Stop taking selfies and enter this photography competition instead

Carter Obser­va­to­ry, that big old bub­ble up on the hill, is run­ning a pho­tog­ra­phy con­test with a but­t­load of prizes, and you should enter it. The title is “Light & Dark” and any­thing under that goes.  Judges include Mark Gee, who you may remem­ber from such moon pho­tos as this. There’s a kids’ cat­e­go­ry too, […]

Help Ivy save the dinosaurs!

It’s school hol­i­days again, and if you’re in charge of young peo­ple, chances are you’ve already heard that “I’m boooooooooooooooooooooooored”. We’d like to help you out with that (not just because it’s also in the best inter­ests of the non-child-havers to keep kids occu­pied, hon­est)! So, we’re giv­ing away a fam­i­ly pass (four peo­ple) to […]

Sky Dancer in the Capital E National Arts Festival

We’re grownups at the Welling­ton­ista, well, unless there’s a fart joke to be made, so when there’s a Nation­al Arts Fes­ti­val for Chil­dren, we thought it would be good to get some chil­dren involved, so here are three reviews of Sky Dancer. Hen­ry, age 11:  “Sky Dancer was not like any­thing I have seen before. […]

Children on the waterfront — what to do on Anniversary Weekend

Hey, it’s Welling­ton Anniver­sary Week­end this com­ing week­end! That’s pret­ty excit­ing. There’s a great sto­ry in the newest issue of Fish­head all about the games and races they used to have in old­en times to cel­e­brate, but in cur­rent times, we have The Great Scav­enger Hunt. Cap­i­tal E (still very much alive even though they […]