Author: Joanna

Miss Fag Hag 2010 – Club Ivy – Saturday 9 October

The search for a gay man’s best friend in Welling­ton is on again with Aaron and Andy’s fourth annu­al Miss Fag Hag tak­ing place at Club Ivy, 13 Dixon Street, this Sat­ur­day, 9 Octo­ber.

The “pageant” isn’t too seri­ous, and cel­e­brates one of the most impor­tant rela­tion­ships a gay man will ever have, with prizes from Salute Hair & Day Spa, The Gua­va Tree, Club Ivy, and Kylie Minogue’s new album Aphrodite up for grabs, it promis­es a fun-filled night!

Host­ed by the noto­ri­ous Shaaron and Shandy, entry is free, and reg­is­tra­tions open from 11pm, with the com­pe­ti­tion start­ing at 1am.

Getting blind-eaten

The very choice Mattgeeknz has writ­ten a guest review for us, because we knew we’d be unable to write a review about being blind­fold­ed and stick­ing every­thing put in front of us in our mouths with­out being smut­ty about it. 

Capi­tol and CBM have teamed up to host three blind-din­ing evenings in Welling­ton. The first was on Mon­day, and there are two more sit­tings on Mon­day and Tues­day next week. It’s a fun twist on the din­ing expe­ri­ence: you’re blind­fold­ed for the entire­ty of your meal, and at the end of each course you’re told what you’ve just eat­en. 

Oi, have you voted yet?

 Y’know, it’s not often that I’d ever con­sid­er run­ning a Welling­ton City Coun­cil press release in full, but I’m going to do it right now, cos BLOODY HELL, Welling­ton, get your act togeth­er! PS: this is how to work your STV vote, explained quite sim­ply. Now hop to it. 

MONSTERS! Eeek!

We don’t want to alarm you, but there are crea­tures liv­ing under your bed! You can see them lurk­ing around in dark cor­ners every­where. They live in mutat­ed cup­boards and ancient sto­ries. Don’t take a breath. They are here to stay…

From the artists that brought you ROBOTS in 2009, Run Amuck Col­lec­tive is proud to present MONSTERS! For 3 weeks only, Welling­ton will have the unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore the won­der­ful world of mon­sters as nev­er seen before. Artists from all over New Zealand will be trans­form­ing the base­ment rooms of Mygalaxi Gallery on Dixon St into an explo­sion of deli­cious beast­ies: from sculpt­ed fan­tasies to scrap met­al crea­tures Instal­la­tions, paint­ings and sculp­tures will line the walls as each artist express­es their own cre­ative vision. Rang­ing from the com­i­cal to the fright­en­ing, each fan­ta­sy is inspired by the artist’s own love affairs and fas­ci­na­tions with mon­sters, result­ing in an eclec­tic mix­ture of mad­ness. Hand hold­ing may be required.

Run Amuck Col­lec­tive is a group of New Zealand based artists that have come togeth­er for the love of art, the­atrics and cheeky pop cul­ture. Rough­ly 20 artists strong and grow­ing, each comes to the col­lec­tive with a unique back­ground and eclec­tic style.