Creative Dynamo Network ‘ecotainment’

Posted on 29 July , 2010 by joimson

I have just returned from Respect Fest a free one-day family event in Poole. I was booked by Poole Housing Partnership to provide recycling and renewable energy themed activities or ‘ecotainment’. This included Tip of the Pops the only solar powered wheelbarrow disco made from waste in the world ever! PLUS a recycled solar oven [...]

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Keep it wheel… 09.06

Posted on 15 June , 2009 by joimson

The Tip of the Pops June 2009 update… The GIGS TOLPUDDLE Martyrs FREE family festival 18 & 19th July BIG CHILL festival 7th – 9th August BOSCOMBE Community Fair 11-13th September The SCENE I attended two one-day seminars Dance and Health by Activate Performing Arts Intergenerational arts by NAPA and Magic Me Dirty Ali and [...]

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Keep it wheel… 09.04

Posted on 31 March , 2009 by joimson

‘When you’re young, you dance to tell your parents ‘I’m a free man! I’ve got my sexuality, my desires and they aren’t yours!’ You dance to express your freedom!’ Vincent Cespedes The SCENE For me, this is the main reason I am trying to reduce my impact on the environment and promote recycling. Whatever action [...]

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Eco disco: reduce, reuse, recycle, boogie

Posted on 31 May , 2008 by joimson

Tip of the Pops is a solar powered wheelbarrow disco, all of the equipment and music is reclaimed from Household Recycling Centres. But this experimental discotheque is as far from rubbish as MC Hammer is to the Beatles. Hosted by dumpmeister DJ Dynamo spinning classic 7” vinyl and six decades of dance. Tip of the [...]

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Boscombe Community Fayre Greenfield proposal

Posted on 26 March , 2008 by joimson

Over the years Boscombe Community fair has become more and more music orientated and now it’s time for a change. During this time we have seen the IFSOM arts tent develop into an alternative venue to rival anything the music scene has to offer. BUT with two music stages and 45 PLUS bands the festival [...]

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