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.