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Currently adding descriptions! We'll have multiple tracks of panels from 2:30pm Friday through 1pm Sunday, including an entire "Tipsy Crafting" track with free or low cost crafting panels.
Join Tiki Tom-Tom as he has a conversation with a panel of home tiki bar creators featured in Polynesiacs: Tiki at Home. Gain insights directly from the builders of these amazing home tiki spaces. Learn what's happened to their bars since the original visit. Ask questions from those who have navigated the complexities of a home tiki bar build.
There is an additional swap event this year! Instead of swapping swizzles- let's swap our closets! Please bring your valued, but no longer used, tropical clothing and accessories to swap with other Inuhele guests. The host will have signs and instructions to clearly set the tone for healthy bartering.
Tiki Tom-Tom (aka Tom Jaynes) is a writer, photographer, artist, sewist, singer, educator, wanderer, and full-time Polynesiac. His first visit to the Mai-Kai Restaurant and Polynesian Show converted him to the Tiki life. You might think he’s a partygoer from the stories he tells, but he’s really a wallflower. A former community college administrator turned nomad, you’ll find him mapping out his next road trip at Queequeg’s Coffin, his home Tiki bar in Durham, North Carolina.
Lights! Thunder! Volcanos! Oh my. If you have ever thought a theme park level experience in your oasis was out of reach, think again. This class will provide a basic primer on how to integrate music, video, lights, thunder, fog, animatronics, video, projections or anything else you can think of into a seamless connected show at the touch of a button or programed times. The techniques demonstrated will focus on using off the shelf commercial hardware and software designed for Christmas and Halloween displays to bring your bar to life.
A cocktail revolutionary alongside Ernest Gantt ("Donn Beach") and Victor Jules Bergeron ("Trader Vic") Harry K. Yee is a legend whose career bartending in Hawaii started in 1952, 7 years before statehood. He invented the Blue Hawaii cocktail and the Banana Daquri, among many others, and is attributed with being the first bartender to use paper parasols and vanda orchids in tiki drinks
Tim will share with us the merits and potential pitfalls of whiskey in tropical cocktails. He'll explain the unique creative palate of whiskey styles you can use, with a special focus on the special bourbons and ryes produced at Grain & Barrel Distillery.
In his symposium, we'll also explore the parallels and paradoxes between whiskies and rums, and focus in on some of the movers and shakers in modern cocktails that are down to clown with whiskey. Join us afterwards for a special giveaway from historically-styled Chicken Cock craft whiskey!
The process Tiki Rancher goes through when creating a tiki bars.
Slide show into some of his biggest projects:
1. Wusong Road in Harvard Square was named one of the most beautiful restaurants by Boston
magazine
2. Pinky’s in Charlotte NC – A funky Tiki bar concept that blended Monsters, Tiki and Nascar! –
3. Duke’s Hideaway in Atlanta just recently opened on the Beltline.
Those attending the presentation will learn new ideas on how to enhance their own bar. Secrets and
ideas that will help you tell your story and add another layer to your tiki world.
There will be t shirt giveaways with correct answers to tiki trivia questions.
Explore the dynamic relationship between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, and the enchanting allure of tiki culture. From Elvis's iconic performances in Hawaii to the fusion of tropical aesthetics in his movies, we'll unravel the threads that connect Elvis and the exotic world of tiki. Discover how the King's music and charisma played a vital role in shaping the mid-century fascination with island paradise, creating an unforgettable era of Polynesian pop culture that continues even today.
The artist ‘Crazy Al” Evans, it could be said, was forged in the demise of ‘Tiki Pop’ in the ‘Late 20th Century.’ Al will present a whirlwind of images that he created out of those Tiki Dark Ages before ‘Tiki News/Tiki Oasis’ and the ‘Book of Tiki’. In doing so he will outline his personal history that made his art... well?, a bit Crazy, as well as the Craziness after the year 2000 and pre-Ai.
Mug collecting is fun, maddening, expensive, enjoyable and rewarding. However, when you are sipping a classic Don The Beachcomber 3 Dots & A Dash, admiring your mug collection and notice a glaring hole in your collection where Cactus Bob SHOULD BE, what do you do?. If you don't have $1000 laying around to obtain your holy grail... i.e. Cactus Bob/Ren Clark Severed Head/Tiki Bob Elvis...what do you do? Or any grail for that matter? Jason T. Smith started his tiki mug collecting way back in 2001 and now 24 years later has an amazing collection that fills his entire house. Among the 1500 mugs on display is an amazing amount of holy grails, both vintage and modern. Any grail can be obtained if you are independently wealthy, but if not, there are many tips and tricks to filling that hole in your collection. Jason has never paid full retail for any grail in his collection and with this symposium, he will teach you all the tips and tricks to obtaining the grails that have eluded your collection for a long time. As an added bonus, there will be an Indiana Jones related mug as a giveaway for one lucky person attending the symposium.
Scott Helland of Guitarmy of One, has a long career starting in the punk scene, he was a founding member of the pre-Dinosaur jr hardcore punk band Deep Wound in 1982 as well as Outpatients and his current post-punk duo Frenchy and the Punk. Jamie Galatas plays in number surf bands including The Mystery Men?, El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists and more. Listen to them talk about gigging and wild tales from their careers before the Guitarmy of One starts our musical programming for the weekend!
You want to enter the world of Tiki Fashion, but that vintage Kamehameha is 2" too small in the chest. What do you do? You Sew Tiki! A great many of us adore tiki-esque fashion, but we can never find it to fit. The only thing we can do is alter (which if you are tall or thicker like me is not possible) or buy repro that sells out in a flash! So what do we do when we want that perfect honeymoon set in that dreamy purple hibiscus pattern? We Sew Tiki! This panel would be about patterns, designs, resources and materials for achieving that amazing Tiki wardrobe you so desire. It will go over some of the history of Tiki fashion, but mostly where to source materials - both modern and vintage. No sewing skills required! Just a love of Tiki fashion and an interest in learning more.
Join Sara Hoffman, creator of All Couped Up, for a discussion of impending doom, puns, and the cocktail series inspired by both. We'll cover experimental ingredient mixing, drink photography, combining digital and physical art, and cocktail gardening. Celebrate the release of the long awaited All Couped Up vol. 2 and stick around for a book signing afterwards. Www.instagram.com/all.couped.up
In 2018 Jason T. Smith acquired the business ledgers of Don The Beachcomber, Chicago from 1940-1982. Inuhele 2021, Jason presented the beginnings of Don The Beachcomber in Chicago. Cora Sunny Sund, married Ernest Gantt aka Donn Beach and took the business away from Donn. She then expanded the DTB empire to Chicago and immediately gave half of the company to the Chicago Mob. She divorced Ernest and made him just a paid employee of the company he created. This Inuhele symposium is Part 2, the 1950s and the unthinkable happens....Sam Denning, the bar manager of Don the Beachcomber Chicago robs the mob. The entire 1950s will be covered in this symposium. And fear not if you missed last year's Part 1. Jason will be doing a 5 minute recap to bring everyone up to speed. "Previously on "Let's Give The Mob 1/2 Of Our Business...."
At this panel, Tavi will play and pause scenes and clips from Disney's Moana. He will explain the cultural aspects and inspirations of the film. Explanations include demonstrations of dance, playing of drums and other instruments, and presenting of various costumes and implements. What culture does Moana's costume come from? What dances are they performing in their village? What are all the legends that Maui refers to during his song? All these questions and more will be answered at Disney's Moana through a Cultural Lens.
Swizzle swappin'!
‘Crazy Al’ Evans outlines the beginning of a Tiki Mug resurgence spawned in the early 21st Century. As an accomplished artist and sculptor, Al’s participation in making ‘art’ out of the Pop-Culture classic got a little Crazy in 20+ years. Al presents his earliest body of work reflecting the goal to always stand out in the crowd and the influence that goal may have inspired.
Meet and Greet.
Join us for an exciting seminar delving into the world of "Rum-Adjacent Spirits" featuring charanda, cachaça, cacique, and okolehao. Led by acclaimed mixologist Tiki Lindy, this session will provide insights into the origins, production methods and unique flavor characteristics of these spirits: from charanda's Mexican roots to cachaça's Brazilian heritage, cacique from Central and South America, and the intriguing okolehao from Hawaii.