There’s always some­thing going on in Welling­ton, and we try our very best to keep you informed. Being only human, there are plen­ty of things that we miss, but there’s no way in Hell we would have missed any of the things below:
The event that made me get off my arse the most:

Events after the jump…

A. Craft 2.0


It can’t have escaped your notice that craft­ing has under­gone some­what of a renais­sance late­ly. Every­body and their dog is knit­ting, sewing, writ­ing, paint­ing, bak­ing or mak­ing jew­el­ry, and that is a good thing. It’s espe­cial­ly awe­some when all those crafters come togeth­er to sell their wares to each oth­er in the glo­ri­ous mar­ket that is Craft2.0 . There are oth­er craft fairs around, which are also great, but Craft 2.0 takes the cake for its pro­fes­sion­al approach, gor­geous­ly designed posters and the high qual­i­ty of exhibitors.
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WINNER!!!
B. Cuba St Carnival

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How to sum up a week­end where Welling­ton rejoiced in a true car­ni­val atmos­phere, ate, drank, and was mer­ry? Hmm­mm, well how about this pho­to? Before and dur­ing the car­ni­val parade this young lady enter­tained the crowd with her danc­ing and (incred­i­bly skill­ful) striptease (empha­sis on the tease). She even stopped an entire brass band.

Were there com­plaints from any­one? No! Because every­one was hav­ing WAY too much fun, the cops were even ignor­ing those break­ing the liquor ban. And we are not endors­ing alco­hol and pub­lic nudi­ty (for once). The car­ni­val was all about fun and friv­o­li­ty and that’s what we like. We love you Cuba Car­ni­val!

C. Wellingtonista Bowling and Quiz Leagues


The Welling­ton­ista has nev­er made it a secret just how much it would like to be Gawk­er, so when a bowl­ing alley opened up in the mid­dle of town, we knew it would be a good chance to start up a bowl­ing league, just like Gawk­er, mix­ing it up with oth­er web types, just like Gawk­er. Six teams were formed, and over five weeks we duked it out, mak­ing new friends and net­works along the way. Points were award­ed not just for phys­i­cal prowess, but also for stu­pid­i­ty (fastest bowl, any­one?) and drink­ing min­i­mums imposed.

Welling­ton­ista Bowl­ing League cer­tifi­cates are now proud­ly dis­played at agen­cies all over town. The Quiz League a cou­ple of months lat­er start­ed with a bang and end­ed with whim­pers the next morn­ing after the final night at the Occi­den­tal, but along the way more new friends were wel­comed into the fold, and new obses­sions (link to hot hospo) were born. Any activ­i­ty that com­binds drink­ing with get­ting out into Welling­ton and meet­ing like-mind­ed peo­ple has to be worth doing, and the Welling­ton­ista Lawn Bowls League due in Sum­mer ’08 is high­ly antic­i­pat­ed…

D. The Great Blends

When we’re not read­ing our web­site, we’re read­ing Pub­lic Address, so it make sense that their events — the Great Blends would go off. Where else would you have such a diverse group of peo­ple get togeth­er to learn so much and get so damn drunk?

E. Camp ALowHum


Inspired by Wet Hot Amer­i­can Sum­mer, Welly photographer/promotor/man about town Blink decid­ed to bring togeth­er a clas­sic school camp with a selec­tion of the finest indie up&coming bands New Zealand had to offer. Days of may­hem and Pant-free Par­ties fol­lowed.