The PIYN project involves aspiring artists and performers from Auckland's diverse communities, working with the best of contemporary UK talent, to collaborate, create and celebrate. The programme involves capacity building workshops, online and face to face collaborations and master-classes in creativity.
Our UK guests are arriving on the weekend, and so next week the PIYN two week series of shows and workshops begins in New Zealand for 2010. Tickets are here , & the full programme is here. Come along and help celebrate urban diversity in music! Auckland May 8th, Taupo May 13th & Wellington May 15th.
Email studio@mohawkmedia.co.nz to register a FREE place on the Creative’s Online Toolkit workshops running in May as part of People in Your Neighbourhood 2010.
This two-hour workshop provides the ultimate creative toolkit for artists looking to publish, distribute, promote and sell their work independently. With Helen Baxter from Mohawk Media, author of the MsBehaviour Files at the Big Idea and producer of the g33k show.
Covering using independent digital music distribution, publishing /print on demand systems, Creative Commons licensing for remixing, paypal payments and donation systems, project & event management tools, online & mobile streaming for gigs, plus merchandise and social media marketing.
Workshop dates:
1 – 3 pm, May 14th at the Quality Hotel, Cuba Street, Wellington
1 – 3 pm, May 7th at the Co-Lab, AUT, Auckland
Email studio@mohawkmedia.co.nz to reserve a space. Limited places available!
Download the PIYN 2010 workshop & performance programme.
Writer, producer, DJ and poet Charlie Dark is set to be the focus of Manukau’s attention when he brings his unique outlook and performance style to the Otara Town Centre stage.
Check here for more details.
Early Bird tickets are now available for all three NZ PIYN shows – Auckland May 8th, Taupo May 13th, and Wellington May 15th.
New Zealand’s most innovative music collaboration, People in Your Neighbourhood (PIYN), is back for 2010. This year’s project features an exciting new cast of Kiwi producers, artists and performers who are co-writing and performing the PIYN show with the help of UK’s acclaimed string section Urban Soul Orchestra (USO), and London street poet and DJ Charlie Dark.
People in Your Neighbourhood, a British Council New Zealand initiative, encourages ethnically diverse communities to be part of a cross platform arts project engaging with some of the UK’s finest modern composers and musicians to create a live show.
The shows take place in Auckland on Saturday 8 May, at the Erupt Lake Taupo Festival on Thursday 13 May and in Wellington on Saturday 15 May.
Planning is underway for PIYN gigs and workshops in Auckland & Wellington, involving participatory media and online skills development for young aspiring creative entrepreneurs in May 2010. Charlie Dark will also be holding workshops as part of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival 2010.