Texture / July 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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Minuit: Find Me Before I Die a Lonely Death Dot Com - Album Review
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- The Minuit-machine has regressed to a child-like state… And I like it.
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Ladi 6 - 25 July, San Francisco Bath House
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- Ladi 6 with Parks + Julien Dyne = textbook example of a damn fine time.
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Open Souls - 24 July, San Francisco Bath House
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- Now it has been roughly a year since Open Souls have played in Wellington, but with the up and coming release of their new album ‘Standing in the Rain' we have been graced with a nationwide tour.
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Ladi 6 - 25 July, San Francisco Bath House
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- Ladi 6 with Parks + Julien Dyne = textbook example of a damn fine time.
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Indoor, Outdoor Flow
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- Welcome to a new dawn in Cuba Street history.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Seeking the Golden Jandal
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- It’s time to grab your shields and hoist your kilts, kiwi filmmakers.
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World Press Photo exhibition returns….!
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- That’s right! The 52nd World Press Photo exhibition returns to Wellington between 11th of September to the 4th of October 2009 to showcase the world’s finest photojournalists.
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The Woolshed Sessions – 19 July (7pm), Downstage Theatre
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- The creative octuplet that is The Woolshed Sessions merged their artistic talents once again to perform to an adoring Wellington audience last Sunday night, as part of Downstage Theatre’s new monthly music night.
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The Whimsical Work of Drypnz II – 19 July, Manky Chops Gallery
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- England-born street-artist Drypnz has been based in the capital since 2006, having previously lived in Nelson after stints in Israel, the Marshall Islands and the Caribbean.
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One Massive Feast of a Festival
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- Why have one fantastic event when you can have 30 all at once?! Wellington On a Plate is the latest (and quite possibly greatest) festival to hit New Zealand’s capital.
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Pitch Black – 18 July, Sandwiches
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- Dub-Electronica duo Pitch Black made a devotee-orientated appearance at Sandwiches on Saturday.
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A Nod from NYC
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- Wellington designer Alexandra Owen has just reached a new apex of success.
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Pitch Black.
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- A much anticipated return to Sandwiches by one of this countries most enduring and consistently relevant electronic acts - Pitch Black.
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Nab your coin-purse…
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- …The New Zealand Affordable Art Show has returned to Wellington once again and brings three-days of reasonably priced art for our perusal from 31st July to the 2nd August at the TSB Bank Arena.
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Entertaining Mr Sloane – 4 July, Circa Theatre
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- Entertaining Mr Sloane is the work of English playwright Joe Orton and is often touted as an immoral and scandalous black comedy that shocks audiences by its crude sexual themes and calculating heartlessness.
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Humpday - 9 July, NZ International Film Festival Preview
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- If you think that this movie is about Wednesday being the “humpday” in the middle of the working week – well, you are very WRONG.
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Unmade Beds - 9 July, NZ International Film Festival Preview
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- Unmade Beds is one of the most talked about movies at this years NZ International Film Festival.
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Kowtow Clothing are gearing up for summer
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- All the winter sales happening at the moment can only mean one thing: We are on the home-straight to sunshine-city people, yeah! Okay, so maybe I’m counting my free-range chickens before they hatch.
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Louise-Michel - 9 July, NZ International Film Festival Preview
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- No no no not the French Anarchist Louise Michel who assisted in the championing of the social revolution in France, but rather a delightful quirky comedy that has done very well on the film festival circuit this year… awarded Best Screenplay at San Sebastian and a World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Originality at Sundance… though a revolutionary-class-driven-theme threads its way through the plot. The story begins in a small French village, Picardy, which is home to a toy-factory packed full of working-class women making an honest living… well… that was until they arrived at work one morning to find the factory stripped bare of machinery. So with a pittance of a redundancy, the women decide to merge their monies to make a significant combined-wealth BUT what should they do with their newly acquired fortune…?! purchase a pizza place…?! commission a nude calendar… ?! or hire a professional hit-man to kill their deceptive former boss…?!Well, the latter was the suggestion of Louise (Yolande Moreau), a mildly-retarded-illiterate-cross-dressing-ex-con named Jean Pierre, and surprisingly the bitter factory workers were unanimously in favour of this proposal. So with that, Louise sets out to organise the hit and stumbles across Michel (Bouli Lanners), a cross-dressing-trailer-park-security-guard named Cathy, and the agreement is secured.However, it soon transpires that Michel isn’t the professional hit-man he purported to be and commissions terminally-ill patients to undertake the assassinations. I pluralise assassination, because Louise and Michel soon realise the quaint factory is but one piece in a multinational corporation and so their quest for revenge results in numerous murders that span Picardy to Brussels and then to the tax-haven of Jersey. The film is borderline ridiculous, but this is what I loved about it, from a wheelchair-bound man getting hit by a bus to Michel’s bald-cancer-suffering-cousin shooting a cocktail-party goer at point-blank. Packed full of quirky humour, intrigue and absolute absurdity, it was an intelligent comedy that I thoroughly enjoyed. Louise-Michel was an unexpected treat. - Karyn See it in Wellington on the 17th and 19th of July.
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If you want it, go get it…
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- Fancy checking out a world-class female vocalist MC…?! then why not head to the San Francisco Bathhouse on the 25th July and witness the soulfully-smooth vocals of Ladi6, as she arrives back in Wellington, for one night only, as part of a petit-winter tour.
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Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra: Magical Winter Show(s) – 27 June (9pm), Michael Fowler Centre
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- Purported as their only winter gig… which due to rocketing demand turned into two-shows-one-night… the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra packed out the Michael Fowler Centre… twice… on a brisk winter Saturday night.
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South Coast Gallery on Cuba - 29 June, 169 Cuba Street
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- It’s almost a blink-and-you’ll miss it affair. Hidden away in a little nook down Cuba Street, is the inner-city child of Island Bays finest art space - South Coast Gallery on Cuba. The Island Bay version of the gallery was first established in 2006, a neat little place to view and pick up some local or international artworks - after a little relax time on the beach that is. The Bay version is view by appointment, so it’s kinda nice to just be able to amble in and out of the Cuba premises whilst on the way to/from work or play.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Group Exhibition at Cuba’s Enjoy
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- Enjoy Public Art Gallery, in conjunction with the Goethe-Institut and Massey University School of Fine Arts present; The Urban Workshop: Cuba St Portraits.
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Strike and Adam Page bring the noise
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- It’s a clash of the noisy titans: Improv-music hero, Adam Page, is set to match his skills and sound with that of fiery percussion group Strike, for several very special shows at Downstage theatre.
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Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di Ferragosto) - 3 July, NZ International Film Festival Preview
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- If I was to describe this delightful little Italian film in a word, it would be charming.
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Youssou N'Dour: I bring what I love - 2 July, Wellington Film Festival preview
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- I bring what I love is a long overdue tribute to the man known as the “voice of Africa”.
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La vie d'artiste - 2 July, Wellington Film Festival Preview
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- La vie d'artiste shows the painful, funny, and often degrading journey one goes through on the way to becoming a successful creative (or not).
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Ravenous for theatre…?!
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- Then head along to the BATS theatre and check out the annual Young & Hungry Festival, which is set to kick off on the 10th July!This year is the fifteenth birthday of this unique festival that seeks to support budding theatre-types in all aspects of the industry, from acting to design to marketing to backstage crew.
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Hikoikoi - 25 June, San Francisco Bathhouse
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- Petone-based Hikoikoi have been knocking-about the Wellington music scene for a good few years now, mostly entertaining large-ish crowds at various summer music festivals.
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