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[7 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]
Moseley Folk Festival 2011 & Meeting Billy Bragg

After yesterday’s workshop i got the chance to visit Moseley Folk Festival and did some filming for Dramask, saw some great stuff and caught some nice footage which i’ve posted below…

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[10 Aug 2011 | No Comment | ]
Music & Drama Workshop at Kings Heath Playcare Summer Playscheme

Following last years successful playscheme we (Dramask‘s drama workshops & my Reckorder music technology workshops) were asked back to do another one this year, this time focusing not on space but on the seaside.

Similar to last year, Dramask ran the drama and i ran the music side, working alongside the excellent staff at Kings Heath Playcare.

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[20 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
Kings Heath Summer Playscheme : Space Project – Aug 2010

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We recently finished a fantastic week’s residency at the annual summer playscheme at Kings Heath Playcare Network. We being my favourite Drama specialist Pyn Stockman from Dramask hosting her inspiring Drama Workshops and myself under my Reckorder banner hosting music technology workshops.

We collaborated to create and devise a performance and soundtrack …

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[10 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Special Needs Soundtrack / Film making Project : Naseby Centre – 2009 / 2010

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A film made by the inclusion connect special needs group via a series of drama and music workshops run by Pyn Stockman (Dramask) & myself Marc Reck (Reckorder).
The sessions were filmed by Jack Brabant (Llewellyn Bailey) and all content was created by the Naseby lads (Inclusion connect Special Needs group)
The content was put …

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[5 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
A Macbeth Murder Mystery – Rookery Primary School Year 6 Event – July 2010

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Under the direction and creative facilitation of Pyn Stockman (Dramask) – Year 6 pupils and students created an ambitious end of year event that took place around the school building and grounds.
I was asked to collaborate to  create The Witches Room Sound Installation, which was to be a dark room that the audience …

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[3 May 2010 | No Comment | ]
Beatlemania – Parkgate Primary School Coventry– May 2010

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Written and performed by year 6 pupils working with creative director and drama specialist Pyn Stockman. I was brought in to edit the audio recordings created by the cast source, and source samples and music to create short diary sections. The sound track was used in the final performance and acted …

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[5 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
In The Garden – Foundation Children – Little Heath Primary School – Dramatic Storytelling Residency – Warwick Arts Centre – Feb 2010

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Inspired by outdoor creative play and the arrival of a tortoise puppet children took an imaginative journey to the top of a beanstalk and this is what they found … Through the use of the audio recordings each child was able to have a voice in the final sharing and I was bought …

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[10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Inclusion Connect Project – Session #1 – November 2009

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Yesterday was our first day on the film with a great  group on the Inclusion Connect special needs Project in Washwood Heath, and for me it was my first full workshop as a newly self employed workshop faciliator. After a good deal of planning, i’m very pleased to say that it turned out …

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[7 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Dramask & Mr Elephant @ BBC Water Festival

Its was a very wet sunday, but despite the torrential rain, the festival was great to be part of. Dramask had been asked to host a tent at the annual Water for Life Festival run by the environment agency, and i was asked to provide a suitable audio backdrop to the mask making activities (i thought i’d take our mr elephant banner with us what with it being the bbc)…

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[28 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
A review of Mr Elephant’s 2nd Birthday by Dominic Brotherton

Since its inception in 2007, Mr Elephant has been on a steadily increasing diet of eclecticism, celebrating some of the best underground club nights, djs, vjs, live bands, dancers, performers and inhabitants that Birmingham has to offer. Now with 5 residencies all offering different slices of Birmingham’s nightlife, it seems appropriate to celebrate Mr Elephants success by sticking 2 candles in a cake to mark its second birthday, but on the 23rd May there was a whole lot more on the cards than our average birthday party…