YAY for fabric!

There’s a fab­ric fair/market on tomor­row in Welly called Fab­ric-a-brac – come along to buy or to hock your too-big stash of fab­rics off to someone else.

Or just come for the cof­fee!

Email Josie for info about regis­ter­ing for a stall, or check out the blog.

Hope to see you there, it should be fun! The idea is that people take a table at the event, and sell all that cool vin­tage fab­ric, those but­tons, pat­terns and sew­ing-related items that they are just nev­er going to get around to using.

Some people get some cash, oth­ers get some great fab­ric at bar­gain prices. Hey presto!

12noon – 4pm,  Sat­urday 18 April

Brook­lyn Com­munity Centre, 18 Har­ris­on St, Wel­ling­ton

Create your own Video Game!!!!

Put simply, Wel­ling­ton artist Douglas Bag­nall is an artsy com­puter-nerd geni­us (hope­fully he won’t mind me say­ing so).

Tomor­row eve, Wed­nes­day 15 April at 5:30pm the Film Archive’s mediagal­lery is unveil­ing his inter­act­ive pro­ject:

A MACHINE THAT TRANSFORMS CRAYON PICTURES INTO UNIQUE VIDEO GAMES THAT YOU CAN PLAY! 

I kid you not. Take your kids dur­ing the school hols, take your Nana. The exhib­i­tion is free and runs until May 16. 

Take who­ever, and most import­antly, take yourselves for a drink on Wed­nes­day eve! 

Film Archive, corner of Tarana­ki and Ghuznee Sts

Craft2.0 is all about the Free

We all know Craft2.0 is very much a shop­ping mecca for those who love hand­made.

But Craft2.0 is not just anoth­er craft fair, it’s also an all-day craft­ing party. Thanks to Hutt Val­ley Com­munity Arts you can unleash your inner crafter with an entire ded­ic­ated space set aside for free­style mak­ing. Share your ideas and learn from oth­ers in a laid­back and relaxed envir­on­ment that’s 100% free.

Turn up at 10am and you might be one of the lucky 100 people to win a free Cafe Reka Gift bag. Inside are tasty treats from Cafe Reka and a heaps of crafty and yummy extras.

But don’t worry if you miss out on a gift bag – until 2pm you can enter the prize draw to win loads of beau­ti­ful things from the Craft2.0 Crafters, The­New­Dowse, World Sweet World and Felt. Added up it comes to about $100 worth of crafty good­ies.

There will also be free face paint­ing!

So get your shop­ping shoes ready and come along for a stress-free day of loc­al craft and fun activ­it­ies. All stalls accept cash, or Craft­Cash is avail­able on the day. Remem­ber to check out The­New­Dowse exhib­i­tions while you’re here, and stim­u­late your own cre­at­ive impulses. See www.craft2.org for crafter pro­files and blog updates.

Win a Nokia 5800 worth $899, courtesy of Vodafone!

EDIT: We’ve changed the entry cri­ter­ia to make it easi­er to enter. Details over here.

 

Thanks to our pals at Voda­fone, we at the Wel­ling­tonista are giv­ing you the chance to win a super sweet Nokia 5800 smart phone worth $899.

First, some back­ground:

Voda­fone plans to com­plete its rol­lout of 3G cov­er­age to 97% of the places New Zeal­anders live work and play by 31 May. With 3G cov­er­age it means Voda­fone cus­tom­ers can do heaps more with their mobiles – includ­ing mobile inter­net, video call­ing, music down­loads, mobile broad­band and more.

To get people excited and involved in 3G, Voda­fone has set up a mini site called 3G made easy www.Vodafone.co.nz/easy

Voda­fone has also cre­ated some tutori­als on how to get to know your 3G mobile. But they think that their cus­tom­ers could prob­ably do bet­ter, so for every video that gets pos­ted on the Voda­fone web­site, Voda­fone give that per­son $10 air­time cred­it and the top 5 most viewed videos will also get a Nokia N85 and $500 cred­it. The most viewed tutori­al will also get a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and 1 year free mobile broad­band (1gb/month plan).

So that’s a lot of ace prizes already up for grabs over at www.Vodafone.co.nz/easy, but a Nokia 5800 smart­phone could also be yours if you give it a Wel­ling­tonista twist.

What do you need to do to win? Find out after the jump!

A million(ish) parties in our big city

Green­land­’s hav­ing a party! Pretty Pretty Pretty’s hav­ing a party! Craft2.0 is hav­ing a party! Eat­er­ia De Man­on is hav­ing a party!

Item! Although it’s hard to believe, both because it feels like we’ve been going there forever and because it still seems so shiny and new, our beloved Green­land Cafe is turn­ing 1 next week!

Green Land cafe on Kate Shep­pard Place in Thorndon will cel­eb­rate their first birth­day with some really sen­sa­tion­al giveaways next Thursday, April 16. Why not vis­it for a cof­fee and a piece of their bril­liant and fam­ous ginger crunch (it is crunchy)? You also might actu­ally win some­thing, which would be nice. These super snazzy prizes include:

• Teza iced teas and t‑shirts
• Havana cof­fee
• Trade Aid treats
• Zany Zeus feta
• Pan­doro bread

Paul and Jane really, really appre­ci­ate your cus­tom and wit over these past 12 months. They say: “Thanks ever so much and do come again, and again.”

Item! Wel­ling­tonista-affil­i­ated Pretty Pretty Pretty is also turn­ing 1, and to cel­eb­rate they’re hav­ing a big old girlie party with cloth­ing swaps, makeovers, facials and all kinds of good stuff to give away. You should check it out, if you are pret­tily inclined.

Reggaeton on a boat

Jine­tero MC is a loc­ally based Cuban reg­gaeton artist (yeah, one of those) and part of Olmecha Supreme.

But as a solo artist, he has a new song called “Wel­ling­ton”, his dance­able ode to the city.

Sample lyr­ics:

I say thank you, thank you very much.
 Wel­ling­ton, you have give me lotta lotta luck.

But more import­antly, the video is AWESOME. It man­ages to trans­form this windy city into a sub­trop­ic­al para­dise, includ­ing a sticky car­ni­val parade, hot city streets, and the high­light – Jine­tero dan­cing with booty girls out in the har­bour on a mother­truckin’ boat, y’all.

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