Mahalo to journalist Craig DeSilva who published a “Health” feature on Ken Nishimura in the HMSA magazine with 300,000+ ciculation titled: “Painting Pictures of Good Health: Artist Ken Nishimura Reaches Hawaii Youth Through His Art” in the Spring 2015 issue. Check it out here: https://www.islandscene.com/Article.aspx?id=6816
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Trysen Tkay2 Kaneshige and Keep it Flowing is partnering up with Big Brothers and Big Sister (BBBS) in Maui to create an awareness mural at their club house!!! Be a Jerk is a campaign supported statewide to stop underage drinking. Visit our “mural”
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To celebrate working with the Hawaii Meth Project for one year, we visited the location of the very first mural we created with the Hawaii Meth Project’s message — Not Even Once — here in Hawaii. The Not Even Once Mural Project promotes a meth-free life and raises awareness about meth at Hawaii schools and youth centers. To commemorate
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Tomorrow we will unveil our 10th anti-meth mural at Kohala High School on the northern coast of the island of Hawaii. In twelve months we’ve completed ten Not Even Once Murals statewide thanks to the support of many individuals, businesses and organizations. Here are five reasons why we should keep creating more anti-meth murals. Our
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Over President’s Day weekend we spent Sunday and Monday spray painting a 14 foot high by 25 foot wide wood-paneled wall on a building at the largest high school in the state. On really high portions of the wall, Lead Muralist, Ken (East 3) Nishimura and Trysen (TKay2) Kaneshige stood on ten foot ladders painting
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The main message of the Not Even Once Mural Project is to prevent Hawaii youth from trying methamphetamines. The way our team at Keep It Flowing communicates this sensitive message is visually. We paint a mural, centrally located on a school, or youth center, (exterior or interior) wall with the message: Not Even Once. This is
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2015 Spring Mural Locations: James Campbell High School, Ewa Beach, Oahu Henry Perrine Baldwin High School, Wailuku, Maui Kohala High School, Kohala, Hawaii Waimea High School, Waimea, Kauai “Not Even Once” is the primary message delivered through the multimedia murals we create at schools and youth centers statewide. Our large- to medium-scale murals, centrally located
The other day I sent my brother a picture of me holding a puppy at the pet store. He asked me what I was doing to look so young, “You look like a kid!” he said. My initial response was that being in love surely has something to do with it! I also believe that drinking
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Five years ago Ken Nishimura, founder of Keep It Flowing, taught a calligraphy/handstyle workshop in Kauai where Trysen was one of his students. Trysen was 15 then. Now, Ken mentors him on the ins-and-outs of organizing a statewide mural program. Trysen is part of our Mentorship Program where we teach skills as diverse as fundraising,
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This week Ken Nishimura is leading a Style Writing/ Calligraphy workshop open to all ages at Diverse Art in Kakaako https://www.diverseartcenter.org (MWF 5-7pm). Today’s students included two ten year-olds, one recent college grad, and two young professional graphic designers from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Ken started with the fundamentals: ABCs, straight letters with a chisel-tip pen
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