Category: Transport

Reminder: get your suggestions in for 4TAWA

 You have one more week in which to make sug­ges­tions about who should be nom­i­nat­ed in the TAWAs this year, so hop to it!

Announcing 4TAWA and a call for nominations

Go get your­self a big thick per­ma­nent mark­er and put this date in your diary right now: Thurs­day Decem­ber 17 will be the Fourth (The) Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards. Yes, that’s right, it’s TAWA TIME! As is tra­di­tion, the awards will be at the love­ly Mighty Mighty, and there will be all kinds of oth­er good­ness on the night that we have yet to announce. For now though, it is safe to say that we rec­om­mend tak­ing the Fri­day after­wards off.

And what would the awards be with­out nom­i­na­tions? We want you to sug­gest who you would like to be nom­i­nat­ed in each of the cat­e­gories. This is where I break out the bold tags. This is your only chance to say who should be nom­i­nat­ed. By the time we open up vot­ing, it will be too late. Leave us your com­ments and sug­ges­tions now. Sug­ges­tions for nom­i­na­tions will be open until Novem­ber 1, then we will take your ideas under advise­ment, and come out with our final lists. Vot­ing will open in ear­ly Novem­ber.

Cat­e­gories for this year are after the jump.

2008 TAWAs — the winners!

We all had a com­plete­ly bril­liant time on Thurs­day night at the TAWAs!

It was great to see so many of y’all along there, along with the awe­some nom­i­nees and a few celebri­ty guests (not that Welling­ton has any actu­al celebri­ties, but, you know…)

Thanks to our fab­u­lous spon­sors who gave us swag and prizes

And thanks also to Welling­ton Cen­tral MP Grant Robert­son for pre­sent­ing the Welling­ton­ian of the Year award, which went to Cal­lum Brown of Green Cabs.

After the awards, we relaxed to the lazy sounds of The Lone­some Cow­boy, and then danced up a storm to Bun­nies on Ponies, who end­ed their set with a v. swingo­ril­liant cov­er of Dire Straits ‘Sul­tans of Swing’.

It was a super evening, and now that our Fri­day post-TAWAs fug has worn off, we’re look­ing for­ward to the 2009 TAWAs.

All that remains now is to cel­e­brate this year’s win­ners. We encour­age you to sup­port these busi­ness and places (in fact, all the nom­i­nees are awe­some), as they’re all part of why Welling­ton is such an excel­lent town.

WE 3 you

We will be updat­ing with you with the news of the win­ner in each cat­e­go­ry tomor­row but we’d just like to say for now that accord­ing vot­ers Cal­lum Of Green Cabs is your Welling­ton­ista Welling­ton­ian of the year.

Go Cal­lum and Go Green Cabs!

Thank you for being the envi­ro­men­tal­ly friend­ly peo­ple’s trans­port of Welling­ton.

[Update: As Brett help­ful­ly points out in the com­ments, if you can’t wait for the ‘offi­cial’ results to be pub­lished, head over to Twit­ter where the win­ners were broad­cast in real-time].

A word for our sponsors

So tonight we’re going to par­ty like it’s 2008 at The Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards (come along from 6pm, pre­sen­ta­tions kick off around 7.30), but before we have too many of the Welling­ton­ista Cock­tails that Mighty Mighty have designed for us, we want to take a minute or two to give much respect to the delight­ful love­ly peo­ple who’re help­ing us to make such a great event with their dona­tions of swag and spot prizes. In alpha­bet­i­cal order, mad props go out to:

Adi­das New Zealand: You know who else is from Welling­ton? The Hur­ri­canes. And we know that because Adi­das have giv­en us a brand new 2009 Welling­ton Hur­ri­canes Super 14 jer­sey with the new embossed print to give away to one lucky tick­et hold­er.

Aimée McLeod: Aimee is a local pot­ter who has made our fab­u­lous tro­phy tiles that the win­ners will be receiv­ing tonight. Her works are for sale in a whole bunch of places, she’s been exceed­ing gen­er­ous and sup­port­ive with her time and mate­ri­als, and just qui­et­ly, she’s also a pret­ty choice mum too.

The Back Bencher: The Back Bencher Pub is some­what of a famous des­ti­na­tion eatery across the road from the Bee­hive with its polit­i­cal-inspired pup­petry, menu and broad­cast show and the ser­vice isn’t half bad either. We’re hap­py to be giv­ing away three vouch­ers so you too can dine there, but we must warn you — talk to your com­pan­ion qui­et­ly if you’re a pub­lic ser­vant, because the ene­my is sure to be all around you.

Bunnies on Ponies — Raver on Probation

To whet your appetite for tonight’s fes­tiv­i­ties down at Mighty Mighty, here’s some Bun­nies on Ponies for you…

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The TAWAs: For Sponsors

So, as you may be aware, we’re going to have one heck of a big par­ty on Decem­ber 18 when we announce the win­ners of our awards. We’re going to have spot prizes for peo­ple who’ve vot­ed, and we’re also hop­ing to have swag bags. And this is where you come in. We’d like prizes to give away. We’d like stuff to fill the swag bags with. We espe­cial­ly like things if they’re relat­ed to Welling­ton, but if they’re awe­some, it does­n’t real­ly mat­ter where it comes from. 

Want to reach our audi­ence of smart dis­pos­able-income-hav­ing con­sumers? Want to get pro­mot­ed on our site at our most traf­ficky time of year? Want the eter­nal love of the Welling­ton­ista? 

Get in touch with me — johubris@gmail.com.

A reminder: get your nominees in for the Annual Wellingtonista Awards

Soon we’re going to start pub­lish­ing lists of our nom­i­nees for the AWAs (this year, it’s the TAWAs because it’s the Third Annu­al). Always after we do this, we have peo­ple go “oh but you should have nom­i­nat­ed blah blah and this and that”, so let us remind you again: if you want some­thing to be nom­i­nat­ed, you need to tell us. Do it now, or for­ev­er hold your peace or piece — at least until you get to vote, of course.