creative alchemy mega party, westbourne studios, weds 14 nov, free!

This is a party for all creative professionals, organised by Claudie Plen.
You can check out the Facebook group here too.


Me and the HungaMunga arts and crafts gang will be doing our thing there, as well as other fun stuff. I have no idea what kind of people will be there, but Westbourne Studios is a nice space, and it's free, so you might as well.

The Creative Industries party of the year, celebrating Enterprise Week 2007.
Creative Alchemy Ltd, London Westside, Paddington Development Trust, Westbourne Studios, and Make Your Mark.

Join us in our giant interactive networking space, Hungamunga playspace, film, art installations from Artspace, Talkaoke mobile chat show, live painting, and dj's and performances all night...there will also be a couple of free drinks for the early birds, courtesy of London Westside and the Paddington Development Trust!

To book you place or download your invite, go here!

recycled art party this Tuesday 17th July

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We're back again at Favela Chic for the Hungamunga recycled art party.

The idea is you bring scraps, cereal boxes, general junk, and we provide paints, glue and material for you to turn it into beautiful art. More details on the club myspace.

Live bands and DJs play too, and at some point, you dance.

Check out pictures from the last one on my flickr here.

make recycled art! club night this thursday 22nd march

info at www.myspace.com/hungamunga

This Thursday 22nd March, at Favela Chic (Great Eastern Street, nearest tube Old St), I’m helping a bit with this recycled art/craft club night. It’s a little bit to raise awareness of recycled environmental stuff, and little bit so that people who aren’t really ‘arty’ (i.e. haven't drawn anything more than a brand diagram for the past 10 years) can come and mess around and have fun. The idea is that:

1. People turn up with bits of rubbish, cans, boxes, wood, etc…

2. We provide glue, paints, staples, scraps, colours pens, general art stuff

3. Everyone sits around listening to music, getting drunk and having a good time making stuff, drawing, painting, whatever. Then we dance badly to the finest DJs.


this is a thing I made from cans, spoons and cartons at a previous event

The whole thing is going to be absolutely dope. Especially as my friend Ben is playing, who rocks. Hope to see you there! Info at www.myspace.com/hungamunga

my birthday party

I did a number of things for my birthday. It was a joint effort with my friends Cookie and Ash.

First up was a spoof protest pub crawl. Within about 10 minutes of meeting at Buckingham Palace we were surrounded by police with sub-machine guns, and in fact we were beisged by automaton-like minions of the system at every major landmark.

We also went to a bar - Shish in Old St - an alright place for meeting a bunch of people, and then to Bugged Out's warehouse party where 2manyDjs played to a crowd who hardly knew where they were. It was all in all a brilliant birthday ranging from good clean fun to absolute filth. Thanks to everyone who came.

Special props:

Simeon for the Energizer Bunny/Rave Monster Award - 3pm the next day finish

Ollie for most humourous slogan - "Say no to death: the biggest killer of all"

The 5 people who between them found all my clothes and bags around shoreditch and managed to get them to me.

Team Malden Arms for the Jim'll Fix It biscuit/medal thing







more pictures on Cookie's flickr site
and on Hal's

think local, act like you're at a festival - house party 2.0

Edit - so, evidently, I'm not able to make this happen. I am totally stoked that it's a good idea, and I'm going to try again next year.

Ok, here's an idea to run by you. It's essentially a festival made up of house parties, lasting for 4 days - Friday through til Monday, with the capacity for about 100-150 people.



Here's how it'll work:

Designate 4-5 mates' houses, all around Victoria Park, about 20-30 minutes walk apart from each other.

Each house is decked out like for a house party, but with an important difference - there is a designated sleeping area (e.g. tents out back or a few airbeds on the top floor, etc) and there is a designated food area (kitchen with some soup and bread).

The festival starts on Friday at noon. Get some clothes, maybe a sleeping bag in a pack, go to the main house, get your wristband. Woohoo! Festival time!

Rule 1: No going home until you leave the festival! Even if you live a couple of tube stops away!

Each of the 4 houses will be manned in some capacity for the whole festival.

Each night one of the houses will have a totally sick party, and one of the houses will have a chilled party e.g. acoustic gig.

If you want neither, you can go to one of the other 2 remaining houses, where people will be monging around in small numbers. You could shower,or perhaps have an early night.

That's it. Consider this the first pass at a manifesto for "urban fest summer 2007", or whatever it's called:

1. Re-imagine your home and local life as places where routine and drudgery aren't compulsary. This is important, because otherwise we start believing that home is boring and we have to spend money in flash clubs or go far away in order to have any real memorable fun.

2. If you think you're in a festival, if you're always within 20 minutes walk across the grass from somewhere with dancing, if you're surrounded by like-minded happy people with nothing to do, and no home for the next 3 days, then you ARE in a festival.

3. You don't have to have a loaded posh cousin with farmland to start your own festival. Yay!

We could theme the festival however we wanted - fancy dress like Bestival, or different themes for different houses - I have some ideas here.

What do you reckon guys? Up for it? I volounteer my house first, and put forward the August Bank Holiday weekend as a tentative date.

fBBf Agency Christmas Party

We had a party in our kitchen where the theme was an 80s ad-agency agency party.

My favourite bit was a red-line-going-upwards-and-to-the-right-profit-graph-on-the-wall, which made me actually believe we had billed 80M in 1988.

more pictures here

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