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Event Calendar ItemFirst Friday @ ong king - New Beginning!
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Date: Friday - 1/1/2010
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)
JANUARY 1st New Beginnings First Friday @ Ong
King
kismet keeps on resonating. As Shain and Dana hold
their first First Friday, new bands, improv, and artists are right in
step.
WHEN: January 1,
2010
TIME: Gallery @ 5, Entertainment @ 9-2 a.m.
WHERE: Ong King (corner of King and River)
COST: Gallery=free!, After 9=$10
PLUS: $5 all-you-can-drink kawa, $5 BYOB, Beer and wine for donations
TIME: Gallery @ 5, Entertainment @ 9-2 a.m.
WHERE: Ong King (corner of King and River)
COST: Gallery=free!, After 9=$10
PLUS: $5 all-you-can-drink kawa, $5 BYOB, Beer and wine for donations
WHO:
Featured artist: Aaron Yoshino
Up and coming: Carol Tagawa
Entertainment:
Music! Knights of the TEMPO, Soft Asylum, Jason Tom, and Anna Surento
Improv! On the Spot improv troupe
Poets! Tui-Z, Dar’ron, Jess K
Featured artist: Aaron Yoshino
Up and coming: Carol Tagawa
Entertainment:
Music! Knights of the TEMPO, Soft Asylum, Jason Tom, and Anna Surento
Improv! On the Spot improv troupe
Poets! Tui-Z, Dar’ron, Jess K
READ ON FOR MORE
DETAILS...
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Featured artist:
Aaron
Yoshino
He's one of Hawaii's premier photographers and
historian of all things dope. Aaron has long documented Hawaii's subculture,
focusing on small-time art venues and musicians. Check out his work at
Honozooloo.com and 5tolife.Honozooloo.com.
Emerging Artist:
Carol Tagawa
You’ve probably seen her creating her live-art paintings in front of
crowds of hundreds at the largest slam in the world (1st Thursdays Hawai’i
Slam @ Pipeline Café), which she’s most known for. Though she calls
Hawai’i home, Carol Tagawa was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay
Area and comes from a family of talented artists. She’s been painting for
8 years, and confesses an interest in art all her life, growing up a fan of Rene
Margaritte & Leonardo DaVinci, citing contemporary artists like David Choe
& Hung Liu as influences. Her current work represents “the feelings of
color remembering place & time”. She hopes to create more art
reflecting different social issues in the world today.
Knights of the
TEMPO
The Knights of the TEMPO, and their distinctive
instruments of choice, come together with a blend of sounds that offer the
sweetest morsels of down-tempo, hip-hop, jazz, folk, latin, reggae, neo-soul
flavors. Johhny Tanner on Guitar, Aaron Friedman on Bass, Lindey Paterson on
Percussions, and Marcel Porter on Trumpet. Come see them in their debut
performance.
Soft
Asylum
Drawn from the poetry of Jim Morrison come the words
Soft Asylum. Iya Motskobili, Zachary Hitchcock, Josh Guerra, and Tim Lee's globe
spanning musical experience resonate with the spirit of these words. Cascading
rhythms, bold dynamics, poetic lyricism and sultry vocals create what will be
the sonic world that is Soft Asylum.
Check out a video of
the band at Anna's.
Jason Tom: The
Human Beatbox
Freelance Clothing endorser Jason Tom
(譚志豪)
is Hawaii's human beatbox . Based in Honolulu's Chinatown, Jason has performed
for ARTafterDARK, First Thursdays poetry slam (its home will be Fresh
Café on 831 Queen St.), First Fridays (Ong King Art Center & the
Hawaii State Art Museum), Chinese New Year Festival, Music With A Message,
TEDxHonolulu (TEDxHNL), and more. Jason has opened for the JabbaWocKeeZ, Quest
Crew, and most recently the human sound-effects machine/comedian Michael Winslow
(the star of the Police Academy films). He has also performed live with Makana,
Bridget Gray, Pimpbot, Lovechile, Missing Dave, and Jake Shimabukuro. In the
2007 Ong King Art Center production "Hip-hopalypse" Jason played a non-speaking
beatboxer by the name of Dewm with emcees Do (played by iNTREPiD) and Dune
(played by Harumi the Hymn of the Deadbeats). Jason has been featured in the
Honolulu Advertiser TGIF Metromix cover story, Honolulu Weekly's Best of
Honolulu 2009 as "best local musician deserving of a wider audience," the 808
Scene Zine, OC16's "Eh, U Da Kine Ah?," Olelo 52's "Shaka Talk (episode 5)," and
soon on KHON2's "Entertain Me! (premiering January 23, 2009)" representing the
5th element of hip-hop (beatboxing). For more info visit
http://jasontom.com
Anna
Surento
Anna Surento
arrived in HI from Upstate New York, lifetime song bird, a few years on the
keys, she’s a poet. Sounds of jazz, melancholy, vibrating waves of wonder.
“I have found a lightened path of love and music I will do nothing else
but embrace it. I’m willing to move into the future with an open mind and
an open heart and I look forward to my music growing and evolving me. ...Nature
has a way of getting the most necessary actions to be the only actions needed to
be taken.”
On the Spot
Improv
Troupe
OTS (On the Spot) has been performing for 9 years and
is Hawaii’s only Alt 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.
Featured Poet:
Tui-Z
Tui Scanlan has risen fast. A member of the
Hawaii Slam Team for two years runnin. Once he was in a stagnant pool of
wanna-be stars on the mainland Orange County. He had to come home to the story
of this land, he wanted to tell stories with meaning. Come to hear him speak
from his new CD, Patient Zero. Copies will available for
purchase.
Dar’ron Cambra:
Found his
writer’s voice while getting his 6-year degree in creative writing and
even more creative excuses at Western Washington University. A large ego and the
desire for attention drew Darron from the page to the stage, after many failed
attempts and embarrassing mistakes, Dar’ron has become a noticeable figure
in the Hawai’i Slam Community (because he is tall) and is a Mentor and
Facilitator for YouthSpeaksHawai’i--back to back champs--where he copies
the talented teens’ poetry and passes it off as his own. His CD
‘True Confessions of a Compulsive Liar’ has just been released,
using pieces from his chapbook with the same name plus three newer pieces. the
CD is a wonderful mix of poetry and music, produced by artists from both
Washington and Hawai'i. Darron has been a member of the Hawai'i Slam team for 3
years, and is the new host of Bringing Back Kerouac at Anna
Bananas.
Jess Kroll
Born and
raised in Hawaii, received an MFA in Writing from the University of San
Francisco, performed poetry in Honolulu, Berkeley, San Francisco, Denver,
Austin, New York and Boston, recently published in 42nd Parallel, Gloom Cupboard
and Puffin Circus, loves using Red Vines as soda straws, can put his foot behind
his head.
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