Our “cov­er­age” of events here at Welling­ton­ista can be a bit scat­ter­gun at times. Like the tagline says, “ran­dom stuff about New Zealand’s cap­i­tal city since 2005”.

The gen­er­al premise is that we write about stuff we like, from what­ev­er angle we like.  How­ev­er if it isn’t fea­tured, it don’t mean we don’t rate it, just means that we have been busy or some such.

Any-the-ho, last week­end was the Maori Art Mar­ket at Te Rau­para­ha Are­na and Pata­ka Gallery in Porirua.  It would have been great to see ta moko artist Mark Kop­ua at work but you snooze, you lose in this town. 

Last Wednes­day also would have been a great chance to attend a talk on Mana When­ua Maori His­to­ry in Welling­ton, giv­en by Mor­rie Love in the reopened City Gallery Welling­ton.  It was free, damnit! 

Nev­er mind. It is good that Welling­ton offers so much to the curi­ous and the brave; those who want to actu­al­ly par­tic­i­pate in the cul­tur­al life of this city.  We will con­tin­ue to fos­sick for cul­tur­al gems in the twit­ter­stream and oth­er places to alert you to what is going on out there but please for­give us if we miss some of the good stuff.

After the jump some stuff you should­n’t miss this week (includ­ing tonight!):

  • Tonight at 6.00pm at This­tle Hall on Cuba Street Tame Iti will be speak­ing at an exhi­bi­tion focused on the events of 15 Octo­ber 2007 when the first series of police actions under the 2002 Ter­ror­ism Sup­pres­sion Act began, cul­mi­nat­ing in the raids on Rua­to­ki and the arrest of 16 peo­ple.  (Details on Expo­sive Expres­sion here).
  • Thurs­day night at 7.00pm the Film Archive is show­ing “Tuhoe, A His­to­ry of Resis­tance” a 2005 doc­u­men­tary by Robert Pouwhare (Details at the Film Archive site here).
  • Thurs­day night at 6.00pm City Gallery Welling­ton has an inter­na­tion­al speak­ers lec­ture from Gary Hick­ey, “Dash­ing into the future”: The Japan­ese influ­ences on the art of Yay­oi Kusama. (Details at the City Gallery Welling­ton site here).