FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Joe Staskerz, Public Relations, Tiki
Kon 2012
PR@TikiKon.com
(503) 609-0503
Tiki Kon 2012 announces its Official Event Signature
Tiki Mug ‘Hapi Tiki’ created by Munktiki’s Paul Nielsen for the 10th
Anniversary Tiki Weekender Event in Portland, OR
Event Website:
Ticket Information:
Portland, OR — Tiki Kon is pleased
to reveal Hapi Tiki, the official
2012 event Tiki Mug.
Highlighting
Tiki Kon’s 10th Anniversary 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
commemorative mug, Hapi Tiki.
Munktiki
(as tiki mug collectors know well) is one of the most highly respected Tiki Mug
and ‘ceramic oddities’ production houses. We here at Tiki Kon couldn’t be more
pleased with the amazing ‘Hapi Tiki’ envisioned and created by Paul, specially
for our 10th Anniversary celebration. “I sat in some early Tiki Kon
planning meetings, and saw how positive and excited for the new growth of the
event everyone was”, Paul said on his inspiration for Hapi Tiki, “and how happy they all were. And it made me happy, too.
So Hapi Tiki evolved out of the
actual energy surrounding Tiki Kon 2012 as I saw it.” Paul added that he walked around the Red Lion
on the River and incorporated design elements of the property into the mug,
“the wood carved flowers found their way onto Hapi Tiki, too.”
Munktiki
mugs have been a must-have staple on every tikiphile’s shelf for nearly 13
years. Munktiki’s father and son team Paul and Miles’ catalog of Mugs is as
prodigious as it has been prolific. Every piece produced by Munktiki is a
testament to the creative talents of these fine artisans – there is no other
ceramic design house like Munktiki and we are fortunate to count them as
friends of Tiki Kon.
Look
also for Munktiki’s custom vending machine in the registration foyer of Tiki
Kon 2012’s home at the Red Lion at the River. See it in action here: www.youtube.com/MunktikiVendingMachine
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: PR@TikiKon.com
(503) 609-0503.
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Excellent!!! Very bummed to be missing the event this year :( Will trade kidney for a mug! (mileage may vary) -Tikiwahine
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