Jewels of Whitireia

On Thursday night the Annu­al 2010 Whitireia Stu­dent Con­tem­por­ary Jew­ellery Auc­tion will be held at Mighty Mighty with Nation­al Radio presenter Kim Hill con­trolling the ham­mer as auc­tion­eer. Donated con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery is being sent from all over New Zea­l­and for the event includ­ing pieces from con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery prac­ti­tion­ers Peter Deck­ers, Mat­thew McIntyre Wilson and Owen […]

Christmas in Cuba? Something smells fishy

Obvi­ously, the most import­ant cal­en­dar item of the year is com­ing up on Decem­ber 3, when we hold The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards for the fifth year in a row at Mighty Mighty, but we think you might need to warm up for the event. What bet­ter way than to have a drink on Fish­Head? Come […]

Christmas in Cuba? Something smells fishy

Obvi­ously, the most import­ant cal­en­dar item of the year is com­ing up on Decem­ber 3, when we hold The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards for the fifth year in a row at Mighty Mighty, but we think you might need to warm up for the event.

Smell what The Rock is cooking

Gen­er­ally speak­ing, things called The Rock are awe­some.

A source of an open bar

Last week I rep­res­en­ted the Wel­ling­tonista at the New Zea­l­and Open Source Awards. The Masked Bar­fly had been whis­per­ing in my ear stor­ies of organ­isa­tion­al fail­ure in an attempt to make me wor­ried that I would­n’t get any­thing to eat, but apart from a press release announ­cing “Annie McCar­ron” as the win­ner of the People’s […]

Wellington Love Letter

Take a life long prank­ster, mix in some free time, 3 guys who work in film, some mild homo erot­i­cism, and just the right amount of sex­i­ness, and what you get is the Wel­ling­ton Love Let­ter.

Fabric Frenzy sets wild crafters into the wilds of newtown

Fabric Frenzy sets wild crafters into the wilds of newtown

If you are in New­town this week­end watch out for fans of fab­ric and all things hand­made, Novem­ber fab­ric-a-brac is full – and rar­ing to go.

From Paris to Pompeii – again

As part of Mas­sey Uni­versity’s ‘Blow’ Cre­at­ive Arts Fest­iv­al, Leimomi Oakes is once again present­ing a  a free talk and fash­ion show From Pom­peii to Par­is: the Clas­sic­al influ­ence on West­ern fash­ion See his­tory come to life with a talk explor­ing how ancient Greece and Rome have influ­enced fash­ions in the West.  The talk will […]

TAWA5 – a call for your nomination suggestions

Hello, good people of Wel­ling­ton. It is time, once again for The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards! Wahoo! This year we are refer­ring to them as #TAWA5, for all your twit­ter­ing needs. Once again, we would like your sug­ges­tions for what you would like nom­in­ated in the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies, which you will be able to vote for […]

Somewhat mixed up

On Wed­nes­day night, Mix & Mash was launched at the City Gal­lery, ask­ing people to use data to make new things. Of course, our Tom has been doing that for years, but pain­fully by hand, I believe. That should­n’t put you off enter­ing, rather it should inspire you. In fact, you should go read the […]