People say, sometimes with even a hint of concern in their voices, that we at the Wellingtonista are overly concerned with drinking.

And it’s true. We are very concerned. In fact we’re writing now to warn you about an upcoming event that may well involve some drinking. What’s worse, it’s the the sort of thing attended by the Boys Your Mother Warned You About and the Girls Your Father Snuck Looks At When He Thought Your Mother Wouldn’t See.

Not that we want you to wear yourselves out before the T4WAs on Thursday, but we thought it would be only fair to tell you that Enjoy Gallery is having a cut-price art bash in time for Christmas. 

One hundred and twenty five dollars or less for a nice piece of what you fancy at the annual Enjoy gallery art sale, followed by the "unofficial Wellington X-mas ART BASH": X-mas party at Watusi.

What: Enjoy gallery’s annual art sale Buy Enjoy (details of artists on the facebook invite)
When: Tuesday 15 December from 6.00pm
Where:  Enjoy Gallery on Cuba (map) and after party at Watusi (map)

From the numbers of you lot voting for the Montana World of WearableArt awards in the TAWAs, we’re guessing that you’re already pretty familiar with Montana wines. After all, it’s been more than 30 years since Montana’s original 1979 vintage Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc introduced the distinctive flavours that established New Zealand’s reputation on the world wine stage. As part of the commemorative celebrations, Montana took the opportunity to freshen up the look of the brand. Always keen to get our hands on free wine, even if we have to pass it on, we have two triple packs to give away so you can see the new look for yourself.

With the compliments of the lovely people at Montana and us adorable Wellingtonistas, you can enter the draw for a chance to win one of two Montana prize packs valued at $50 each. The prize pack includes three bottles of the new look Montana Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2009

In order to get into the draw, all you gotta do is leave us a comment and tell us where you’re going to drink the wine. Are you going to take them to your favourite Malaysian BYO place, or drink them (carefully!) at the top of the secret tree in the Bot Gardens? Tell us before December 15 (which is also the cut-off date for voting in the Wellingtonista Awards, don’t forget!) and we’ll choose two winners at random. And now for the legal stuff: you need to be over 18 to enter this competition. We will be checking IDs because we definitely learnt our lesson with that one guy we met on Courtenay Place that one time.

Just a quick note about an exhibition tonight (Tuesday December 8th). Colin Kaldenbach – gig poster designer extraordinaire – exhibits the best of his work from 2009 at SFBH, with a live set from Wellington’s Kittentank.

Showcasing posters featuring bands such as Flipper, Sons of Midas, Gaywyre, The Postures, The Verlaines, Kittentank, New Telepathics, Newtown Street Justice and more . Prints, framed work and canvas are available for purchase. It’s free and there will be happy hour pricing all night. It kicks off at 6pm.

So if there’s a gig poster that has taken your fancy this year, you can either pick up a cheap good quality print or go the whole hog and get a framed piece. There is some original one off work for sale as well. The exhibition will run for two days only, so get in there! You can view some of the posters available here

There’s a moment very early on in An Adagio Christmas when the whole theatre gasped in unison, and both our daughters stood up in shock. The moment passed, the shock faded, but they never quite settled back past the edges of their seats. Like the rest of us, from then on they were hooked.

An Adagio Christmas is a retuned-for-Christmas version of the earlier Downstage production of the same name; a series of loosely linked vignettes whose performances encompass various circus skills as well as music, singing, dancing, and comedy.

Tonight from 6.00 until 8.00pm Thistle Hall is holding their annual $100 art sale. 

Support the artists, the venue *and* get something unique for the important people in your life just in time for Christmas.

Check out pictures of some of the pieces for sale here.

You can try and deny it, but the season for shopping is upon us.

If your plan this year is to shop local and/or shop handmade, then tomorrow night is the answer to all your plans.

TheNewDowse pre-Christmas combo has  space rockers Spartacus R and the first-ever Craft 2.0 Twilight Delight.

Music + shopping + art

= a multi-sensory treat to celebrate the festive season

Craft2.0 kicks off at 6pm and runs till 9pm.

All the galleries, bars and cafe are also open till 9pm.