http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/gallery daily 0.75 2014-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410746977564-U8VYDIRXHXLWS55MQIXT/480489_10151610970353759_584851992_n.jpg Gallery - 36th Street Blues The cast of 36th Street Blues. At the Greenway Theater. From left to right: Chloe Bertles, Gabby Battista, Mia Hunt, Jocelyn Ng, Katrina Kirkpatrick.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410746977564-U8VYDIRXHXLWS55MQIXT/480489_10151610970353759_584851992_n.jpg Gallery - 36th Street Blues The cast of 36th Street Blues. At the Greenway Theater. From left to right: Chloe Bertles, Gabby Battista, Mia Hunt, Jocelyn Ng, Katrina Kirkpatrick.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410748003264-UARA83O038T7RGQ50ON1/470839_1982204388821_1473358183_o.jpg Gallery - 36th Street Blues The cast of 36th Street Blues in rehearsal at Fairfax High School building for the arts. 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410747505648-XDL10D4IBQU7N70MKTSQ/996802_10151993428709338_1453989902_n.jpg Gallery - 36th Street Blues The official 36th Street Blues poster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410746992606-RM2PQ9HI95LU3HERKPQ4/1471797_10151874765273759_1443526861_n.jpg Gallery - Farrington Slam Team The 2013 Hawaii Interscholastic Slam Poetry Champions, the Farrington High School Slam team. 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"We know when one part of the sea is hurt the rest of the sea will mourn with it." - KarKar Youth Did they ask for consent?- For the corner of her eyes dripping cobalt tender salt gold peitions toxins in full bloom. Did they ask for permission?- For eating nautilus tongues melting teeth broken molasses choking in your lap breath taking. Did they ask for drowning?- Gutted Rising Your eyes Your teeth Your throat Your na'au Did they ask for this? // Text by: Aiko Yamashiro & Jocelyn Ng Photographer: Shannon Momilani Ng SFX MUA, Model, & Creative Direction: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542132828515-S8R7GARHX1FVROKQYBDK/website3.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - GUTTED Series Last of the gutted First of the beautiful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1722303430480-U9IZS4VOKLVA1PZ1QQ4I/honey.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - Honey I once knew a queen that cried honey and sprouted flowers from her fingertips. I think about her sometimes in August when the sun feels like a waltzing inferno and the garden begs for water. I pull the beehive from my mouth and sip on a chalice full of fire burn the exit shut. I've been trying hard not to let the ghosts linger too long. What do I do when all the sweetness runs dry and all that is left is the sting? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1722303261406-RUHYOI1NV4PVN1IKFGLW/clown.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - 2020 surviving covid no caption necessary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1722303240469-BDTXDGBQ1BIPJYJFBSSH/cocoon.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - Cocoon I've been thinking about cocoons again. What inspires the caterpillar to emerge? Is it simply patience, to allow chrysalis to shed itself over time? Or is it sheer force? The knowing that being stagnant for so long must end. So it rips itself open. Or is the caterpillar inspired by the flower? How it emerges in blossoming. Each petal, a wing full pf possibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542132698572-I5PGI6HOHM6BHPX2LMS2/website4.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - GUTTED Series I died 100 times and on the 101st I Frankenstien all the gods in me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514670355891-IA5VNH5O0A8QD1AHUA7M/1BEF7170-3DA2-413D-9B01-E801C170023C.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - An Ode To All The Beasts Hibernating Inside Us Remember her splitting Universes. Pulling you t o w a r d amnesia F o r g e t t i n g your own name. Is there anything more deadly than a heart that'll make you lose your self. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514671147732-Q3PIB7QZPPAY0MPI24TR/15991531_10154435184958759_401915583_o.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - After Bluets. "Vincent van Gogh, whose depression, some say, was likely related to temporal lobe epilepsy, famously saw and painted the world in almost unbearably vivid colors. After his nearly unsuccessful attempt to take his life by shooting himself in the gut, when asked why he should not be saved, he famously replied, "the sadness will last forever." I imagine he was right." - Maggie Nelson, "Bluets" pg. 36 . After Maggie Nelson's "Bluets" . "Why do you paint your face such monstrous things?" He asks her. "Because for a moment in time, I can show the world what the inside of this body feels like. I can show the world how even the villains we hold in us can be beautiful too." She replied. " Because the bad guys have more fun?" He assumed. "Because the bad guys are just the good guys that no one believed in or even tried to listen to" She said. "So you paint to tell the other side of the story we all got? Is that right?" "I paint because not all stories are told one way. Or are even told at all. Some stories are just a brush stroke open for translation. And most times I don't feel like a writer. I just feel like a woman with puddles of colors begging to cover skin." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514671795360-8Z9E23U711J7ZT2MHVQW/15943259_10154435184408759_152437231_o.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - smile. When your mouth is a serpent, men start to warn their brothers about Queen's like you: Descendant of lilth, Daughter of no god, Sister of sirens, Swallower of worlds. They don't know any better but to fear your words like venom. Little boys grow up imagining staples around lips and fangs, Rather have you soft and silent. Let them dream, Because make no mistake, You, womyn Know what it takes To bring a man's souls back from Heaven's gate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514671957751-X6VCXT8NBUC8ZT33LHSW/15943417_10154435215298759_1123914065_o.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - For all the Queens of the Damned . "It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things." Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3) . // I bathe in the blood of my enemies // Enthrone me in chaos Make me queen of this destruction What does not kill me Crowns me immortal Let all the little birds speak I am feasting on crows I am the vulture that clean their dead to the bone Everyone wants to eat But few want to hunt No one taught them When you point your arrows to a predator Do not blink, Do not miss, Do not look her in the eyes Because she will remember curve of your jaw the quiver of your lip the snakes rattling in your eyes She will draw her next bath with your blood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514672026527-KJUCUI52P2G25S326161/15943336_10154434984578759_651384830_o.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - What is Dead May Never Die Womyn like me are born a eulogy// From birth man tried to bury us: In fear. Trembling cold sweat organs How much universe tilts in our wombs. He will never understand power as pulling worlds from body. How many of us bear a crown curated of our mother's mother's tongue. All steel and salt and smothered in absinthe All silver melted over memory. We are a walking resurrection. Do not bow down. Kneel//   On blistering knees With clasping limp hands. It is too late to worship me. Instead Ask for forgiveness that I not haunt you while still breathing as prayer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514673199373-V9E1FJ3JVVILB9KIVKTU/15966657_10154434768923759_1387751906_o.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - An Experiment w/ Gold pt.1 Call me king maker// Drip me in sweat and watch me shimmer// siren laced in luxury I am/ your Midas touch womyn. [Aren't I worth blood shed of the nameless?] Watch you claw a path to the lavish. "I'll keep you all to myself" Epitome of greed Catalyst for wars My body is what moves man to get his hands dirty to sink fingers first into earth and seek my undying love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514672937129-6HPPJEC4YQZ0EU1W3F7O/15967803_10154435183983759_60854817_o.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - Creatures of Fate & Circumstance Perhaps the monsters are not creatures Perhaps our hauntings are not apparitions Perhaps this fear does not have fangs Perhaps what we are afraid of most is regret, Perhaps the silence is what crawls on webs, Perhaps missed opportunity is the demon's laugh, Perhaps you should've asked her name when she walked into the dark. Perhaps you stitched lips and forgot your tongue, Perhaps the heart suicide dived leaving a trail, Perhaps black coffee is the summoning spell Perhaps she's a witch like you manifesting elixirs out of crossed in paths mixed in perhaps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514673156175-Z0XQ7NE64BEUHC3CLFLZ/15991496_10154435185623759_248041206_o.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation - A Story of Apples Let me serve you all the fruits of my labor Mouth full of cynanide/ I sowed Johnny's body in a garden row/ Buried him a seed/ I did the same to Adam, blaming Eden's sorrows on Eve/ Conjure me the lump in his throat/ Put you to sleep/ Snow White/ I'll be your seven-- Deadly sins, Hold your breath Come darling, Take a bite out of me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927159237-EU7Q3AB0KLGCQOJD06Y3/15943355_10154435185943759_1787595977_o.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927178204-RYNJYTTKBQT8RXXC1ZTH/15943180_10154435185808759_163554506_o.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927262123-BY11SRRXISJLAJKHH4LA/Snapseed%284%29.jpg A Glance At Body Art Transformation http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/community-organizing daily 0.75 2018-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514674394192-D25CSY631PK2YRY9066J/16129995_10154456597823759_1877632515_o.jpg Community Organizer - Events Coordinator & Festival Co-Director for the 10th Ann Pacific Tongues is a nonprofit organization that cultivates an active artistic Oceanic community of writers, spoken word performers, leaders, educators and students of all ages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514674617472-UW3DW8B63DTSRMFWUC01/16128959_10154457258098759_721035764_n.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514674646418-FHEA4X74QKDUNI5M13L2/16117784_10154457131513759_1913669908_n.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514674934669-JWPEYAT38JW5XVW3NMUQ/pacifictonguesapril.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514675370661-LBD3T6MQ4C370S6MQC54/17622094_10210602225070764_985482805973081666_o.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514924735325-U6ZJ5MR7HNZP5NN0CZY5/893897_462215817220979_534972503_o.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514924737411-SM6RYUGD6C1989456AGX/11112538_10152934601968220_6092875735437591106_n.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514924739846-ARUACEJISRE3G487DOBP/11016073_10153084024665993_611043026472436585_n.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514924746285-PLUDOM6IY17Q4NZSP4DA/12096210_10153768544870774_3348319006722454770_n.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514924752976-J24ABBGURXDS0GVDC6PF/12823402_10205841514146781_4369779883605433180_o.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514924761695-D7RJOU4UGU8H15XYFMEZ/11069621_10204962715486549_8001291081911898524_n.jpg Community Organizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514925408087-04O32REVVY2L4BFHL2CI/15941828_10154435550738759_2143188460_n.jpg Community Organizer http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/collaborations daily 0.75 2019-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514675535439-PMWZZLP39WEC7L40E24C/IMG_8360.JPG Collaborations - Tip of the Spear Model: Guy Hanohano Naehu Photographer: J. Anthony Martinez SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514675535439-PMWZZLP39WEC7L40E24C/IMG_8360.JPG Collaborations - Tip of the Spear Model: Guy Hanohano Naehu Photographer: J. Anthony Martinez SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514675540166-SPDG0KWLGJ7MGDTAJCXB/image_6483441.JPG Collaborations - Tip of the Spear behind the scenes Model:Tanya Mailelani Naehu Photographer: J. Anthony Martinez Hair Stylist: Paula Martinez SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514675550601-5SF1MZ06IETSK6W2YUIO/IMG_8313.JPG Collaborations - Tip of the Spear behind the scenes Model: Guy Hanohano Naehu Photographer: J. Anthony Martinez SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514680277705-E26OQI6SQFZY6IP12VIY/4F3AA2F6-F025-485F-94DA-C37C4670C0F7.jpg Collaborations - Tip of the Spear Models: Tanya Mailelani Naehu & Guy Hanohano Naehu Photographer: J. Anthony Martinez Hair Stylist: Paula Martinez SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542136463475-VMNKE23TV9XPPFRFYRXC/website19.jpg Collaborations - The Siamese Legend of MAe Nak Phrakanong Model & Creative Story: Pahole Sookkasikon A story revolving a young woman who died at childbirth, but returns due to her undying love for her husband, Mak— has haunted me throughout my diasporic life. It was folklore my mother used to tell me as a child and has even become a significant part of my dissertation, examining the invisible labor of Thai women and queer men as well as the promise of queer futurities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514680415996-4WEDK3WXYJM9MH66IGH9/Jahra3.jpg Collaborations - Feed Model: Jahra Wasasala Photographer: Jakob Bauwens SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927316756-315870GW8UIFZNIEF5N5/IMG_5853.JPG Collaborations In Collaboration with Alonzo King's LINES Dance Company for "LET THE BODY SPEAK" 2017 ocation: The Herbst Theatre (San Francisco, CA)   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927318892-D6G1NM8NV8LEX20LVI4W/IMG_5855.JPG Collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927337921-YMR1J2MBYPG0DUYHIP3C/IMG_7909.PNG Collaborations Model: Jahra Wasasala Photographer: Jocelyn Janon SFU MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927341894-6PK4X9HVV2OLU890WY4U/Snapseed.png Collaborations Model: Jahra Wasasala Photographer: Jocelyn Janon SFU MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927356978-OXO08W642ZREXESEGLH0/Snapseed%286%29.jpg Collaborations Model: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photographer: Shane Sasaki SFX MUA: Jcoelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927378478-T2255ND0WQDRBC0P1DJW/IMG_7782.JPG Collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927404493-KQHNQD3X6DUYEMHXJ29P/IMG_7307.JPG Collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927420357-EXD6HL1EMM9UAFMP5FXZ/IMG_7309.JPG Collaborations Model: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photographer: Shane Sasaki SFX MUA: Jcoelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927421238-7IJG9HDUAHLCIY247JFV/93F96E7E-AEC7-48FA-A93F-1562783A3F2A.jpg Collaborations - Mo'o Model: No'u Revilla Photographer: Bryan Kuwada SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927421945-G53NXL8VIJZYFOWJT74E/IMG_7976.JPG Collaborations Model: Rosanna Raymond Photographer: Jermaine Dean SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927422748-4DURASGYG92FOLH9KBBE/IMG_7985%281%29.JPG Collaborations Model: Rosanna Raymond Photographer: Jermaine Dean SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927423325-L0OU732PLGLVKKWS5YDK/IMG_7978.JPG Collaborations Model: Grace Taylor Photographer: Jermaine Dean SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927425336-ZZIMBCBBO36J479JJ5M2/IMG_7975.JPG Collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927445446-8NGPNPPO2QP6QVLKK4D9/Snapseed.jpg Collaborations Model: Queen Kapussi Photographer: Jermaine Dean SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927454890-EKEY06Z43VB6NO5RFRQC/IMG_7954.JPG Collaborations - Aotearoa Collabs Jermaine Dea, Rosanna Raymond, & Jocelyn Ng at the Corban Estate Art Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514927461709-CAPS4WKKDQY3Q6UIKQ6V/IMG_6477.JPG Collaborations Model: Jakob Bauwens Photographer: Lyz Soto SFX MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542144603749-T9Z06EZ84EM112DFQR00/website34.jpg Collaborations - From Hunger to Prayer Model: D. Keali’i MacKenzie MUA, Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542136775860-GOGM8YPDN5SLKRYR13CG/website17.jpg Collaborations - From Hunger To Prayer Model & Collaborator: D. Keali’i MacKenzie A tribute influenced by poetry of Kanaloa throughout Oceania as well as the poetry within D. Keali’i' MacKenzie’s published book, “From Hunger To Prayer” (published by Silver Needle Press 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542137341251-SMYRVJ929V44BUM2P7MA/Website16.jpg Collaborations - WEAVE Series Model: Sheldon Rua Fabricator: Grace Taylor MUA & Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542141395752-66Y72GAL8UISHHJ0ZMJV/website18.jpg Collaborations - WEAVE series Model & Fabricator: Grace Taylor Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542137440781-Z4BCN2MIXJJYSBGW7Q8R/website12.jpg Collaborations - BUTTERFLIES Model: Lyz Soto Photographer: Jakob Bauwens MUA: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542137505782-AE7J18VR35IAWGM17NPO/website13.jpg Collaborations - REACHING Model: Christina Bacchilega MUA & Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealan Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542141442685-XBQBWK77UM0R2RJFP5XI/website14.jpg Collaborations - GRIEF Model & Creative Concept: Grace Taylor MUA & Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542141489068-U8BH6O4TG0A1ABSNOP7D/website21.jpg Collaborations - Serena Pasifika figure 1. Model: Anna Divide MUA, Fabricator, Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542141559232-B86L9MGK9OFKW446RT4W/website11.jpg Collaborations - Poison Ivy Model: Anna Divide MUA, Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542141637623-U9YBEUZQUE7CE345PAT2/website9.jpg Collaborations - Lorro Model & Creative Concept: Kathy Jentil-Kijiner MUA & Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542144480254-GSPO81J8GPEBKXHOSERT/website24.jpg Collaborations - UNDER Model: Terisa Siagatonu MUA, Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542144548296-5Z0FAP96KSH4UJS7ZRTA/website37.jpg Collaborations - Where you feel the dark A collaboration on depression Model: Anna Divide MUA, Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542146255486-STHBIHN4MJMT4C3PWZQZ/website22.jpg Collaborations - TIGER Model: Dr. Anjoli Roy MUA Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/5a47f994652deacfabbee5fc/5beb48f84d7a9c3f732e1287/1542146296248/ Collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1542146296729-DS9Z1A08KT2YO5RG5KH1/website28.jpg Collaborations - Growth Model: Kim CoCo Iwamoto MUA, Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealan Ng http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/news-1 daily 0.75 2017-05-19 http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/home daily 0.75 2017-02-02 http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/spoken-word daily 0.75 2018-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514674050125-XGZVHQDAZSK5W0V1JCK8/image-asset.jpeg Spoken Word Poet - Jocelyn Ng "Circus" - ADD Poetry https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/5a4817349140b7ea14e978dc/5a481782b30b687af212c3e4/1514674000405/ Spoken Word Poet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514674095425-GOW7HPAQXN1ZDCLGXJKL/image-asset.jpeg Spoken Word Poet - Pacific Tongues YSH 10th Annual Grand Slam Finals - Harrison Ines & Jocelyn Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514674123994-45T3RWCZAVFRGX93L1JG/image-asset.jpeg Spoken Word Poet - Hawaii Women's Journal Presents: Jocelyn Ng (Youth Speaks!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514926202708-YKHNZSNDJH2M3A6JZ62L/10630624_10152409485631538_1005516329207130295_o.jpg Spoken Word Poet http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/stage daily 0.75 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1566553771633-SEG4HGTMOQD1BG2Z06DQ/unnamed+%284%29.jpg Stage - "She Who Dies to Live" - 2019 Queensland Gallery of Modern Art - Brisbane, Australia "She Who Dies to Live" - 2019 Queensland Gallery of Modern Art - Brisbane, Australia She who Dies to Live reimagines formative stories of the Pacific into a contemporary epic. Take part in this immersive performance exploring the survival of culture and story in the face of colonization, nuclear testing, militarism, diaspora, and Directed by: Lyz Soto Written and performed by: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, and Terisa Siagatonu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1566553771633-SEG4HGTMOQD1BG2Z06DQ/unnamed+%284%29.jpg Stage - "She Who Dies to Live" - 2019 Queensland Gallery of Modern Art - Brisbane, Australia "She Who Dies to Live" - 2019 Queensland Gallery of Modern Art - Brisbane, Australia She who Dies to Live reimagines formative stories of the Pacific into a contemporary epic. Take part in this immersive performance exploring the survival of culture and story in the face of colonization, nuclear testing, militarism, diaspora, and Directed by: Lyz Soto Written and performed by: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, and Terisa Siagatonu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1566553760399-RM3NCI3143R13YDQBP8X/unnamed+%281%29.jpg Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1722304459934-08WAZ92AOKZ4X8GGMTOT/21930804_10155200433123759_37729920_o%2B%281%29.jpg Stage - "She Who Dies to Live" - 2017 Smithsonian Culture Lab Exhibit 'Ae Kai. "She Who Dies to Live" - 2017 Smithsonian Culture Lab Exhibit 'Ae Kai. What if our health depended upon telling the truth about what is happening to us? This multimedia spoken word experience reimagines Death as a vital vein of Pasefika experience, rather than an end to our island narratives. Featuring an all-female linup of performers representing Fiji, Samoa, the Marshall Islands and Hawai'i, She Who Dies to Live represents a convergence of different Pasefika Voices, and of various art forms and storytelling methods. Come take part in this reconisderation of Death as the fulcrum on which Life in Oceania balances the realities of nuclear tearing, militarism, suicide and colonization. Written, Directed and Starring: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng, Jahra 'Rager' Wasasala, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, and Terisa Siagatonu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1722371927317-VNKCAAXJMFDKGP7UHQWF/utah.jpg Stage - Pasifika Fridays "Pasifika Fridays" in collaboration with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Performance at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Salt Lake City, Utah. 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1722372155262-LT295U5PCCSUMCSD8F27/Hisam.jpg Stage - Pecha Kucha 20 x 20 "Pecha Kucha 20 x 20" Performance / Presentation at the Hawaii State Art Museum. Honolulu, Hawaii. 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1722371759519-LOHZ2B1ULUHT9TMTMCCY/sf.jpg Stage - Let the Body Speak "Let the Body Speak" in collaboration with the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Dance Company. Performance at the San Francisco Opera House. San Francisco, CA 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514926161568-30I0UN348B02UNBQ84JQ/15304432_10209522540639328_5941927133054365098_o.jpg Stage - Her Bodies of Stories Her Bodies of Stories is a new spoken art work exploring themes of diaspora, colonialism, settler colonialism, hopeful decolonization and growing up in Hawaiʻi. This performance piece combines slam poetry choreography with theater producing scenes that move from fierce to playful to thought-provoking. The work was written and will be performed by local spoken arts poet, Lyz Soto, cofounder of Pacific Tongues and mentor of its award-winning program, Youth Speaks Hawaiʻi. Lyz will share the stage with fellow performers, Jocelyn Ng, Serena Simmons, and Grace Taylor. This theatrical performance of poetry, which experiments with theater, movement, and sound, was developed in collaboration with Jocelyn Ng and Serena Simmons and directed by Grace Taylor. Performed at the Doris Duke Theatre in Honolulu, Hawai'i & The Maui Arts and Cultural Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514926166708-UBRDWVOWGT7O9U8RCLSC/15385440_10209522538279269_2566792399558639223_o.jpg Stage - Her Bodies of Stories Her Bodies of Stories is a new spoken art work exploring themes of diaspora, colonialism, settler colonialism, hopeful decolonization and growing up in Hawaiʻi. This performance piece combines slam poetry choreography with theater producing scenes that move from fierce to playful to thought-provoking. The work was written and will be performed by local spoken arts poet, Lyz Soto, cofounder of Pacific Tongues and mentor of its award-winning program, Youth Speaks Hawaiʻi. Lyz will share the stage with fellow performers, Jocelyn Ng, Serena Simmons, and Grace Taylor. This theatrical performance of poetry, which experiments with theater, movement, and sound, was developed in collaboration with Jocelyn Ng and Serena Simmons and directed by Grace Taylor. Performed at the Doris Duke Theatre in Honolulu, Hawai'i & The Maui Arts and Cultural Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514925345642-3L48P9IFCZ9UD5LK4QDE/1072131_10201576333793916_1232432767_o.jpg Stage - 36th Street Blues 36th Street Blues tells the stories of housewives from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. They all reside on 36th Street. At sunrise, we are brought into their world. They share stories of love in remembrance of their adolescence, loss, pain, and triumph. Through movement, music, and poetry these women are in search of their Blues. 36th Street is a true place. It exists whether you are in LA, Brooklyn, China, or Palestine. These stories of struggle and triumph are relatable. It doesn’t matter the age or gender. These stories are your stories. 36th Street Blues was work-shopped at San Francisco State University. Bill Peters (Master of Fine Arts, Yale University), the director of the Brown Bag Company, granted the freedom to bridge gaps and make connections through combining Poetry and Theatre and invited 36th Street Blues to be a part of the Brown Bag season. After a successful crowd-funding indiegogo.com fundraiser, and having revamped and reworked the show, it is now ready for its World Premiere. Presenter / Producer: Jasmine Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1514925356880-Q9T520V5ZHNFOIHTYEM2/15970620_10154435483898759_1876630489_n+%281%29.jpg Stage - 36th Street Blues 36th Street Blues tells the stories of housewives from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. They all reside on 36th Street. At sunrise, we are brought into their world. They share stories of love in remembrance of their adolescence, loss, pain, and triumph. Through movement, music, and poetry these women are in search of their Blues. 36th Street is a true place. It exists whether you are in LA, Brooklyn, China, or Palestine. These stories of struggle and triumph are relatable. It doesn’t matter the age or gender. These stories are your stories. 36th Street Blues was work-shopped at San Francisco State University. Bill Peters (Master of Fine Arts, Yale University), the director of the Brown Bag Company, granted the freedom to bridge gaps and make connections through combining Poetry and Theatre and invited 36th Street Blues to be a part of the Brown Bag season. After a successful crowd-funding indiegogo.com fundraiser, and having revamped and reworked the show, it is now ready for its World Premiere. Presenter / Producer: Jasmine Williams http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/new-cover-page daily 1.0 2024-07-30 http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2014-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410746977564-U8VYDIRXHXLWS55MQIXT/480489_10151610970353759_584851992_n.jpg Gallery - 36th Street Blues The cast of 36th Street Blues. At the Greenway Theater. From left to right: Chloe Bertles, Gabby Battista, Mia Hunt, Jocelyn Ng, Katrina Kirkpatrick.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410748003264-UARA83O038T7RGQ50ON1/470839_1982204388821_1473358183_o.jpg Gallery - 36th Street Blues The cast of 36th Street Blues in rehearsal at Fairfax High School building for the arts. 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410747505648-XDL10D4IBQU7N70MKTSQ/996802_10151993428709338_1453989902_n.jpg Gallery - 36th Street Blues The official 36th Street Blues poster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410746992606-RM2PQ9HI95LU3HERKPQ4/1471797_10151874765273759_1443526861_n.jpg Gallery - Farrington Slam Team The 2013 Hawaii Interscholastic Slam Poetry Champions, the Farrington High School Slam team. Coached by Jocelyn Ng and Harrison Ines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410747061644-626F808G8U9QUMRCCUQ3/1098409_10151615209753759_46146755_n.jpg Gallery - Ink Slam Jocelyn Ng performs at the 2013 Ink Slam Festival at the Greenway Court Theater in Los Angeles, CA. She was a substitute member for the DPL slam team, helping them to win the Ink Slam Championship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410747562095-J8401RTZOBCW8O7CZ0LJ/1614354_625743727506109_2117585008_o.jpg Gallery - Hawaii Slam First Thursdays Jocelyn at one of many Hawaii Slam First Thursdays performances. 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410747722435-8V78UPQRR1ELLKUOV43L/1655699_10204239289245386_5376588570024892735_o.jpg Gallery - Pacific Tongues: David vs. Goliath Ittai Wong and Jocelyn Ng reunite to perform their 2009 BNV poem "plague" at the 2014 Pacific Tongues David vs. Goliath Slam held at Crossroads in Hawaiian Brians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410747862941-G4R86BGXFDTTYEPS4V6I/1956671_621622724584876_2069983561_o.jpg Gallery - Slam of the Pacific Jocelyn Ng and Travis T interviewed at the 1st annual Slam of the Pacific. 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410748312399-DG3X0YIJX32FD638RZ5F/942325_531595220220486_199083501_n.jpg Gallery - Keaau High School Jocelyn Ng conducts a full day of Spoken word workshops for 200 students at Keaau High School on the Big Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410748480258-N37QJPAN7OSNPLQ5FWGE/998907_10151444545947097_619494814_n.jpg Gallery - Poetry in motion care bears Poets from the Southern Fried Poetry slam festival volunteering their free time to share some poetry and gifts to children in need at the Children's Hospital with the Poetry in Motion Care Bears in New Orleans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410748770343-3J7Y1SRZM10ZZ9G1T3HZ/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - USF Grand Slam 2012 USF WORD & CalSlam Berkeley after the 2012 USF Grand Slam Finals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410750037107-PJ048DT0IV1DMF0SW7K3/324157_10151076667578303_1131919213_o.jpg Gallery - Out Loud These are the featured poets at Windward Community College's 2012 'Out Loud' poetry night. From top to bottom: Craig Santos Perez, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Sterling Higa, Daren Kamali, Jocelyn Ng, Serena Simmons, David Keali'i Mackenzie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1411369710303-XM6MHY5LS6HR3T5GIEKI/image-asset.png Gallery - First Thursdays First Thursdays at Fresh Cafe in Honolulu, HI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1411369816747-SWCGCQHDOFRBS2784DCB/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Pacific Tongues 2nd SAT Feature at the Pacific Tongues 2nd SAT Slam & Open Mic at the Arts at Mark's Garage Downtown Honolulu. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/54164a53e4b0144025401116/541fcba1e4b0924697211b66/1411369889990/ Gallery http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/new-page daily 0.75 2014-09-14 http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/resume daily 0.75 2014-09-22 http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/about daily 0.75 2017-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1410738082001-3B635H8ZXR73TISCNY6C/image-asset.jpeg About http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/intro daily 0.75 2017-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484008839859-WA4HX4D0GVH8TX3XCC64/Lima01.jpg Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484008096564-NFIR2G8943ZZAH99ZPZQ/image-asset.jpeg Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484008629079-VLP029BGARUDUTXIQG9H/1098409_10151615209753759_46146755_n.jpg Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484000949334-64CLU7TWNLUV3OFRE58V/15966657_10154434768923759_1387751906_o.jpg Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2017-01-10 http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/moreau daily 0.75 2017-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484013657931-B3SPFLT3UMNHMY0XXOZH/15943417_10154435215298759_1123914065_o.jpg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry "It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things." Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3) . For all the Queens of the Damned . // I bathe in the blood of my enemies // Enthrone me in chaos Make me queen of this destruction What does not kill me Crowns me immortal Let all the little birds speak I am feasting on crows I am the vulture that clean their dead to the bone Everyone wants to eat But few want to hunt No one taught them When you point your arrows to a predator Do not blink, Do not miss, Do not look her in the eyes Because she will remember curve of your jaw the quiver of your lip the snakes rattling in your eyes She will draw her next bath with your blood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484012776477-810DL3FS24MOO0TCEPQM/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry "Vincent van Gogh, whose depression, some say, was likely related to temporal lobe epilepsy, famously saw and painted the world in almost unbearably vivid colors. After his nearly unsuccessful attempt to take his life by shooting himself in the gut, when asked why he should not be saved, he famously replied, "the sadness will last forever." I imagine he was right." - Maggie Nelson, "Bluets" pg. 36 . What I wrote after reading Maggie Nelson's "Bluets" . "Why do you paint your face such monstrous things?" He asks her. "Because for a moment in time, I can show the world what the inside of this body feels like. I can show the world how even the villains we hold in us can be beautiful too." She replied. " Because the bad guys have more fun?" He assumed. "Because the bad guys are just the good guys that no one believed in or even tried to listen to" She said. "So you paint to tell the other side of the story we all got? Is that right?" "I paint because not all stories are told one way. Or are even told at all. Some stories are just a brush stroke open for translation. And most times I don't feel like a writer. I just feel like a woman with puddles of colors begging to cover skin." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484013668587-IXQJQC4SERWB2EMU3QOL/15943336_10154434984578759_651384830_o.jpg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry [What is dead may never die] Womyn like me are born a eulogy// From birth man tried to bury us: In fear. Trembling cold sweat organs How much universe tilts in our wombs. He will never understand power as pulling worlds from body. How many of us bear a crown curated of our mother's mother's tongue. All steel and salt and smothered in absinthe All silver melted over memory. We are a walking resurrection. Do not bow down. Kneel// On blistering knees With clasping limp hands. It is too late to worship me. Instead Ask for forgiveness that I not haunt you while still breathing as prayer.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1493707173699-QDV6AT8OG0EM78HFKAME/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry An experimental series of gold continued: What once protected us, now kills us\\ The history of the Venetian carnival raven mask is rooted in the 14th century when the plague ravaged Europe. The earliest historical textual evidence comes from Chief physician to Louis XIII, Charles de Lorme who created the mask as part of a 17th century Biohazard suit. He believed the mask he created would work as a filtration device that would prevent infection. Today, the plague mask lives on in the imaginations of artists, writers and film-makers. Through them, it has veeb transformed into something altogether different, for the plague mask which was once used to ward off death, has now become the very symbol of it. // I've been thinking a lot about gold lately. About currency. About money and how much man is moved by it. How much it boils down to sacrifice and sweat and bleeding knuckles. How many hours man will go to provide for family, how providing equates to how much you earn. How this gold once protected us. Gave a shelter, food and pockets that shimmer. But when does greed sprout the thorn that pricks the blistered hands? Capitalism a plague of "never enough" and man sick off his own Midas touch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484031672225-08T1IA3DR02MQ7XXSFWR/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry [Steam Punk Cat Pirate] \\ Drop the anchor. We have arrived my friend to a land of the strange and abnormal.// where the sky is below, and sea is above//where the sword fish cut my thought patterns o/f/f/ where I walk on cloud 9. Here we are, darling. Where our insides shimmer gold where we bleed sun rays and float on hope I think you'll like it here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484031233762-UO9F49SSBBI9B7D8U0FZ/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry And as the words began incinerating beneath flesh stories unraveled blood tissue Muscle memory// Clavicle lullaby fold this body a paper crane a thousand wished poems \\What a blessing and curse it is to be a poet\\ The constant itch of lines crawling under skin Walking cadaver of things unsaid the open wound begs, "Finish this line..." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484031264699-TCO01F22JVJV6NQH6467/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry Serving cold hearted bitch realness / Ice Queen / Cold Shoulder/ DIY crown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484013781103-099WSC8B4QMCYU1VUBE8/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry Perhaps the monsters are not creatures Perhaps our hauntings are not apparitions Perhaps this fear does not have fangs Perhaps what we are afraid of most is regret, Perhaps the silence is what crawls on webs, Perhaps missed opportunity is the demon's laugh, Perhaps you should've asked her name when she walked into the dark. Perhaps you stitched lips and forgot your tongue, Perhaps the heart suicide dived leaving a trail, Perhaps black coffee is the summoning spell Perhaps she's a witch like you manifesting elixirs out of crossed in paths mixed in perhaps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484013277688-P6NL67DGLW67TB8MMUYN/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry Call me king maker// Drip me in sweat and watch me shimmer// siren laced in luxury I am/ your Midas touch womyn. [Aren't I worth blood shed of the nameless?] Watch you claw a path to the lavish. "I'll keep you all to myself" Epitome of greed Catalyst for wars My body is what moves man to get his hands dirty to sink fingers first into earth and seek my undying love.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484014325683-2KXB0SMWFR53E6F8YOCL/15966421_10154435214968759_2009144149_o.jpg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry "The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your passion is still there, Bane. Seek it out. Reclaim it." - Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #1). We were an Empire before we recognized our own force// We were a death star before we became a gone planet. Peace is a lie. Rage and scream and love and hate and fight and destroy yourself. You are more than half machine. You are painter gone blind. You are a composer gone deaf. You rememberthe power but that power you touch is only memory. Memory is the past. The past is what haunts us. Ghosts must be banished. Lingering on the past is a weakness. Kill that part of you in fury Rise in Passion Reclaim yourself, a composer of silence & screams. a painter of blood and lost dreams. Welcome to the Dark Side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484031652975-2B02BCWS63S5SI33OIL5/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry Sometimes we --blind-- ourselves from our true potential. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484012861863-CD0U79AWK9LW0B9EW758/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry When your mouth is a serpent, men start to warn their brothers about Queen's like you. Descendant of lilth, Daughter of no god, Sister of sirens, Swallower of worlds. They don't know any better but to fear your words like venom. Little boys grow up imagining staples around lips and fangs, Rather have you soft and silent. Let them dream, Because make no mistake, You, womyn Know what it takes To bring a man's souls back from Heaven's gate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484013801937-1H2LNPH30BMEUQ2T7IX6/image-asset.jpeg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry [i'll serve you all the fruits of my labor] Mouth full of cynanide/ I sowed Johnny's body in a garden row/ Buried him a seed/ I did the same to Adam, blaming Eden's sorrows on Eve/ Conjure me the lump in his throat/ Put you to sleep/ Snow White/ I'll be your seven-- Deadly sins, Hold your breath Come darling, Take a bite out of me. . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484012199091-2Y0I9F90AXME1KED96YC/15943336_10154434984578759_651384830_o.jpg Face Paint / Body Art / Poetry http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/pacific-tavern daily 0.75 2017-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1493706270307-8IY0GIDIKPOCCWMJF33E/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work Images for Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's 2017 Honolulu Biennial Installation Model: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner Creative Direction: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Make up: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photo Editor: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1493707659682-UY5Y0HGTW945AXY3O6L4/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work Images for Lyz Soto's Poetry Series Model: Bryan Kuwada Creative Direction: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Make up: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photographer: Jakob Bauwens Photo Editor: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1506044244467-13AW02UE6CH63B10JSL6/21942139_10155200433118759_432437821_n.jpg Collaborative Work Collaboration with Rosanna Raymond for the 2017 Smithsonian Culture Lab Exhibit 'Ae Kai Model: Rosanna Raymond SFX Make-up: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1493705970361-LFE95JCS3YQF25IRUSQ2/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work Images for Grace Taylor's 2nd Book, "Full Broken Bloom" Model: Grace Taylor Creative Direction: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Make up: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photographer: Jakob Bauwens Photo Editor: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1493706001527-4KIJEJVVSWDP1SJS0B54/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work Images for Lyz Soto's Poetry Series Model: Jahra Rager Creative Direction: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Make up: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photographer: Jakob Bauwens Photo Editor: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1506044121733-CK1HDAEZIVOIWCI0AH6S/21931563_10155200433188759_1861040890_o.jpg Collaborative Work "Rising Sun Hauntings" Model: Troy Takahashi Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Make-up: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Concept & Creative Direction: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484015068957-639GBIDFXRH8VMP1EO0Z/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work This art piece is inspired by Bryan Kuwada's poem, "We who share breath" (featured below) We who share breath "Our word for breath is ea. Ea is breath is life, ea is life is sovereignty, ea is sovereignty is rising, ea is breath is breath. Rising. This is what lay between us as my forehead pressed against yours, our noses touching, our lips a breath apart. Our eyes are closed to imagine the future, to see beyond the horizon. I walked the land you exhaled looking for my moʻolelo, perhaps it had found home there, sheltered in your words. Growing across this distance. Joining my hand at your hip and shoulder. When you shared your breath, I heard the flutter of stone wings taking flight, feathers clattering to the ground like pebbles, witnessed how you found bravery by stepping into the sea from a great height. A breath and then ea. You once told me you were broken, and that lay like breath between us as well. Yet here wind from our lungs wraps around our wounds, light showing through where we are both shattered and coming apart. Breath and touch are meant as salves on our skin, healing together these wounds we suffered apart. You are a star, a dancer. I am a stone worn smooth by waves. Not meant to stand so close, pressed together in an embrace. Sea meets sky meets river, and here we are. Water, and air, and blood. This is what we have shared. A confluence of ea. My breath stands witness to your flight, as you exhale ʻāina rising from my ocean. Lean toward me, my friend, and let us share breath again. "   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1506043689041-DPIV2H68R60LE8QS8GTW/21930950_10155200433198759_503882023_o.jpg Collaborative Work Model: No'u Revilla Photographer: Bryan Kuwada SFX Make-up: Jcoelyn Kapumealani Ng Concept & Creative direction: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Poem by No'u Revilla: on my body, a battle between skin I grew for you & skin freshwater born unto me. no mother of mine has perished waterlogged & forgotten. yet you call me drowning as if it hurts. drowning woman bitch of bedlam so much precedent in my rippling face. did you forget? the only thing separating rage and ravage is va. the space between - where my body was born. where mothers eat. where drowning is an art from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1493706283155-AJC4JNQ35WIF9LRG4HNY/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work Images for Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's 2017 Honolulu Biennial Installation Model: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner Creative Direction: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Make up: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photographer: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photo Editor: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484015181466-I476QJMHX4WUY18UF8R4/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work In collaboration with Aotearoa Poet, artist, & educator: Grace Taylor. Model and poem by Grace Taylor. Creative Creation by Jocelyn Ng. "I am told The gloy of my jaw is the most seductive thing about my body. This gold is inviting. This gold is poisoning. Many have left with rust bittne teeth." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484015157316-G962N15CZCDGY4HB3K38/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work In collaboration with PNG muralist Aravapo Leo & Marshallese Poet Kathy Jentil-Kijiner. For anyone reading this post, this face paint honors the mural done by a group of Marshallese youth in Apo's art class this week. (Please see part 1 to see the mural). Below is a beautiful poem by Kathy Glass Marbles I am a mouthful of glass marbles a rolled tongue stuck raw in my clogged throat white man’s burden boiled syrup sweet slowing down my speech When I was six I moved to Hawai’i learned my name was no longer Dede it was Kathy I became blacktop negotiations tetherball tied tongues a new culture to learn When I was 22 I moved back to Majuro a small strip of land an ocean of knowledge I no longer knew a sea of blank spaces a place that was no longer home When I was 24 another Micronesian told me that girls like me are westernized americanized therefore lost I stood and watched my cousin tattoo a stick chart into her back the buzz of ink a map to find our way back home When I was 26 I saw my last name spelled proper just how it sounds for the first time jetn̄il-kijiner realized I been shaping it wrong all these years for colonial ears to hear jet-nil kijiner how do you say your name? how do you say your country? Where is your country? Show it to me Dance for me Hang on the wall for me I am a burden of representation I am boxed in at the bishop museum An indigenous voice woven for your display Here you go step right up listen To this poet listen to this Native tongue - look She walks and she/ Talks too But before I was A label verifying contents before I was a glass cage before the water creeped up to our shores before I learned Not To trust that tide Before I was confronted with roots grown braided into a plastic umbilical a mountain of trash that’s consumed our home Before I was four I was crouched slippers on the dirt path outside my house shooting marbles watching this world through a sea glass glow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1493706255688-GWRX8KGHZUQD47H3848H/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work Images for Lyz Soto's Poetry Series Model: Jahra Rager Creative Direction: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Make up: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Photographer: Jakob Bauwens Photo Editor: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484015139399-JNWESP2PP7K0M8CJU5YI/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work "Yumi harim karai bilong ol brata susa blo yumi na yumi tanim baksait. Wan solwara, yumi i mas kirap na sanap wantaim West Papua." -Aravapo Leo Last year my mentor Lyz Soto gave me a "We Bleed Black and Red" shirt that motivated me to educate myself on the Indonesian occupation of West Papua. For myself as a Polynesian artist in the Pacific, I decided to start an artistic campaign using face painting as a platform to try and help bring more awareness to the plight of the West Papuan people that has been mostly ignored and silenced for more than fifty years. One year later, the news from West Papua has not gotten any better. One year later the genocide of West Papuan people continues. One year later, there is still so much silence in my home and my area of the world surrounding West Papua's struggle for independence from an Indonesian government that cannot defend its own track record of human rights abuses and political corruption against the West Papuan people. One year later we still bleed black and red. As I write this, I am working in the Marshall Islands and fortunate to collaborate with Aravapo Leo, a PNG muralist. My criticism of my own work has been that it lacks representation from the Melanesian region of the Pacific. Thank you, Apo for allowing me to use your face as a canvas, to share your words, representing Melanesia. I offer part of this poem again. It was written last year by myself, Harrison Ines, Sarah Daniels and Malia Derden. Please feel free to share, to listen, to start a conversation. Dear world what is it like to be a secret keeper? To have the military force innocent blood into your clenched fists and ask the victim to apologize What will we do then? How do we fight back when every dawning voice gets turned into dusk? how much stomach does it take to join the revolution? what is time but what we remember? what is distance But what are afraid to touch? Dear world, we are here today in the Pacific to make a difference We make a difference by giving voice to the silenced to give voice we wrote this poem to write this poem we first learned how to listen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484015217810-GJKHPTX7P538SO780DH3/image-asset.jpeg Collaborative Work Model: Grace Taylor Poem: Jocelyn Ng & Lyz Soto Creative Creation: Jocelyn Ng "First: call me leviathan dream me devourer of children plague of my own flesh. Second: say no. Eater of worlds would have too much power in her belly. Strip me of fangs and marry me. Third: watch this world, make her chimera, and call her only the wife of a monster. 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A poetry slam that gathered youth from across Hawai'i to share their stories at the Doris Duke Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484026419693-F7Q3TOHTQL32T1UJ5PP1/image-asset.jpeg Community Organizer Representing Pacific Tongues at the Annual Hawai'i People's Fund Dinner. Along side many mana wahine that do amazing work within Hawaii's community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484026590226-IDDQ50S5ITXZLOM9KYEM/image-asset.jpeg Community Organizer Guest Spoken Word Poetry Facilitator at the 2016 Festival of Pacific Arts in Guam. Along side Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Melvin Won Pat Borja, and Nicole Quintanila. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1484025993108-9S09K6MD4YU3Y5X9D4S4/image-asset.jpeg Community Organizer Free West Papua Campaign. Models: Sarah Daniels, Lyz Soto, Harrison Ines, & Malia Derden. 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A poem by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake” Film by Richard Hamasaki, Jody Stillwater, Sebastian Galasso. http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/exhibitsgalleries daily 0.75 2025-10-16 http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/publications daily 0.75 2024-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/66ad379e-e492-475f-88c4-2c000878884c/Screenshot_23-7-2024_95122_www.forewordreviews.com.jpeg Publications - Cover Art for “Ask the Brindled” by Noʻu Revilla Published by Milkweed Editions. 2022. Model: Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/5aa50600-7fe9-4487-97de-8f412fc6baf4/Screenshot_28-7-2024_14566_image.isu.pub.jpeg Publications - Cover Artist Feature for Hawaii Women’s Journal Published by Hawaii Women’s Journal July - October 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/d9a48710-e5df-48ab-9d2c-47197ea41ffc/Screenshot_23-7-2024_94935_dashophnl.com.jpeg Publications - Cover Art for “Snaring New Suns” edited by Tom Gammarino, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie, Lyz Soto Published by Bamboo Ridge Press. 2022. Model: Grace Iwashita-Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/2dd4ebc6-b3b6-4cfd-a183-49f5a8f51896/IMG_4024.jpeg Publications - Cover Art for “From Hunger to Prayer” by D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie Publiched by Silver Needle Press. 2018. Model: Matt Nelms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/3a6e2712-a3fd-4f82-80c1-d3f3ae1c62cc/an-ocean-of-wonder-the-fantastic-in-the-pacific-pdfepub-version-vt6cs.jpg Publications - “She Who Dies to Live” published in “An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic of the Pacific” edited by kuʻualoha hoʻomanuwanui, Joyce Pualani Warren, Cristina Baccheliga Published by University of Hawaii Press. 2024. SWTDL Collaboration with Lyz Soto, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Terisa Siagatonu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/eb41c93c-899b-4002-882c-18f425ba7f5b/unnamed.jpg Publications - Cover Artist with PhDJ Feature for University of Hawaii Magazine Published by University of Hawaii Magazine 2019 It’s Lit with PhDJ Podcast Feature. PhDJ (Dr. Anjoli Roy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/5d6af665-e024-4959-92eb-bf3e1adf077f/Screenshot_28-7-2024_165141_wpcdn.us-midwest-1.vip.tn-cloud.net.jpeg Publications - It’s Lit with PhDJ featured in Honolulu Magazines Top 7 Podcases to listen to Published by Honolulu Magazine January 2019 It’s Lit with PhDJ Podcast Feature. PhDJ (Dr. Anjoli Roy http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2024-07-30 http://www.jocelynngpoetry.com/paniolo daily 0.75 2024-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/1361110f-d1b1-4957-98a3-ced9d330142a/dad.jpg Paniolo - My father at 18yrs old calf roping at Puuwaawaa Ranch Rodeo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/d568f1c7-7af3-4061-90e6-de081495de82/bareback.jpg Paniolo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/e83f226f-52ae-4d18-b2f9-2f0aeaf98953/raibman.jpg Paniolo - An annual photo of myself on a quarter horse named Rainman at our family’s ranch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/6271699f-abc8-463a-b8b5-0a61b4f9f478/miss+yellow.jpg Paniolo - 11 year old me, riding a horse named Miss Yellow, which my father broke and trained at J&L Ranch in Waimanalo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d53484e4b005dcf3bc9b7d/877c50ad-8294-46af-8eda-f2bd03e084a3/uncle+jim.jpg Paniolo - My great uncle Jimmy Ng performing a skidding spot on a quarter horse named Skip in Kalama Valley 1960’s