Tonight at the Embassy theatre there will be an visu­al explo­sion of enthu­si­ast­ic ama­teurs, with the annu­al Handle the Jan­dal DIY music video com­pet­i­tion com­ing to the big screen for one night only. 

This Wel­ling­tonista hand delivered one of the entries all the way from that heav­ing met­ro­pol­is Auck­land, so may pos­sibly be a wee bit biased about who she thinks should kick some arse. 

Remem­ber the con­tro­versy over the Hot Grits and the milk swill­ing babies (booze for baby?!?) last year?

Grab your Jaf­fas and head along tonight to cel­eb­rate the skanky and dis­rupt­ive DIY spir­it of our cul­tur­al sec­tor on the big screen.

What: Handle the Jan­dal – DIY music videos

Where: The Embassy Theatre

Cost: $17 pre-sales $22 on the door

Details on the Radio Act­ive web­site here.

I know, I know, super-bad pun but the folks here at Wel­ling­tonista seem to have really really high pun thresholds.…

Any­way, this Sat­urday being part of a long week­end there are a lot of events com­pet­ing for your atten­tion out there in Wel­ling­ton.  We have Craft 2.0 Fair at the Dowse as Sue has already pos­ted, I will be work­ing the kids table and it would def­in­itely be my pick for tomor­row.  How­ever maybe some of you can­’t make it to the Hutt or want a few more options in cent­ral Welly.

A quick remind­er about Beans, appear­ing on Sunday night at SFBH in Cuba St. (pre­vi­ous post here.)  Sup­port is from fmr-Trin­ity Roots-man Riki Gooch’s Eru Danger­spiel out­fit, and DJ Alpha­bet­head!

Tick­ets are $25 and avail­able from Slow Boat Records or Under The Radar… updates and more info from Gales­burg.

Over at Eye of the Fish, Max­imus has a good report of last night’s pub­lic meet­ing about what should be done about the Maranui surf club.

Money quote:

… all 4 scen­ari­os went down like a cup of cold sick in a burnt out shed on a cold wind-swept beach­front. A mem­ber of the crowd put the feel­ing into words and star­ted the ball that we should vote for a Fifth Scen­ario. An imme­di­ate show of hands con­firmed over­whelm­ing sup­port for this pro­pos­al, which was, as anoth­er crowd mem­ber suc­cinctly put it into words: “The 5th Scen­ario is that we just want Maranui rebuilt, so why are we debat­ing all this oth­er shit?”

The whole thing.

Voted by you the pub­lic as win­ner in the Smarten Your Snap­per com­pet­i­tion is Wave by Yana from Chro­ma­to­phobic.

Yana wins a Snap­per loaded with $100 and a free table at Craft2.0 this Sat­urday.

One of the great things about this cov­er is its see-through nature, espe­cially use­ful with both red and green Snap­per cards out in the wild.

Yana designed the cov­er and then using the Laser cut­ter at ponoko she whipped this nifty cov­er up using 0.3mm polypro­pyl­ene – and you thought polypro­pyl­ene was just for warm clothes!

Vot­ing was extremly close so we awar­ded a prize to the run­ner-up Amy from Bad Anim­als and her Pir­ate Patch. Amy will receive a free table at Craft2.0 this sat­urday.

Think shop­ping, hand­made, free treats, free mak­ing and out­door knit­ting, plus cup­cakes and craft – loads and loads and loads of craft – and you have Craft2.0.

It’s being held at the­New­Dowse this Sat­urday Octo­ber 24th from 11am till 3pm.

It costs noth­ing to turn up and if you are one of the first 100 people through the door at 11am  you score a FREE good­ie bag from Craftrun­ner chock full of treats, includ­ing good­ies from felt.co.nz, Cafe Reka, Teza iced tea, Super­very, Emma Makes and more. Plus there is tons of to-die-for swag from the Craft2.0 raffle and so much more. 

Typ­ic­ally over 60 booths are present selling everything from glit­ter­ing uni­corn pins to hand prin­ted t‑shirts. If you are a fan of indie fash­ion, then you’ve found your DIY para­dise. The best part is meet­ing the crafters behind the styles and see­ing how some of their cre­ations came to life.

What kinds of crafts will you find? Well, you won’t find any of that mass pro­duced or impor­ted stuff here, no sir­ee! There’ll be sur­prises galore includ­ing recon­struc­ted cloth­ing, punk rock baby clothes for that little Sid or Nancy, hand­craf­ted jew­ellery, whim­sic­al and demen­ted plush toys, hand-spun yarn, screen-print­ing, avant-garde art and much more.

Best of all, Craft2.0 is more than just shop­ping. Kids of all ages can design and cre­ate their own magic­al masks. Wheth­er you’re a bird lov­er or are just look­ing for some­thing exot­ic, feath­er masks are a great craft pro­ject. These beau­ti­ful cre­ations work well as cos­tume pieces or dec­or­a­tions. and it’s free.