Author: kowhai

Credit where credit is due

Clam, crab, cockle, cowrie.…

The folks from Inter­sect have cre­ated a snappy little poster for their upcom­ing event at the The South­ern Cross tomor­row night.  While I am not sure that even Joanna New­s­om and her harp could weave whimsy with CO2 themed allit­er­a­tion, I am pretty sure that Joni Mitchell has worked a few of these into a song  at some point.

What do cars, cows, cement and con­ifers have in com­mon?

Why, emis­sions trad­ing of course.

If you want some edu­cat­ing on the ins and outs of car­bon trad­ing, Leah Murphy (from the Min­istry of Trans­port) and Amy Kearse (from the Min­istry for the Envir­on­ment) will be talk­ing us through the eco­nom­ics and the oppor­tun­it­ies.

Where: The Artist’s Room, South­ern Cross on Able Smith Street

When: Tues­day 4 Novem­ber, 6:00pm start

This event fin­ishes before quiz at 8:00pm and the Wel­ling­tonista are back on top again at quiz, so come on down and try to knock us off our perch.

I dare ya.

WOW – Fab or Fug?

WOW sea­son is over for anoth­er year (for the 20th year in fact) with the last sold-out show last night. So now it comes time, dear read­ers, for the cold hard assess­ment. Our streets have been fes­tooned with ban­ners, the spon­sors have been fling­ing free bubbles about eager for a photo op, mer­chand­ise has mush­roomed and vari­ous shop fronts have been requisi­tioned for the cause.

So whadda ya think? “World-class”? Fab? Fug? Meh? Find out after the break.

Montana World of Wearable Art: Get your barbed-wire frock on!

This week should see an influx of vis­it­ors in town to WOW and be WOWed at the Montana Wear­able Arts Awards being held at TSB Arena from the 22nd of Septem­ber until the 5th of Octo­ber.

The show was Nel­son’s baby for 16 years but shif­ted to Wel­ling­ton in 2005 because, accord­ing to WOW founder Suzie Mon­crieff, “We knew we needed to be in a city with more pro­duc­tion oppor­tun­it­ies, audi­ences, cor­por­ate part­ners and an inter­na­tion­al air­port.”

Spring Cleaning

What:Enviro­tain­ment

Where:Ori­ent­al Parade (Frey­berg Pool/Mural end)

When: 2.30 till 4.00pm Face­book event page

Spring has well and truly sprung but the uni­verse is send­ing mixed mes­sages as usu­al. Lamb­ton Quay is dec­or­ated with slightly over-ripe kow­hai trees in full bloom; the petals trampled into the street by the suits, and what’s left on the trees disheveled by the spring rains. Con­fu­sion reigns, walk­ing down the street one day sans woolly hat, think­ing to one­self, “there is noth­ing like Wel­ling­ton on a good day” while look­ing up at the unim­peded blue sky. The next day remem­ber­ing you still haven’t kicked that damn cold, the elec­tion date means tis the sea­son for polit­ic­al hoard­ings to be lit­ter­ing the streets has begun and you really should­n’t be wear­ing open toed shoes yet because it is rain­ing again. Sigh.

Electro Oh How We Love You

Some of us have missed out on Peaches tick­ets AND found ourselves too skint for Bill Bailey at the St James tonight.

Le Sigh.

Le Big Sigh.

For­tu­nately solace can be found at Mighty Mighty tonight in the arms of some sweet, sweet elec­tro. NZ based pro­du­cers, DJs and live per­form­ance will be on hand to pound away that pain. The main act is billed as Cure­Motel but in this girl’s com­pletely biased opin­ion Stress Cadet alone will be worth the five bucks on the door. Hav­ing seen their work as part of Auck­land based bands Soft Shoe and the legendary Meat­bix (tak­ing a break, maybe they are all shagged out?), Josh Lynne and Dami­an Golfino­poulos are sure gonna bring the punt­ast­ic with plenty of visu­al and aur­al frights and delights.

Short Cir­cuit: Cure­Motel and Stress Cadet
Ven­ue: Mighty Mighty
Doors open: 9:30pm
Cost: $5

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Another tasty tit bit

Enjoy Gal­lery is host­ing the pen­ul­tim­ate event in their per­form­ance work­shop­ping series tonight. Of course, dear read­er, it would be out­rageous to sug­gest that you have no oth­er social engage­ments lined up for the Sat­urday of a long week­end, but if you can for­give me once again for the short notice, may I sug­gest that you nip up to the Enjoy gal­lery on Cuba St (upstairs near Scopa). Come along in the spir­it of being a par­ti­cip­at­or not an observ­er and I guar­an­tee you will not be sorry.

The action will kick off at 6.00pm and buck­ing the estab­lished gal­lery tra­di­tion this event will be BYO.

Chris Brady will be attempt­ing to bring his “Rôti Sans Pareil – Roast without Equal” pro­ject to a deli­cious con­clu­sion. I hear rumors that up to eight birds, lay­er upon lay­er, will be involved. The sur­prise twist being that the eat­able end res­ult of all this per­form­ance art will be up for grabs tomor­row at an as yet undis­closed loc­a­tion. So you gotta show the com­mit­ment by turn­ing up tonight if you want to get your­self a tasty tit bit tomor­row.

Enjoy yourself while you’re still in the pink

Well, I know that in the “The Rules” it is com­manded that you should nev­er accept a Sat­urday date after Wed­nes­day, but if you find your­self at an early Sat­urday even­ing loose end and you are near the Cuba quarter, may I sug­gest head­ing up to Enjoy gal­lery from 6:00pm onwards. Enjoy is cur­rently hold­ing a work­shop­ping per­form­ance series and a little bird told me that there will be deli­cious tit bits for those will­ing to par­ti­cip­ate in some per­form­ance art.

The face­book event descrip­tion sets the scene thusly:

“Any­one who has ever exper­i­enced a live piece of per­form­ance art is likely to have exper­i­enced con­fused expect­a­tions, a sense of embar­rass­ment for the artist and or a desire for some­thing suc­cess­ful to hap­pen. Enjoy’s 2008 per­form­ance series addresses these issues for both audi­ence and artist.”

More after the jump…