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Come to Coven: Uranus. You bet your ass it’ll be good.

Movies love to show night­clubs as glam­orous places with dance­floors heav­ing with ridicu­lous­ly good-look­ing peo­ple, all wear­ing the most amaz­ing out­fits — but that had nev­er been my expe­ri­ence. Not until I went to Coven: Slum­ber ear­li­er this year, that is.   View this post on Insta­gram   A post shared by Coven Events Welling­ton […]

Review: Hamlet — One Hour. Three Actors. Denmark Will Never Be the Same

As some­one who’s nev­er read or seen a per­for­mance of Ham­let, I might seem like an unlike­ly review­er for TheJoMarsh’s adap­ta­tion at Bats The­atre. How­ev­er, if I, with my inex­pe­ri­ence, can eas­i­ly fol­low and enjoy ‘Ham­let — One Hour. Three Actors. Den­mark Will Nev­er Be the Same,’ then any­one can. In this high-tech, dystopi­an take […]

Review: Lizzie

By Talia Carlisle Have you ever heard some­one scream bloody mur­der? It’s worth cut­ting down the door to watch LIZZIE, the rock­ing hit musi­cal by WITCH Music The­atre, where mur­der sounds hell­ish­ly good…. This punk rock’n’rollercoaster will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to fin­ish. So tight­en your corset and qui­eten […]

Best of the week 15 July — 4 August

Words appar­ent­ly don’t mean any­thing any­more, so here’s our best of the week cov­er­ing… a lit­tle bit more than a week. Because life. So here’s what’s good and Welling­­ton-relat­ed this week! Best adult learn­ing option that you didn’t know about Some peo­ple know Make Room for their won­der­ful chil­dren’s STEM edu­ca­tion class­es, but you may […]

Review: Hine Te Rēhia

It’s a chilly win­ter day in Pōneke, but the joy from the audi­ence sur­round­ing me and my the­a­tre-going com­pan­ion could warm the most cyn­i­cal of souls. We’re here to see Hine Te Rēhia, a gor­geous piece of the­atre by Auck­­­land-based Tutatara Col­lec­tive, and the mood in the room is unbe­liev­ably high. For­give my lack of […]

The Grid — New Digital Art Space

Writ­ten by Nadia Free­man Welling­ton’s newest and poten­tial­ly first dig­i­tal art space opened this month, and I am deeply appre­cia­tive of the entre­pre­neur­ial spir­it of Shan­non Bros­na­han Inglis and Delainy Jamahl. In an era when invest­ment in the arts is dwin­dling, launch­ing a ven­ture of this scale and qual­i­ty is inspir­ing. Ini­tia­tives like this infuse […]

Meet Pepper Racoon — what a ratbag!

1. Hel­lo, who are you and what do you do? I’m Pep­per Rac­coon and I’m an artist and merch design­er inspired by nature, mag­ic, and inter­net cul­ture. I design my own afford­able art prod­ucts, and pro­duce a lot of them in my home stu­dio as well, and have been in busi­ness for 8 years sell­ing […]

Best of the week 7–14 July 2024

Here’s what’s good and Welling­­ton-relat­ed this week! Best book that every Welling­ton­ian should read because I just did and wow Sod­den Down­stream by Bran­na­van Gnanalingam.  This has sat neglect­ed on my book­shelf for far too long after it came out in 2017, but as our pub­lic trans­port gets worse, ter­ri­ble weath­er events get more fre­quent […]

Best of the last little while — June 2024

Hey, guess who’s been too busy with oth­er brain things to update this for a while? That’d be me. But let’s not waste time on it. Here’s the best things for a while.  Best behaved weath­er of the week Nice weath­er on a pub­lic hol­i­day allow­ing us to sit out­side around a fire and set […]

Meet the creatives behind HINE-TE-RĒHIA

Pre­sent­ed by Tuatara Col­lec­tive, HINE-TE-RĒHIA is a mul­ti­lin­gual the­atre expe­ri­ence com­ing to BATS The­atre in July. Devised, cre­at­ed and per­formed by an all-female BIPOC cast, this excit­ing show promis­es to leave you gasp­ing in awe of their tal­ent. I had the chance to inter­view Jason Te Mete (pre­vi­ous deviser/director), Tāw­era Orms­by (co-Kai­whaka­haere of Tuatara Col­lec­tive) […]