOP culture at its best.

EMERGING ARTIST: meat heaD, one of the most slept on artist in the 808 scene, taking graffic grimm and bring its lighter side.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=4012832

fhidel flew in from caLi to bust here...he is a member of los feo faces san berdino c.a. chapter, with fhidel's unorthadox eye shocking colored filled style, with roots in the I.E.'s graff scene fhidel takes his street art on to canvass progressing with each stroke of his paint brush it is clear fhidel isn't looking back.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=177042621

MUSIC: Family Dinner, was recently crowned the 'most kick ass band in town' by several knowing humans. In fact when they play at onG king I have to hear peopLe asK when are they coming back, when are they coming back FamilY DInner, has a huge horn section with a tuba, an original uke playing MC and manages to combine hip-hop, klezmer, dixie land, funk, and jazz with rooted local vibe.

Family Dinner includes: MC JOeL SPiral, Reginald Padilla, Alfredo Rivera, Christopher Guarino, Jay 'I remembered my mouth piece today', Quincy Dunker, Troy Swanson, and Johann Montero.

The originators of the group Joel and Reginald have been surfing and playing music together for a year and half. The band was born from a land lords, every Friday, family dinner. Where the 3 saxophonists jammed with MC Joel. More band members were recruited from the Army Brass Band. Several band members will unfortunately be heading to Iraq soon. This will be there last chance to jam before the tour.
www.myspace.com/familydinners

Buckz Boyz is an island-influenced, Rock-Reggae-Ska band. We get up and danCe with these brothers. 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

CHRISTINA NELSON: Is the mosT exceLLEnt heart stirrinG, souL searCHIng, gift of a singer. She got a manDoLin to strum our worLd awake. SHe alSO brings a caravan of triumphant souLS. Blake is a rock star who may arrive with Alex. James SHether may pLay and perhaps Ms. Nelson's love with jump in the fray.

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

SLAM POETRY: Ishle Park is a Korean American woman who is a world-traveling poet, singer, and the first woman to be named the Poet Laureate of Queens ~ the largest and most diverse borough in New York. Dubbed "the Queen of Queens" by her fans, the Borough President declared Park's birthday as "Ishle Yi Park" day in her hometown.

Park's first book, The Temperature of This Water, (Kaya Press, 1994), is the winner of three literary awards, including a Pen America Award for Outstanding Writers of Color and the Member's Choice Award of the Asian American Literary Awards.

Her poetry CD, Work is Love, includes tracks with Korean traditional drums, Spanish guitar, beatboxing, and music produced by Japan's critically acclaimed DJ Honda. Park has opened for artists such as KRS-One, Ben Harper, and Saul Williams, and has been featured at literary and music festivals, performing her unique blend of poetry and song at over three hundred venues around the world, including Cuba, Jamaica, Singapore, Korea, and New Zealand.

She is a regular on HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents: Def Poetry Jam" and was a touring cast member of the Tony-Award winning production of "Def Poetry Jam." Park is currently working on her first album.

DANCE: Cherry BLossom CabareT, so many wonderful performers and creations have come forth since this group began aLmost tHree years ago. Ms Kitty Chow will perform a traditional burlesque, a classic, seductive number. “All of our pieces are different; political, traditional, kitschy, glamorous, humorous...That said, we are more than the traditional burlesque troupe. Our girls come from different artistic backgrounds ranging from dance, music, theater, photography, costume design, and crafting. We also have various influences from books, visual artists, film, music, etc. We have distinct personalities yet we all share a common goal: to entice, tantalize, and mesmerize our audience.”
contact: lolalovecbc@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/cherryblossomburlesque

ACRO-YOGA: Samantha Miller is real life certified Acro Yoga teacher who is teaching a workshop entitled 'The JOy of FLight' on Saturday Jan 3rd from 2.30 - 5 at onG kinG.
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SHe is lifetime lover of movement building community and seeing the world upside down. Mobilized to spread peace and dissolve preconceived barriers. Samantha has spent the last three years in Latin America and Asia working towards her vision of oneness.
www.AcroYoga.org
sam@acroyoga.org

THE VJ: NUCLEAR nick jumps of the mic to turN visuaL surreality into the waLLs of ong.
nuke_da_nick@yahoo.com

THE DJ: DJ JouLZ has no idea i am going to ask him to sPIn, but if he is reading this then maybe he wiLL say yes....
“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

yesness bless this.....booF!

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