The Wellingtonista

Category: Events

March 26, 2008

All-star Ukulele Cabaret

Via my won­der­ful my last.fm con­nec­tions (Sue!) this came to my notice:

last.fm: All-star Ukulele Cabaret

Details:

Tick­ets $22.50 plus ser­vice fees, avail­able online from Tick­etek.

Pulling togeth­er some of the cap­it­al city’s favour­ite musi­cians and com­mand­ing the four-string like you’ve nev­er heard it, the Wel­ling­ton Inter­na­tion­al Ukulele Orchestra’s live show fea­tures com­ic banter, sin­galong favour­ites, stun­ning dress sense spark­ling har­mon­ies.

Hav­ing already jammed with the likes of Jordan Luck, Don McGlashan, Annie Crum­mer, Camp Moth­er and Short­land Street’s Dr Potts, you can expect plenty of sur­prise guests from across the pop spec­trum, along with some clas­sic uke gags and legendary licks in this cab­aret spec­tac­u­lar.

Mike Riversdale
Events / Music
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March 20, 2008

Lordy Lordi

Accord­ing to our spies, noises are eman­at­ing from the TSB Arena that indic­ate the pres­ence of met­al at vary­ing degrees of heav­i­ness. The auto­graph-hunters wait­ing out­side con­firm that this might indeed be a warm-up for this week­end’s rock­tast­ic may­hem. Pen­ni­less bogans of Wel­ling­ton! Get your­self to Queens Wharf for a free sampler of Rock2Wgtn and a chance to meet your (wizened) her­oes!

Tom
Events / Music
3 Comments
March 18, 2008

Craft2.0 – this Saturday, 11am-3pm, TheNewDowse

This reg­u­lar craft mar­ket is run by our very own Sue.

It’s a chance to meet up with quite a few of the Wel­ling­tonista staffers who will be on both sides of the stalls (I think).

It’s a per­fect time to treat your­self with some­thing spe­cial and totally you darlink!

Details, details, details:

Want to know who’s got craft stuff for sale, read on …

Mike Riversdale
Crafts / Events / Hutt Valley
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March 18, 2008

Everything AND the Kitchen Sink

Some Wed­nes­day night party good times for you all, in cel­eb­ra­tion of the new-ish Kit­chen Sink event guide site…
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Come early (doors are at 7:30pm) for goody bags and a seat!

mitch
Events / Music
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March 18, 2008

Vigil in Solidarity

There is a Vigil in Solid­ar­ity with the cur­rent situ­ation in Tibet tomor­row (Wed­nes­day 19 March) on the steps of Par­lia­ment at 5:30pm.

Keith Locke is expec­ted to speak while Tibetans in NZ, and all over the world, their friends and fam­ily, Buddhists, sup­port­ers of Tibet, human rights advoc­ates, peace lov­ers, oth­er nation­al gov­ern­ments – includ­ing the US, Canda and Aus­tralia – are call­ing for the Chinese gov­ern­ment to stop the oppres­sion now.

Chinese author­it­ies are crack­ing down heav­ily on protests in Lhasa that began on 10 March. This appears to be the largest upris­ing in Tibet since 1989, and if uncon­firmed reports are true, there may be more Tibetan cas­u­al­ties in the streets of Lhasa than at any time since 1959.

The protest comes at a time of escal­at­ing human rights abuses in Tibet, des­pite Chin­a’s prom­ise of improve­ments in human rights ahead of the Olympics. While polit­ic­al lead­ers in the US, Canada and Aus­tralia are speak­ing out, New Zea­l­and remains silent. What mes­sage does this send to China, the coun­try about to host the Olympic games?

Anna
Events / Politics
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March 12, 2008

50 years of Endeavour

There’s a couple of spe­cial screen­ings com­ing up this week­end to com­mem­or­ate the 50th Anniversary, on 17 March 2008, of the return to New Zea­l­and of HMNZS Endeav­our with the mem­bers of the Com­mon­wealth Trans-Ant­arc­tic Exped­i­tion.

The 1955–58 Com­mon­wealth Trans-Ant­arc­tic Exped­i­tion (CTAE) was Com­mon­wealth-sponsored and suc­cess­fully com­pleted the first over­land cross­ing of Ant­arc­tica, via the South Pole.

Fun­ded by the gov­ern­ments of the UK, New Zea­l­and, Aus­tralia and South Africa, as well as private and cor­por­ate dona­tions under the pat­ron­age of Queen Eliza­beth II, the exped­i­tion was headed by Brit­ish explorer Dr Vivi­an Fuchs, with the late Sir Edmund Hil­lary lead­ing a sup­ply sup­port team.

While Sir Ed’s sup­ply party beat the Eng­lish led group to the South Pole (being only the third group to reach the Pole over­land after Amund­sen in 1911 and Scott in 1912), the exped­i­tion arrived at Scott Base on 2 March, 1958, hav­ing crossed 3,473 km of pre­vi­ously unex­plored snow and ice in 99 days.

The pro­gramme, presen­ted in asso­ci­ation with Ant­arc­tic Research Centre (Vic­tor­ia Uni­ver­sity of Wel­ling­ton), includes foot­age of the depar­ture and return of the CTAE exped­i­tion, stun­ning film from on the ice, as well as clas­sic film seg­ments cel­eb­rat­ing New Zealand’s Ant­arc­tic con­nec­tion over the last 50 years.

Fri­day 14, Sat­urday 15 March at 7pm
Entry by koha
75 mins

Anna
Events / Film
2 Comments
March 7, 2008

Late-night shenanigans are back on the menu!

There was a while in 2005 when you knew that on Fri­day and Sat­urday nights you could go to Indigo, and they’d be open, and there’d be Nixx-Til-Sixx spin­ning everything from Bloc Party to Mot­ley Crue and you could drink until 6am. And then that stopped and it sucked. Fast foward to now though, and in 2008, Indigo is now San Fran­cisco Bath­house, and Nixx-Til-Sixx has been replaced by the fab­ulous DJ Doo­fus, but the same thing is hap­pen­ing.

All night long, baby. Just like Lionel prom­ised. 1 a.m til 6 a.m. All week­end. Every week­end. Cheap bever­ages. Rotat­ing djs. Open when oth­ers bars close. Hos­ted by djdooo­fus and the nice staff at San Fran. It’s a cel­eb­ra­tion, bitches!

Wel­come to your new favour­ite place to go when everything else has already shut. We’ll see you there.

Joanna
Events / Music
3 Comments
February 29, 2008

Four and a half things to do this weekend

1. Right now you should go and buy your tick­et to the Wel­ling­ton Girl Geek din­ner, because accord­ing to their site, there are only three tick­ets left. And you know you want to go, because a) Brenda is awe­some at all things inter­web b) I’m speak­ing and there must be a reas­on why I’m so hub­rist­ic­al and c) we already men­tioned the hope­ful swag.

2. On Sat­urday, you should go to the Gay and Les­bi­an Fair in Civic Square, because, to quote Sue, it’s “fully licensed with rumours of white­bait frit­ters”.

3. As if that was­n’t enough of a fair, on Sunday there’s the New­town Fest­iv­al!

4. Also on Sunday, the Cos­tume Cave is hav­ing a sale of its old cos­tumes, so you should go along and get some new out­fits to spice up your life. As a side note, I was going to do a post at one stage recom­mend­ing that you rent any wigs you may need from the Cos­tume Cave instead of since Cre­at­ive Sho­woff in Thorndon they’re $10 instead of $20, but then I was a month late in return­ing a wig to Cre­at­ive and they did­n’t charge me any­thing, so that’s nice.

And the half point: Since we know there’s plenty of Auck­landers who read this site as well, on Sat­urday at 5pm the Auck­land­ista is hav­ing its first meet-up in an extremely untrendy bar near the Via­duct, and so if you’re inter­ested in con­trib­ut­ing to the site, you should get in con­tact to find out where they’ll be and come along.

Joanna
Events
2 Comments
February 27, 2008

Belonging somewhere

Open­ing tomor­row night at the Film Archive – Wel­ling­ton multi-media artist Sarah Jane Par­ton presents her wacky take on the future…

Well known for her beguil­ing video and install­a­tion work (and love of lycra leo­tards) Par­ton has assembled a cast and crew of Wel­ling­ton’s finest to cre­ate a sci-fi music­al odys­sey star­ring Toi Whakaari gradu­ates Ant­o­nia Bale, Anja Tate-Man­ning (Chap­man-Tripp award win­ner), and Jade Daniels, along­side theatre vet­er­an Rose Beauchamp, dan­cer Sam Lahood and a bevy of young and tal­en­ted chil­dren.

With music per­formed by a live band fea­tur­ing the mem­bers of Cas­sette under the music­al dir­ec­tion of Parton’s part­ner Luke Buda (Phoenix Found­a­tion), fron­ted by the per­petu­ally hil­ari­ous Jo Rander­son, the show con­tains a reas­on­able degree of cyn­icism, off­set by moments of absurdity and humour.

In this cross-genre work, ideo­lo­gic­al melt­down is immin­ent, the revolu­tion is doomed long before it begins and audi­ence mem­bers are advised to bring a blanket.

PERFORMANCE DETAILS
Thursday 28, Fri­day 29 Feb­ru­ary and Sat­urday 1 March at 7pm
at The Film Archive, cnr Tarana­ki and Ghuznee Streets

Tick­ets:
Full Price – $15,
Con­ces­sion – $13,
Fringe Addict – $12

Read Bran­navan Gnan­lingam’s great inter­view about the show
here

Anna
Events / Film
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February 26, 2008

Layering Buddha

Ger­man sound-artist and musi­cian Robert Hen­ke – he also records pretty great min­im­al techno as Mono­lake – is in the midst of a tour of Aus­tralia and New Zea­l­and.

At 9pm on Fri­day night he is doing one of his fam­ous Lay­er­ing Buddha per­form­ances at the Adam Con­cert Room, at VUW. There will also be an address by Hen­ke at 6pm the pre­ced­ing night, at the same ven­ue.

Dur­ing the per­form­ance the audi­ence is placed in between a ring of six speak­ers with the per­former sit­ting in between them in the cen­ter. The lay­ers of sound are dynam­ic­ally dis­trib­uted in space, provid­ing an exper­i­ence of being really placed in between the son­ic cloud where the acous­tic res­ult depends on the pos­i­tion of the listen­er.

More after the break, includ­ing audio! Elec­trons! Down­loads! Joy!

stephen clover
Events / Music
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