The White Elephant Trust

Cyphers Lounge Hip Hop Blog

Cyphers Lounge is now up and running at W.E. hq every Tuesday from 4pm through to 7pm, (that’s level 1 of number 1 Bedford Row for those of you that don’t already know). Our aim is to promote and develop young up and coming local artists. Cyphers Lounge is run by Head Case Records artists including Orakle, Seka, Hashm’jiza and DJ Juddabarz. There’s mic’s and turntables hooked up to the main speakers, so if you’re interested in showing off some verses or developing yourself for live performance come down and get on the mic.

To keep everyone updated with what’s going we’ve set up a blog on the WE website. We’ll be talking about what we’re doing currently and have reviews of local artists as well as international artists latest albums and mixtape’s. We’re going to throw in some exclusive interviews with hip hop artists from around New Zealand and keep you updated with what’s happening in the scene. If you’re a hip hop head, an MC or just have some thoughts you want to share on current music we want to hear from you.

The blog will be updated twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so make sure you watch this space… Chur!

Upcoming Event
WHIC & WHITE ELEPHANT TRUST CREATIVE YOUTH ARTS PROJECT

Calling all young people! Would you like to get involved in a creative arts project being held at the White Elephant headquarters after school? Times, dates and contact information below.

Tuesday 4 May
Tuesday 11 May
Tuesday 18 May
Tuesday 25 May

4.30 pm – 6.00 pm

@ The White Elephant, Level 1, Bedford Row, Christchurch

Places are limited so call to book!
Gillian 942 8430
Nathan 374 9285 (www.we.org.nz)

Come and have some artistic fun!

Hi all, The White Elephant Trust celebrated its 5th birthday this week. That’s five years for making positive change for the youth of our city, awesome. Big ups to all who have been involved from the start and all those who currently make the Elephant plod.

Where will W.E be in 5 years from now?  National W.E??, Global W.E??, Universal W.E(maybe in 500 years).

Delicious Music and Tron Audio Presents The Electronic Music Production Series
Hosted at Tandem Studios, Delicious Music and Tron Audio are proud to present ten weeks of electronic music production workshops. Starting from the basics, each workshop follows on from the previous, creating a progressive foundation of knowledge, skills and understanding, needed to produce top quality electronic music for New Zealand.
The topics covered will be Basic Sound Theory and Synthesis101, Bass Synthesis, Creating and using Percussion, Chord Instruments, Lead Instruments, Effects Basics, Effects Advanced, and a three part series in Track Construction. Workshops are taught on Ableton Live, although the knowledge taught is designed to be general and applicable to all applications. Students will also receive Live Packs of the topics covered, which they can take home and use.
The Workshops will run from 6:00 till 8:00 every Tuesday evening, starting from April the 13th. At 6:00 the workshop class will begin, and will run for an hour. From 7:00 till 8:00 will be open work time, where students can ask questions, work on topics covered and receive extra tuition.
Workshops are $5 per person, per class, and places are limited. Tandem Studios is located at 78 Oxford Tce, Chch. Classes will also be streamed online. See www.tronaudio.com for details and updates, or contact andrew@tronaudio.com Bookings and individual tuition available.

Hi Everybody,

The School holidays are upon us and W.E HQ is going to be open weekdays all the way through. If you havn’t been up to our HQ before, it is a inner city space where youth can come to relax, meet, plan events, play spacies, dance, DJ, create and much more. Come and check us out we are located at Lv1, 1 Bedford Row in Central Christchurch. Open Weekdays 10:30am – 6:00pm

Have a great break and stay safe.

W.E

After hearing W.E HQ houses one of CHCH’s best up and coming Dub/Reggae/Soul acts, Christchurch City Mayor, Bob Parker had to come and check it out. Tonight Bob and his wife are coming to W.E HQ to check out The Mad Faces in one of theirpractice sessions. Holla at me if you want to ask him something??????

Yo yo,

Thanks to the crew at the CYWC (Canterbury Youth Workers Collective) W.E now have another 2 members who have gone through the Code of Ethics training. The course is 1 day, and lots of fun. Become a volunteer at the Elephant and W.E will put you through the next training round for FREE.

D.O

Hey Everybody,

Nate here, just doing my first W.E Post. I’m gonna try keep you all updated on the Elephant’s comings and Goings.

Today’s highlights were visiting Youthline and 40+ to discuss a bit of collab. Right now Common Ground are ripping up their practice getting ready for the BC1 Qualifier in Auckland on April 10th. Catch you tomorrow. Holla

The nice man who makes our super cool White Elephant hoodies is throwing his album release party.

Amazing line up:

AUGMENTED DUALITY
OKUKU VALLEY, NORTH LOBURN, CANTERBURY
20th FEB 2010

SPOONHEAD (live) estuary records (ALBUM RELEASE)

GROUCH (live) zenon/a list/estuary records

FLAXNATION (live) estuary records

Mr SQUATCH(live) delicious music/estuary records

SCALES (progressive psytrance)
TONIC (dnb)
LUCID (glitch hop/jungle)
TRON (trance)
TwEQ (full on psytrance) delicious music
PSYMON BARNET (psytrance) delicious music
DANIMAL (electro)
MATCH(trance) rougue
PERCS (techno) kill club

!!!!!!!!!!!HIGHLY FLAMMABLE!!!!!!!! (fire performers Dunedin)

2nd ZONE provided by RINSED

SiliconCore
Flek C
Circus
Capt Morgan (glitch core)
Snuggels the Yeti
Firefly
Discowhore

****AUGMENTED DUALITY LIMITED CDS ON SALE AT THE GATE or DOWNLOAD ONLINE at estuaryrecords.com ****

TICKETS
$20+bf pre sales cosmic corner
($30 gate sales or $20 for non canterbury residents with proof)

Directions – Take the main road north out of Rangiora, passing over the Ashley River. Stay on that road (Whiterock Road) heading through Loburn and North Loburn for around 15km. Turn left at “spoon head” sign into Taafees Glen Road which is gravel. Signposted from there.

ALL AGES, NO DOGS, NO ALCOHOL, NO GLASS, NO RUBBISH TAKE OUT WHAT YOU BRING IN.

BRING WARM CLOTHES AND SUNBLOCK THE WEATHER IS CHANGEABLE.

DubFX and Flower Fairy at World Buskers Festival 2010

So, Antz and I were in town yesterday checking out some more of the World Buskers Festival… absolutely stoked to see an event of this type happening in Christchurch… a huge THANK YOU to the events team at the CCC! An event of this size is no easy undertaking! Keep up the good work! I was especially happy to see DubFX who I’ve been waiting to see for ages… I wasn’t disappointed!