Texture / February 2009
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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Midnight Marauders
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- Rolling into the midnight hour on the first three nights of the Wellington Jazz Festival is After Midnight - a free-wheeling jam session for the nocturnal at Pacific Blue Note at Wellington Town Hall. Pacific Blue Note is a purpose-built club, incorporating a raised stage and cabaret style seating that will transform Wellington Town Hall throughout the Jazz Festival. Host with the most aroun
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Beer me!
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- In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, “All work and no beer make Homer something, something…” So heed Homers warning about the pathway to insanity, and sample a few frosty beverages this Saturday, at Wellington’s inaugural New Zealand Beer Festival in Waitangi Park. More than 60 beers from over 20 breweries will be on show, with an emphasis on GOOD beer, rather than whatever it is that stud
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Summerset returns
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- After months of apprehension, speculation, and more than a few furrowed brows - Sandwiches Summerset has finally announced it’s triumphant return for 2009. This year’s event is headlined by two major acts - one local legend, and one international superstar. Fat Freddy’s Drop will return after appearing at the first Summerset music festival in 2007. The Wellington icons of soul/dub/funk
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Special Screenings of Kiwi Classic Goodbye Pork Pie on Friday and Saturday
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- Ask people what their favourite New Zealand film is, and quite often, they'll say Goodbye Pork Pie, Geoff Murphy's classic 1981 road film. You could say that the main character of the film is a car - the zippy yellow mini which has since become an instantly recognisable Kiwi icon.And if you haven't seen it (or want to see it again!) the Film Archive will be screening it over two nights this Friday
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Noch eine Runde, bitte!
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- Move over Karneval der Kulturen, Club Transmediale and Berliner Festspiele… the Berlin Bonanza at Mighty Mighty is back and it promises to be better than ever…That’s right… prepare yourself for an eight-night assault of high-calibre bands, extreme ping-pong and one heck of a part(y)(ies) at Mighty Mighty you will never forget.This year the all-inclusive-German-fiesta kicks off on Wednesday 18th Fe
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Mt Victoria's brand new festival
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- Wondering what to do when the Cuba Street Carnival is done and dusted? Look no further than the new kid on the entertainment block – Mount Victoria’s inaugural Inner City Festival, coming in two weeks time on the 28th of February. The Festival’s theme is one of sustainability and organic living, with one and all having a great time, whilst paying respect to the environment we sometimes
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cuba Street Carnival…. I'm giddy already!
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- Woah, woah, woah… the Cuba Street Carnival is nearly here - it's on 21 Ferbuary and bloody hell I'm excited… hmm… that seems a tad understated… what I mean is that I'm practically drowning in my own saliva over the fourteen hours of glorious entertainment I am going to assault on my body next weekend… yeeeeeusssssss!This year marks the tenth anniversary of the unique street parade
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Monet is hanging at Te Papa
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- That’s right! Various works from the great Claude Monet… the founder of French Impressionist painting and the most prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy… are on show at the Visa Platinum Gallery in Te Papa from the 14 February to 17 May 2009.This exhibition, Monet and the Impressionists, has been organised by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Socially Conscious Punk Rockers Propagandhi play SFBH on Wednesday...
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- There are lots of those activist punk rock type of groups around these days. To be honest, I find that most of them are a bit too earnest to take seriously. Their message usually seems to overshadow the actual music. But Canada's Propagandhi who formed in 1986, are one of the true blue originals who I reckon are the real deal and really worth seeing. Not only do they have
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Limber and loving it
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- From the folks who brought you Gravity and Other Myths comes a whole new outdoor circus show. The crazy antics of “The Navigators” will be taking over Queens Wharf Square as part of Wellington's Summer City and Fringe Festivals, 2009. This brand new adventure was inspired by New Zealands sea-faring ancestors and identity as an island nation. Full of spectacular circus mag
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Dan Deacon and High Places live at Bodega!
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- Dan Deacon has a graduate degree in electro-acoustic and computer composition, which he uses to create spazzed out 8-bit electronic euphoria. He has an aversion to stages, making his performances something to behold. He piles up synthesizers and effects pedals on a low sitting table, somewhere among the audience, and encourages participation. He released a whole bunch of independent re
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Glass, Noise and Blood: Don't Miss Justice Yeldham on Thursday...
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- I saw loads of live music in 2007, but the best, most memorable show I went to was Australian sound artist Justice Yeldham. He's the most unique performer I have ever seen. He wears a toolbelt of oscillators and distortion pedals which are hooked up to a sheet of amplified glass.Yeldham creates music by using various vocal techniques onto the glass - screaming, blowing, biting and grinding his fac
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Some like it HOT! Some just like free outdoor films…
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- You can’t beat Wellington in summer… free concerts, carnivals, festivals, beautiful weather, wharf-jumping, gelato… and now free outdoor films under the stars. Lush. This year sees four films set to hit the big screen: Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten; Standing in the Shadow of Motown; La Tropical; and Some Like it Hot.The first three films will be hosted in the Wellington Botanical Gar
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Summer Books Alive at The Jimmy on Tuesday…
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- There was some fabulous local literature published last year, and Summer Books Alive at The Jimmy Café and Bar at the St James Theatre is a great event where you can be entertained by the voices of New Zealand literature while enjoying a summer drink. Six writers will read for six minutes each from their most recent work. Kate De Goldi will be reading from her gorgeous and thoughtful novel The 10p
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