The Wellingtonista

February 16, 2005

Somes Island Weeding Mission

The ongo­ing effort by the Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion, the Coun­cil, and ordin­ary people like you and me to regen­er­ate nat­ive flora and fauna around the city con­tin­ues next month with a bit of a weed­ing mis­sion out on Somes Island (aka Matiu). DOC are call­ing for volun­teers for a big weed-bust­ing day on Sat­urday March […]

noizyboy
Environment / Events / Outdoors
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February 15, 2005

Bodega vigil

Those of you who remin­isce about the old, smokey, smelly, loud and gen­er­ally run-down Bar Bodega of yore are encour­aged to head down to the old ven­ue from about 5pm tonight (15th Feb), to par­ti­cip­ate in a even­ing vigil. The bypass bull­dozers have been slowly work­ing their way up from Webb St, along Abel Smith […]

noizyboy
Events
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February 14, 2005

Box @ Fringe Festival

Wel­ling­ton’s Fringe Fest­iv­al is up and run­ning, and the one event we highly recom­mend you get along to see is the extremely com­plic­ated-sound­ing mul­ti­me­dia and per­form­ance extra­vang­za which goes by the very simple name of ‘Box’. Doubt­less there will be many more events of qual­ity and acclaim, but when you put dozens of dan­cers, musi­cians, […]

noizyboy
Events / Festival
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February 11, 2005

Island Bay Festival

If you missed the last ever Whop­per Chop­per down at Island Bay, then be sure to make the most of the incred­ibly warm weath­er with a day by the beach this week­end, when the 21st Annu­al Island Bay Fest­iv­al gets under way. There’s all sorts of good stuff for young and old. The sub­ur­b’s main […]

noizyboy
Events / Festival / Suburbs
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