Sure, you could spend your night at home, drinking adult beverages and making all-you-can-eat pancakes, but you would not be surrounded by local artisans’ works on the walls, nor would you be serenaded by local DJs and musicians, nor would you be spellbound by live body painting.

All those things will come together Saturday night and into the wee hours of Sunday morning at the ARTS at Marks Garage, when the Pancakes & Booze Art Show visits Honolulu.

“It’s a creative showcase moving from city to city that has become an international phenomenon,” said Rich Richardson, director of ARTS.

The traveling art show has created a formula “giving young artists a chance to show what they’ve got, get some feedback and sell some work, and hang out with some other creative types,” Richardson said. It was organized by Tom Kirlin, who first mounted the parties in a Los Angeles warehouse, saw them become exceedingly popular in his adopted city and decided to take them on the road.

One Honolulu artist whose work will be showcased is Cheyne Gallarde, whose work is described as running the gamut from childlike to sassy. Gallarde, who is also a photographer and performance artist, recently was commissioned to illustrate a key visual element for the California Librarians Association 2016 conference, and is also illustrating a children’s book by Lee Cataluna, Star-Advertiser columnist, author and playwright.

Since the Pancakes & Booze show was established by Kirlin in 2009, it has swept the nation, with events in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, cities in the Pacific Northwest and other cities across the country.

Based on the success of last year’s event in Honolulu, Richardson said attendees will get to “have contact with people that are making things that make them happy, so it creates an instant community.”

More than 35 emerging artists will display hundreds of pieces of artwork, making it a kind of pop-up gallery opening, Richardson said. Additionally, the show brings in local DJs and body-painting artists.

Why pancakes? Erstwhile filmmaker Kirlin told Denver’s Crave magazine that he and his artist friends often found themselves eating the low-budget treat late at night after boozy parties. When he wound up in a warehouse studio with room to spare, he launched an art party combining pancakes and booze, and the combo caught on.

“I think it’s just so quirky,” Richardson said. “It’s really a lively, energetic atmosphere with loud music and people talking about their work with others … that makes the visitor happy as well, and gives us all a kind of feeling like we have a place that is not driven by profits. It’s a community-builder. I think it’s a great formula.”