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