every sunday 9pm – 1am
coST oNE dOLLah’

info: Everyone is invited to perform watch, listen, celebrate expression in all its forms. Poets, Musicians, Dancers, all are called to just do your thing, take a chance or get betTer through praCice n’ posiTivity. creative coLLaboration, and baZooM’in iNterAcTIOn.

KAVA BAR! All night long we serve Kava. Its only 5$ all u can drink, all night long. Yeah that’s the best deal ever.

Tea, Coffee, Sweets, Juices also Available.
BYOB (corking fee = 5$)

Sacred Breathing Space: Every Tuesday 7pm – 8:30 @ ong King ArtS center

About: Sacred Breathing Space is an environment open to the public, in which all are reminded to stay present, by reminding ourselves and each other to stay focused on breath… We will have discussions about pertient and metaphysical issues. We will be focusing on interaction in a way that feels completely safe for everyone involved; allowing each individual to act as their true, highest self. The goal will be a constant remembrance of the Now Here, through the placement of intention on the inhalation and exhalation. This technique is vital in re-establishing connection with the higher realms, as well as grounding more in the physical body.

Harmonic tones, mantras, and controlled breathing exercises (pranayama) will be employed along with ‘free play’ breathing sessions to help energize and oxigenate us. We look forward to ‘con-spiring’ with you in rememberance of the divine.

more Infor: beingoflight@gmail.com
808-450-8324

Art and Meditation by Anuradha Shankaran

The Art and meditation lessons are designed to guide the student to learn a basic meditation technique, while working alone and in partnership, to remove the student from the every day world and connect to our inner, creative, inspired, artistic self. The primary aim is to offer the student the gift of meditation as a tool to temporarily remove oneself from the everyday world, and the gift of tapping into one’s creative self. Bring a blank paged journal, a 2B pencil or charcoal, a kneaded eraser, a yoga mat, bottled water, and an open mind

Teacher: Anuradha Shankaran born in Canada and highly influenced by Indian culture. Her transcendent art began taking shape at the age of 8, when she lived in India for half a year. She credits this trip with putting her on the path of her principle art elements, spirituality, meditation and world culture.

Her roots laid, she journeyed into the fashion industry where she had the ability to both travel and work creatively. She studied Fashion Design, at Fashion Institute of Technology, and Painting at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Anuradha Shankaran

“my objective with Art is to have the audience experience a moment of transcending the barriers of time and space.”

Anuradha Shankaran’s work expresses the spirit of our times. She utilizes her Art as a tool for advocacy.

Student Quote:

“Liberation. Studying with Anuradha Shankaran gave me tools to bring out images nestled within. Although I have painted and drawn since childhood, it was only when I began studying with Radha that I gained aptitude to bring forth things I sensed onto canvas; perhaps more important than learning the technical skills of art, was learning to have confidence in painting intuitively.

Radha gave me the purest of gifs, the ability to harness something that was already there, something that is inside all of us. It is with great happiness and coincidence that I have found that Radha is teaching meditation and art at Ong King. Now, years since our cozy one on one painting and life lessons in her former Kaimuki home, I have the opportunity to study with her again and meditate on the gift of this life. I hope you join Radha in this liberating journey through meditation and art.”

more info: anuradhashankaran@msn.com

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Beginning Lindy Hop Swing (HJ)

Come out and learn to dance or brush up on your basics with the Hawai’i Jitterbugs —
No partner or experience necessary! Series includes FREE admission to the Hawaii Jitterbugs’ dance following classes on Thursdays from 8-11pm at Ong King Art Center.

MORE INFO: www.hawaiijitterbugs.org

Date/Time: Class Thursdays, 7-8pm, Dance Thursday 8-11pm
Kai & Vivian
Pricing: $80 for 8 week series; $50 for 4 weeks
$15/class for first night only or with instructor permission
Location:
Ong King Art Center
184 N King St
Honolulu, HI 96817

Please contact Vivian to register or for more information:
lomichick@gmail.com or (808)282-0053.
MORE INFO: www.hawaiijitterbugs.org

West African Hip Hop Fusion Dance Class
EVERY Wednesday
7:10-8:30pm
$12/ class (discount cards available)

AFRICAN FUSION INSTRUCTOR: Gabriella Masakoe Freitas began her dance training at the age of three. While developing technique in Hip Hop, Ballet, African, Modern, Jazz and Tap dance forms, she performed throughout her elementary and teen years with Young extensions Dance Theatre and Daughters of the Sun West African Dance Co. At 14 she attended the American Dance Festival in North Carolina and traveled to Moscow, training and performing with world renowned companies such as, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Taylor, Martha Graham and David Parsons. Inspired by her experience she committed herself to becoming a dance educator. Gabriella attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has choreographed and performed in over 200 pieces while pursuing her dream. She has performed with Patricia Reedy and Dancers, her own company About Time Productions and taught dance to children, teens and adults in studios and recreation centers throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area. She has recently become an Oahu resident and looks forward to raising her daughter here in Kailua and sharing her passion for dance with the community.
youandgab@yahoo.com

Ong King Arts Center
184 N. King St.
Honolulu

Community Acupuncture Clinic

Affordable and Effective Treatment
with Michael Hamilton, L.AC.
Over 10 years of professional experience [ACU-502]
Reg. Baxiangong Healer

for more info about acupuncture goto: lotusspace.com

ONGKING Arts Center
Sliding scale $10-30

Mondays 3-7pm

Qi-gong class follows clinic 7-9pm

Treatment is walK-in and by appointment.
Please note: there will be no clinic on National Holidays.

In Asia, acupuncture traditionally consisted of a quick intake, pulse & tongue diagnosis, and several people lying with needles in one communal room. This model can work in the West as well. By treating people all together, it is much more affordable for everyone, allowing for more frequent treatments, and faster results.

Experience the collective healing energy of our community as we receive acupuncture together.

Access your internal pharmacy!
info@lotusspace.com

Learn more:
http://www.lotusspace.com/Acupuncture.htm

Shakespeare NOW……
See/Cristian Ellauri, is the Shakespeare guy.

Workshops on Shakespeare (currently available to come to your school)

Covering:
1. Verse: beats, iambic pentameter, sonnets
2. Words: Use of consonants and vowels to create dramatic effect
3. Story: plot (status quo, catharsis, resolution) theme, dramatic value
4. Character Analysis: thru-line, protagonist, intention in a scene, objective in the play, spine
5. Modern Contextualization: influence on language, understanding why it matters, similarities to modern story telling
6. Historical Setting: dramatic conventions of Elizabethan era

Methodology: Everyday people speak in verse. We make beats when we speak, write, even as we walk and think. Shakespeare’s words like today’s hip-hop combines words and rhythm in a beautiful symmetry that can enrich our lives.
• Lecture and performance
(can perform 17 monologues, from 8 different Shakespeare plays)
(can perform monologues in many different styles)
• Acting with the group
• Directing a scene
• Monologues

Background: Shakespeare’s words are what first enabled me to express myself. My ability to write plays, verse and do hip-hop are all rooted in Shakespeare’s work.
• BFA Acting Syracuse University
• MFA Theatre Direction UHM
• Shakespeare Street Performer (DC, London, Waikiki)
• Member 2006 Hawaii Slam Poetry Team
• Freestyle Hip-Hop MC
• Children’s theatre Teacher
• Hip-Hop Theatre Playwright (wrote and directed 3 full productions)
• Artistic Director of oNG kING ArtS cenTER www.ongking.com

aloha thanks for checking this out….the cLass isn’t happening right now but for more info on eCstatic dance contact : reafox22@hotmail.com

The time to get ecstatic is come.
Dance Journeys that Move the Body and Quake the Soul!

COME prepared to give up your inhibitions and Fly Free!

Use the Dance Floor as your Canvas!

Experience Dynamic Movement as Meditation, as Potent Body Awareness!

Let me be your Guide…I will lead you Home and Back!

Blessings…Rea Fox

Qigong has returned to ONGKING ARTS CENTER for 2007.

Michael Hamilton teaches the ancient Chinese form of cultivation of energy. This class is very much like Tai CHi, focusing on physical and mental well being.

Class time is 7-9pm MON. Hope to see you there.

MOre on qi-gong, from the Michael’s: www.lotusspace.com

ng Benefits

Physically, Qi Gong optimizes organ functions of the heart, spleen, lung, kidney, and liver. Energetically, Qi Gong harmonizes the energy flow through its pathways in the body called meridians. Spiritually, Qi Gong calms, opens, and sharpens the mind.

Health, Meditation, Martial Art

Qi Gong has three primary applications: healing art, martial art and spiritual art (meditation), which all combine in this easy to learn and fun to practice exercise that will enhance every aspect of your life. Its a mind-body-spirit way to feel better, think clearer, and be more energized!

Spiritual/Ritual Art

Qi Gong exercise is at least 5000 years old, predating the texts of Chinese shamanism and Taoism. The Taoists incorporated qi gong, like a dance, in their ritual ceremonies as a means of communicating with spirits, or joining their center of gravity with the original center.

The Taoists adopted qi gong as an internal alchemical practice that fortified the gradual achievement of immortality. A Taoist will tell you to go to your fate, which lies within yourself. This simply means, by constant yet gentle focus on the breathing from the dantian, or elixir field, located internally 1.5” below the navel, a person can forget their worries, free their mind from thoughts, simplify and lengthen their life.

Martial Art

Qi Gong was applied martially in order to protect and preserve life by the most efficient means possible. The adept’s mind is alert to the opponent’s center of gravity, and open to respond spontaneously to the opponent’s mistake of over extending and/or losing the center.

There are hundreds of different qi gong forms and exercises, ranging from laying down, sitting, standing, and walking forms. Ultimately, all martial arts are founded upon the principles of qi and the center of gravity at the dantian.

Healing Art

Qi Gong is a therapeutic exercise modality prescribed within the scope of Oriental Medicine, which also utilizes acupuncture, herbs, dietary counseling, and medical massage. In China, terminal cancer patients are out living their life expectancies by practicing qi gong daily. The daily practice of qi gong, which is an active self- treatment, can treat many physiological disorders.

“Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity.” -Chapter 16, Tao De Jing

Some physiological benefits of Qi Gong include:

Eliminates toxins
Builds stamina and increases vitality
Relieves pain and stress
Enhances immune system
Stabilizes brain waves
Regulates hormone release
Regulates body temperature and weight
Increases flexibility
Deepens and slows respiration
Regulates blood pressure and heart rate
Aids digestion
Regulates blood sugar levels

Peaceful meditations.

Michael Hamilton, LAC

Cost: 10$