Hey, it’s time for anoth­er Pecha Kucha evening! Pecha Kucha works like this: 14 speak­ers involved in a cre­ative indus­try each get to present a slideshow of 20 images, for 20 sec­onds per image. No two speak­ers are the same, and every PK evening is infor­ma­tive, fun, stim­u­lat­ing, thought-pro­vok­ing and inspir­ing.

The pre­vi­ous two I’ve been to were both sold out, so get there ear­ly to ensure you get a tick­et.

Pecha Kucha Welling­ton #4

Tues­day 25 Novem­ber
Para­mount Cin­e­ma
Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8.20pm
$9 cash only

After the jump, the fab­u­lous line-up of speak­ers includ­ing Roger Walk­er’s Irrev­er­ent Inser­tions. 

After every elec­tion there are geo­graph­i­cal analy­ses of vot­ing pat­terns, inevitably fol­lowed by sug­ges­tions that cer­tain regions should secede and form their own coun­try. Such analy­ses are often at elec­torate lev­el, but there’s a lot of fine detail below that, and a cell of social­ist insur­gents might live just around the cor­ner from an enclave of con­ser­v­a­tive cur­mud­geons. So I made the fol­low­ing map of Welling­ton vot­ing ten­den­cies at a booth-by-booth lev­el.

For analy­sis, expla­na­tions, notes on method­ol­o­gy and a whizzy inter­ac­tive Google Maps mashup of the whole region, read the full sto­ry.

Just a cou­ple of last minute reminders.

First, some­where in town there’s rumoured to be a bunch of boobs on bikes head­ing toward Par­lia­ment. Expect gra­tu­itous nudi­ty, ogling & who knows what once they get to the Bee­hive.

Sec­ond­ly, please do remem­ber to haul your­self out of the house tomor­row & vote. It’s your civic duty. And I want some seri­ous enter­tain­ment to watch tomor­row night.

Also, if any­one’s still sit­ting on a nucu­lar strike for one par­ty, can­di­date or anoth­er, now is the time to reveal it with a flour­ish & an evil “Moua­ha­ha!”

Right now there’s a group of expat Amer­i­cans drink­ing ner­vous­ly in JJ Mur­phy’s, and we’re join­ing them in hop­ing that there will be more of a par­ty in Chica­go than Ari­zona tonight.

Knock on wood — North­ern Rata wood at that!

Tonight the Welling­ton­ista Sea­son of NZ fea­tures at the Film Archive is sad­ly com­ing to a close. How­ev­er tonight’s film Car­ry Me Back is a rol­lick­ing ride from 1982 fea­tur­ing a Ran­furly Shield Match, a boozy fer­ry cross­ing and a deceased farmer.

A com­e­dy about two broth­ers who smug­gle their dead father back to his farm in order to receive their inher­i­tance, the film stars Grant Tilley among oth­ers, was direct­ed by John Reid, art direct­ed by Jim Barr, and based on a sto­ry by Joy Cow­ley!  

Screen­ing tonight at 7pm, there’s a com­pli­men­ta­ry glass of wine with each tick­et ($8/$6 con­ces­sion). 

As Jane Clifton writes, “The script is excel­lent, with no short­age of won­der­ful lines — and it’s beau­ti­ful­ly filmed. Car­ry Me Back rev­els in Welling­ton at its grot­ti­est, and its most breath-tak­ing…”

Clam, crab, cock­le, cowrie.…

The folks from Inter­sect have cre­at­ed a snap­py lit­tle poster for their upcom­ing event at the The South­ern Cross tomor­row night.  While I am not sure that even Joan­na New­som and her harp could weave whim­sy with CO2 themed allit­er­a­tion, I am pret­ty sure that Joni Mitchell has worked a few of these into a song  at some point.

What do cars, cows, cement and conifers have in com­mon?

Why, emis­sions trad­ing of course.

If you want some edu­cat­ing on the ins and outs of car­bon trad­ing, Leah Mur­phy (from the Min­istry of Trans­port) and Amy Kearse (from the Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment) will be talk­ing us through the eco­nom­ics and the oppor­tu­ni­ties.

Where: The Artist’s Room, South­ern Cross on Able Smith Street

When: Tues­day 4 Novem­ber, 6:00pm start

This event fin­ish­es before quiz at 8:00pm and the Welling­ton­ista are back on top again at quiz, so come on down and try to knock us off our perch.

I dare ya.