Fuse Cir­cus have joined The Fringe with The Nav­ig­at­ors, a new out­door show under the sails at Queens Wharf.

If you haven’t seen their pre­vi­ous shows, Heav­enly Bur­lesque or Grav­ity and Oth­er Myths, then get down there right now! If you have, then while a few of the moves may be famil­i­ar, it’s still won­der­ful enter­tain­ment. The “nar­rat­ive” may be little more than an flimsy frame­work from which to sus­pend yet more bio­phys­ic­al impossib­il­it­ies, and there’s a touch of pan­to­mime goofi­ness that detracts slightly from the inher­ent hot­ness, but there will still be plenty to make you gasp, laugh and won­der.

As someone who some­times struggles to stand upright in the morn­ing, let alone bal­ance sev­er­al people on one’s limbs while doing so, these guys will always be a source of amazement. They per­form most even­ings until Sat­urday the 7th of March, so you have no excuse for miss­ing them.

Not par­tic­u­larly Wel­ling­ton-cent­ric, but use­ful non­ethe­less. Appar­ently you can get your­self taken off the dir­ect­ing mar­ket­ing data­base.

• NZ Mar­ket­ing Asso­ci­ation Do not Mail Request
• NZ Mar­ket­ing Asso­ci­ation Do Not Call Request

Be inter­est­ing to know if this works. (Who knows? It may just be an under­han­ded ruse to gath­er even more names, num­bers and addresses!)

From Know­IT, via Miramar Mike.

Late notice, but the weath­er really made it seem unlikely the fair would go ahead, how­ever in true pion­eer­ing fash­ion, Petone Fair is on today come hell or high water (which could well be the case).

For­tu­nately Petone is riddled with great shops and cafes, should shel­ter be required.

We love the Cuba Street Car­ni­val, but their web­site: not so much. The pro­gramme is only avail­able as a Flashy map or as a print­able (but not down­load­able!) full pro­gramme. And with so much stuff to see so many stages at once, it’s hard to com­pare everything and work out what to see when.

So, I typed all the acts into a spread­sheet, and turned it into a simple table with all the acts lined up by time, thus hope­fully mak­ing it easi­er to plan your itin­er­ary. I should find a way to upload it through some googly docs magic, but in the mean­time, here it is in pngy good­ness: click on the small image for the large and legible ver­sion.

Trans­la­tion prob­ably not entirely accur­ate.

[From Spare Room]

On my way home the oth­er night, I happened to walk past a young woman & man sit­ting on a grass verge at the Botan­ic Gar­dens. The woman was, I think, recount­ing a friend’s Valentine’s Day exper­i­ence. Here’s what I made out:

… halfway through din­ner, the guy asks, “What’s your policy on sex on the first date?”

And she says, “Nev­er”.

And so then the guy says, (and she gave a hearty & throaty laugh at this point) “In that case, I refuse to pay for din­ner…”

She was still laugh­ing and grasp­ing for the next words when I passed out of earshot. But I was impressed already, and my interest was piqued – like where were they? Had the guy picked a lovely eat­ing house of a qual­ity he thought guar­an­teed some ener­get­ic post-pran­di­al exer­tion? Or what? And is there a place in town so fant­ast­ic, your date’s knick­ers dis­solve some­where between the entree & dessert? If there is, I would have expec­ted the Masked Bar­fly to have repor­ted back already.

Or should the guy maybe invest his pre­cious funds more prag­mat­ic­ally in future, in someone more likely to deliv­er? Like a hook­er.

So you’re not attend­ing Web­stock or you’re will­ing to skip lunch tomor­row? From the Cre­at­ive Free­dom Found­a­tion:

Pub­lic Demon­stra­tion

In Wel­ling­ton on the steps of Par­lia­ment on Thursday 19th at (edit) 12pm with a peti­tion han­dover at (edit) 12.30pm. This is a post­ive event where we will hand out hun­dreds of CDs and thank the polit­ic­ans that sup­port us – so please keep it friendly and polite. While we appre­ci­ate people arran­ging their own demon­stra­tions it might be best if we don’t dilute our num­bers with mul­tiple events.

We want every­one read­ing this to email every­one they know in Wel­ling­ton about this. We can­’t let this be anoth­er inter­net protest that res­ults in few people turn­ing up. This is import­ant so we need to prove it in num­bers.

NOTE: Please don’t wear all black as that has neg­at­ive asso­ci­ations with oth­er demon­stra­tions but instead come along with bright clothes and BLACK PLACARDS!
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No Guilt apon accus­a­tion!
http://creativefreedom.org.nz

No wear­ing all black? Are they aware that this is Wel­ling­ton?

Down­stage Theatre are offer­ing Wel­ling­tonista read­ers a spe­cial deal for tonight’s per­form­ance of Tur­bine at 7.00pm.

Men­tion the word “Wel­ling­tonista” at the box office or over the phone (04 801 6946) and you’ll get as many tick­ets as you like for only $20 each.