The semi-naked truth: Strip clubs in Wellington

So, you want to see some breasts. Noth­ing wrong with that. Where in Welling­ton should you go to see them? For the pur­pos­es of sci­en­tif­ic research, we head­ed to Dream Girls and Mer­maids to find out what you can expect. We also had a chat to a girl who’s worked in both places for the […]

Heavenly Circus

The genius minds behind Heav­en­ly Bur­lesque are back again for the Fringe and this time it’s free. Grav­i­ty and oth­er Myths is a spec­tac­u­lar out­door new cir­cus show­case inspired by the stars!

Vist Queen’s Wharf at night this week and you see some of the coun­try’s best new cir­cus, per­form­ing on a pur­pose-built out­door cir­cus rig, com­bined with pyrotech­nics, spec­tac­u­lar light­ing, sound and AV design.

I’ve been promised acts will use fire, trapeze, bungy, hula hoops, dance and object ani­ma­tion, all to the local­ly grown music of Rhi­an Shee­han, Mod­ule and more. This is prop­er cir­cus peo­ple, not with evil clowns.

Plus here is your chance to run away with the cir­cus in your lunchtime — Welling­ton Cir­cus Trust are run­ning intro­duc­to­ry cir­cus work­shops at lunchtimes (12.30 – 1.30) on the days of the show per­for­mances.

Grav­i­ty and oth­er Myths
Queen’s Wharf, (under the sails)
Welling­ton Water­front @ 8.00pm
Thurs­day 1st – Sun­day 4th & Wednes­day 7th – Sat­ur­day 10th
March, 2007.
Entry by dona­tion / Koha
and bring a cush­ion

Newtown words

Newtown spoken word - flier
Tomor­row night, the New­town Com­mu­ni­ty and Cul­tur­al Cen­tre hosts New­town Spo­ken Word Win­ter 06, an open mike event organ­ised by the Word Col­lec­tive, the peo­ple who brought you Sk8board Poets, Karaoke Poet­ry and the Word Fes­ti­vals. It starts at 7:30pm at the cor­ner of Rin­toul & Colom­bo streets, and entry is by koha. For more infor­ma­tion, call Craig on 027 242 3453.

Wheeler’s Luck

You are invit­ed to Wheel­er’s Luck fundrais­ing gala.

Come along and sup­port the boys as they take on The Edin­burgh Fes­ti­val.

Two nights only, July 25th and 26th at 9pm Bats The­atre.

For book­ings phone 802 4175, or email: book@bats.co.nz

The review­ers say:

“Huge­ly enter­tain­ing and quirk­i­ly Kiwi …two bril­liant­ly tal­ent­ed com­ic actors cre­ate not only an entire com­mu­ni­ty with over 400 locals, but also a dance rou­tine, pub brawl, ship­wreck and, dizzy­ing­ly, a bare­back horse race… Ener­gis­ing, hilar­i­ous and per­cep­tive, this beau­ti­ful­ly honed show is pure the­atri­cal mag­ic” New Zealand Lis­ten­er, 2006

“The whole sto­ry is told in 80 extra­or­di­nary min­utes through 55 char­ac­ters and a pet rock, all cre­at­ed with min­i­mal­ist wit, great inge­nu­ity and mon­u­men­tal tal­ent by Toby Leach and Nigel Collins.… there is no one you don’t know, or know of, in this com­mu­ni­ty.” Nation­al Busi­ness Review, 2005

“…glo­ri­ous­ly per­formed …rivalling Ben Hur for excite­ment but much fun­nier …a sure fire hit.” Domin­ion Post, 2005