It’s shap­ing up to be an inter­est­ing Welling­ton week­end — sure when is one not, but mine is look­ing a lit­tle like this.

Open­ing Thurs­day and run­ning for about a month is Phan­tom of the Opera. I’m a musi­cal the­atre nerd girl so I’m excit­ed to see how it’s going to be staged as the pro­duc­tion design is mak­ing its inter­na­tion­al debut in Welling­ton. Here’s a bit of a sneak peek into the pro­duc­tion set­up. I’ll let you know how it looked from the seats next week.

Fri­day night you’ll find me at the Knack Evening Mar­ket. Knack has dis­cov­ered a lot of peo­ple like shop­ping child-free so for win­ter they’ve whipped up some mulled wine and a knack-ces­sories mar­ket. If you can’t do Fri­day night knack , there is always Sat­ur­day 15 June, usu­al time 9.30 to 1.30pm. My hot tip — Smash Palace Jew­ellery is hav­ing a BIG Sale, sell­ing last year’s stock at ridicu­lous prices. It all has to go, so come to the Knack Mar­ket at Berham­pore School on Fri­day night and on Sat­ur­day for noth­ing over $10.

knack-cessories

Sat­ur­day is the big new event in town Welling­ton’s first vin­tage expo! Vin­tage-Ora­ma is at Welling­ton High School from 10am-5pm. Entry is $2 but once you get in, oh so many things to enjoy. As well as shop­ping (with vin­tage traders from around the coun­try, includ­ing Welling­ton’s very pop­u­lar Steam­punk princess Things Unseen )there will be first class pho­tog­ra­phers, The Pam­per Par­lour, work­shops and dance class­es along with high tea, refresh­ments and on-stage per­for­mances to keep you enter­tained dur­ing the day. Plus dress to your vin­tage nines and you might score your­self a prize 😀