Texture / December 2008
Texture is an events guide, place guide, interactive guide to this fair city. Its role is to hook you up with the best spots to spend your nights and where to recover during the day, all the latest news and information you want from round town and a place to meet only the best people from all over the place. Texture is brought to you by Positively Wellington Tourism with support from heaps of kindly folk round town.
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Huge Line-up for One Love 2009
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- Where is the Love you ask? Well, it’s going to be at Haitaiti’s Velodrome on February the 6th of 2009. Yes, Radio Active’s One Love is back for another year, but this time it’s been working out, and the offerings are bigger, harder and stronger, in celebration of both Waitangi day and Mr Bob Marley’s birthday. The top-shelf line-up for 2009’s biggest little festival includes: The
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The TAWAs
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- Here at Texture we are all die-hard fans of Wellington, hence the hours we spend slaving away finding awesome things for you to go eat, drink, dance to or look at. We know as well as anyone else we are not the only fans of this fine city, prime example comes from over at Wellingtonista, where the creators of this fine site held an awards ceremony, called the TAWAs (The Annual Wellingtonisa Awards)
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New Season at Downstage
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- Downstage Theatre is one of Wellington's oldest and best, next year will mark it's 45th birthday. Downstage has always been an avid supporter of great theatre and the up and comers. I have seen some amazing plays at Downstage this year, such as Bare and On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover. Judging by the line-up for the first half of 2009, Downstag
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Kowtow Clothing make saving the planet look great
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- Kowtow Clothing are bringing some love to the animals, with the release of a super-cute new t-shirt design which will raise money for WWF in New Zealand. When you buy this special edition tee, also known as ‘the panda-suit’, $10 will go directly towards WWF’s work to protect nature in our very own back-yard. WWF (That’s World Wildlife Fund not the World Wrestling Federation if you didn’t alr
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Federation Clothing Ltd Sale - Three Days Only
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- High skate/street wear label Federation is set to hit town with a special three day sale that runs for three days only from Friday to Sunday. The massive clear out sale will include end of season stock, seconds and samples as well as selected garments from their Minti kids' range. Established eight years ago, and based in Auckland, Federation has gone from strength to strength with
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The Best of New Years in Wellington
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- The new year is upon us, and somewhere, somehow, you are going to want to celebrate. But there is always the trauma of trying to decide where to go for new years eve. You can do the runner somewhere else, but then you have to factor in transport, paying for fuel or air/ferry/train tickets, dealing with people who may not understand the subtleties of your Wellingtonian ways, and many mo
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Typography Enthusiasts Unite!
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- Typography enthusiasts will be getting all their Christmases at once this summer. A five day festival to educate and celebrate the art of typefaces will be hitting the Wellington waterfront from the 11 to 15 of February. It is set to explore the notions and voices of typography, and will cover all media typography may appear in, such as graphic design and advertising, photography, film, liter
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Changes ahead for Wellington
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- Wellington looks to be undergoing some rather large changes in the very near future. It will be a transformation that will affect various parts of our neat little city, to varying degrees. The two main central city modifications are a redevelopment of Manners Mall, and the building of a flyover next to – and sort of over - the Basin Reserve. Manners pedestrian mall will be opened up fo
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Influential Avant Garde Film to Screen at Film Archive
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- American experimental filmmaker Maya Deren's 1943 short film Meshes of the Afternoon is one of the most influential and seminal examples of avant garde filmmaking. And there will be a special and rare screening of it at the Film Archive this Saturday along with a talk by artists Sriwhana Spong and Vivian Lynn. Deren was a forerunner of the New American Cinema movement and Meshes of the A
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Valve has closed it's doors.
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- Since late November, internet forums have been full of speculation, some grief and lots of "where will we go now" over the news of Valve Bar unexpectedly closing it's doors. Valve, on Vivian Street, was notorious in Wellington for being the bar that bands started out at, it avidly supported local bands and the underground, with punk and metal being the staple genres you would hear coming ou
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Aro Street Market is back
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- Wellington is spoiled for markets, the minty markets at Bodega and becoming a Sunday staple, and the Mighty Markets at the Mighty Mighty are a good place to spend a Saturday afternoon hunting for treasure, and now the Aro Street Markets are back for the summer. This Saturday kicks off the festivities, then it will be the first Saturday of every month, between 11am-3pm, held at Aro Park,
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Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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