The Wellingtonista

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October 21, 2007

The Wellingtonista guide to drinking for free

Now, don’t get me wrong: we Wel­ling­tonis­tas are not usu­ally parsi­mo­ni­ous when it comes to pay­ing for drinks. On the oth­er hand, we’re a canny and logic­al bunch, and it only takes about 10 free glasses of house wine to save up enough for a Mega Mai Tai, so in the long run it pays to seek out gratis grog.
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Let’s start with the obvi­ous: gal­lery open­ings and launches. You can get lucky by simply cruis­ing the streets on a mid­week night seek­ing the tell-tale sounds of clink­ing glasses and post­struc­tur­al­ist dis­course, but ded­ic­ated cheapskates know that the best way to guar­an­tee res­ults is to get on the mail­ing lists.

Tom
Events / Food & Drink
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October 19, 2007

Genevieve Packer: Wish You Were Here

Genevieve Pack­er, prob­ably known best for her Hutt Val­ley and State House tee-shirts, has taken over Old Vic­tor­ia Arcade for her Mas­ter of Design exhib­i­tion.


The show is open 12 noon until 6 pm on Thursday – Sunday, from the 18th of Octo­ber to the 4th of Novem­ber. Gen’s site is here.

stephen clover
Art / Events
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October 11, 2007

Exhibition – Deborah Barton

Deborah Barton Deborah Bar­ton is a Wel­ling­ton-based print maker. She has done a num­ber of exhib­i­tions, and is about to open at the Solan­der Gal­lery in Lyall Bay this Sat­urday, 13 Octo­ber.

Deborah’s prints are dark and intriguing, with over­tones of child­hood mys­ter­ies.

And now for the good news. As a young artist Deborah’s work is sur­pris­ingly reas­on­ably priced…

Need I say more.

Che Tibby
Art / Events
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October 10, 2007

Pink Ribbon Day Street Appeal, Friday Oct 12

PinkThe Pink Rib­bon is the inter­na­tion­al sym­bol for Breast Can­cer aware­ness.

This Fri­day is the Pink Rib­bon Day Street appeal.

Col­lect­ors, includ­ing at least three of the Wel­ling­tonista, will be fetch­ingly clad in pink sashes, and will be found lurk­ing on streets & street corners accept­ing your kind dona­tions towards breast can­cer research.

More details, includ­ing how to volun­teer & wear your own pink sash, can be found at the NZ Breast Can­cer web­site
here

llew
Events
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October 4, 2007

Sandra Schmidt: Hinterland II

Hin­ter­land II
Sandra Schmidt

Michael Hirschfeld Gal­lery
(at City Gal­lery)
10 Octo­ber — 18 Novem­ber 2007

The crys­tal­line shapes and icy-col­oured forms of Sandra Schmidt’s Hin­ter­land II make up the sequel exhib­i­tion to her 2006 hot-hued Hin­ter­land which appeared at Mary New­ton Gal­lery, Wel­ling­ton. The earli­er spiky-shaped works in Hin­ter­land expressed ideas of fire, heat, pres­sure and fric­tion. In Hin­ter­land II the focus is on cool col­ours and ref­er­ences to ice and water. Both extremes of tem­per­at­ure rep­res­ent inhos­pit­able areas, the back coun­try or under­developed place, either meta­phor­ic­al or real.

(more after the jump)

stephen clover
Art / Events
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September 28, 2007

Intense, man!

I’ve been blath­er­ing about it all over the place, but the Wel­ling­tonista has thus far remained staunchly unblathered about IntensCITY week, which star­ted yes­ter­day.

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Down­town Wel­ling­ton is full of exhib­i­tions, posters, ship­ping con­tain­ers, lunch­time talks and video install­a­tions, all cel­eb­rat­ing and/or cri­tiquing our urb­an spaces. The offi­cial site is on the WCC web­site, and bro­chures are avail­able in cafes, lib­rar­ies and coun­cil places, or as a big juicy PDF.

Tom
Events / Urban Issues
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September 28, 2007

Craftwerk finishes natiowide tour in Wellington

The ever-edgy Craft­werk is wrap­ping up a tour of our fine coun­try with bands, mix tapes and craft galore at the Wes­ley Meth­od­ist Hall on Tarana­ki Street this Sat­urday 5pm – 9pm. Be there or miss out on cro­cheted vagi­nas, fort build­ing and tonnes of sug­ary good­ness.

Kimberley
Crafts / Events
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September 27, 2007

The Hollow Men at BATS

Hollow Men imageJust a quick note to recom­mend Dean Parker’s the­at­ric­al adapt­a­tion of The Hol­low Men, which is on now at BATS. My pos­i­tion in the theatre industry pre­vents me from doing a prop­er review which means I can­’t tell you how funny and poin­ted it is, nor how expertly dir­ec­ted it is (by Jonath­an Hendry) or how good many of the per­form­ances are (par­tic­u­larly Steph­en Papps as Brash).

Sev­er­al reviews are online at John Smythe’s excel­lent Theatre­view resource so you can get the full down-low from there.

The Hol­low Men plays at BATS until Thursday 11 Octo­ber and then travels to Centre­point in Palmer­ston North for a sea­son.

Dan
Events / Theatre
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September 25, 2007

White Fungus Issue 8 Release Party

Come see the new mag for the first time and enjoy a night of off-beat enter­tain­ment.

(details after the jump)

stephen clover
Art / Events
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September 24, 2007

Time to veg out

Octo­ber 1 is World Veget­ari­an Day, so we’d like you to com­ment and tell us about your favour­ite vege-friendly places to eat in Wel­ling­ton.

We’d also like to encour­age you to check out the Wel­ling­ton Veget­ari­an Food & Life­style Fest­iv­al on Sat­urday Sat­urday Septem­ber 29 at St Johns in the City, Cnr Wil­lis and Dix­on Streets.

Join us to cel­eb­rate World Veget­ari­an Day with an excit­ing range of stalls cov­er­ing everything from veget­ari­an cook­ery demon­stra­tions and tast­ings, life­style products, cruelty-free beauty products, to nutri­tion­al inform­a­tion. View doc­u­ment­ar­ies played on a big screen being run through­out the day, and hear inform­at­ive speak­ers talk about human health, the envir­on­ment­al effects of food pro­duc­tion, new edu­ca­tion ini­ti­at­ives in schools, anim­al health, and anim­al rights.

Or if that all sounds like too much hard work, here’s a really easy recipe for dhal.

Joanna
Events / Food & Drink
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