Victoria University related newsitems

• • Exotic orchestra mixes ancient and modern

    • 10 Mar 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Over 100 instruments will come together when an Argentinean orchestra combining indigenous instruments and digital technology plays in Wellington this Saturday.
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• • Top students start at Victoria

    • 8 Mar 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Victoria has proved to be the university of choice for New Zealand’s best and brightest as a high proportion of top secondary school scholars begin their studies at the University.
  
  

• • Coastal Ecology Lab opens its doors

    • 8 Mar 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • See marine creatures up close, talk to leading scientists and see examples of research equipment in action at the open day of Victoria’s Coastal Ecology Laboratory.
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    • victoria university
    396 The Esplanade, Island Bay
  
  

• • Storytime for the Hungry

    • 5 Mar 2010
    • Salient
    • IIt’s the perfect sell for a student; free show, free porridge.
  
  

• • Ruby Tuesday

    • 5 Mar 2010
    • Salient
    • There is a line between comedy and theatre.
  
  

• • VUWSA Intial General Meeting

    • 5 Mar 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington Students Association
    • VUWSA will hold our annual IGM on 17 March at the Union Hall, at 1pm. This is your opportunity to vote on important issues, and make sure that VUWSA is looking after your money in a way you approve of. Salient will make sure you have all the details you need to head along and make sure that VUWSA represents you. For more information contact president@vuwsa.org.nz.
  
  

• • Disaster memorial wins prize

    • 5 Mar 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A building design commemorating the Wahine Disaster has earned a Victoria University Architecture student second prize in an international competition.
  
  

• • Apollo 13: Mission Control

    • 1 Mar 2010
    • Salient
    • Downstage is not Downstage anymore.
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    • reviews
    • theatre
  
  

• • Eclectic composer comes home as New Zealand School of Music Composer-in-Residence

    • 1 Mar 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Chris Gendall, who counts stand-up comedy, sports events and composers of the 60s and 70s as some of his musical influences, returns to Wellington as the Creative New Zealand/Jack C. Richards Composer-in-Residence.
  
  

• • Honorary Doctorates for world class chemist and Irish Diaspora expert

    • 23 Feb 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Victoria University of Wellington will confer honorary degrees on a world-class chemist and an international authority on the Irish diaspora.
  
  

• • A Culinary Guide to Wellington Cinemas

    • 22 Feb 2010
    • Salient
    • Do not be misled, oh humble first year—this is not a judging of Wellington’s cinemas by the edible wares which they peddle.
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    • cinema
  
  

• • VBC 3rd Birthday

    • 21 Feb 2010
    • Salient
    • How better to celebrate turning three than to put on one stonker of a show at the San Francisco Bathhouse? Sure beats my third birthday, which was a tumultuous combination of tears and toddlers.
  
  

• • Wellington Gallery Guide

    • 21 Feb 2010
    • Salient
    • Wellington is hailed as the arts capital of New Zealand, hosting a range of world-class events, festivals and exhibitions.
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    • museums and galleries
  
  

• • VUWSA + VBC 88.3FM present the return of Cool Town

    • 21 Feb 2010
    • Salient
    • What is Cool Town? Few people know. Some say it was once the coolest and most mysterious bar in Wellington, located behind a secret door on Cuba Street before it disappeared. One thing is for sure: whatever Cool Town was, it’s coming back. For Orientation Week only, Mount Street Bar will be transformed into Cool Town! From Monday 1 to Friday 5 of March the coolest bands in town will appear at Cool Town to perform for free! Gigs start at 5pm, so you can come straight after classes, which is pretty darn sweet.
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    • gigs
    • victoria university
  
  

• • Better Living!

    • 21 Feb 2010
    • Salient
    • The Comediettes (Sarah Harpur and Jim Stanton) are about to hit it big. At least, it seems that way. You can feel it in the air during their show in the Fringe Festival. Rock-solid gags mix with professionalism to create a thick fog of awesome that smells of further success soon for the award-winning duo.
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    • comedy
    • fringe festival
    • reviews
  
  

• • back/words

    • 21 Feb 2010
    • Salient
    • back/words is an exercise in verbatim theatre. Verbatim theatre being based entirely around attempts by actors to totally recreate the ‘performances’ of interview subjects. Repeating them word for word with the same inflection, reflection and physical performance.
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    • fringe festival
    • reviews
    • theatre
  
  

• • Goldilocks and the Three Queers

    • 15 Feb 2010
    • Salient
    • The first thing that really needs to be noted about this season of Goldilocks and the Three Queers is that it is a workshop season.
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    • fringe festival
    • reviews
    • theatre
  
  

• • Young Victoria researchers strengthening Maori knowledge

    • 15 Feb 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Four young Victoria University researchers have been awarded Te Tipu Putaiao Fellowships from a total of nine awarded nationally.
  
  

• • Anthony McCall

    • 7 Feb 2010
    • Adam Art Gallery
    • 24 February - 25 April 2010
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    • exhibitions
  
  

• • Pirates vs. Ninjas

    • 5 Feb 2010
    • Salient
    • The Fringe is almost upon us. What a wonderful thought. Especially if you take the early opening Pirates vs. Ninjas as a measure for the monsoon of theatre to come in the next few weeks.
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    • fringe festival
  
  

• • New Zealand's digital edge discussed at film symposium

    • 5 Feb 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The digital revolution in cinema and New Zealand's contribution to it will be discussed at a symposium bringing together film makers and academics in "Wellywood" next Thursday.
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    • events
    • film and video
  
  

• • History teaching a breach of Treaty principles

    • 5 Feb 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Students in Wellington and Hutt Valley secondary schools are being denied information about local Te Atiawa history according to Victoria University graduate Dr Richard Manning.
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    • hutt valley
    • local history
  
  

• • Experience solid light

    • 2 Feb 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • New York-based artist Anthony McCall is to transform the striking architectural spaces of Victoria University's Adam Art Gallery in an upcoming exhibition of 'solid light' installations.
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    • exhibitions
  
  

• • New partnership offers students overseas experience

    • 20 Jan 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • This year 12 Victoria University students will experience life in developing countries, on a Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) programme, now open to Victoria students.
  
  

• • Public transport behaviours explained

    • 11 Jan 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Victoria University graduate Jared Thomas spent many hours riding buses and trains in the greater Wellington region as part of his PhD research.
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    • transport
    • victoria university
  
  

• • New Year honours for Victoria University

    • 31 Dec 2009
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Four Victoria University staff, including three from Victoria's Antarctic Research Centre, have been recognised in the New Year honours' list.
  
  

• • Victoria Theatre success at Chapman Tripp Awards

    • 14 Dec 2009
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Victoria University Theatre programme graduates and staff figured prominently in the 18th annual Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards announced on Sunday 6 December.
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    • theatre
    • victoria university
  
  

• • Victoria celebrates its newest graduates

    • 11 Dec 2009
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Almost 1000 students will celebrate successfully completing their studies during next week's graduation procession and ceremonies.
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• • First Victoria—next stop, Broadway!

    • 7 Dec 2009
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Eryn Street from Newlands is one step closer to her dream of performing on Broadway, with help from a generous sponsor.
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    • newlands
    • performing arts
    • victoria university
  
  

• • Montana Award winning poet to be Victoria University's 2010 Writer in Residence

    • 7 Dec 2009
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Poet Jenny Bornholdt will be the 2010 Writer in Residence at Victoria University.