Author: Anna

I’d Love To Have A Beer With Duncan

And you should too … pro­ceeds from the show will be donated to the Roy­al NZ Found­a­tion for the Blind Talk­ing Books Pro­ject.

It runs from Tues 9th – 13th Decem­ber and the tick­et includes a beer ($20/13) 

He’ll be spin­ning yarns from his book Two Little Boys, and hav­ing been an audi­ence mem­ber at his shows over the years, I’d highly recom­mend it!!

book@bats.co.nz or phone 04.8024175

And there’s free entry for mem­bers of the Roy­al NZ Found­a­tion for the Blind (these seats are lim­ited so book early to secure them)

$100 paintings!!!

For a lim­ited time Wel­ling­ton Arts Centre-based paint­er Elisa­beth Vullings is hav­ing an online sale of her sweet paint­ings here: www.elisabethvullings.co.nz

Small scale and only $100 each they’re on sale from today and will be updated through­out the month. It’s well worth check­ing out her site for a piece of loc­al art – the per­fect gift and a great way to sup­port our cre­at­ive com­munity. You’d bet­ter be quick! 

Three more sleeps…

Wellington at its most grotty (and breath-taking)

Tonight the Wel­ling­tonista Sea­son of NZ fea­tures at the Film Archive is sadly com­ing to a close. How­ever tonight’s film Carry Me Back is a rol­lick­ing ride from 1982 fea­tur­ing a Ran­furly Shield Match, a boozy ferry cross­ing and a deceased farm­er.

A com­edy about two broth­ers who smuggle their dead fath­er back to his farm in order to receive their inher­it­ance, the film stars Grant Tilley among oth­ers, was dir­ec­ted by John Reid, art dir­ec­ted by Jim Barr, and based on a story by Joy Cow­ley!  

Screen­ing tonight at 7pm, there’s a com­pli­ment­ary glass of wine with each tick­et ($8/$6 con­ces­sion). 

As Jane Clifton writes, “The script is excel­lent, with no short­age of won­der­ful lines – and it’s beau­ti­fully filmed. Carry Me Back rev­els in Wel­ling­ton at its grot­ti­est, and its most breath-tak­ing…”

All stitched up

Rose Mar­ie Sal­mon, who makes these weirdly erot­ic and witty “sew­ing machine draw­ings” using a house­hold sew­ing machine, has a solo show open­ing this Thursday 23 Octo­ber at Daf106 in Aro Val­ley at 6pm. 

A self-taught artist, Rose works as a cos­tume assist­ant on films (most recently Second Hand Wed­ding) but ori­gin­ally stud­ied Organ­ic Hor­ti­cul­ture (?!!). She also has a text mes­sage based series of sew­ing machine draw­ings which are very cool and will be included in the exhib­i­tion. 

Least said, soon­est men­ded

Rose Mar­ie Sal­mon 
Daf 109
109 Aro Val­ley
23 Octo­ber – 16 Novem­ber

Vintage alert!

Now this is the kind of inform­a­tion I’d usu­ally keep close to my chest but it feels too mean to keep secret.

Put these dates in your diary imme­di­ately: 15 and 16 NOVEMBER for the ECLECTIC JUMBLE SALE!!!!

The bril­liant Maria from Eclect­ic in Nel­son (you may remem­ber her from vari­ous Cuba St Car­ni­val stalls, she has excep­tion­ally plaited hair and impec­cable taste) is hav­ing a clear-out.

She has over 3000 items to get rid of:
lin­en, lace, tex­tiles, fab­ric (alert all your crafty friends!!!) shoes, bags, hats, clothes, jew­ellery, scarves and more! And it’s ALL VINTAGE.

Not like a dodgy gar­age sale but a com­plete vin­tage jumble sale!!!! And most things priced between $5-$20! There will also be some fur­niture depend­ing on how much she can load in the truck.

It’s going to be some­where in New­town. Will post the details when I know them (or maybe not so I can guar­an­tee I’m first in line – heh heh).

Wellingtonista Film Season continues

Tonight in the spe­cial Wel­ling­tonista sea­son of NZ fea­ture films, either roughly related to, shot or set in our lovely cap­it­al city (and what a typ­ic­ally bril­liant answer to yes­ter­day’s weath­er bomb than this beau­ti­ful day?) we have the hil­ari­ous fea­ture Mark II, as selec­ted by ourselves.

This film is worth view­ing for the high-waisted jeans alone.…

(click on the image for a lar­ger ver­sion)

And it’s a road movie which fol­lows three unem­ployed Maori teen­agers adven­tur­ing in a two tone Mark II Zephyr!

Tick­ets $8 or $6 con­ces­sion – which includes a com­pli­ment­ary glass of wine (with ID) unless you can tell us which year it was shot and we’ll give you a double pass. Film com­mences 7pm.

More details on The Film Archive’s web­site…

Heads-up Dance Lovers!

Renowned cho­reo­graph­er, dan­cer and teach­er Daniel Belton is bring­ing two pro­grammes of award-win­ning dance films by Good Com­pany screen­ing for over two con­sec­ut­ive week­ends at the Film Archive.

The pro­grammes – Cho­reo­graph­ing the Screen Pro­gramme 1 & 2 begin this Fri­day.

There are double passes up for grabs. www.filmarchive.org.nz

Send an email to information@nzfa.org.nz with the name of the second pro­gramme which screens on Sat­urday 20 & 27 Septem­ber to get your hands on your own double pass.

The Seekers

A wee heads-up about a very inter­est­ing (and FREE) film screen­ing this Sat­urday at 7pm at the Film Archive.

Shot in 1954 by a UK team, The Seekers is a very colo­ni­al take on first con­tact between Maori and Pakeha in a bizarre NZ ‘Wild West’ style fea­ture film.

Both riv­et­ing and shock­ing view­ing (there’s erot­i­cised dan­cing and plas­ti­cine moko for a start) it’s also one of the few films made in NZ the late fifties/early six­ties. A com­bin­a­tion of the intro­duc­tion of tele­vi­sion and a lack of gov­ern­ment sup­port for inde­pend­ent film mak­ing at the time means we have only the occa­sion­al inter­na­tion­al pro­ject like The Seekers to show for nearly 15 years of New Zealand’s fea­ture film his­tory.

Wit­ness people fall­ing live into boil­ing mud, gey­sers explod­ing around sail­ors etc etc – all used for max­im­um impact to rep­res­ent our great ‘Land of Fury.’

And did I men­tion it’s FREE?!

Double pass giveaways

I have two double passes up for grabs for the silent film screen­ing at the Film Archive tomor­row night – the 80th Anniversary of The Bush Cinder­ella – Rud­all Hay­ward’s fourth and final silent fea­ture.

First and second per­son to email me at anna.dean@nzfa.org.nz and tell me the name of Rud­all Hay­ward’s wife, who worked closely along­side him on his film pro­jects, gets tick­ets to tomor­row night’s rare event with live piano accom­pani­ment.