Texture / February 2010
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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The Liquorland New Zealand Beer Festival returns… doh…!
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- Next Saturday the mighty Beer Festival returns to the capital for nine hours of frivolity AND with it comes 24 breweries, six restaurants, one winery and capacity for 10,000 people.
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Pre-loved Fashion Sale? Yes Please.
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- Anna Wintour - eat your heart out.
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Gods and Heroes - 20 February, Bats Theatre
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- The Greek gods have fled Olympus, deciding to take refuge in.
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Little Bushman live with the NZSO - 23 February, Album Review
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- I remember the first time I saw Warren Maxwell live.
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Connan Mockasin: Please turn me into the Snat - 23 February, Album Review
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- It’s been an 18 month journey for the man known as Connan.
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Three more nights to go...
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- That’s right, don’t miss your chance to catch the last three nights of the 2010 French Film Festival at the Embassy Theatre.
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Songs, Street Parties and Sustainablility for Mt Vic
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- Rain baptised the inaugural Mt Victoria, Inner City Festival in 2009.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Eyes Wide Open: Love and Guts – 11 February, Manky Chops Gallery
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- Last week Manky Chops Gallery hosted its second Love and Guts art exhibition, strictly three days only, which was heralded to be one of the most memorable shows to date.
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Electric Wire Hustle – 13 February, San Francisco Bathhouse
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- Local Wellington trio, Electric Wire Hustle, have had a busy and very successful year with the release of their self-titled debut album, a European tour and a jam-packed summer festival schedule, all in the name of their incredibly popular contemporary hip hop, soul, funk and jazz infusion.
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Anne Frank: A History for Today – 20 February, Te Papa
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- The tale of Anne Frank has always fascinated me, ever since I read her diary as an impressionable twelve year-old girl.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sacha Vee: debut album release...!
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- This Saturday is your chance to check out Wellington’s hottest songstress in action, as Sacha Vee releases her debut self-titled EP at Hope Bros on Saturday night.
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Reward a Wellington Hospitality Star!
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- It’s best of the best time for the Capitals golden gods of hospitality.
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Love to Roooooooooooll?
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- This Valentine's Day you can celebrate love, summer and the joy of cycling at the Frocks on Bikes' romantic extravaganza, Love to Roll.
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Vernon God Little – 4 February, Downstage Theatre
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- This month Downstage Theatre plays host to twenty-one young actors and one epic adaptation of DBC Pierre’s Booker Prize winning novel, Vernon God Little.
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High Tea at Martha's Pantry - 29 January
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- Now let me be very clear.
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Cutting into the Fringe
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- It’s just days to go until life on the edge will begin.
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It’s the year of the TIGER…!
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- The Chinese New Year has always fascinated me, mostly the idea that it grew from a legend that foretold of a wild beast that attacked and killed villages at the end of every year and was only dissuaded from its merciless path by loud noises and bright lights.
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A Day in Pompeii
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- In 79 AD Pompeii, a Roman town-city near modern Naples, was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius.
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Them Crooked Vultures - 29 January, TSB Arena
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- The allure of sex, sweat, thunderous drumming and chugging riffs lies at the heart of Them Crooked Vulture’s sound.
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