Blogs / May 2022
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Children’s Programmes Returning at Orange!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Kia ora koutou! We are so excited to let you know that next week, from the 7th of June, some… Continue reading Children’s Programmes Returning at Orange! →
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Sex Workers of Aotearoa; A Day in the Life of exhibition
- The Wellingtonista
- Back for the fourth year in a row – Sex Workers of Aotearoa; A Day in the Life of – is an annual art exhibition in which all art has been created by current or past sex workers. The artwork is for sale, showcasing various mediums; photography, ink, paint, mixed media, cross-stitch, sculpture, poetry and more. The […]
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Launching City Voice: News you can use
- Wellington City Libraries
- One of Wellington’s most significant independent media outlets of the 1990s has been fully digitised and is now available to… Continue reading Launching City Voice: News you can use →
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Engineers
- Eye of the Fish
- Engineers – it’s time to stand up and be counted. I’m not sure if you lot in the Engineering crowd have noticed lately, but Aotearoa...
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Suburbia is subsidised: here’s the maths
- Talk Wellington
- Fun fact: Inner-city areas are subsidising suburbs – to the tune of hundreds of millions every year. A great video lays out this big fact that’s hidden in plain sight. Ahhh, the wide open spaces of the suburbs… Where the roads are generous, it’s easy to find a carpark, and you can have your very...
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On the buses
- Eye of the Fish
- I hesitate to even bother to post this, as the topic seems so small and the problem is so easily solved, but apparently the Busdriver’s Tramways Union has been “in discussions” for over 18 months on this topic, and they still don’t have an answer. Jesus wept. The incompetence of people in charge! It is all very solvable, for the price of less than $20. Present situation – with intolerably reflective white surfaces inside The problem, dear reader, is that the new buses, apparently only the electrically powered new buses, are “dangerous” at night as there are too many reflections, caused by bright lights inside the new buses, and the driver cannot safely see the road.
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What does decolonisation look like in our towns?
- Talk Wellington
- Heard of decolonisation? What about re-indigenisation? What do these mean for how we design our towns and why should we care? Here’s our crash course on everything you need to know! We’ve been thinking about decolonisation and what decolonising our spaces means. But we realise these are huge topics that can be intimidating. Still, we...
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Have a Gay Day! The 60th anniversary of Wellington’s Dorian Society
- Te Papa's blog
- Sixty years ago, on 27 May 1962, a group of sixteen men met at a house on The Terrace in central Wellington to discuss forming what would become New Zealand’s first documented homosexual organisation – the Dorian Society. Gareth Watkins shares more of the story of some of the peopleRead more
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Portals
- Eye of the Fish
- At the risk of raising the hackles of the designers of the revised Library design, who appear to have positioned an overly-large bedside table next to the beloved crinkly face of the Wellington Library, Te Matapihi, I’d like to explore the concept of “The Portal” a little further. I hope that you don’t mind. I used to call it the Portico, but I’ve been very firmly told that I am mistaken.
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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Comicify Your Life: ComicFest Art Competition Results
- Wellington City Libraries
- The big day is finally here, and the ComicFest 2022 livestream is in full swing as we write these words! In the lead-up to the launch of this programme, aspiring comic artists and illustrators from across Wellington submitted their finest and most creative works to our Comicify Your Life drawing competition.
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The housing crisis: how we made it, how we can fix it – in person!
- Talk Wellington
- An important report from Te Waihanga | the Infrastructure Commission shows that our current housing crisis didn’t have to be this way. Special treat: hear from Te Waihanga’s own experts at the next Urbanerds this Tuesday! The New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga released a report in March called “The Decline of Housing Supply in...
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Te Matapihi
- Eye of the Fish
- The unveiling of the scheme for the revised central Wellington Library has had an interesting effect. Some people have been shocked at the price, of...
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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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We need trees more than ever, but will that be enough?
- Talk Wellington
- Shady trees do wonders for cities, people and the climate. But are they enough to make a difference now? Trees aren’t the only form of urban greening, so what else can we do? As the climate warms, tree-planting is an obvious and attractive solution. But these initiatives can take 30 years or more to bear...
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Te Matapihi
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