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…