Did someone say Costume Competition!??

So as most of you all know September marks our 10th birthday!

To celebrate and get the creative juices flowing we held a costume competition on the last Friday of the month.
With six members entering there was a wide range of ideas, colours and textures including feathers and tie die.

Like all semi organised competitions there was judging criteria

• Costume must be appropriate for a range of gigs 
• Is the costume uniqueness 
• Does it have the Pop/wow factor
• How practicality is the costume, and can it be used with a range of toys. 

• Finishing, will it last more then one performance and does it look complete?

 Although it was not required some members also had a background story to their costume.
Check out some of the photos and hopefully we can pull of another competition like this in the future.
Do you have a costume idea?? Give it a go!

Ben with his fantastic stilt pants! Stenciled shirt and finer detail done to the jacket.
A practical costume that can be used for all manner of roaming gigs for almost all crowds.
Plus he can still whip it, whip it real good. 

It started off as an explosion of colour...

 

And resulted in Carolyn's rainbow experience. Works incredibly well with that stunning contact ball
If you look super close check out that colourful mask. 

Both contact juggling and poi friendly! Versatile.... tick!

No matter what angle you look at this, the general agreement is this is a heck of a mess!

But resulted in something like a candy cane.

A multipurpose candy cane at that!
All the feathers and pompoms!

Add his massive fire axe and this guy is
a force to be reckoned with!

Our own Harlequin! Impressive amount of fabric paint used on this one and
our over all winner receiving a Home of Poi Voucher!
Detail right down to the shoes.

Some say crazy cat lady... I say cat enthusiast.
Cleopatra themed, this costume had detail from the necklace to the cat ears!

 

Have you heard the news? CELEBRATE

Each year the Palmerston North holds the Student City Cultural and Arts awards. These awards are presented to students of Palmerston North for the contributions to the community in specific areas of arts and culture.
This year there were eight catagories with seven judges. The Fire Club was nominated for best performing artist, and best cultural contribution.

This year the Student City co-coordinator planned a massive shindig for all people and groups who had been nominated and with delicious nibbles and drinks there was a huge turn out!

Very flash professional evening. The proof is in the
fact they had a printed program!

The host for the evening was Radio Control, breakfast show host Abi. Had everyone splitting their seams making the event entertaining alongside some local performances.

 The Fire Club was awarded with highly commended for our contributions to the culture of Palmerston North and even made it into the local NEWSPAPER. See that slightly crazy looking woman with glasses who looks like she had her hair style designed by wind and rain (the all natural look they call it) well that is one of the committee members that went up to accept the award, and roped our president into saying a speech!

Who has a laminator? I think this is a keeper!

Fantastic evening had all round and a huge congratulations to all of our members! A club is nothing without the members and the energy, skills, enthusiasm and passion you bring to the table.

Bring on some more fun events! Coming up we have the IPC Spring Festival, Wanganui Festival of Cultures, Marton Market day and a small scale Carnival! 

I will also note, we have held our AGM and have an almost brand new committee! So this will be my last post as I hand over the torch to our new Secretary who will take on this role later in the month!


He aha te mea nui o te au? He tangata he tangata he tangata
What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, the people, the people.

Never seen before, behind the scenes footage!

Unity in Diversity 2015!

Last Friday the Club was part of a choreographed stage performance in a real theater with a real audience that people had to pay to see! Things are getting serious up in here.

 We had the fantastic opportunity to perform both LED/Glow toys and debut our aerial skills! I was operating back stage telling people when to change lighting and play music so have got a few quick snaps from behind the scenes.

Trying to eat glow sticks.... Back stage nerves starting to kick in perhaps? 

Quick last minute practice minutes before heading on stage!

Allllllll the glow sticks!

UV lights. Damn look at those socks and tie!
The devil sticks are also pretty cool :p 

Debut lyra performance!
This had better not be a one and only.

Crowd went wild thinking she was going to fall!
That girl has got some skill 

That concludes the exclusive behind the scenes photography but here are some of the more professional photographs done by MUSA photographer Nicholas Kan. Appreciation to you!

Interval entertainment for guests. Posers...

Talk about glamorous shot!

Thanks to Nicholas for the brilliant shot of the cigar box act!
Great colour coordination might I just point out. 

If you didn't get the chance to come along to the act never fear! We will be out and about more as the weather gets drier and warms up. If you around Palmerston North don't be nervous, flick us an email and pop on down to one of our club nights to get a better insight into our crazy antics!

Gotta Crack that Whip!

Semester two has started for those of us in New Zealand studying at University.
It has also meant a chance to invite new members to join our Club and try not to scare them off with our crazy antics.
That being said if you need some motivation to get on top of your study, come on down to Club so we can "crack that whip."
Ben our resident whip cracker, does a cracking good job! As seen on Tuesday night! I took a small video to share with you all! No need for a motivational speech, just take a few seconds to watch the clip......

I have also had some short clips taken of hooping, attempting new moves and just having a generally good jam at Club check it out below! 

I you have any requests for us to video anyone or any toy make a comment and we will try get onto it. 

We have two big events coming up, performing for a Ball/Formal dance as well as an on stage performance Unity in Diversity this month! So watch this space for updates. 

Belly dance anyone?

Saturday night was the 10th Mid Winter Hafla! 

As a Club we were invited to perform for the Mid Winter Hafla outside the theater as the public arrived for the evening event. We had the great pleasure of burning to the Manawataki Drummers and even had a small wooden stage to use.

I must admit to getting out the palm candles and have a shameless dance to the African rhythms.
Following our entrance burn the night went off with a range of stage performances of various belly dancing techniques and skills with fabulous costuming (Lots of sparkle) and music.
So as I was the one taking the bad quality photos you miss out on my face (Yay you all say) but here are a few of those photos to peer at. Enjoy!

Rope Dart anyone?

Manawataki Drummers creating some beats for us and the public to jam to.

Burn baby Burn! All the fire and skill.

And of course you cannot get through a good evening of burning without some soot!

Treat time!

EXAMS are OVER!! 

As a Club a lot of our members are University students last week it was time to celebrate the ending of exams. What better way to do that then go out for desert and socialise, get noses out of books and have a laugh!

Jealous much?? 

Im not so sure about this.....

Coffee coffee coffee. 

Enlightenment and Home improvements?

Hi guys! Long time no post.
Last month we had a show at the Enlighten Ball in Palmerston North! We are still waiting on nice quality photographs but for now you can see the not so great photographs from my not so great phone. If you squint a little and tilt your head it may improve the photo slightly....

Masquerade Ball so of course, there must be a Phantom!

Fire Fans for the win.

A little bit of every thing

And in case that was not enough to entertain you here is an image of our members jamming to Mambo number five ;)

We are also wanting to improve our club so if you are a current member of past member we want your feedback. It only takes a few moments to fill this out :)
It won't take long and it means we can organise things to meet your needs/demands. Also it is anonymous but still please take it semi seriously and please no phonie responses.
Follow this awesome link   survey survey survey
Enjoy!