Tag: city and sea

Eclectic Electric

Here are a few things to keep your mind off the weath­er this week­end.

The World Press Photo ’06 exhib­i­tion kicks off at Shed 11 today. It’s been inter­est­ing to see that the pub­li­city around town has taken a very polit­ic­al angle this year.

Just along the water­front at the Museum of Wel­ling­ton City and Sea (I wish they’d find a short­er name!), they’re already two weeks into the month-long Wel­ling­to­nia LIVE event. The word “eclect­ic” does­n’t even begin to describe the range of things going on there: there’s a per­form­ances from the Tinakori Hand­bell Asso­ci­ation, a Matariki cel­eb­ra­tion with Toni Huata, hurdy-gur­dies, shanty sing­ers, ghost tours, kete weav­ing and a debate on the con­tro­ver­sial Mar­ine Edu­ca­tion Centre. My main interest will be in the series of talks organ­ised by the Archi­tec­tur­al Centre entitled “Why I do archi­tec­ture”. These kick off at 1pm tomor­row with Anna Kemble-Walsh and Mar­tin Han­ley of Red Design and John Mills of John Mills Archi­tects.

From eclect­ic to elec­tric: new synth-pop band The Blush Response have their debut gig at Sand­wiches tomor­row night. The band may be new, but the musi­cians will be very famil­i­ar to Wel­ling­to­ni­ans: Jerami­ah Ross (aka Mod­ule), Rhi­an Shee­han, Raashi Malik (of Rhom­bus, among oth­ers) and Paul McLaney of Gram­sci.

Finally, you could always try to fig­ure out the loc­a­tion of the cur­rent Mys­tery Bar. If you do, you’d bet­ter get look­ing tonight because it’s closed on Sat­urday nights (that’s a clue). It also has some­thing in com­mon with Sand­wiches.