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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]