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.