It’s time for anoth­er Pecha Kucha even­ing.

For the unini­ti­ated, a Pecha Kucha even­ing con­sists of a num­ber of speak­ers who present 20 slides, talk­ing about each slide for 20 seconds each.

The details:
Monday, 19 April 2010
Down­stage Theatre, Cam­bridge Ter­race
Doors open: 6.30pm, start: 7.30pm
$9 cash door­sales only

This one is going to be awe­some for two reas­ons:

1. It will incor­por­ate the set for Down­stage’s cur­rent pro­duc­tion, “Bio­graphy of my Skin”, which fea­tures a giant video screen – per­fect for PK present­a­tions.

2. The Wel­ling­tonista’s own Tom will be one of the speak­ers! Yes, our Tom will be giv­ing a talk “about a sen­tence by Baudelaire”. What is that sen­tence? Well, you’ll have to come along to find out, etc.

After the jump, the full line-up.

Some link lov­ing for you to start your week right.

• There’s a new hair salon on Cuba Street called Wildilocks. The pretty girls like it. 
• Met­link Wel­ling­ton have star­ted a twit­ter account to keep bus riders informed of delays. They could prob­ably use some feed­back about it. 
• The Auck­land­ista point out that Wel­ling­ton’s social page pic­tures in the Sunday Star Times are of Ladies’ Night at the Estab­lish­ment. How embar­rass­ment. 
• You like food reviews? Here’s one of the Cel­lar-Vate din­ner for Coney Wines. 
• Richter City Roller Derby is throw­ing a Quiz Night Fun­draiser on April 28 at the Watusi. You should go along, but be warned – the Wel­ling­tonista team will prob­ably beat you.

What else should we know about? 

Shin­obi Sushi Lounge is hav­ing two spe­cial kais­eki nights Monday and Tues­day this week.  Tues­day is fully booked and Monday has less than ten places left so if a bloody amaz­ing 3 course feast fea­tur­ing 18 dishes using only fresh loc­al ingredi­ents appeals BOOK NOW.

We sampled a few of the bluff oysters that will be on the menu and saw the mas­ter hand­mak­ing ramen for the occas­sion.  It is going to be an event in my mouth I am sure of it.

Oishii so desu.

What: Kais­eki (multi-course din­ner)

Where: Shin­obi Sushi Lounge

When: Monday 12 April (tomor­row)

Cost: $80

For more pic­tures from last year’s kais­eki head over to James Ogle Pho­to­graphy.

We’re not sure if sci­ence is the new rock ’n’ roll, but art and sci­ence are com­ing togeth­er in Dia­logues with Tomor­row, a series of col­lab­or­at­ive talks over the next couple of months:

DIALOGUES WITH TOMORROW places artists in con­ver­sa­tion with sci­ent­ists, busi­ness people and thinkers on themes relat­ing to cli­mate change. In each ses­sion, an artist or cul­tur­al com­ment­at­or presents ideas and work inspired by envir­on­ment­al issues. A response is provided by an expert in the field, fol­lowed by a dis­cus­sion that brings togeth­er the know­ledge, ideas and reac­tions of the speak­ers.

The first talk is next Thursday, April 15, 5.45pm at Down­stage Theatre. Called Ant­arc­tica Terra Nul­li­us?, it looks at art’s role in giv­ing us a new under­stand­ing of Ant­arc­tica. Tick­ets are $15 and can be booked at Down­stage.

Check out the full pro­gramme here – there’s a fine selec­tion of speak­ers and top­ics.

Toby Mor­ris is pretty fam­ous in Wel­ling­ton for his awe­some gig posters, and for his time in Bat­rider. 

Now he’s star­ted a new pro­ject, called 200 People I Used To Know

This blog is my memor­ies of 200 dif­fer­ent char­ac­ters I’ve known over the years, drawn and writ­ten about as I remem­ber them. So I hope I remem­ber right.

Because this is Wel­ling­ton, we bet you will know at least half of the people too (Hi Jimmy!), so you should check it out, and thank The Morgue for giv­ing us the hot tip. 

Do you have plans for East­er Week­end the week­end after East­er? Well scrap them because some­thing and someone rather amaz­ing is com­ing to town. It’s not Santa or the East­er bunny, but even bet­ter – it’s Maria, of Eclect­ic fame in Nel­son.

She’s arriv­ing with the biggest haul of vin­tage and retro treas­ure like last year. But she’s also bring­ing FURNITURE!
TEXTILES, FABRIC, LACES, LINENS AND BRICBRAC. Plus hats, sunglasses, scarves, jack­ets, dresses, shoes and all man­ner of cloth­ing! And there’ll be some guys’ stuff too.

It’s the kind of thing we nev­er get to see in Wel­ling­ton on jumble sale scale and price! $5-$20 with a few spe­cial items.

There is heaps of fab­ric and lots of jew­ellery and but­tons etc for remak­ing. 10,000 items!!!!!

You will kick your­self if you can­’t make it and there will be some­thing for every­one, plus stuff is put out over the whole week­end so if you can­’t make first thing Sat­urday morn­ing, don’t be put off.

Come any­time over the week­end, go twice even and be amazed!

It will be the place to be. So if you are sad Craft2.0 isn’t on this week­end, well here’s one great place to be spend­ing your money.

 If you want to do any­thing about the pro­pos­al to extend the liquor ban to cov­er the whole city 24/7, get your sub­mis­sion in now.

To recap: the pro­pos­al is to ban car­ry­ing or drink­ing alco­hol in any pub­lic place in the city. This is meant to deal with the prob­lem of anti­so­cial drink­ers in places like the middle of New­town, but it’s a very broad dra­coni­an meas­ure. Advoc­ates say not to worry, because you can trust the police to use their dis­cre­tion wisely. Some of us think that the right approach would be a bit more nuanced and involve actu­ally enga­ging dir­ectly with the prob­lem of street alco­hol­ics rather than mak­ing all cit­izens who want a beer on the beach or a glass of wine at a pic­nic poten­tial crim­in­als.

Away you go!

Pre­vi­ously on the Wel­ling­tonista.