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).