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.