2025 Seminar Guest Speakers
Gabriel Bascom
The Tiki Texan
& Vince Martini
Tiki Vee
The Search for Tiki with Gabriel Bascom
Friday, June 27, 2025
1 pm
Waikiki Supper Club
Tiki Resort
It's 2020, and the world's only online database documenting the history of tiki mugs is dying. What happens once it's dead? Gabriel, founder of The Search for Tiki, began his tiki career documenting the history of mugs as swiftly as he could-- performing dozens of interviews with some of tiki's tallest figures. His website reached over a million people worldwide in its first year.
In the days since, Gabriel has continued his tiki journey by working with inspiring artists in the United States, Mexico, and China, to design and manufacture mugs, before ultimately deciding to expand his business and build out a fully operational ceramics studio. Through his website and mugs, Gabriel has raised over $75,000 and counting for charities in Maui and Los Angeles. His wish? To give back to the community that has inspired him.
IS IT A MAI TAI?
Donn Beach and Victor Bergeron
(Vince Martini and The Tiki Texan)
Friday, June 27, 2025 at 3pm
Waikiki Supper Club
Tiki Resort
Aloha, Ohana! If you thought a surprise visit by Jeff "The Beachbum" Berry a few years back was the bees knees, hold on to your badge lanyard! This year, Ohana is proud to bring you Donn Beach and Victor Bergeron, live and in person!
Join Dick Cavettee as he hosts and moderates a lively debate between the Grandfathers of Tiki, Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic! Hilarity and hijinks ensue when these two go mano a mano discussing the origin, recipe, and qualifications of that most sacred of tiki drinks, the Mai Tai. You will even be able to compare their recipes, as we provide samples of both Don and Vic's work to enjoy while listening to what will most certainly be a most heated discussion!
Will there be fisticuffs? Will fur fly? Will it be monkey fur? Come find out!
See you there!
(nb.., Dick Cavettee, Donn Beach and Victor Bergeron will be portrayed by not-so-professional not-so-paid actors. Obviously.)
Tiki Vee’s Sugar-Coated Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Spectacular : The Series Finale!
Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 10 am
Waikiki Supper Club
Tiki Resort
Get ready for one last sugar-fueled blast from the past—because Tiki Vee is going out with a snap, crackle, and kaboom!
Join us for the series finale of the legendary Sugar-Coated Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Spectacular, where nostalgia is served by the bowlful and the Saturday morning magic lives on... one last time.
This isn’t just a seminar—it’s a full-blown cartoon celebration, bursting with zany characters, retro shenanigans, and more marshmallows than a box of Lucky Charms.
Whether you were chasing down Wile E. Coyote, doing karate with Michelangelo, solving mysteries with Scooby-Doo, or jamming out with Jem and the Holograms, this event is for every kid-at-heart who ever poured a mountain of Frosted Flakes and sat crisscross applesauce in front of the hypnotizing glow of channels two, four, five or eleven.
One banana, two banana, three banana, four…
But wait, there's so much more!
Highlights Include:
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All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Bar – Choose from all your favorites (including the ones your mom said were “too sweet”), with every kind of milk and topping your inner child could dream of.
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Breakfast Snacks Galore – Think Pop-Tarts, cupcakes, donut holes, Pop-holes, cake holes, all the holes and more. Because Saturday mornings never started with kale.
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Cereal-Infused Cocktails – Yes, you read that right. Fruity Pebbles Mai Tai? Cinnamon Toast Milk Punch? Who knows what glorious confectionary cocktail the ultra fabulous Suzanne Long will concoct. One thing is guaranteed, it’ll be dangerously delicious.
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Cartoon Screenings, trivia, questions, answers, song and dance numbers, stage magic, a puppet show, jazzercise…maybe…who knows…… Watch classic episodes and join Vee’s tales about animation, storytelling, and the cultural impact of our favorite ‘toons.
Whether you're an animation buff or just here for the Cap’n Crunch, come relive the joy of waking up early on a Saturday—for all the right reasons
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Pajamas encouraged. Nostalgia provided. Great time guaranteed.
