Book in for DCM Bookfair this Saturday

Head to Shed 6, this Sat­ur­day 4 August, 8am-6pm,  for the DCM Book­fair  (the largest of its kind in Welling­ton) sup­port­ing an amaz­ing cause — end­ing home­less­ness. Yes, go shop­ping for books and every cent you spend helps most mar­gin­alised peo­ple in our city. Book­fair is full of solu­tions to bore­dom at spec­tac­u­lar prices. Yes there […]

Toi Art at Te Papa — a first floor glimpse

When you’re step­ping into Te Papa’s new gallery space Toi Art, be pre­pared for some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from your stan­dard gallery expe­ri­ence. Toi Art is a gallery space 20 years in the mak­ing, it takes over two floors of Te Papa and the new entrance gallery is larg­er than any space at Te Papa. I […]

DCM Bookfair dates & donations

The day of  the 2017 DCM Book­fair is Set. Set aside time for book for­ag­ing on Sat­ur­day August 5th from 8am till 8pm, at Shed 6 in Queens Wharf. Want to donate books to DCM’s Book­fair on 5 August? This week, is your last chance to donate books because there is a strong like­li­hood DCM may have […]

Books, Books & more Books

It’s only 3 days till DCM’s very delight­ful & very Large annu­al book­fair. Over 75,000 have been sort­ed and packed ready for sale start­ing 8am this Sat­ur­day at Shed 6, Queen’s Wharf. This year it’s a one day event run­ning for 12 hours from 8am till 8pm. At the book­fair you’ll find clas­sics, cook books, […]

A journey around the Billiards Room (and tables)

Last week, Welling­ton­ista’s ace lit­er­ary team was lucky enough to get invit­ed along to the pre-launch Writ­ers’ Week Wel­come, held with­in the Muse­um Art Hotel’s very swanky Bil­liards Room. Fol­low­ing on from last year’s sale of the Courte­­nay-dis­­trict land­mark (let’s not go bust­ing out the dread­ed “icon­ic” just yet) to Syd­ney-based EVT (Event, Hos­pi­tal­i­ty and […]

Semi-Permanent 2015

Semi-Per­­ma­­nent, the exclu­sive inclu­sive dig­i­tal sym­po­sium returns to Welling­ton on Novem­ber 17th.  The Embassy The­atre plays host to speak­ers from around the globe shar­ing their per­son­al expe­ri­ences, insights and exper­tise in the design, ani­ma­tion, adver­tis­ing, graph­ic and illus­tra­tion worlds. It’s great for stu­dents of design, fans of design and peo­ple who just want to expand […]

WOW in Wellington for 2015

There is some­thing quite spe­cial when The World of Wear­able Arts sea­son lands in Welling­ton. Shop win­dows trans­form and restau­rants do delight­ful meal & cock­tail spe­cials and the City Coun­cil puts on free events around town. Then for almost 3 hours every night those of us lucky enough to see the show are whisked away into […]

Read Books, Save Lives — The Annual DCM Bookfair

Instead kick­ing off on all the amaz­ing books you’ll find at Book­fair this week­end. I thought you might like to know how cold it’s been in Welling­ton, last night it was 2.7°C in Kel­burn overnight, with a light dust­ing of snow.  Snow is fun except when you don’t have a place to call home, to store your belong­ings, […]

God Save the Makers

It’s Queens birth­day most of us have the fol­low­ing pri­or­i­ties 1. sleep­ing in 2. won­der­ing who isn’t doing a pub­lic hol­i­day sur­charge on Mon­day   some of us have anoth­er over­rid­ing annu­al pri­or­i­ty How much mak­ing can one per­son do in a sin­gle week­end at Hand­made. Welling­ton annu­al Fes­ti­val cel­e­brat­ing those who make, the bak­ers, […]

Are you Super? Will you Submit

The local gov­ern­ment com­mis­sion has pro­posed a reor­gan­i­sa­tion of the Welling­ton region, which you can read more about over on the local gov­ern­ment com­mis­sion site. The region­al coun­cil is split over the pro­pos­al. Per­haps more impor­tant­ly, accord­ing to Stuff, only 26% of Welling­to­ni­ans are in favour of the pro­pos­al. We’re not tak­ing a side here […]