Better Late than Never

Right well, looks like we are just a *bit* overdue for a new post.  I think it is almost guaranteed that if at the beginning of the year you make a promise like "biweekly posts" it will not happen.  But here's hoping that this sets a new trend.

Enough of saying sorry  - lets get to the interesting stuff!

The beginning of the school year gave us lots to do.  As everyone settled into their studious (or not so studious) roles, we had fun on the weekends performing at gigs.  We had the Lantern Festival, Arts on Edge, participated in the Relay for Life with Highly Flammable (a Wellington company which obviously shares our interest in fire), and a few performances for Massey University.  Then came the winter lull.  Luckily club members kept high spirits and we made some of our own fun.  We had a few casual meet ups in the square to do some spinning, even one with the Manawatu drummers!  That was pretty neat, it's always nice to have extra creativity around, especially when that creativity results in music for us.  There was also a trip to the circus - in which we even managed to keep all our members from running off to join them.

Club members have also been branching out on their own time into some more circus arts and such.  We have a few of our members working towards being able to do aerial work (much harder than it looks!).  Some of our crew have become pretty awesome stilters! Creativity is flowing when it comes to making our own toys too, everything from rope darts to glow fans have been cropping up within our crew.  Needless to say we are pretty excited to see where all of this leads to, and it's great to see people taking their learning and gear into their own hands.

On that note, the winter lull is ending and it looks like the next couple of months are going to be pretty busy.  Stay tuned for proper information about the gigs in our future but for now lets just say we have a bit of travelling coming up and possibly even some costumes to make :)

I think that the thing on most of our minds right now is UNDER THE SPINFLUENCE!  About 10 of our members have been able to get tickets to participate in this event.  It's set to happen in only about 2 weeks time and it looks like it is going to be amazing!  The amount of talent that is going to be present at this festival is almost overwhelming, so let's hope we come home with some new tricks and great memories.

I'll leave you now with some photos and videos for your viewing pleasure.  Hope to be a bit more reliable on the updates this semester!  Take care and happy spinning!

Pictures:

 Clubs Day Fun

 Having a ball with photography

 Using creativity to make awesomeness

 Juggling Act

 Just hanging around (and trying to lock up Lynelle)

 Spinning railway style

 The Lantern Festival

 The Lantern Festival 2

 Stilt dancing at the Relay for Life

 Showing off our gear (vote for Nicky! in the HOP competition)

 Lighting up the Relay

Balloons at Carterton!

Videos:
MUFC Compilation Video - thanks Steph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inDqasP2m34&feature=plcp 

Lantern Festival Performance - thanks for filming Ben, and to all performers :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8y2ySBuwVs&feature=plcp  

Unity and Diversity Performance - thanks Nicky, and all those involved!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ_TGFtcpsU&feature=share 

U & D: The making of - thanks Tammy and crew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qCDde_7sdQ&feature=share 

New Year, New Crew, and New Possibilities

Well, as previously stated it appears that a new year is upon us...even if it did seemingly creep up out of no where!  We are excited about 2012 being another year of great experiences for the club.

So first off I think we should introduce some new faces to the club's committee (and some not so new).  Without further ado, we have:

Tyran Mirko returning as club president

Carolyn Edgecumbe emerging as treasurer

Lynelle Munns in our new role of performance coordinator

 Nicky Strang taking care of us as safety officer

Steph Yeung keeping us fired up as fuel coordinator

 Claire Hesling emerging as club secretary

Now that we have introduced you to the new committee we can introduce some new club information...

This year is going to be another exciting year for the club!  We already have a busy fall ahead of us with quite a few performances at Massey, in town (as part of the growing arts community in Palmerston North), and some exciting bigger shows including the Balloon Festival, Lantern Festival, the Retro Square affair, and more.  I will be keeping the blog up to date with new events in the right hand events bar.  In addition to the abundance of performances in our future the club is also branching out into more ways to enhance our member's experience.  This means that as well as providing our staples of fire poi and fire staff we are going to be offering new things this year.  Look our for stilts, fire snakes, fire fans, hula hooping, and more costuming/character work.

Right well, that's it for now and so I will leave you with photos of some of our shenanigans over the summer.  Take care and keep watching this space!

 Fire poi with Ty (thanks to Shane Bayley)

Lynelle's flow levi-stick.  She disappeared! (thanks to Shane Bayley)

Claire's antispin flower (thanks to Shane Bayley)

Kiwiburn 2012 - A lucky few of our members managed to get to Kiwiburn this year.  It was an amazing time full of very welcoming people and lots of fun.  Also a great place to enhance your fire skill set.  Definitely recommended to all firespinners! (Hopefully next year we can get more club members to join in the fun)

 Renee with fire fans

Some fire spinners at KiwiBurn

Carolyn before and after - stilts edition

Back again!

So, apparently it is 2012 and the Club is returning for another fun year!

Once more, we have a lot on with the next coming month. What we're doing, I have to re-check, but we're going to be doing the Massey O-week circuit and possibly be down in Carterton for the hot air balloons!

http://www.nzballoons.co.nz/night-glow

So yeah, we should be keeping the blog up to date with what we've been doing for this year, provided we have the time to do it!