Blogs / June 2021
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Matariki 2021 at your libraries!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Tēnā koutou katoa, e te whānau! From 2 – 10 July, Wellington City Libraries is celebrating Matariki with a range of events, crafts, storytelling sessions, and experiences for whānau and tamariki all over our city. Don’t forget to also check out the Wellington City Council website to find out about the huge range of exciting activities taking place outside our libraries during Matariki.
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Appropriate height limits
- Eye of the Fish
- While it was vaguely entertaining / terrifying / gratifying / intimidating to listen to some of the 10-hour debate on the Spatial Plan the other day (pick your own adjective according to your political persuasions), what became very clear is that NO ONE – not the Mayor, not the Council Officers, Not Liam Hodgetts the City Planner, and certainly not the rabid band of Councillors – have any idea about height limits that is bounded by any semblance of the actual factual truthiness of the situation.
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Berhampore, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Safety, crime, cities, and communities
- Talk Wellington
- Some new research on what caused crime to drop in the USA has some pretty cool insights for New Zealand wanting to grow better places to live – those “safer communities together”.
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Growth for Growth’s Sake
- Eye of the Fish
- “Art for Art’s sake – Money for God’s sake”. Or as we have it now, Growth for Growth’s sake. We now have a Council that has passed the Spatial Plan, in a decision that some have described being a battle over young vs old. Up to 80,000 more people will be able to live in our city, in a gradual process over the next 30+ years.
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Things are getting surreal at Te Papa
- The Wellingtonista
- We might be stuck in New Zealand for a while, but that doesn’t mean the world can’t come to us (especially if they’re rich, apparently). That’s the cool thing about the new exhibition Surrealist Art: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen He Toi Pohewa: He Toi Marupō o Muhiama o Boijmans Van Beuningen. You’ll get a slice of Europe last century and get to get out of the wind of Wellington all at the same time.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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How High is Too High?
- Eye of the Fish
- This Thursday is a big day for Wellington – the Council will vote on the Draft Spatial Plan and will decide whether or not to accept its recommendations.
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Pedestrianisation
- Eye of the Fish
- The Golden Mile is going to be pedestrianised – and that is great news. Great news to me, great news for Wellingtonians, great news for visitors to our city if they ever return, but apparently some of the retailers along Lambton Quay feel that this is not great news. I’m not sure why – nobody in their right mind tries to drive to their favourite retailer in Wellington at the moment, so I’m not sure why they would in the future.
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Lambton Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 601, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Golden Mile carfree: phew!
- Talk Wellington
- In a month of extreme weirdness, Let’s Get Wellington Moving have got something 100% RIGHT Last night Let’s Get Wellington Moving announced that they are definitely going to carfree our Golden Mile.
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World Refugee Day exhibition – 20th June @ The HUB
- The Wellingtonista
- This year’s United Nations World Refugee Day is on 20 June, and to mark the event the ChangeMakers Resettlement Forum, Voice of Aroha, and Living Wage Movement Aotearoa NZ are hosting the My Life … to Live photo exhibition at the Hub (Victoria University).
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Kia Mau festival another show
- The Wellingtonista
- Honestly I thought they were done but the team at Kia Mau have one more show for us on Saturday June 19.
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Get walking! NZ Walking Summit
- Talk Wellington
- The NZ Walking Summit is a curious thing.
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Kia Mau Festival week two
- The Wellingtonista
- What a joyful privilege to experience week one of the Kia Mau Festival.
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Shaky ground
- Eye of the Fish
- “Standing on shaky ground, ever since you put me down…” sang the Temptations and it resonates deeply with people of Wellington. We all know that our isles are shaky, and our city has the potential to be shaky in the extreme, but what we perhaps don’t know is just how shaky our particular patch of dirt is beneath our own two feet. I’ve been doing a bit more looking into this – starting with this post we blogged on Tsunami and then I found this other study, on Wellington’s rocky substrate. It’s quite an eye-opener.
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Review: Popcorn!
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington Reparatory Theatre’s newest offering is Popcorn, Ben Elton’s play.
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Kia Mau festival!
- The Wellingtonista
- The Kia Mau Festival started last week and is already racing along.
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Less death please and thank you: Thorndon Quay/Hutt Road submissions in quick!
- Talk Wellington
- Let’s Get Wellington Moving, our old frenemy. It’s popped out of the woodwork to ask for your thoughts on Thorndon Quay and Hutt Road. If you want to catch up on the Let’s Get Wellington Moving saga start here. Otherwise scroll right on ahead and get to submitting! Submissions close June 8th, 5pm.
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Thorndon Quay, Pipitea, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The 80s called and they’ve given their magazine back
- Wellington City Libraries
- Wellington City Libraries is bringing the past back to the future with the popular 1980s Wellington City Magazine now accessible online.
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