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  • Type: Art & Entertainment
    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

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

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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