FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Joe Staskerz, Public Relations, Tiki
Kon 2012
PR@TikiKon.com
(503) 609-0503
Tiki Kon 2012 Presents its 10th
Anniversary Family-style Weekender Event in Celebration of Poly-pop Culture,
Music, Mixology, Art, Fashion, and History that Brings the Past into the Present
in Portland, OR
August 3: "Embarkation Lounge"
Opening Night Party
Location TBD
Location TBD
August 4: Tiki Kon entertainment,
exhibitions, symposiums, marketplace:
Red Lion Hotel on the River
909 N. Hayden Island Drive
Portland, OR 97217
1-503-283-4466
www.redlion.rdln.com
Red Lion Hotel on the River
909 N. Hayden Island Drive
Portland, OR 97217
1-503-283-4466
www.redlion.rdln.com
Event Website:
Ticket Information:
Portland, OR — TIKI KON, the Pacific Northwest’s
original “Tiki Weekender” celebrates
its 10th anniversary event with a multi-faceted three-day event packed full of
festivities. In addition to celebrating
the Tiki lifestyle with a weekend of live music, art, DJs and more, Tiki Kon
2012 presents a family produced exploration into the visual arts, mixology and
culinary symposiums, vintage fashion exhibitions, plus a free daytime shopping Island Marketplace with over 20 vendors.
Tiki
Kon was originally conceived as a home tiki bar tour among a handful of
like-minded friends and Poly-pop fans in Portland Oregon - the first of its
kind. The events second year added commercial bars, live music and an official
tiki mug to the event. The Moniker “Tiki Kon” came to be in 2005, with a
boutique motel headquarters, vendors and an invitational art exhibit added to
the event.
In
spirit of its organic growth, Tiki Kon 2012, themed “The Ten Year Tour”, moves
into a resort-style hotel, the Red Lion on the Columbia River where the event
will draw over 300 attendees from up and down the West Coast. Highlighting the
celebration, Paul Nielsen of Munktiki, the genre’s most sought-after creator of
tiki mugs and Portland resident will design and produce this year’s 10th
anniversary commemorative mug.
Portland,
Oregon has a long and continuing tradition of Tiki locales and enclaves of
Poly-pop culture, including the infamous Pago
Pago Club, The Alibi, the Aloha Room at the Heathman Hotel, Steve
Crane’s Kon-Tiki and Victor
Bergeron’s Trader Vic's. Most of
these locations have since closed, but The
Alibi is still a feature of every Tiki Kon, and 2011 brought the triumphant
return of Trader Vic’s to Portland’s
tony Pearl District. And we in the Tiki community along with many others are
eagerly awaiting the opening of local mixologist and Tiki enthusiast Blair
Renyolds’ Hale Pele, which will be
opening this fall in the space that was formerly a stop and friend of Tiki Kon,
Thatch Tiki Bar.
For Media inquiries
- additional information – interview opportunities, please contact: Joe
Staskerz, PR Director, Tiki Kon 2012: PRPR@TikiKon.com (503) 609-0503
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