by Lisa Devaney | 4 Aug, 2008 | News
Hai Media Group’s debut of an all-female revue of The Wind in the Willows was met with smiles, laughs and applause at The Secret Garden Party festival of art and music.
Our cast included a line-up of talented women who entertained the festival attendants as Toad (Lisa Devaney), Lead Weasel (Ali Rawlings), Badger (Mary Epworth), Ratty (Lucy Lowe) and Mole (Cheyne Pride). We also had supporting weasels and rabbits thanks to Andy and Sadie Spector, Emma Simpkins, and Will Twynham.
For a full-write up about the show, please visit these blog posts:
http://community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/quickpeeks/archive/2008/07/30/a-festival-without-brands-the-secret-garden-party.aspx
http://lisadevaney.vox.com/library/post/the-wind-in-the-willows-all-female-revue.html
http://lisadevaney.vox.com/library/post/the-secret-garden-party-where-the-wild-art-things-are.html
View more photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haimediagroup/sets/72157606424671509/
…and here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisadevaney/sets/72157606425290395/
by Lisa Devaney | 21 Jul, 2008 | News
Hai Media Group will present an all-female revue of Kenneth Grahame’s classic childhood tale The Wind in the Willows at The Secret Garden Party, an arts and music festival being held this week.
Who’s who in the cast?
-Toad will be played by Lisa Devaney, Director of Hai Media Group
-Badger will be played by Mary Epworth, lead singer with her Jubliee Band
– Mole will be played by Cheyne Pride, a country rock singer
– Weasel, will be played by Ali Rawlings, aka Punk Rock Dolly
Many thanks to Kate Risker, aka the fabulous Miss Risk, who invited Hai Media Group to produce and perform this new twist of the old tale of The Wind in the Willows.
For more information about this production of The Wind in the Willows please visit this blog post.
by Lisa Devaney | 29 Jun, 2008 | News
Hai Media Group’s House of Hee Haw! hillbilly cabaret comedy will feature at Little Bit Country, Little Bit Rock n Roll for the new country rock club night’s In Co-Dependence Day party celebrating America’s Fourth of July Independence Day holiday.
“Get used to it! You’re stuck with us!” said Chyene Pride, who is the fun-loving founder of London’s live music and entertainment club night Little Bit Country Little Bit Rock n Roll.
Chyene Pride is a talented country rock musician who has pooled entertainment talent from across London for this annual American holiday celebration. She’s also the lead Cheerleader in her dance troupe’s Cheer-A-Go-Go, and the lead singer in her band The Wildcat Tamers.
To find out more information, please download this flyer: co-dependence-day-party
***EVENT BONUS OFFER: Guests to Co-Dependence Day also get a FREE hot dog, and a cowboy hat to wear for the night. Print out the eFlyer and bring it along to get entry, and your free hat and hot dog. £5 entry fee.
JOIN THE MYSPACE GROUP AT WWW.MYSPACE.COM/LITTLEBITCOUNTRYUK
Cheyne Pride has a long history in music and entertainment, including having a chart topping pop song in the 80s “Call Me Mr. Telephone”. Watch the music video here:
Cheyne Pride Sings Call Me Mr. Telephone (1985)
by Lisa Devaney | 10 Jun, 2008 | News
This summer brings the debut of 2gether08, a new festival for London sponsored by Channel 4 and hosted by PolicyUnplugged from 2-3 July 2008. On the agenda is a vision of applying innovative digital technologies (internet, mobile, games, and more) and imagination to promote:
- social progress,
- enhance the quality of public life and our collective well-being, and
- to tackle the problems facing the world at the outset of the 21st century.
The first 2gether Festival will gather 300 innovators from a wide range of fields to focus on how using digital technologies we can generate real social benefits. At its heart is a DIY spirit where workshops and panel discussions will be shaped by participants, and action items for change will be determined throughout the gathering as discussions emerge.
2gether 2008
2 – 3 July 2008
Rochelle School
Shoreditch
London E2 7ES
Register for tickets here: http://www.2gether08.eventbrite.com/
*Early Bird Discount until Monday, 16th July 2008
Who’s going?
An eclectic mix of technologists, policy makers, campaigners, TV producers, software and games developers, designers, politicians, digital innovators, writers, bloggers, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, leaders from charities, NGOs and leading players in the marketing, PR, cultural and creative fields as well as anyone else who believes that creative use of emerging digital technologies can generate solutions to society’s most pressing problems.
2gether08 is a Hai Media Group supported event.
For full details, please download this event alert:
by Lisa Devaney | 9 Jun, 2008 | News
This month Hai Media Group (HMG) heads to Manchester, along with other digital media creative entrepreneurs from throughout the UK, for the conference bTWEEN08, where our agency is a finalist in the Branding Talent competition.
VOTE! For Us!
Check out our Rare Fruits entry here:
http://www.just-b.com/btween/branding-tallent/rare-fruits
How do you vote? Please sign up to the bTWEEN08 online community, a helpful resource for digital entrepreneurs, and clicking AWESOME for our entry!
HMG has teamed up with media partner Isabella Hu, of Ecolocate, a design consultancy, to develop the seed idea for an integrated promotional campaign to support Littlewoods, a popular online shopping site for fashion and housewares. We’ve presented the judges with our Rare Fruits concept, that invites customers to pick rare fashion fruits of popular brands from the branches of trees growing on islands. The virtual world concept wraps around what we’ve already been told about Littlewoods new branding initiatives to build excitement with a television commercial involving a desert island, scheduled to be aired in the 2008 holiday season.
Among our mentors for this experience will be 4talent (an innovation arm of the broadcaster Channel 4), Aegis Media, Just-b (the hosts of bTWEEN08) and Littlewoods.
We join other finalists to develop our seed ideas into a full proposal for the client, during a conference workshop, and find out Friday, 20th June 2008, if our Rare Fruits campaign is a winner. We are thrilled to be joining our digital creative peers for bTWEEN08, and hope we have a good chance at winning the cash prize of £5K.
Find out more about our thinking behind Rare Fruits over at Hai Media Group Director Lisa Devaney’s blog.
