Slamming it down at Fresh Cafe

August 5 - Slam Poetry at Fresh Cafe

August rages with "no rules" First Thursdays, where wordsmith lay it down in three minutes flat. It's an all-out quest for the verbal master!

831 Queen Street

Honolulu, Hawaii 

808/387-9664 or info@HawaiiSlam.com

www.HawaiiSlam.com

Keeping time with the Human Beat Box

A year ago yesterday the world lost an incredible talent with the passing of Michael Jackson. Many loved him, but few have as unique a relationship with the man called the "King of Pop", as local artist Jason Tom.


Tom, a graduate of Kapi'olani Community College, has parlayed his natural showmanship flair, love of music, and business sense into a thriving career in the local arts and entertainment scene.

Check out Jason Tom at his upcoming performance for the Mighty4 Arts Foundation Hawaii Non-Profit Fundraiser (dedicated in the memory of High Chief XL) on July 3rd at the Fresh Cafe.

http://www.jasontom.com/


(photos: Joe Marquez, The Smoking Camera)


Name and/or alias(es):

Jason Tom; sidenote: my McKinley High School judo team nickname was "Spider-Man" and my childhood nickname from P.E. class was "Superman." After performing for the first night of the Puja Dance Concert: Love Letters someone on facebook wrote that I should be renamed "Mr. Energy."

Hometown:

Honolulu's Chinatown

“Day job”:

I'm a full-time beatboxer. I facilitate human beatbox workshops teaching and sharing the art of vocal percussion at schools and facilities throughout the island. I also perform on stage on a frequent basis and people on Facebook get a gajillion event invites from me due to that. The art of vocal percussion or beatboxing is often a forgotten or overlooked art form of creative expression.

Andha Yug : The Age of Darkness

June 26, 2010 • Sat • 7:30pm • Orvis Auditorium • Free to All




Andha Yug, Dharamvir Bharati`s critically acclaimed play taken from the Indian epic Mahabharata, was translated into English by Alok Bhalla and is published by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing for the first time in the United States.

The play is one of the most significant of post-Independence India.

Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. The once-beautiful city of Hastinapur is burning, the battlefield beyond the walls is piled with corpses, and the few survivors huddle together in grief and rage, blaming the destruction on their adversaries, divine capriciousness-anyone or anything except their own moral choices.

Andha Yug explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a blind, dispirited age.

View theatre production excerpts from Andha Yug complete with visual images from the Mahabharata and Gamelan music. Translator Alok Bhalla will introduce the performance and play a role as well. A question and answer session will follow the performance.

The Manoa Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Hawaii Council for the Humanities, with additional support from the "We the People" initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts

For more information call 956-8246

Black Box Black Blocks

What can you do with 3 black blocks? Build a wall, furnish a bedroom, use them as props, or as set pieces?

Find out the answer at this summer's second annual Black Box Black Blocks, a collection of theatre and dance works that showcase playwrights, directors, choreographers, actors, and dancers from the oahu community.

Tickets are $7 for adults, and $5 for students with any kind of student ID. Performances are June 24-26 at 8pm and June 27 at 2pm. Tickets are available at the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre next to Kennedy Theatre 1 hour before each performance.

Event Sponsor
Student Organization of Theatre and Dance, Manoa Campus

More Information
Becky McGarvey, 808-352-1317, mcgarvey@hawaii.edu, http://blackboxblackblocks.wordpress.com/

Faust's Mask Messenger

June 12, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Manoa Campus, Kennedy Theatre


Faust, native New Orleanian, is the founder and artistic director of Faustwork Mask Theatre. He has produced and created shows that have toured to theatres, festivals, universities, schools, and corporate events. The company has made appearances in Italy, England, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, and South Africa.

The Mask Messenger is a series of vignettes ranging from comic to bizarre to poignant. The show illuminates and expands the concept of the mask, exploring its relationship to human psychology, business, fashion, art, dance, and theatre.

Ticket Information
$8-$20. Tickets are available two weeks prior to the performance online at www.etickethawaii.com, by phone at 956-9492, or visit any UH ticket outlet, service charges apply. Advance sales end 5 hours before the show.

Event Sponsor
Outreach College, Manoa Campus

More Information
(808) 956-8246, csinfo@hawaii.edu, http://www.outreach.hawaii.edu/community/default.asp

Willow Chang presents...PUJA 2010 : Love Letters

Willow Chang and Passport Productions Presents

PUJA 2010 : LOVE LETTERS

Windward Community College Paliku Theater

June 5th, Saturday 7:30 p.m. & June 6th, Sunday 2 p.m.

As Hawai'i's Original Multicultural Dance Concert and Festival, we celebrate our third year with PUJA: LOVE LETTERS. This event combines dance, movement and music including traditional and innovative approaches. The show and cast promise to deliver the inspiration, diversity and creativity which are now synonymous with PUJA.

In 2008 Willow Chang and Passport Productions presented PUJA: An Offering In Dance, a journey in movement and music with artists from Honolulu and abroad. The Sanskrit word meaning 'offering," is a celebration of devotion and the divine, expressed here in dance.

As Hawai'i's original theatrical dance concert featuring both traditional AND modern dance, it's no surprise both shows sold out!

An Interview With Margaret Cho

Interview and feature by Loraine Ho

Provocative comedian Margaret Cho details her activist work and new stand-up tour over the phone with Ka Lamakua.

Listen to the entire sound clip HERE.