a photo of Mindy from behind, walking along a road. She's wearing bright orange tights and pink shorts

A walk for transgender youth

This week’s pro­file takes us to the oth­er side of the Remu­ta­ka Ranges for a very good cause.  1. Hel­lo! Who the heck are youse and what are you up to? I’m Kylie, and col­lec­tive­ly we’re the Parry/Hannen whā­nau. My 17-year-old daugh­ter and I are walk­ing across the Wairara­pa into Welling­ton to raise mon­ey and […]

Preview: The Show Some Love Show

The Show Some Love Show is a vari­ety fundrais­er to raise mon­ey for Welling­ton Women’s Refuge and Te Whare Rokiro­ki Maori Wom­en’s Refuge. It will fea­ture some of NZ’s best musi­cians, come­di­ans, dancers, and poets; includ­ing The East­ern, Alice Brine, James Nokise and Fan­ci­fo­ria Fox­glove. Domes­tic and inti­mate part­ner vio­lence is one of NZ’s biggest […]

The Third Eye + Boar & Blade + Mojo = The Vanuatu Fundraiser

UPDATE: Due to that das­tard­ly weath­er caus­ing hav­oc across Welling­ton today the Beer & Blade Van­u­atu Fundrais­er has been post­poned until tomor­row night, Fri­day, 15 May. You may recall, amidst all the atroc­i­ties that occur on a far too reg­u­lar basis through­out the world, that in mid-March Van­u­atu was hit by Cyclone Pam. The cyclone killed over 10 […]

seasons changing so it must be time for knack

I’m not sure about every­one else, but as a crafty per­son and lover of hand­made fairs where the focus is on local­ly designed and cre­at­ed items, I mea­sure my sea­sons by Knack Craft Mar­ket I know it’s autumn, not because of the weath­er, or the dates but because knack tells me so. Held at Berham­pore […]

Kristmas knack

There is only 40 days till christ­mas. See did i scare you? i scared myself look­ing up that one, but it’s also why I’m a lit­tle relieved that Krist­mas knack is on this Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 16th. Because it gives a girl a chance to go shop­ping for christ­mas presents, but it’s still far away enough from […]

Benefit Concert for The Court Theatre at Circa

Next Mon­day (20 August) a group of Welling­ton per­form­ers will be get­ting togeth­er to raise funds for The Court The­atre in Christchurch. Bad­ly affect­ed by the earth­quakes (forced to aban­don thir­­ty-five years of sets, cos­tumes, and scripts) The Court The­atre has opened again in a new venue affec­tion­ate­ly called ‘the Shed’. They have a space […]

The lemurs, they are attacking

This is an invi­ta­tion to attend a very spe­cial event, The Lemur Attack Force Launch Par­ty and Fundrais­er. TONIGHT at the Hop Gar­den from 7pm, it looks to be hoots of fun — details of the shenani­gans are avail­able at http://lemurattackforce.co.nz/the-lemur-attack-force-launch-par­ty-is-on/.   In 18 Days Aimee Whit­croft and Dane Fos­ter are tak­ing a wee dri­ve from […]

Wellington Killah Beez on the Swarm

We like our blue cheese served with hon­ey at Pol­lux, and we like our cock­tails hon­ey-rimmed at S&M. It’s fair to say that we here at the Welling­ton­ista are fans of bees, no mat­ter what their polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions may be. That said, every­one knows we’re a bunch of pinko left­ies, so it’s only fit­ting that […]