Posted on: Friday, June 1, 2007
Allow your artistic side to run wild at First Friday
Advertiser Staff
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Check out Ed Kenney's latest restaurant, Downtown @ the HiSAM, which will be open tonight.
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Get into the free-flow with Tempo Valley in the Live From the Lawn concert series.
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See ska band Black Square play at Ong King Arts Center.
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FIRST FRIDAY
5-9 p.m. today Various venues downtown and in Chinatown Free 521-2903
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A new restaurant, music making and so much art and so many arts lovers all squeezing into the galleries that you might want to check out the works another day. This is First Friday, the monthly artsapalooza, and it's bursting with activity tonight.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The much-awaited restaurant at the Hawai'i State Art Museum, dubbed Downtown @ the HiSAM, opened earlier this week. It's the latest from Ed Kenney, owner and chef of Town restaurant in Kaimuki, and serves fare a la France, Italy and Spain, deli style and casual sit-down. It will be open from 5 to 9 p.m. for First Friday, but its regular hours are from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
Also at the HiSAM, the concert series Live From the Lawn continues with Tempo Valley, the trip-hop/jazz/neosoul/etc. ensemble, doing its free-flowing thing from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Ong King Arts Center hosts an exhibit opening (free, 5-9 p.m.); and a multimedia program ($10, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.). The exhibit features artists from a sustainability project of University of Hawai'i-Manoa students and elementary-school kids, and live body art by Erin Paris.
Afterward, performances are by Seguyn and his Sun Drum Village Ensemble, two dance troupes, headlining ska band Black Square, funksters Quadraphonix, the Hawaii Underground Theatre Collective and Youth Speaks slam poets. 184 N. King St., 306-7823.
Moussa Bangoura of Guinea, West Africa, and his troupe Sewa Fare will offer songs and dances at Riverloft, 186 N. King St. (upstairs on the corner of King and River streets; formerly Soullenz). From 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; for all ages. Cover: $10. 753-1143
More live music is in store at the Kim Taylor Reece Gallery. 1142 Bethel St. Sean Tiwanak, whose new CD is titled "Home to Me," performs a mix of standards and originals from 6 to 9:30 p.m.; also with Lei Medeiros. Free admission. 546-1144.
ARTS SAMPLES
The ARTS at Marks Garage: ARTini, by the Hawaii Water Color Society. 1159 Nu'uanu Ave., 521-2903.
Louis Pohl Gallery: Art by Keiko Thomas and Deborah Pacheco. 1111 Nu'uanu Ave., 521-1812.
Cathedral Gallery: "Little Moments Big Magic: Creating Friendships Through Art," works by children and their mentors in the Art To Go program for at-risk youngsters. 1184 Bishop St., 536-7036.
thirtyninehotel: "Sufferation: Notes on Compassion, Endurance, Love." 39 Hotel St., 599-2552.
AFTER HOURS
The Enterprise party takes place every First Friday, too, at the Sound/House, 1192 Alakea St. (formerly Detox). Hours: 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; for those 18 and older. Cover: $5.
Enterprise showcases the latest in alternative rock, '80s, hip-hop, disco punk and just about everything that qualifies as "indie." On the turntables: DJs Money, Vagina and Sleeze, Ross Jackson and Nocturnal Soundcrew's Eskae. 351-9812, www.myspace.com/the_enterprise.
The weekly Get Fresh! party at Indigo Eurasian Cuisine features DJ Danosan from San Francisco among its three rooms of sound. 9 p.m.-2 a.m., 1121 Nu'uanu Ave. Cover: $10; for those 21 and older. 521-2900.
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