Join us for the 6th season of the O’ahu Fringe Festival, a performing arts smorgasbord in Chinatown Honolulu. This year we have dance, theatre, shadow puppetry, music,comedy, mask and circus brought to you by a diverse range of artists. Go on, and take the plunge and join us for great time of fringey fun!
1st First Friday 2019! Dancing ArtFULLY into the New Year!
Come get your way finding on and dance flow moving in Honolulu’s Historical Culture & Arts District as we kick off Jan 2019 on a good foot and right beat!!
Hotel Street Dance pARTy
Between Nu’uanu & Smith St.
LIVE MUSIC – FRINGE FEST – DANCE CYPHER – OUTDOOR BAR
8p-10p
Activ8 Electric Jazz Street Dance-Off
O’ahu Fringe Festival Featured Performances!
Dancers Unlimited CYPHER!
Polearity Studio Showcase!
Jerome James & LIVE Band!
8p-11p:
Hotel Street Outdoor Beer & Wine BAR
LIVE mural artist
Featured DJs, musicians & drink specials till 2am:
The Manifest
Bar 35 Hawaii
Nextdoor
Downbeat Lounge
Tchin Tchin
HIGHLIGHTED EXPERIENCES:
O’ahu Fringe Festival 2019!
Hotel Street (Between Nu’uanu & Smith St.)
Live, provocative & multicultural performance artists in the local theatre, music & dance scene preview original works being showcased at the 2019 O’ahu Fringe Fest taking place Jan 10-13th at (5) different venues throughout Chinatown! Get tickets @ http://www.oahufringe.com/fringe-2019!!
Dancers Unlimited CYPHER!
Hotel Street (Between Nu’uanu & Smith St.)
Returning to Chinatown, HNL in celebration of turning 10,
Dancers Unlimited is bringing their HNL & NYC dance communities together for a return to the CYPHER on Hotel St!! With a decade of dance-making in Hawaii, NYC and abroad, come get on your feet (or head, or hands, or butts with dancers, poets and DJs exploring stories of human experiences, triumphs and struggles. What will YOU discover in the CYPHER?
HI Design Barber & Lounge
954 Maunakea St. 7p-10p
Wine’n Poets Wine Tasting and Sharing with Poetry EPIC MOTIVATION THEME
“Speak Easy Style” wine tasting & sharing invitational featuring award winning spoken word poets & entertainment.
Art, Music and Fashion at HiSAM
Free, family-friendly evening of art, music, and fashion at HiSAM! Admission is always free. Live music with Dayton Watanabe, “On Holiday” fashion show by YIREH and MA.GA.NDA, DJ JohnJohn in the Sculpture Garden, ALT/AIR art + music “dream pop” immersive experience, live printmaking demo by local artist Steven Kean, and more!
The ARTS at Marks Garage
Black Box Theater by KOA, Kailua Onstage Arts Presents: Rolling the Rs, by acclaimed playwright and author R. Zamora Linmark, directed by Reiko Ho is a play set in Kalihi in the disco years of the late ’70’s!
***Location & Featured Experiences Vary – Check Venues Directly for Details***
5p-10p:
Boutiques, visual & performance art shows
Owens & Co. Barrio Vintage Hound and Quail In4mation – I Shall Proceed and Continue Ginger13 Valia Honolulu Indigo Alliance Hawaii Louis Pohl Gallery The Pegge Hopper Gallery Ali’i Coffee Co. Pantheon Contemporary Rangoon Burmese Kitchen Bethel Union Pūko‘a Studios Zwick Academy of Fine Art Chinatown Artists Lofts The Naughty Vegan Studio Good Vibe Center Sakura Loft onG kinG aRts cenTer
5p-2a:
Restaurants, lounges, clubs, bars, late-night dance venues (DJ, live music, performances, food & drink specials)
Proof Public House Jj Dolans’s Fête Hawaii Encore Saloon Brick Fire Tavern Rangoon Burmese Kitchen Ethiopian Love Topped Livestock Tavern Lucky Belly The Pig and the Lady
O’Toole’s Irish Pub – Honolulu Bethel Union Murphy’s Bar and Grill The Dragon Upstairs in Honolulu Hawaii
ChinatownHonolulu.com for the DIGITAL MAP & all the First Friday experiences throughout Honolulu’s Historical Culture and Arts District!!
Support & Promote unapologetically!!
FACEBOOK: @firstfridaychinatownHNL
INSTAGRAM: @axischinatownhnl
#firstfridayhonolulu #chinARTown #axispoints
Last First Friday of 2018 – Holiday Holoholo!!!
The 15th Anniversary First Friday REVIVAL is in it’s final month of 2018 and we are closing out the year inspired by all the collective elevation taking place in our beloved Chinatown Honolulu Historical Culture & Arts District!!
With over 60 identified locations & only growing…DECEMBER First Friday is all about collective community…here are some of the highlights…
Support Small Business – Chinatown Merchants
Downtown Shop Around
Various Chinatown Locations & Times – Holiday Happy Hours (Friday Evenings in December)
The merchants of Honolulu’s historic Downtown and Chinatown districts will once again be offering special deals, trunk shows, and unique gift ideas this holiday season.
The ARTS at Marks Garage
1159 Nuuanu Ave. 6p-8p
Mālama Kekahi I Kekahi
(Care for One Another) Exhibition Opening
Artwork created by the youth of Pu’uhonua o Wai’anae, the largest houseless encampment on O’ahu located in Waianae. Curated by Wolf & Woman, a documentary collective for women, POC, and LGBTQ+ creatives in Hawaiʻi that has been hosting weekly art workshops for the youth culminating in this visual exhibition for the month of December. Revealing what resiliency & community truly means. Come celebrate genuine creativity & the rising up of our youth! FREE & open to ALL ages!
Hawaii Theatre Center
1130 Bethel St. 730p
KUANA’S WINTER WONDERLAND
Kuana is back bigger than ever with this supercharged Holiday concert series.
Part Holiday, part game show, part Hawaiian music and Hula. 100% fun for the whole family.
The Frontal Lobe @ Studio Enos
1121 Nu’uanu Ave (UPSTAIRS) 6p-late
WAIPĀ – Ka ʻĀina Uluwehi – New work by Solomon Enos
Fresh poi by the pound by Waipā Foundation
Beer/Wine Bar
Music by Speedy Bailey & Friends
Book signing for Kaiāulu Gathering Tides by Mehana Vaughan
Hawaii State Art Museum
250 South Hotel St. 6p-9p
Holiday Jazz – First Friday at HiSAM
Free, family-friendly evening of art and music at HiSAM! Holiday jazz music by Mike Lewis & Friends on the second floor; Men in Grey Suits and DJ Keala Kennelly on the ground floor at the HiSAM Museum Gallery Shop x Mori.
Chinatown Artists Lofts
1116 Smith St. 6p-9p
ChinARTown Lofts RED LIGHT POPUP
Red Light district boudoir cubbies complete with Live Theater performances by burlesque, belly dance, and other exotic models on the street during First Friday.
The Old Blaisdell Hotel
1152 Fort Street Mall 6p-9p
Old Blaisdell Bazaar
Shop, drink, & chill with your favorite local creatives this First Friday ! Poppin & hang out!
onG kinG aRts cenTer
1154 Fort Street Mall 6p-2a
First Friday Festive Frolic!
The Holidaze are here again, and we are celebrating all of it with halls decked, bells ringing, and dancing lights. Come on down to heart of Honolulu to join in the festivities…. Kava will be flowing, the music will be bumpin’, and the dance floor will be filled with creativity. Show up for the art, and stay to dance the night away.
Studio 114
114 N. King St. Suite A. 6p-9p
FAIRYTALE: volumes, experiment #2
body portal theatre/ SheenRu Yong invites you to an interactive installation
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.
First Friday Chinatown Hotel Street Block pARTy Series
with RED BULL Festival Closing Event
Hotel St. between Nu’uanu & Smith St. 7p-midnight
8p-10p: Local DJs Roger Bong (Aloha Got Soul) & DJ Compose
8p-12a: LIVE mural artist
8p-11p: Hotel Street Outdoor BAR
***Location times vary – check location website for specific event details***
5p-10p:
Boutiques & restaurant specials, art shows & performances
8p-12a:
Hotel St. block party (live music, street art, beer/wine bar)
8p-2a:
Clubs, bars, late-night dance venues (DJ, live music, performances)
ChinatownHonolulu.com was created and is live thanks to area partners! This website is dedicated to First Friday and promotion of our small business community.
Please link into our First Friday Chinatown Facebook Event Page, invite friends share and promote unapologetically!! Reach out for any questions/concerns/comments.
FACEBOOK: @firstfridaychinatownHNL
INSTAGRAM: @axischinatownhnl
#firstfridayhonolulu #chinARTown #axispoints
I combine sharks with imagery of delicate flowers and soft female curvature to highlight the gentle nature of these commonly misunderstood creatures. The fear of sharks is a reason for the general lack of consideration that humanity has for our world’s oceans. As we know, the health of our coral reefs is in serious danger. One cause of this degradation is the killing of sharks for their fins: a process known as “shark finning”. Sharks are essential for a healthy reef ecosystem as they are the top predators who keep the numbers of other fish species in check. I believe that if we stop fueling the irrational fear of sharks and replace it with fascination and respect, there is a chance that we could re-stabilize reef ecosystems around the world and leave our future grandchildren with an abundant ocean to love, respect and explore.
Bio
Her dreams of the ocean inspire bright, bold, and attractive paintings that take your misconceptions of the sea on a roller coaster ride. Experience a world befriended by sharks yet still amongst the flowers of land. Marina Staubus makes the viewer feel at home in the colorful and idyllic worlds she creates. Born on the mainland in 1993, from a small town in Oklahoma, growing up, Staubus took every experience in the ocean to heart as if it could be the last. She now lives on Oahu where inspiration for her oceanic art is abundant. Staubus hopes to start working towards larger work and murals because she wants to share her message with everyone; not only those looking for it. Her most common imagery is a juxtaposition of sharks, flowers and female bodies designed to remove the fear of the unknown that one may have for the sea. Her end goal is to change this societal fear into fascination and respect, so that one day, our grandchildren will have the opportunity to experience an ocean as healthy or healthier than ours now.
First Friday REVIVAL!! Celebrating 15 years of First Fridays in Chinatown!!
For November we are celebrating local creators FOR ARTS SAKE! Elevating and activating our wealth of local talent through artistic expressions throughout the ENTIRE neighborhood for ALL with over 40 venues to experience! From keiki to kupuna and everything in between, there is something for everyone!!
HIGHLIGHTED EVENTS INCLUDE:
Hawaii Theatre Center
BENEFIT PREMIERE OF Last Taxi Dance by local Indie filmmaker Brayden Yoder!!
Pantheon Contemporary (The old Indigo Restaurant):
Pop up visual & sound experiential exhibition by Chinatown creative, Ara Laylo.
The ARTS at Marks Garage
Opening of “For Art Sake”, a group artist exhibition featuring local artists Albert “Hardkoa” Weight, Brook Parker, Barry Napolean, Sonya Hoffermeister, Nadia Fairlamb.
Hotel Street Storefront Visual Installation @31 N Hotel St.:
AXIS in partnership with the national artistic advocacy organization, For Freedoms revives vacant spaces in historial places with a visual installation by Maoli artists Cory Taum & Imaikalani Kalahele. A symbol of artistic civic engagement in identifying our relationship to place.
Hotel Street Block pARTy:
LIVE music by Mike Izon
LIVE mural painting by Marina Staubus Art
LIVE performances including Rikita Turner & The Worlds Smallest Burlesque Show
(Location times vary – check location website for specific event details)
5p-10p: Boutiques & restaurant specials, art shows & performances
8p-12a: Hotel St. block party (live music, street art, beer/wine bar)
8p-2a: Clubs, bars, late-night dance venues (DJ, live music, performances)
**Way finding stations & printed MAP available throughout neighborhood***
Something for EVERYONE…Art spaces, event venues, cuisine places, libation locations, street spots, boutique stops, barber shops, studios, rooftops, lofts, lanais and coworking plots. Cultivated, curated & cared for by local place-makers, entrepreneurs & artists mapped within 6 square blocks of Honolulu’s ONLY Historical Culture & Arts District, the oldest Chinatown in the U.S.
Every month we will be honoring a significant theme, topic or collective issue we can gather around as an island community…from keiki to kupuna, there is something for everyone!
#firstfridayhonolulu #chinARTtown #axispoints
***MAPPED LOCATIONS INCLUDE***
ARTS:
HiSAM Museum Gallery Shop x Mori
The Old Blaisdell Hotel
Louis Pohl Gallery
Hawaii Theatre Center
Kumu Kahua Theatre
The Pegge Hopper Gallery
In4mation – I Shall Proceed and Continue
The ARTS at Marks Garage
The Art Treasures Gallery
Nu’uanu St. Storefronts
Pantheon Contemporary
Front Lobe – Solomon Enos Studio
ROC – Real Office Centers
Ravizza Brownfield Gallery
Chinatown Artists Lofts
Zwick Academy of Fine Art
The Naughty Vegan Studio
ENTERTAINMENT:
onG kinG aRts cenTer
Scarlet Honolulu
Bar Elixrs
The Dragon Upstairs in Honolulu Hawaii
O’Tools Irish Pub
Polearity Studio
HI Design Barber & Lounge
Good Vibe Center
Sakura Loft
SHOPPING:
Valia Honolulu
Ginger13
Barrio Vintage
Hound and Quail
Owens & Co.
Madre Chocolate
Roberta Oaks, Hawaii
HI Design Barber & Lounge
Indigo Alliance Hawaii
HOTEL STREET BLOCK pARTy including live music, outdoor bar & live mural painting!!!
**TIMES VARY – CHECK SPECIFIC LOCATIONS FOR DETAILS ON ARTFUL EVENTS & OFFERINGS**
Local art exhibitions, galleries, artist lofts, open studios & new installations. Live demonstrations, trunk shows & exhibitions at area retailers including exclusive sales! Restaurants & bars offer specials, launch seasonal menus & host live entertainment throughout the evening. Late night venues to keep you moving with DJ’s, live music & dance floors.
Starting at 8pm, Hotel street will close. Live music will be available on the street till 10pm and outdoor bar till 11pm!!! Live mural painting until midnight!!!!
TRANSPORTATION: Biki In – Lyft Home!!
Biki Hawaii (Richard & Pauahi Street locations)
Lyft (Discount Codes – FIRSTFRIDAYCT or FIRSTFRIDAYCT18)
PARKING:
FREE – street parking starting 6pm
$5 flat rate – Chinatown Municipal Garages (Bethel, Beretania & Mauna Kea St.) 5pm – midnight
$12 flat rate – Marks Garage 5pm – midnight
ART-OFF DANCE-OFF is a House Music inspired competitive live-art event and cooperative performance. Every participant and guest of the event has opportunities to involve themselves in this creative process by means of presence, vibration, movement, color, marking, sculpting and through the power of touch and word.
ART-OFF This month is a live body-art competition. Featuring two, 40 minute rounds of 6-12 talented and aspiring local artists working by applying color to a live model/movement partner, the result of the body-paint shares emotive energy with the movement the partners make as they create together, one as canvas, the other as brush. Models will parade after DO, crowd votes with tickets in donation tins (1 per round).
DANCE-OFF On stage during the body art, Dance-Off will be hosted by Mushroom Monroe cued up by DJs EMVEE & GABSTOP. It is a House based, freestyle interpretative dance competition. Each round will begin with a featured interpretative dance performance, followed by open sign-ups for dancers who think their freestyle moves can impress our VIP judges.
Each Dance-Off round will be voted on by the VIP judges panel and averaged by the MissSavvy Algorithmic HotNess Indexing Device
Winners of each round of Dance-Off will have up to 3 minutes of freestyle dancing to win over the panel.
Winners of each Live-Art round will compete in THREE-WAY SHOWDOWN 40 minute BOSS LEVEL fight vs Rachel DeBoer / La Femme Rikita – Voting by crowd noise.
Prize packages include donations by NextDoor, Tommytrain.Studio, The Travelling Foodie, King’s Pizza Cafe and more …
Closing Remarks by Mushroom Monroe and a final parade of all models will transition into dance party –
Guests welcome to donate 5$ to use body paint stations …
BRING TIGHT CLOTHES YOU DON’T LOVE TOO MUCH …
House DJs Naylon . Dillon Banyan . Chaddy Daddy . will be taking over for the POST-SESSION after-party and keeping the house groove going til 2am so bring the dancing shoes!!!!
FAQs
Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?
-21+
What am I consenting to by entering this event?
– Participation is voluntary and will be filmed for documentary on art.
– Consent must be given, not assumed, and entering our event is consent to be filmed but not touched.
– Un-consented, uncomfortable contact by a guest upon another guest or performer will revoke our consent to their presence at our event. Coincidental grazes will not.
– Please be Understanding and Adult about Consent and the artistic Integrity of IInteractive Body-Painting Art.
– We are all artists who respect each other’s art and bodies.
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
BIKI!
WALK!
BIKE!
BUS!
But if you have to drive …
Street Parking is Free – Some garages close at midnight! (not enough room in the studio for everyone to crash but if you are unable to safely operate a vehicle please ask to come over and sober up)
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
tommytrain.studio on facebook
First Friday REVIVAL!! Celebrating 15 years of First Fridays in Chinatown!!
The neighborhood is pooling it’s wealth of offerings together and inviting YOU to join in on the collective revival of a legendary tradition in a historical neighborhood. Come make history with us!!
Art spaces, event venues, cuisine places, libation locations, street spots, boutique stops, barber shops, studios, rooftops, lofts, lanais and coworking plots. Cultivated, curated & cared for by local place-makers, entrepreneurs & artists mapped within 6 square blocks of Honolulu’s Historical Arts, Culture and Civic Center, the oldest Chinatown in the U.S.
Every month we will be honoring a significant theme, topic or collective issue we can gather around as an island community.
For the month of October, we are honored to have Honolulu Pride, A Project of the Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation with their first ever Chinatown Art Exhibition…representing a neighborhood that is inclusive in all forms of love and aloha! Check out the opening night ALSO HERE Exhibition curated by our own Chinatown artist Lala Openi at The ARTS at Marks Garage and then head out to celebrate all that the hood has to offer!!
***MAPPED LOCATIONS INCLUDE***
ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES:
The ARTS at Marks Garage
Hawaii Theatre Center
Pantheon Contemporary
Nu’uanu Storefronts
Solomon Enos Studio
Ravizza Brownfield Gallery
Louis Pohl Gallery
The Pegge Hopper Gallery
Real Office Centers
Chinatown Artists Lofts
Sakura
Good Vibe Center
Naughty Vegan Tattoo
Polearity Studio
HI Design Barber & Lounge
LIBATIONS & MUSICALITY:
The Manifest
Downbeat Lounge
Bar 35 Hawaii
Nextdoor
The Dragon Upstairs
Scarlet Honolulu
onG kinG aRts cenTer
Bar Elixrs
HOTEL STREET BLOCK pARTy including live music, outdoor bar & live mural painting!!!
CUISINE & COCKTAILS:
Madre Chocolate
Fête Hawaii
Encore Saloon
Brick Fire Tavern
Downbeat Diner
Lucky Belly
Livestock Tavern
The Tchin Tchin Bar
Ethiopian Love
ARTISTIC SHOPS:
Barrio Vintage
Roberta Oaks, Hawaii
Owens & Co.
in4mation
Valia Honolulu
Hawaii State Art Museum x Mori by Art + Flea
**TIMES VARY – CHECK SPECIFIC LOCATIONS FOR DETAILS ON ARTFUL EVENTS & OFFERINGS**
Local art exhibitions, galleries, artist lofts, open studios & new installations. Live demonstrations, trunk shows & exhibitions at area retailers including exclusive sales! Restaurants & bars offer specials, launch seasonal menus & host live entertainment throughout the evening. Late night venues to keep you moving with DJ’s, live music & dance floors.
Starting at 8pm, Hotel street will close. Live music will be available on the street till 10pm and outdoor bar till 11pm!!! Live mural painting until midnight!!!!
PARKING:
FREE – street parking starting 6pm
$5 flat rate – Chinatown Municipal Garages (Bethel, Beretania & Mauna Kea St.) 5pm – midnight
$12 flat rate – Marks Garage 5pm – midnight
Join us on September 7th for another round of First Friday Live Art, Music, and Drink Specials! Free Cover before 9pm!
This months featured artist are:
Fernando Pacheco
Amber Buzzell
Bkpr1
Angela & Kaimana
Render
Queendom
Pop-up Beauty Bar by Sabre Salon
Live Music by Mono Trio
And don’t forget about our after party Hosted by Mc JUJU featuring Dj Neeks, Dj Revise & Dj Scotty Ham