A Song For Ourselves

This Thursday night, after Beat Root 3/6, head over to Next Door for a special event to benefit the Chris Iijima Endowment.

The highlight of the night is the Honolulu Premiere of the documentary “A Song For Ourselves” about the life and music of Chris Iijima and how he helped fuel the Asian American Movement.

A panel discussing the film will go down at 4pm, involving the director of the film, Ted Nakamura, Bambu from Native Guns, Chinatown promoter and artist Ara Laylo, among others.

The film premieres at 7pm and Bambu and DJ Phatrick from Native Guns will perform, along with DJ Eskae and special guests.

This all goes down this Thursday, starting at 4pm at Next Door. Tickets for this event and for the special 5:30pm screen at the Richardson Law School are available at the fundraiser’s website.

NEW! Kicks/HI Saturday releases

This Saturday marks a couple of dope releases for the Kicks/HI fam.

First up is the initial delivery of their Fall 2009 Essentials line, designed with classic shapes and current style. It’s meant to be timely and timeless at the same time, you know?

The first delivery contains all three colors of the Essentials V-Neck and the 5 Panel caps. The last time either one was in-store, they sold out with the quickness, so you best be jumping all over these on Saturday.

Also releasing on Saturday is a special Kicks/HI collabo with “Kid” Yamamoto and Japanese MMA Stable Krazy Bee. The tee is grey with the Krazy Bee logo on the front pocket location and all the sponsor logos on the back. Definitely a dope shirt to rock for the MMA head in us all. This shirt will be available ONLY at the Makaloa shop.

All these dope items will be available starting this Saturday. For more info, check out the Kicks/HI crew online.