Event: First Friday at Ong King Arts Center
Time and Place: Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St.,
Friday, May 4th, 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
5 VISUAL MEDIA…2 LIVEBANDS…CLOWN SHOW… 2 DANCE COMPANIES …DRUM ENSEMBLE…KUNG-FU PERFORMANCE…3 SLAM POETS
FIRST FRIDAY: May 4th at Ong King Arts Center
oNG kINg Arts Center is springing into its second year, to invigorate and inspire with seven different types of art colliding, and collaborating, into one spectacular collage. LOCal artists Chandra K. MIars and Lisa Franklin light up the gallery, Kealoha headlines poets, pioneer folk singer Millicent Cummings arrives from Kauai, The SpaCiFiCs bring hip-HOP, MOCo the clown rides the 9ft unicycle, the Gong-fu theatre returns, then Quadraphonix and DJ JoulZ collaborate to get crescendo the night of the best local talent from multiple genres.
ART GALLERY: Feature Artist: Chandra K. Miars presents:
Color Form and Body, an exploration of the aesthetic forms in nature and the city in 4 different mediums.
Chandra (BFA, Art UHM) was raised in Hawaii, were she dances with the Iona Contemporary Dance Theatre. She attributes her theatre and dance experience both in Hawaii and San Francisco with inspiring her visual art.
“I want to express beauty in anyway that I can. Beauty…I just know that’s its there its what brings balance.” Chandra K. Miars
Emerging Artist: Lisa Franklin creates and teaches visual art on the Big Island of Hawaii. Her current mixed media show includes; collage, screen printing, painting, intaglio, drawing and lithography. Printmaking has become her passion since her introduction to it at Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts. She recently set up her own printmaking studio at the East Hawaii Cultural Center.
MUSIC CONCERT: THE SPACIFICS, are a hip-hop jazz group fronted by seph 1, a smooth freestyle lyricist whose words about the band flow like:
“universal greetings and salutations on-lookers, liners, lovers, and livers of life…(we is) a lake of tides and ‘tings to ‘tink of, instinct of the sync…rivers of rites of passage” seph 1
Seph is backed by a tight band, including Kevin Hughes, k.town (David Keli’i Wong), sean.jovi (Sean Ho), dj risup (Bronson Kaleialoha), slo (Eugene Carrol), Eric Awa. This is raw, edge, hamonik, melodic, next level, rooted hip-hop.
Millicent Cummings: Fierce, passionate, folk music. In 2005 ‘The Island Rose’ arrived at record stores, a Star Bulletin Review wrote
“This album represents two decades of serious song writing… Cummings has flow and distinction, her title track imagines what Princess Ka’iulani would say if she saw the congested paved-over urban jungle that stands on what was once her family’s estate in Waikiki.”
(Berger, July, Island Mele).
Millicent Cummings just moved to Honolulu and already has won a Singer Songwriter award from Red Elephant. In her former home of Kauai, she Won the Na Po’e Award, (People’s Choice) at the Kauai Mokihana Festival. She founded the Hanapepe Folk Festival in Kauai (now in its fifth year). In Kauai she spent years of running her own gallery, and has played music stages throughout the islands of Hawaii and even in the subways of New York City.
Quadraphonix: The ever popular jazz/groove band, including Jonathan Heraux, Shree Sagopan, and Eli Clemens, continues to innovate compositions and incorporate new talent. This month they fuse their unique sound with the freestyle sensation seph 1, and the dancers of Ginnko Marischino.
SLAM POETRY: Kealoha is the founder of HawaiiSlam, Youth Speaks Hawai`i, and First Thursdays, the largest registered/certified slam poetry competition in the world (with an average attendance of 650+). He has served as Hawaii’s SlamMaster since 2003, and has been on the Artists in the Schools roster since 2005. His poetry has been published by literature journals such as Bamboo Ridge, Wordstew, and the Honolulu Weekly. His spoken word poetry has also been recorded on albums such as Hapa’s “Maui” (winner of 4 Na Hoku Hanohano awards including “Album of the Year,” and winner of the Hawaii Music Award for “Album of the Year”), the Mana Maoli compilation (featuring Jack Johnson and John Cruz), and a full-length spoken word CD entitled Kealoha. He has won numerous slams throughout his career and has been featured at legendary venues including the Nuyorican poets cafe (New York City), the Cantab Lounge (Boston), New Jersey’s Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), and a sold out Waikiki Shell. He also recently performed alongside Henry Kapono for the NFL Pro Bowl halftime show.
Last month Jazmin Heroldt, became one of the newest members of the Hawaii Youth SPEAKS Slam Team. She will represent Hawaii in National Competition in New York City. Jazmin is also an actress and performed in Romeo and Juliet at Mid Pac, and The Vagina Monologues at oNG kINg.
Liam Skilling is a UHM Law Student, Father of 2, and KTUH DJ (Street Mythology). His poetry is rich in color and tone, describing the urban landscapes of NYC, and the political climate of post 9-11 America.
street mythology session
ginnko
DANCE PERFORMANCE: Ginnko Marischino is ready to reboot, many dancers were busy with they many dancers are back after a successful run of ‘Electric Blue.’ The dancers combine with Quadraphonix to create a new composition.
Hawaii Jitterbugs performs an original swing dance routine. This popular group teaches swings all over town. Their class at Ong King is the most widely attended and most swingin!
CLOWN, JUGGLING, ACROBATICS: The Flying Hawaiian known only as ‘Moco’, will perform the Loco Moco a 9 foot unicycle pin juggling act. Moco arrives in preparation for his summer tour of Northern Europe where he hopes to entertain audiences by, ‘risking his life for their amusement’.
GONG-FU PERFORMANCE: Qi-gong, and kung-fu skills combine with old Chinese proverbs. In this spectacle of swords, choreographed combat and heavy make-up. Michael Hamilton leads his team of peaceful warriors.
DJ JOULZ innovates with tempo, and collaboration. Playing with tempo, always funky and sticky, JOULZ has the tools to keep the night alive. He will spin together with live drummers, and musicians from Quadraphonix.
