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

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