Events / June 2008
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Rafael Toral and Birchville Cat Motel - Monday 30 June at Happy
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- Portuguese improviser and influential experimental guitarist Rafael Toral has worked with bigwigs Sonic Youth, Jim O' Rourke, Evan Parker, John Zorn and Fennesz, and on Monday he's playing one show at Happy with Wellington's Birchville Cat Motel.
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The Thomas Oliver Band
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- The Thomas Oliver Band's fusion of blues, folk, country and rock will be thickening the air of Bodega this Saturday the 28th of June. The band is made of Thomas Oliver on vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica and weissenborn, Steven Moodie on bass guitar and double bass, and Tom Scrase on drums, percussion and backing vocals.
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It's Film Festival time
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- Last night a select group of over 500 people at the Paramount were treated to the launch of this year's Wellington Film Festival programme.
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Paramount Theatre, Wellington
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Young and Hungry opens this week!
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- This Friday the Young and Hungry festival of new works opens at BATS. Young & Hungry started life in 1994 at BATS as a series of one act plays designed to give young people, aged between 15-25 years, the opportunity to partake in a professional theatre environment under the direction of professional theatre practitioners.
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RE: CALL Gray Nicol performs Duck Calling
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- After 30 years in obscurity, New Zealand video artist Gray Nicol has agreed to re-stage his witty and provocative 1978 performance piece Duck Calling, in what promises to be an audacious and wacky one-off spectacle of an event at the New Zealand Film Archive Mediatheatre on Thursday 13 June, from 7 - 8pm.
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books, books, books....
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- Collections for Downtown Community Ministry's annual Book Fair Fundraiser are underway. I love the book fair, because you name a book and you'll most probably find it there. Plus you get to go shopping and know that all you money is going to a good cause - like addressing homelessness in Wellington. Scattered around town are wheelie bins for people to donate their unwanted books.
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Party with a conscious this Saturday at Bodega!
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- The MDN Charity Gig, at the Bodega this Saturday, is aiming to raise money and awareness for Motor Neurone Disease. It all started when Wellington's Duncan Bayly was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease- a debilitating neurological condition that affects nerves that control voluntary muscles. He has been told he has five years to live. So, he decided to do something for his fellow sufferers, he gathered friends from all over the world to cycle from Vondelpark (Amsterdam) to Victoria Park (London) to raise funds for MND research. This gig at Bodega is for those on this side of the world who want to help out.
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The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization: Part One
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- This looks really good: You can see some more of John's work on some of those big display units at the new park on the western end of Courtenay Place (Courtenay West Park?).
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World Environment Day (And a free concert!)
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- This Thursday, little ol’Wellington has the distinction of hosting World Environment Day (WED) Awarded to New Zealand by the United Nations, the day is dedicated to raising awareness of increasing environmental problems around the globe – with this year highlighting the destructive force of high carbon emissions.
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