Event: First Friday at Ong King Arts Center

Time and Place: Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St., Friday, August 3rd, 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

…..MURLIST/GRAFF ARTIST PANCHO….ABSTRACT ART…HIP-HOPALYPSE…..TEMPO VALLEY…BRIGET GRAY……QUADROPHONIX…HIGH RISK THEATRE…BAD SUSHI…

FIRST FRIDAY: AUGUST 3RD at Ong King Arts Center

This August 3rd theatre, dance, music and gorgeous graffiti take center stage at oNG kING. The urban art landscapes of PANCHO arrive, these contrast with the abstract pieces from Mark Boneham. hIP-hOpALYpse is unveiled featuring MC’s and Martial Artists, TEMPO VALLEY brings the sultry, hip-hop stylings, GIINKO MARACHINO performs a Kabuki dance, plus another ‘Toxic Mayhem’ BAD SUSHI ATTACKS with a legendary kung fu battle, HIGH RISK THEATRE performs comedy Improv, plus the world famous QUADROPHONIX, and DJ JOulz. Yes it is the final FF of the summer, beauty is boundless.

Visual ART
Featured Artist: PANCHO.
Pancho Abalos work displays a lush imagination, and a vast conceptual grasp. He merges plants, cityscapes and human introspection in powerful organic paintings rich with color and immediacy.

PANCHO was born in 1978, in Quezon city, Philippines. He grew up moving all over but always was rooted in his love for cartoons, hip-hop and graffiti. Influences range from Transformers to Samurai Champoo. He studied Graphic Design at Bob Jones University, in Greenville South Carolina.
He attributes his past 6 years of Hawaii living with inspiring a new level of mastery and technique.

PANCHO has achieved success in his Oahu shows including his live murals in the Ground Up Movement. He has shown in Los Angeles, the Philippines and has received several awards in juried exhibitions. His work will be seen around the world with major interest in showing in New York, Europe and Tokyo.

Emerging Artist: Mark Boneham was born in Banbury, England. He began to paint after traveling for several years around the planet. His experiences in Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, and Italy were the most influential on his work. His early work reflected images of early American culture. Deeper, more colorful styles have since emerged from Mark’s brush. These images reflect a more thoughtful, spiritual energy. This ‘psychic artwork’ shows different sights and feelings for each set of eyes which gaze upon it.

PERformance ART
HIP-HOpaLYPSe

harumi the HYmn

hip-hopALYpse is a hip-hop theatre production, written and directed by See/Cristian Ellauri. Its cast of 15 is packed with talent, including MC’s, INTrePID, and Harumi the HYMn, Martial Artists Justin Young and Michael Hamilton and Folk Singer Christina Nelson. See wrote and directed Jaguar Priests, a hip-hop theatre myth, for his Masters Thesis at UHM, it went on to be performed as part of the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival in Washington, DC in 2006. He also wrote and directed Chase a hip-hop theatre production starring Kealoha in 2005.

hIP-hOPALYpse is a post apocalyptic story questioning how to rebuild society after a devastating series of environmental disasters.

TEMPO VALLEY: In just 2 years Tempo has emerged as Honolulu’s most beautiful, talented, mix of MC’s, sensuous vocals and lovely beats. A recent cover story on the band solidified their success and strengthened their following. Tempo Valley’s roots begin circa 2003, on the Windward side of Oahu, HI.

listen to TEMPO VALLEY

The musical collective Tempo Valley is a blend of sounds including acoustic guitar, reggae, hip-hop, mellowed out trippy beats, ethereal female vocals and poetry. With sounds and vibes similar to Sade, Massive Attack…

Seph 1 leads the rhythmic cadence, with Paisley adding a dreamy voice into Eugene ‘Slo’ Carroll’s beats, Cellist Diane Rubio brings the emotive strings, and Jeffery James keeps the family name happen’in on the drum set.

“Paisleys’ voice is beautiful, engaging, and celestial. It is that voice that brings you back again and again. Here she invites you into to the tempo, her sanctuary. And that’s where she stirs your soul with a intimate and honest approach.”

BRIGET GRAY performs poetry, jamming into the TEMPO set and with quad too.

briget gray/ poet

quaDraphonix

Quadraphonix he’s back! A month of SOuth AMerica has opened the eyes and ears of percussionist/composer Jonathan Heraux. He is joined by electric sitar player Shree Sagopan, conga player Eli Clemens, and new bass player Tino. Last month stand-up bass player Susan Cropp arrived and grooved tremendous, perhaps she will come again…

DJ JouLZ brings pumping beats, and hip moving funk into the mix.

BRINA n the BEATBOX, she dances he does the beat.

VIGALATE KUNG-FU: BAD SUSHI The night goes from worse to BAD as the Bad Sushi trio of Bobbi, Mikki and Eden do battle with some of Chinatown’s scary kung-fu Villains! Bad SUshi is a local clothing and wearable weapons store, that just opened its new location directly across the street from oNG kiNG. They will be doing a crazy kung-fu show down to defend the good patrons of first friday from attacking bandits!

bAD SUSHI

HIGH RISK THEATRE: Long form Improv theatre is not dead! This group pops its head into the mix for 20 minutes of laughter and weirdness.