Paul Forrest Exhibition @ The Studio

A new exhib­i­tion by Wel­ling­ton artist Paul For­rest has just got under­way at the Stu­dio (what used to be known as the Space), loc­ated at 146 Rid­di­ford Street in New­town. Paul’s new exhib­i­tion was launched last week, and will be show­ing until the 27th of Feb­ru­ary, dur­ing which time he’ll be hanging about the gal­lery, […]

Island Bay Trolley Races

The Island Bay Fest­iv­al wraps up this week­end with one of the high­lights being the Ribble Street Trol­ley Derby on Sat­urday after­noon. The Trol­ley WOF’s have already been sor­ted, so you’re too late if you want to join in the racing, but there’s plenty of danger and excite­ment to be had even just being a […]

More Fringe Action

Just a quick update on what’s going down in Fringe Fest­iv­al Land over the next couple of days… If theatre’s your thing, try Ori­gin 7 down at Frank Kit­t’s amphi­theatre. “Two people, a man and a woman. Both in pur­suit of child­hood dreams of becom­ing astro­nauts awake to find them­selves stran­ded on an unknown plan­et. […]

Karapoti Classic

Those of you who like to get out in the fresh air on your moun­tain bike should take note that this year’s Kara­poti Clas­sic is on 5th March, and entries are clos­ing soon. There’s two races – the 50km Clas­sic, and the 20km Chal­lenge for those who might not quite feel up to the big […]

Somes Island Weeding Mission

The ongo­ing effort by the Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion, the Coun­cil, and ordin­ary people like you and me to regen­er­ate nat­ive flora and fauna around the city con­tin­ues next month with a bit of a weed­ing mis­sion out on Somes Island (aka Matiu). DOC are call­ing for volun­teers for a big weed-bust­ing day on Sat­urday March […]

Bodega vigil

Those of you who remin­isce about the old, smokey, smelly, loud and gen­er­ally run-down Bar Bodega of yore are encour­aged to head down to the old ven­ue from about 5pm tonight (15th Feb), to par­ti­cip­ate in a even­ing vigil. The bypass bull­dozers have been slowly work­ing their way up from Webb St, along Abel Smith […]

Box @ Fringe Festival

Wel­ling­ton’s Fringe Fest­iv­al is up and run­ning, and the one event we highly recom­mend you get along to see is the extremely com­plic­ated-sound­ing mul­ti­me­dia and per­form­ance extra­vang­za which goes by the very simple name of ‘Box’. Doubt­less there will be many more events of qual­ity and acclaim, but when you put dozens of dan­cers, musi­cians, […]

Island Bay Festival

If you missed the last ever Whop­per Chop­per down at Island Bay, then be sure to make the most of the incred­ibly warm weath­er with a day by the beach this week­end, when the 21st Annu­al Island Bay Fest­iv­al gets under way. There’s all sorts of good stuff for young and old. The sub­ur­b’s main […]