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.

THIS SUNDAY’S THEME: Around the World

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$)

Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St., Friday, December 1st, 5pm-2am (free art gallery opening 5pm-9pm, 10$ performance 9pm-2am)

ART GALLERY OPENING…THEATRE PERFORMANCE
DANCE PERFORMANCE..MUSIC CONCERT..SLAM POETRY

FIRST FRIDAY, December 1st at Ong King Arts Center

Zachary Opaskar’s art opening leads a night featuring live music from Quadraphonix, dance from As I Am, Theatre from HUTC plus, hula-hoop extrordinare SpiRaL FiRe, slam poetry and a special guest Ukulele virtuoso Jake ShimabuKuro . Ong King Arts Center brings new, vibrant, visual and performing arts to Chinatown’s First Friday.

ART GALLERY OPENING: Zachary Opaskar innovates art through inventing his own crafts and compelling the viewer to action. His creations will be revealed in ‘Text Reveals Title.’ A show of new, figurative and conceptual work which bridges the gap between east and west, with influences from Lucian Freud to Chang Dai Chen.

MUSIC CONCERT: Quadraphonix returns to Ong King with some new tricks up their sleeves. They team up with dancers to create an original dance/music piece including a gamelan, and gongs. After words it’s a free for all dance groove. Quadraphonix includes sitar player Shree Sadagopan, drummer Jonathan Heroux, double bass player Susan Cropp, and percussionist Eli Clemens.

The Special guest Ukulele Virtuoso is Jake Shimabukuro he is scheduled to play his own show at the Waikiki Shell later this month, his playing at Ong King is truly a gift. s unquestionably regarded as one of the world’s top ukulele (oo-koo-LAY-lay) musicians. Renowned for lightning-fast fingers and revolutionary playing techniques, Jake views the ukulele as an “untapped source of music with unlimited potential.” www.jakeshimabukuro.com

DJ Joulz corrals the evening with original beats and collaboration with live musicians.

DANCE: New group: As I Am is composed of members of Butoh dance group, Ginko Marischino.

Making her debut is SpiralFire…with a HULa-HOOP, musical creation.

THEaTRE: H.U.T.C. (Honolulu Underground Theatre Collective) returns with Willow Chang, Darr’on and See performing a politically charged piece about the true cost of war.

SLAM POETRY: 3 Winners of local poetry slams are brought together to perform. This month includes Jeni, whose poem was an amazing success at the Interscholastic Slam presented by Youth Speaks at Kaimuki High School.

contemplation by Margot Schrire

in your eyes by Margot Schrire

whizbang by Margot Schrire

all available for purchase
contact see@ongking.com

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Kristof gRafFiti aRtisT

Kristof UKAREST

Kristof paints a muRaL at oNg kiNG

KriStof

Founded way back when, this is the place the people and the dude who makes theatre at Ong KiNg. Every first friday this collective of slam poets, actors, musicians, dancers, clowns, and circus performers create a sHoRt and ProvoKative piece of tHeatre. After 6 moNths the gRoup is taKing a brEak. WRiter/DirectoR/PeRformer/StaGe MaNager see is tiRed and saYs Read sOme old sTuff wHiLe NeW cReation geStates.

See teaches Acting, its all about the breathe, voice, and opening up. For more info contact see: see@ongking.com

enrollment is closed.

Course Objectives:

General: To learn the fundementals of voice and body in terms of breathe, physical awareness, and its connection to emotional vulnerability. To develop the acting skills of relaxation, imAgInaTion, concentration, believability, and character development in the context of monologues, scenes, and performance.

Specific:

One: Opeing up the voice and the body. Using and understanding the basics of Linklater Voice Technique.
Two: Building a character. You will create a character through analysis of speech/diction, action, interaction, place, and time.

Three: Being in an ensemble. You will be a supportive, active, vital member of 2 artistic collaborations; one is our class time together, the other is the scenes you create

Margot Schrire

Show Name : Tokoloshe

Margot Schrire was born in Cape Town, South Africa, quite literally the tip of Africa, in 1972. Her father’s career as a Political Scientist led to the family’s bouncing back and forth between South Africa and USA. The experience of living in South Africa, in the time of Apartheid and strict racial segregation, impacted the Schrire family in many ways – from their telephone being tapped, to having a babysitter who was confined to her house as she was under house arrest, to the stories of the Tokoloshe and white sin told by an angry domestic servant whose pass book was torn to shreds during a police raid.

Margot’s mother, who was always “a little different” encouraged her daughters to express their creativity. She painted the walls in their room with giant animals, and blackboard paint so they could draw on the walls, freely. When Margot was 7, she was inspired by the work of Michelangelo and chiseled large portraits of her family on the walls of the garage. From the very beginning, Margot’s life has been informed by art, music, politics, and women who were “a little different”.

After graduating from the University of Cape Town, she spent 2 years traveling. With little money, and a curiosity that led to colorful experiences, she worked and traveled through Israel, Egypt, and Greece before embarking on Marco Polo’s route, a journey of mind and body that took her through Turkey, overland through the arid Baluchistan desert (Pakistan), Iran and into India.

For the past 9 years Margot has lived in California and now Hawaii. She has worked in a range of non-profits as an educator, counselor and program manager. She currently works at IHS, the Institute for Human Services, Oahu’s largest emergency homeless shelter.

Margot’s artwork takes shape through daily encounters with people struggling – and surviving – from the women with mental illness, to the children living in poverty in Guguleto, a township in Cape Town.

Eugene-Kristofher Menor (and sometimes known as Kristof) was born and raised on the east side of San Jose. His early artistic influences started with his cousin James. He would never let Eugene touch, much less look at, his precious comic books for fear of smudges and crinkles. Eugene was forced to listen to James’ descriptions and he would have to draw the characters using only his imagination.

In his teen years, Eugene found a more public outlet for his art: graffiti. As he developed his own, signature style he also gained recognition, but it also was a form of addiction. Before long, getting recognition was not enough to fulfill his need of a purpose. Eugene’s pursuit of purpose brought him through a season of soul searching and that’s exactly where Jesus Christ became his personal Lord and Savior.

Jesus later brought Eugene to Hawaii where he was given a new start and became known by a new name: Kristof. As his relationship with his Savior grew, so did Kristof’s appetite for the things of God, namely missions. In 2002, God helped to release Kristof’s life-long dream of “painting around the world” by joining YWAM in Perth, Australia for the next two adventurous years.

Today, Eugene-Kristofher continues to use his art as a platform for evangelism and has adopted Hawaii as his playground.