Over the last month or so, the crew have been working to put together the biggest show that we've had all year and the longest, most high profile show in the club history. The Master Builders awards show was a big deal because this was basically where the local industry heads came together for one night for a dinner and show. I'd say more exciting things about it the awards, but it was not nearly as intersting as what we were doing!
Untitled from Massey FireClub on Vimeo.
24 July, 2011
20 July, 2011
Oh hai!
Totally forgot that we had this! Really should keep track of things like this. Unfortunately, this whole blog (damn, I don't like that word...) has fallen into digital disrepair for two reasons.
1: As mentioned, forgot we had it...
2: We've been really, really, positively busy!
So, in closing on another fun and friendly Clubs Day, I update this with a brief (and those who know me will beg to disagree) run through on what we did over the last 5 months!
To begin our story, dear reader, find yourself a comfortable nook in you chair and possibly a hot drink, for this tale shall be one of intrigue and amazement that may be so intriguing and entertaining that you may not want to leave! Either that, or your back will like you for falling asleep in a more pleasant position...
On March 25th, the local arts community put on a show celebrating various cultures and the transition into the Chinese Year of the Rabbit. This event consisted of various cultural kiosks and ethnic foods, culminating in a lantern parade around The Square. Those familiar with Palmerston North will know that the Square is, effectively, the four sided park in the centre of town. Very hard to miss. Now, the really awesome thing about this show was that the lanterns used for this procession were made by the local children, with materials donated by the Arts Recycling Centre. They made their wicked little lanterns out of what many would consider wastes and turned them into personal works of art. How awesome is that? Unfortunately, I've been unable to locate any photo's of these lanterns, but many of them were amazing!
So yeah, we were invited to spin for this as part of their closing concert/show, which included the wonderfully talented IPC drum team, many other local acts and a gypsy swing band,the Barons of Tang. Anyway, here's our set! Please excuse the poor focus, the auto focus works on detecting infra-red light, which the fire also produces...
More information about the Arts Recycling Centre can be found here!
http://www.communityarts.org.nz/
From this event, we move on to the Art on Edge! The Art on Edge day was an absolutely amazing idea, bought forward by the local arts community where several art galleries around the Library sector (Zimmerman, Thermostat, Square Edge, Te Manawa) opened their doors to the public and built interlinking chains of local performance groups, poets and artists. There was everyone from local bands to theatre troupes to Tai Chi masters. Even the Morris dancers were out shaking their bells! The whole day was set up to promote as many different types of art and to get the children involved and motivated to create! An amazing day to celebrate art in all its forms! We were out there in all our burning glory!
This last picture was far too good to leave out and is begging for some kind of humorous caption or lolspeak-like comment. All I can say is "I sees the blananna, so I eats the blananna!"
From there, we mosyed onto the Mai Farm "Greener Ways: Sustainable Living" festival. This was, as the name suggests, a get together to share and exhibit some of the more planet friendly aspects of the region. We were invited out to have a spin and we took it as an excuse to hang out and have fun! To add to the occasion, we met up with some friends we had made at Kiwiburn, Daryl and Rose Gawn (http://gawncountry.blogspot.com/). Much love to them!
At this spin, there was many fun things done!
There was some hoopin'!
A whole manner of attractive people!
And some freaky blue thing!
Oh, some fire was there too...
I will admit, I had a good chuckle at the idea of having a fire performance troupe at a sustainable eco-friendly festival...
So, yeah! That's effectively what's been happening in our neck of the woods for the last 5 months. Only now do I have the chance to write about it, mainly because we've been fairly busy with setting up for our next performance, which is this Saturday. It is the biggest private performance that the club has had to date! The amount of work put into it by our members is amazing and I am very proud of them! We are gonna rock this show. Hopefully, I'll remember to film it... Haha!
All in all, this is going to be our year! We are going to be bigger and better than before!
It's now after 1am and I am le tired. With hope you feel sufficiently up-to-dated with us and will possible join us again! I can guarantee that the next post will not be as arduous to read.
Peace and love!
Ty
1: As mentioned, forgot we had it...
2: We've been really, really, positively busy!
So, in closing on another fun and friendly Clubs Day, I update this with a brief (and those who know me will beg to disagree) run through on what we did over the last 5 months!
To begin our story, dear reader, find yourself a comfortable nook in you chair and possibly a hot drink, for this tale shall be one of intrigue and amazement that may be so intriguing and entertaining that you may not want to leave! Either that, or your back will like you for falling asleep in a more pleasant position...
On March 25th, the local arts community put on a show celebrating various cultures and the transition into the Chinese Year of the Rabbit. This event consisted of various cultural kiosks and ethnic foods, culminating in a lantern parade around The Square. Those familiar with Palmerston North will know that the Square is, effectively, the four sided park in the centre of town. Very hard to miss. Now, the really awesome thing about this show was that the lanterns used for this procession were made by the local children, with materials donated by the Arts Recycling Centre. They made their wicked little lanterns out of what many would consider wastes and turned them into personal works of art. How awesome is that? Unfortunately, I've been unable to locate any photo's of these lanterns, but many of them were amazing!
So yeah, we were invited to spin for this as part of their closing concert/show, which included the wonderfully talented IPC drum team, many other local acts and a gypsy swing band,the Barons of Tang. Anyway, here's our set! Please excuse the poor focus, the auto focus works on detecting infra-red light, which the fire also produces...
More information about the Arts Recycling Centre can be found here!
http://www.communityarts.org.nz/
From this event, we move on to the Art on Edge! The Art on Edge day was an absolutely amazing idea, bought forward by the local arts community where several art galleries around the Library sector (Zimmerman, Thermostat, Square Edge, Te Manawa) opened their doors to the public and built interlinking chains of local performance groups, poets and artists. There was everyone from local bands to theatre troupes to Tai Chi masters. Even the Morris dancers were out shaking their bells! The whole day was set up to promote as many different types of art and to get the children involved and motivated to create! An amazing day to celebrate art in all its forms! We were out there in all our burning glory!
The Lovely Nay!
The Talented Jenna
The Spicy Lynelle!
Captain Halitosis!
This last picture was far too good to leave out and is begging for some kind of humorous caption or lolspeak-like comment. All I can say is "I sees the blananna, so I eats the blananna!"
From there, we mosyed onto the Mai Farm "Greener Ways: Sustainable Living" festival. This was, as the name suggests, a get together to share and exhibit some of the more planet friendly aspects of the region. We were invited out to have a spin and we took it as an excuse to hang out and have fun! To add to the occasion, we met up with some friends we had made at Kiwiburn, Daryl and Rose Gawn (http://gawncountry.blogspot.com/). Much love to them!
At this spin, there was many fun things done!
There was some hoopin'!
I will admit, I had a good chuckle at the idea of having a fire performance troupe at a sustainable eco-friendly festival...
So, yeah! That's effectively what's been happening in our neck of the woods for the last 5 months. Only now do I have the chance to write about it, mainly because we've been fairly busy with setting up for our next performance, which is this Saturday. It is the biggest private performance that the club has had to date! The amount of work put into it by our members is amazing and I am very proud of them! We are gonna rock this show. Hopefully, I'll remember to film it... Haha!
All in all, this is going to be our year! We are going to be bigger and better than before!
It's now after 1am and I am le tired. With hope you feel sufficiently up-to-dated with us and will possible join us again! I can guarantee that the next post will not be as arduous to read.
Peace and love!
Ty
07 March, 2011
nom nom nom fresh meat!
Wow the last week has been amazing!
we have had a blast spinning at the bizarre ball and toga party as part of the Massey university o-week and we felt amazingly privileged to be a part of "arts on edge" on Saturday, performing alongside many of Palmerston North's best performing arts groups! keep your eyes peeled for photos and videos i will upload in a future post.
so now we have that, often stressful, first week out of the way, we can start to get down to business (in the most enjoyable way possible of course =P)
this Tuesday (8Th of march) is our first official meeting of 2011. If you signed up at clubs day you would have already received an email about the happenings, but in case you missed us on clubs day here's the goss!;
we will be meeting at 7.30pm at the Massey events centre (the big building/courtyard over behind the rec centre on the turitea campus) feel free to just rock on up even if you didn't sign up on Wednesday. Fire is fun, but we aren't going to pressure you into something you aren't comfortable with so don't be afraid! but just in case you feel the calling of the flame (that sounded so much cooler in my head) wear comfortable clothes that you can move in, and you don't mind getting dirty. the perfect outfit is some old jeans and a tshirt. Don't wear tights!!!!! we wont let you spin if you do! also girls it pays to bring a hair tie...i have lost count of the number of times i have caught my hair on fire!!
I think that about covers it! so come along and have an awesome night! i will have my camera out to capture your first night on fire, and the pics might even end up on here!
right so now for your viewing pleasure, heres a couple pics from clubs day 2011:
we have had a blast spinning at the bizarre ball and toga party as part of the Massey university o-week and we felt amazingly privileged to be a part of "arts on edge" on Saturday, performing alongside many of Palmerston North's best performing arts groups! keep your eyes peeled for photos and videos i will upload in a future post.
so now we have that, often stressful, first week out of the way, we can start to get down to business (in the most enjoyable way possible of course =P)
this Tuesday (8Th of march) is our first official meeting of 2011. If you signed up at clubs day you would have already received an email about the happenings, but in case you missed us on clubs day here's the goss!;
we will be meeting at 7.30pm at the Massey events centre (the big building/courtyard over behind the rec centre on the turitea campus) feel free to just rock on up even if you didn't sign up on Wednesday. Fire is fun, but we aren't going to pressure you into something you aren't comfortable with so don't be afraid! but just in case you feel the calling of the flame (that sounded so much cooler in my head) wear comfortable clothes that you can move in, and you don't mind getting dirty. the perfect outfit is some old jeans and a tshirt. Don't wear tights!!!!! we wont let you spin if you do! also girls it pays to bring a hair tie...i have lost count of the number of times i have caught my hair on fire!!
I think that about covers it! so come along and have an awesome night! i will have my camera out to capture your first night on fire, and the pics might even end up on here!
right so now for your viewing pleasure, heres a couple pics from clubs day 2011:
Ty hovering above concourse...
and James hovering over a very wet bouncy castle thing (this was after the rain started so everyone is a bit soggy here!)
So that its for today. I'll try get on here on Wednesday and let you know how tomorrow night goes!!
Happy spinning,
Lynelle
27 February, 2011
long time no see!
Wow! I just realised that we haven't updated this for a LOOOONG time!
Well as for an update I'm not going to spiel about the last couple of years, lets instead look into the future!
This week as many of you know is Massey University O-week and we are a bunch of busy little bees this week with heaps of performances.
We have two of the Massey o-week partys coming up, with some wicked local acts playing (but you're coming for us, not the bands. right?). The toga party is on Tuesday night(march 1st) and the bizarre ball is on Thursday night (march 3rd). Then we have the big event on Saturday (march 5th) a massive free concert in the square. See HERE for more details and ticketing.
Speaking of Saturday, during the day we will be spinning around town as part of the arts on edge event so keep your eyes peeled!
as well as the wicked oweek events we have clubs day on Wednesday (2nd March) which is a day for all of the clubs and societies to strut their stuff and get some new members. We will have a table set up from about 9.30am on concourse so you can come along and sign up! we will have all our gear with us so you can give spinning a go (with some nice safe practise gear =P) and we will have a few fire spins throughout the day so you can see what we get up to!
I think that's about it for this week at least! I will try to remember to keep this blog updated with photos and videos etc but also check out our for more info.
so for now
happy spinning!!!
Well as for an update I'm not going to spiel about the last couple of years, lets instead look into the future!
This week as many of you know is Massey University O-week and we are a bunch of busy little bees this week with heaps of performances.
We have two of the Massey o-week partys coming up, with some wicked local acts playing (but you're coming for us, not the bands. right?). The toga party is on Tuesday night(march 1st) and the bizarre ball is on Thursday night (march 3rd). Then we have the big event on Saturday (march 5th) a massive free concert in the square. See HERE for more details and ticketing.
Speaking of Saturday, during the day we will be spinning around town as part of the arts on edge event so keep your eyes peeled!
as well as the wicked oweek events we have clubs day on Wednesday (2nd March) which is a day for all of the clubs and societies to strut their stuff and get some new members. We will have a table set up from about 9.30am on concourse so you can come along and sign up! we will have all our gear with us so you can give spinning a go (with some nice safe practise gear =P) and we will have a few fire spins throughout the day so you can see what we get up to!
I think that's about it for this week at least! I will try to remember to keep this blog updated with photos and videos etc but also check out our for more info.
so for now
happy spinning!!!
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