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 […]