Blogs / November 2021
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The Summer Reading Adventure is here!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Know someone aged 5-13? From 1 December to 31 January, we’re inviting them to come on a Summer Reading Adventure where they’ll read books, explore the city and earn prizes!
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The Summer Reading Adventure is here!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Know someone aged 5-13? From 1 December to 31 January, we’re inviting them to come on a Summer Reading Adventure where they’ll read books, explore the city and earn prizes!
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Coming Soon! The Big Read: Potiki by Patricia Grace 7-21 December 2021
- Wellington City Libraries
- This December we have a very special treat for book lovers.
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Light Rail and Fresh Tunnels
- Eye of the Fish
- Let’s not pussyfoot around – Wellington needs a Rapid Transit system and that simply cannot be more buses. And it needs to be Rapid (like the name suggests) so it needs some new direct routes – that means new tunnels. Yes, plural: Tunnels.
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Cycling Network
- Eye of the Fish
- What is the Cycling network based upon? It’s a bit of a quandary to me, because while in the online discussion form the WCC the other day, the designers were claiming that they had been studying the situation for years, looking which areas to link to which other areas, and this was the first time that they had gone to the step of actually showing Roads linking them.
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Four upcoming submittals
- Eye of the Fish
- We are being asked to submit comments on four completely separate but highly important matters at the same time. If you thought that the run up to Christmas was getting tight for time this year, then get ready for it to be even more tight in terms of your time. Firstly, one you may not have been aware of: the proposal by KiwiRail and InterIslander to build new terminus stations in both Picton and Wellington, in order to tie in with the arrival of two new ferries due here in three years time. You can find out more about this proposal here. I’m not sure when they want the feedback by, but I’m sure that they want some feedback!
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Kaiwharawhara Point, Kaiwharawhara, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Play streets are a gateway drug to better streets for all – and it’s now easier to play!
- Talk Wellington
- Did you know there’s a human right for kids to play? From today, it’s finally going to get easier for anyone to get a Play Street happening in your neighbourhood. Hooray! Readers will be well aware of the importance of Play Streets to kids, communities, and the quality of urban life. And that right now...
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The eye and the turtle: students create posters with a personal connection for Te Papa
- Te Papa's blog
- Taita College students Ema Pasikala, Vika Tupou, Jaspreet Singh, Hunter Robinson, and Junior Misa with their posters, 2021. We’ve just pasted some eye-catching new posters around town, made by students from Taita College. Communications Advisor Sasha Borissenko and Senior Digital Editor Daniel Crichton-Rouse hear their stories. Next time you’re out and about in Wellington, there’s a chance you might spy a giant eye and a turtle. Take a closer look – they’re rich with detail.
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Review: Hole
- The Wellingtonista
- I’ve been on a reviewing spree this week, so I passed this one onto our lovely guest reviewer, who took up the mantle very well for his first time reviewing. Check out his piece below! – Hole is unbelievably charming. The play itself is cleverly written, utilizing the charm of the characters to get important […]
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Review: The Little Mermaid
- The Wellingtonista
- Somehow it’s nearly Christmas again, and that means Circa Theatre’s annual pantomime is back! I’ve been going every year since I moved to Wellington, and I’ve gotta say, it’s still a fantastic and very ridiculous experience. This time around, it’s The Little Mermaid, written once again by Circa stalwarts Simon Leary and Gavin Rutherford. It’s 3021 […]
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LGWM: 3 Big Flaws
- Eye of the Fish
- Hi all. It’s been a long time since I’ve posted (feels like it could be ten years). But I’m back to raise some major flaws with the LGWM plans because this has been a near and dear subject to me over the past 20 years. None of these flaws appear to be necessary compromises forced by cost or other constraints. And it appears we could fix them without additional cost. If we do fix them, we’ll have a much better transit network for Wellington. We won’t get a shot to do this over, so we should do it right.
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This Bill should NOT Pass
- Eye of the Fish
- At least, that seems to be the view of the vast majority of people commenting on the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Bill, (RMEHSOM), which is being rammed through Parliament with indecent haste. Haste so hasty in fact that the Environment Select Committee was sitting on Saturday, which also happened to be the most glorious hot Saturday of the summer so far. Most people and organisations said a version of the following:
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Review: Poprox Improv
- The Wellingtonista
- Poprox Improv is the brainchild of a bunch of Wellington theatre stalwarts: Pippa Drakeford-Croad, Dylan Hutton, Austin Harrison, Nina Hogg, Jonny Paul & Nino Raphael, and it is a show absolutely worthy of their talent. Performed for the first time this night at Miramar’s gorgeous new performance venue – Roxy Live (a glorious new space […]
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Roxy Cinema, 5, Park Road, Miramar, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Medium Density Residential Zone
- Eye of the Fish
- The Draft District Plan is up online and is calling for submissions. Consultation closes on 14 December. Many people will not have viewed it online,...
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More GOOD homes please: submission guide! 48 hours GO!
- Talk Wellington
- Big picture: more homes near stuff = good. But it’s still worth submitting cos the devil’s in the detail. Hot tips for a quick submission, >5min before Tuesday 11.59pm! It’s worth submitting in support, and asking for improvements. We’ve trawled the nerd networks to make this easy! Short on time and trust Talk Wellington’s kaupapa?...
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The only way is UP
- Eye of the Fish
- The only way is UP, baby, for you and me now… So sang Yaz and the Plastic Population back in the 80s, and it’s what...
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The Weight of a Thousand Oceans – review & giveaway
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington writers increasingly (and entirely justifiably) are viewing the ongoing climate disaster as a rich source of material for creating intriguing, imaginative speculative fiction. Based in future worlds where humanity has failed to stop a catastrophic, civilization-altering change in the climate system, these stories of what might be, if we don’t sort our shit out, […]
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The Ngaio Marsh Award winners 2021 revealed
- Wellington City Libraries
- Congratulations to the recently announced winners of the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Awards! The fabulous Wellington-based Brannavan Gnanalingam picked up the Best Novel accolade, with his novel Sprigs described by Radio NZ’s Kim Hill as a “scarily contemporary and realistic story… an extraordinary piece of writing.
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Ngaio, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Look Blue, Go Purple
- Eye of the Fish
- After many long years, LGWM have finally offered us 4 shiny new options for us Wellingtonians to savour and think about, bedecked in shiny new colours to match the LGWM logo. Its almost like they have been planning this event for years… So…. What this means is….
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