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  • Type: Art & Entertainment
    Date: Friday - 3/6/2009
    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
    View Map
    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, March 6th, 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

KAMEA HADAR...TRAVIS LEVITY....GODESS ALCHEMY PROJECT...PHEONIX...QUADRAPHONIX...TAIMANE GARDNER..TIGRAN MIMOSA...MC SEE...SPECIAL GUEST SLAM POETS

Late addition: MIKE LOVE: DUBKONSCIOUS

oNe iNTenSE fUSION
from the mainLand: Lucious hip-hOP, fReaK FOLK, amazing poetry from the LOcaLs: an insPired art instaLLation, nEw theatre, beLLydaNCe PLUS....
can you say firsT friday fast enough? Kamea Hadar is a Local artists with a huge inStaLLation to be hung from the rafters, pLus speciaL t-shirts. GOdEss ALcHeMy PrOjecT is a 4 woman hip-hOP + poetry +dance grouP in froM the mainLand to Bless uS. TrAVIs Levity is in fROM his touR with a fuLL boUNty of sONgs beYond wordS. QuaDRaphoniX continues their unique coLLaboration with Taimane Gardner. DJ TIGRAN MIMoSA an oRiginal up anD coming artist. PheOniX gracES the sPace with triBal fUsioN BeLLydancing. And the poeTRY is just as GReaT as any thinG ELSe ever. LovE it up....

Visual ART
FEAUTURE ARTIST: Kamea Namba Hadar, and his name is perhaps one of the bast indications of his diverse backgrounds. :Kamea: means amulet or talisman where he was born, in Jerusalem. Namba is “a coming turbulence” is Japanese, and is a well known family name in Hawaii, where he mover to at the age of five.

Kamea began studying and drawing at a young age. As a child he took classes at the Honolulu Art Academy and later learned under the guidance of artists like Kate Witcomb and wildlife painter and koa woodworker David Lafelli. At fifteen he began doing artwork for textiles and since then has been responsible for the fabric prints for Anne Namaba Designs (annenamba.com) Kamea has even created the artwork for the uniforms at Zippy's. Kamea took his drawing skills and applied them to glass-etching with Hawaii glass artist Lionel Prevost and has neen the head of glass etching and design department for Artflow Studios (artflow-studio.com). Kamea studied art at the University of San Diego and has had periods lving, studyin and creating at the Sorbonne in Paris, the University of St Louis in Madrid and Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv. He curretly resides in Honolulu, HI.

MUSIC:

The Goddess Alchemy Project is an independent arts collective fusing music, visual art, spoken word poetry, dance, their al.KEM.y designs clothing company, and community outreach to bring sacred intention to the forefront of artistic momentum. Utilizing multi-media as their tool of mass creation, the collective's core intention to empower the voices of artists, activists, and healers has sustained the project through its many phases of evolution since its inception in 2002. Throughout the year of 2007 the project received wide recognition and exposure for their musical accomplishments. The music offered by The Goddess Alchemy Project is one key aspect within the totality of their work, which also includes clothing design, event production, international solidarity work with indigenous peoples, youth service, arts empowerment education, and other forms of community outreach.


THE GODESS ALCHEMY PROJECT is:

Nikila MamaWisdom: melodics, lyricist, poet, artist
Aima the Dreamer: lyricist,poet
Dakini Star: lyricist, poet
ceLena deLphi: lyricist, poet, 1's & 2's
e.Ma Luna: lyricist, poet

sonicbids.com/goddessalchemyproject

Travis Puntarelli was exploring the Earth like a Dog's Nose when he pondered the escapade of revelry and found himself flat on the floor of the Time-Ship, buttoning his coat. He was thinking of jumping the ship right off, but then something happened that made him change his mind. Perhaps it was because the water looked a bit too cold and frothy, perhaps it was because the ship added such a fancy swagger to his step, but more likely that Dog's Nose just wanted to see where the ship was going, and so he stayed.__Grown in Bloomington Indiana and schooled by obscure stars and wandering souls as they moseyed back and forth across the continent of NA, he found himself lost At Once. And now again, Lost. Oh, he has played with such Characters as Pa-wah-oul, Cheshire the Mimsey, Hot Fighter Number One, Octover Springlet, Out of the Blue, and the Haunted Windchimes. He is currently working on a project to tie grass roots with dream shoots and turn windows into doors. This guy is way excited to play with you.

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

Mimosa Music...

Mimosa takes listeners on a journey through warm rhythmic sound-scapes, with melodies and vocal samples smoothly crafted to help navigate the sonic terrain. Using basslines inspired by hip-hop classics like Too Short and Dr Dre, combined with deep psychedelic textures reminiscent of the downtempo and midtempo output by Tipper and Bluetech, Mimosa blends the range of styles to create his own fresh take on the west coast sound.

Mimosa's debut EP release, Hostilis, presents tracks with heavy-hitting low frequencies, sexy grooves, and uplifting dub infusions, floating between instrumental Hip Hop and Dubstep. The Hostilis EP also features prolific MC Souleye from Colorado, known for his extensive touring with jam bands like BLVD and STS9. The track 'Framboise' features beautiful vocal textures provided by Canadian artist Sasha [Butterfly] Rose.
Look for the Hostilis EP on Muti Music at Additech.

myspace.com/tigranmimosa
Live Bookings: mimosa[at]tigranmimosa.com

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


BellyDANCE: Natalie Phoenix has been a belly dance soloist for the most part. Starting with Cabaret Style belly dance, Natalie has found solitude in Tribal Style belly dance. She has taken intensive workshops and classes by Ansuya, Zo‘ Jakes, Kami Liddle, and Fat Chance Belly Dance to name a few.


In 2006, Natalie formed a belly dance troop Nadeshiko with her friends from the dancing community, and in April of 2007, she joined Hawaii's premiere Tribal Fusion belly dance troop Shakti Dance Movement.


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

ohhh yes bOSS he he he!

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MIKE LOVE: the Dubkonscious guitarist is an amazing solo musician “I am a musician, born a musician, and will be a musician long after this world is dead and gone. I make music with as many positive dedicated musicians as I can, including my band Dubkonscious, Paula Fuga, Tavana, Father Psalms Studio and more. I give thanks Iternally for the blessing and the opportunity to make music every day. I am always seeking to grow and learn new things about music and life and pray that I will always be so. Thanks for taking the time to learn about me and the music I am blessed to be a vessel for, hopefully I can return the favor sometime.”

www.myspace.com/mikelovehawaii

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