ISLAND STYLE pARTy!

Come get your way finding on and art flow moving in Honolulu’s Historical Culture & Arts District…make way for First Friday Chinatown!!!

LIVE MUSIC – OUTDOOR BAR – FOOD VENDORS – LIVE MURAL

Hotel Street pARTy (between Nu’uanu Ave & Smith St.)
8p-10p
Local island musical talents of Hawaiki with Kaukaohu Wahilani & gang. Representing for the west side jammin island style!
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8p-11p:
Hotel Street Outdoor Beer & Wine BAR
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Ono Local Street Grind By:
– Santa Cruz Taco Stand
– AmaEbi HI: Wild Hawaiian Seafood
– Rocket Coffee
– Bar 35 Eats

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LIVE Mural Artist

HIGHLIGHTED EXPERIENCES:

Honolulu Biennial 2019 @ Chinatown Arts & Capitol District
Art as part of the downtown loop of Honolulu, featuring many of the city’s most important historic buildings in complement and contrast to the bustling nature of the city’s urban center. Aliʻiolani Hale, Foster Botanical Garden, Hawaiʻi State Art Museum and YWCA Laniākea along with 4 pop-up locations will host works from Honolulu Biennial artists to include 10 new commissions and 10 site-specific installations.
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HB19 @ – SaVAge K’lub HQ – Open Hale
1111 Nu’uanu Ave. 6p-9p
Cult.VA.tions, FAB.rications, Acti.VA.tions..a place to music, meet, host, talk story, workshop, create work, perform and play. Ongoing studio take overs by interested local & visiting artists.
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HB19 @ Ei Arakawa’s – Surrounded by Biennials
– Worldwide Tours & Travel Service Inc, 1120 Nuuanu Ave.
– Kingdom Jade & Jewelers, 60 Maunakea St, Honolulu
– Ohana Lei’s & Flowers, 69 N. Beretania St, Honolulu
Arakawa’s innovative approach, where an in-depth urban study precedes the appointment of 4 trans-disciplinary creative mediators who collaborate to genuinely integrate the Biennial into the social, cultural, and political fabric of the city of Honolulu.
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HB19 @ Foster Botanical Garden
180 N Vineyard Blvd. 9a-4p
HB19 artists Bernice Akamine, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Misaki Kawai, Leland Miyano, Bruna Stude and Amy Yao.
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HB19 @ Hawaii State Art Museum
250 South Hotel St. 6p-10p
Check out the visual works of HB19 Artists: Bernice Akamine, Abraham Cruzvillegas, ʻĪmaikalani Kalāhele, Janet Lilo, Mata Aho Collective located in the lobby, lawn and balconies of Hawai’i State Art Museum.
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HB19 @ YWCA Laniākea
1040 Richards St. 5a-7p
A new fibre-based commission by Maui-based artist Chenta Laury. Seattle-based artist Ellen Lesperance presents a new commission of four paintings. Central Pacific Time, a collective created by Roger and Lei Bong provides a platform for the community to explore and navigate Hawaiʻi’s past, present and future through sound and story.
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HB19 @ Ali’iolani Hale
417 S King St. 8a-430p
Bernice Akamine’s Kalo 2016-present installation features eighty-seven halo sculptures bearing the signature pages of the 1897 Hhui Aloha Aina Anti-Annexation Petitions and hand-drawn maps of traditional land divisions of the five islands represented in the petitions.

Pantheon Contemporary
1121 Nu’uanu Ave #105 6p-midnight
AXIS Project Presents Ava Fedorov: Haunted Landscapes & Evidence Exhibition Opening. Exploring connective space between landscapes of the external and the internal. How climate change and other anthropocentric phenomena are affecting those spaces and connections.

Hawaii Theatre Center
1130 Bethel St. 7p-9p
Allegiance – A New Musical by Marc Acito, Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione, music by Jay Kuo. The story of the Kimura family, whose lives are upended when they and 120,000 other Japanese-Americans are forced to leave their homes following the events of Pearl Harbor. An uplifting testament to the power of the human spirit, Allegiance follows the Kimuras as they fight between duty and defiance, custom and change, family bonds and forbidden loves.

The ARTS at Marks Garage
1159 Nu’uanu Ave. 6p-10p
Monthly Art Exhibition Opening pARTy

Art, Music, and Fashion First Friday at HiSAM – Hawaii State Art Museum
250 South Hotel St. 6p-10p
Free, family-friendly evening of art and music at HiSAM! All museum galleries will be open.
“I Love Art” hands-on activity room with Julia Akatsu Stoyanov
Slow Art Day tour
Classical piano performances in Sculpture Lobby
All museum galleries will be open

HiSAM Museum Gallery Shop x Mori
Weaving demonstrations by Gaye Chan 6p-9p
Opening reception for display of artworks for sale by Japanese stained glass artists
Pop-up shops, and live music

Art at the Capitol
415 South Beretania St. 6p-9p
Ground floor and second floor of the No 1. Capitol District building

HI Design Barber & Lounge
954 Maunakea St. 7p-10p
Wine’n Poets “Speak Easy Style” wine tasting & sharing invitational featuring award winning spoken word poets & entertainment.

Indigo Alliance Hawaii
1011 Maunakea St. C.
First Friday Psychic Fair – 15 minute readings for $20…come get your future forecasted for the coming year!

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***Location & Featured Experiences Vary – Check Venues Directly for Details***

OPEN STUDIOS 6p-9p:
Pūko‘a Studios
Chinatown Artists Lofts
Zwick Academy of Fine Art
Louis Pohl Gallery
The Pegge Hopper Gallery
El Dorado – A Honolulu Casting Lab
The Naughty Vegan Studio

5p-10p: Boutiques, Craft, Visual & Performance Art Shows:
Owens & Co.
Barrio Vintage
Hound and Quail
In4mation
Ginger13
Valia Honolulu
Indigo Alliance Hawaii
Ali’i Coffee Co.
Pantheon Contemporary
Good Vibe Center
Sakura Loft
Polearity Studio
Tea at 1024
Local Joe

5p-2a: Restaurants, lounges, clubs, bars, dance venues (DJ, live music, performances, food & drink specials):
onG kinG aRts cenTer
Nextdoor
Manifest
Bar 35
Downbeat Lounge & Diner
Tchin Tchin
Scarlet Honolulu
Bar Elixrs
Proof Public House
Jj Dolans’s
Rangoon Burmese Kitchen
Bethel Union
Fête Hawaii
Encore Saloon
Brick Fire Tavern
Ethiopian Love
Topped
Livestock Tavern
Lucky Belly
The Pig and the Lady
O’Toole’s Irish Pub
Murphy’s Bar and Grill
The Dragon Upstairs

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5:00pm-10:00pm: Boutiques & restaurant specials, art shows & performances

8:00pm-2:00am: Clubs, bars, late-night dance venues (DJ, live music, performances)