The Performance Arcade 2015

The Per­form­ance Arcade is one of those delight­ful yearly Wel­ling­ton events that hap­pen come rain or shine, wind or gale. The Arcade’s popped up on the water­front every sum­mer since 2011 and the 2015 series kicks off tonight 18th of Feb­ru­ary at 5pm. It’s run­ning for 13 hours every day – because even artists have […]

World Homeless Day

Today is ‪‎World Home­less Day‬, when we often find ourselves ask­ing, what can I do to help those in my own city who are exper­i­en­cing home­less­ness? One prac­tic­al way you can help is by giv­ing or encour­aging people to give to DCM Wel­ling­ton – Each year DCM works with over 800 people in Wel­ling­ton. – […]

Craft Central Winner

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Kar­en, the win­ner of our Craft Cent­ral com­pet­i­tion! Pick up your prize from the Craft Cent­ral Desk upstairs at the St James Theatre just next to the elev­at­ors. In case you are all won­der­ing what that’s all about: Craft Cent­ral is Wel­ling­ton’s new­est and biggest Craft and Event Fair.  It’s all about 100% […]

World of Wearable Arts Season

I’ve heard the com­plaints; World of Wear­able Arts – WOW is for women of a cer­tain age and is far too expens­ive. I’d not been to the show before so I could­n’t con­firm or deny, but oh wow are those people wrong. To start with WOW to me was two exper­i­ences seam­less mel­ded togeth­er, and also […]

Craft Central, moves into the Centre of Wellington

For over a year Craft Cent­ral’s been a delight­ful little mar­ket held monthly at Miramar School, one of those little secrets only loc­als know about, like Craig the Chem­ist who always has stick­ers on hand to bring a smile to kids’ faces.  But Libby and Kath­er­ine, Craft Cent­ral’s cre­at­ors, had big dreams, to turn their 100% NZ […]

Bring Back Kate – March on Monday

On aver­age the Nation­al Col­lect­ive of Inde­pend­ent Women’s Refuges receive one call for help every nine minutes. From July 2013 to June 2014 the Shakti nation­al crisis line ser­vice exceeded 10,000 calls. Bring Back Kate is Women’s Refuge’s latest call to action on domest­ic viol­ence in New Zea­l­and. In 1893 Kate Shep­herd and a band of […]

Elections 2014: James Shaw for Wellington Central

1. Who are you and what do you want? I’m an Aro Val­ley nat­ive. I want New Zea­l­and to become an eco­nom­ic­ally, socially and eco­lo­gic­ally sus­tain­able role mod­el for the rest of the world to fol­low. 2. What makes you dif­fer­ent? I’ve had an inter­na­tion­al career in sus­tain­able busi­ness and lead­er­ship devel­op­ment. I’ve worked as […]

Wellington candidates – we’ve heard from you

We put togeth­er fif­teen ques­tions we wanted answers for from any­one run­ning for Par­lia­ment in the Wel­ling­ton region. Four can­did­ates got back to us before our dead­line. Here’s what they told us. Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral Paul Foster Bell’s answers James Shaw’s Answers Grant Robertson’s answers Ōhāriu Tane Wood­ley’s answers  

Release the Political Junkies

Depend­ing on your per­spect­ive the Gen­er­al Elec­tion AKA The big day/big letdown/The little same as it ever was is Septem­ber 20th which is less than a month away – How did that turn up so fast? One minute we were eat­ing our way through Wel­ling­ton on plate at a time and now we have to […]

Political Cuts

Every second store I pass seems to be a Pop-Up Shop of one kind or anoth­er, but Polit­ic­al Cuts is some­thing brings a dif­fer­ent spin to the idea. When you pop along to 101 Wake­field Street this week (like a true Pop-Up Polit­ic­al Cuts is only around for a week) you’ll dis­cov­er a salon offer­ing […]