Te Rangi Creative Team Building

Te Rangi is small festival held on the property of Mary Kippenberger, Peter Charlton-Jones and their expanding family.

Mary and Peter are full-time creatives making them living from storytelling and music http://www.storylink.co.nz/

At the festival a 'Blind Date' concert takes place. It happens like this. All festival goers are put into groups. Each group has a limited time to choose a song or item, practice it and perform it at a

concert.

Because Mary has a large supply of dress up clothes for her storytelling workshops all participants were encouraged to dress up - with somewhat frightening results!!

I'm sure I could encourage senior managers in the businesses I work in to do this - YEAH RIGHT!

The Te Rangi Diaries - a Big Hit

What is it about people and percussion?

People love hitting things.

Children of all ages had the opportunity to make and play drums at the Te Rangi Festival.

I took a trailer load of materials to the festival and we still ran out.

Its a simple process - cardboard cores from paper rolls, Oxford nylon for the skin, muscles to stretch it, and staples to hold it in place.


Decorate with painted designs.











It's easier when you collaborate.

And there you have a drum.

Instructions to kids: Play it outside your parent's tent early in the morning - then run!!

The Te Rangi Diaries - Hair Raising

Another weekend - another gathering of creative people.

This time on the property of Peter Charlton-Jones and Mary Kippenberger. More about them and their creative escapades here. http://storylink.co.nz

They have small farm in the Hawkes Bay [New Zealand] and open it each year to enable a bunch of creative people to become even more so.

This year it rained and that might explain why people's hair and hairstyles took on a colourful appearance.

See what I mean.

It may have something to do with the fact that Peter and Mary are storytellers and musicians and work a lot with children. Their dress-up boxes are fantastic - for children of all ages.