Tony from The Lab who hosted vj workshops, vjed all night, and is to be producing Mr Elephant T.v has wrote his review of the Mr Elephant 2nd Birthday…

For anyone who is interested in trying out the free mr elephant workshops on saturday here’s the programme.

All workshops are FREE, and are aim to give you a taster of various creative artforms in a grassroots stylee.

Some are drop in, Some are tasters, and some will enable suitable participants to perform on the night.

If you want to try out any of the workshops, booking will be on a 1st come 1st served basis from 2pm as from the drop in workshops.

After 2 years and 14 events at 6 of our favourite Birmingham venues, the time has come to celebrate Mr Elephant’s 2nd birthday with our biggest festival style celebration to date, featuring lots of interactivity for all ages, the launch of Elephant Workshops in conjunction with Dramask, and the community based Elephant Tv project in partnership with The Lab.

Pyn Stockman is a very talented mask maker, performer, drama practiioner, workshop leader..the list goes on. The mask making though is something that is one of her driving forces, and where a lot of her dreams and ambitions lie. Recently she was asked by Paul Murphy to create a wolf mask for Louis Robinson from The Destroyers for a forthcoming performance at the town hall entitled Sir Rhubarb & The Green Wolf.

One talented green wolf right there..

We’ve just been sent this at Mr Elephant Hq. A proper review by up and coming event journalist Domonic Brotherton and photographs courtesy of the very talented Alina!

It’s all in the Mix

Magnetic, Evolve, Trigger, Breakthru, Osmosis, Drop Beats Not Bombs, Jam Jah, Mr Elephant, House of God, Custom Made, My Bass, Broken Minds, the list goes on…

It reads like an elaborate and complex cocktail of contrasting ingredients that bears the danger of becoming explosive, much like the often schizophrenic face of the Birmingham underground. However, like the coffee of Kahlúa that binds the unexpected combination of vodka and milk in a White Russian, the mash up of genres slipped down wonderfully thanks to the open mindedness of the spectators: the key ingredient so core to the prevalence of the Birmingham underground scene…

So aside from our Project X Presents Event, which is made up of all different types of Birmingham artists (with a few international ones too), i’m also involved with another event in collaboration with Mr Elephant and The Night Times, which is made up of, and aims to make some collective noise about 25 Birmingham underground events and their residents, and celebrate Birmingham’s underground scene with a big warehouse and beach party on Saturday 20th Sep 2008…

Written and performed by Rookery Schools Year 6 Students working with creative director and drama specialist, Pyn Stockman. I was brought in to edit the diary sequences and provide music that created an atmosphere but which the pupils might not previously have heard as they were also involved in creating songs for the performance.
The recording was used to underscore live action and to some degree functioned as a narrator.
All dialogue was written and spoken by year 6 pupils.

Rookery Disco Diary – Soundtrack sections by marcreck
For more information on the final …

Last week was all about promoting and preparing for our Mr Elephant Family Alldayer, and it went really well, securing the best bar take to date for the Prince, and bringing happiness to kids of all ages!

Despite the forecast, the sun, and humans of all ages were out in full effect, which made for a thouroughly lovely afternoon. …

There’s been a lot going on, so i’ll attempt a quick summary, and be on my way!..

Today i got the chance to view the culmination of over 6 months work by Ann Jones (Music/B.A.M) and Pyn Stockman (Dramask/Drama) (with guitar from Daz), directing a performance for Cov Cool kids of over 750 children from 4 schools in coventry @ Warwick Arts Centre….. (and they totally pulled it off!!;)