Blogs / October 2022
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Tūhono 2022 for Kids and Teens – submit a poem!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Tūhono, Wellington City Libraries’ poetry journal for children and teens, is now open for submissions! All throughout the month of November, we will be accepting submissions of poetry from young writers aged 5 – 18 in Wellington City. Know someone who might be interested? Read more below! About Tūhono 2022 – send us a poem!
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Making Space
- Eye of the Fish
- Elizabeth Cox’s book Making Space – A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture is a treasure trove of information, that I suspect will take...
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Newtown Artist Basia Smolnicki’s Studio Q+A for ‘Proof’
- Wellington City Libraries
- In the lead up to our ‘Proof’ Book Launch + Artist Talk, we chatted to some of the Wellington based… Continue reading Newtown Artist Basia Smolnicki’s Studio Q+A for ‘Proof’ →
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Karori Library, Karori Road, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Who should pay for what, so we and stuff can get around?
- Talk Wellington
- Who pays for what is always a really vexed question. The Ministry of Transport is trying to “input crowd… output insight” right now, and you should have your 2c by 4th November! Because we’ve funded much of our transport system from a tax on petrol and diesel, as we (finally) start to reduce the amount...
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Author Talk and Book Launch: Renée, Jennifer Lane & Anne Harré
- Wellington City Libraries
- Nefarious Novels at Newtown A rare opportunity to hear three of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most outstanding crime writers: Renée, Jennifer… Continue reading Author Talk and Book Launch: Renée, Jennifer Lane & Anne Harré →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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VERB Readers and Writers Festival, 2-6 Nov
- Wellington City Libraries
- The wonderful Verb Readers and Writers Festival is one of the highlights of the literary year, and this year’s incarnation … Continue reading VERB Readers and Writers Festival, 2-6 Nov →
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Bringing cars up to our level: How crossing design gives cars the power
- Talk Wellington
- Different countries handle crossing the road differently: some with ease and others chaotically. Wherever you are there are subtle ways crossings communicate who’s entering whose domain. This video from Not Just Bikes shows how crossing design makes streets dangerous where it doesn’t have to be. Depending on where you are, crossing the street can be...
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Integrated ticketing for public transport: eavesdropping on nerds
- Talk Wellington
- At long (looooooong) last, Wellington’s getting integrated electronic ticketing for our PT. And soon a nationwide system will replace it! Is it all worth it? We had a great time nerdily eavesdropping on an even nerdier Twitter debate, with some interesting takes on nationwide integrated ticketing, public transport operating costs, and government procurement. (For a...
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Law for Lunch this November!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Throughout November we’re hosting a series of informal legal sessions with lawyers from Community Law Wellington & Hutt Valley, who will… Continue reading Law for Lunch this November! →
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Review: Pudgy Mediocre White Men Solve Your Problems
- The Wellingtonista
- A whiteboard greets us at the top of the stairs of BATS’ Dome Theatre. 10am – Dancing with Craig (R18). It reads. 1.45pm – Knitting with Craig (R18), then 8pm – Dave & Bryan Impov Thing. And that is what we’re here to see (though I am particularly taken by the concept of 12.45pm – Autopsy for Beginners.) We’re at […]
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Board Games at Arapaki Library
- Wellington City Libraries
- Come along to a lunchtime board games session at Arapaki Library, Friday 21 October from 12 – 2pm. Whether you’re… Continue reading Board Games at Arapaki Library →
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Arapaki Manners Library and Service Centre, 12, Manners Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Thomas Kirk’s new species of Veronica from Newtown Park, Wellington in 1896
- Te Papa's blog
- Recently the Botany team at Te Papa dedicated a week to curating several boxes of plant specimens – we called it the Botany Blitz! Our aim was to crack open boxes that have been patiently waiting – months, years, or in some cases decades – to be processed and databased.
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Newtown Park, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New collection at Waitohi: Songbooks and scores
- Wellington City Libraries
- We’ve moved a selection of our songbooks and musical scores from storage to Waitohi Johnsonville Library, next to our Tūhura… Continue reading New collection at Waitohi: Songbooks and scores →
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Johnsonville Library, 34, Moorefield Road, Johnsonville, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Let’s Get Wellington Moving… in the 1920s
- Wellington City Libraries
- A century ago, the Wellington City Council was dealing with similar issues to those facing planners today: how to manage… Continue reading Let’s Get Wellington Moving… in the 1920s →
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House the People! Tune into the webinar tonight!
- Talk Wellington
- Come along to the free webinar tonight (13/10/2022) at 6:30 pm! A talented panel will discuss our current crisis, lessons from overseas and what we need to secure quality affordable homes for our communities. Join us tonight for a fantastic online panel discussion, House the People! The event is free and starts at 6:30 pm,...
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South Asian Voices: Diwali celebration at Johnsonville Library
- Wellington City Libraries
- To celebrate Diwali, Wellington City Libraries and The Cuba Press have brought together some of Aotearoa’s finest award-winning writers to… Continue reading South Asian Voices: Diwali celebration at Johnsonville Library →
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Johnsonville Library, 34, Moorefield Road, Johnsonville, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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South Asian Voices: Diwali celebration at Newtown Library
- Wellington City Libraries
- To celebrate Diwali, Wellington City Libraries and The Cuba Press have brought together some of Aotearoa’s finest award-winning writers to… Continue reading South Asian Voices: Diwali celebration at Newtown Library →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Tory Party
- Eye of the Fish
- Celebrate! Well done Wellington, for electing a fresh, new, young Maori woman Mayor, Tory Whanau – and farewell and thank you to Andy Foster, for...
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Review: Macbeth
- The Wellingtonista
- I went into Macbeth at the St James completely cold – I know Verdi’s later operas, including his later Shakespeare operas; Otello and Falstaff. But I’ve somehow missed Macbeth, and decided to keep it that way, I guess because it’s so exciting to go into something completely fresh and new, even if it was written […]
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Review: Effy
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Lox Dixon. Presented as a part of the TAHI Festival, 2022. Effy is a piece of physical theatre performed by a masked actor, and featuring no verbal communication. The show takes place in what ostensibly looks like a public park. A rubbish bin sits on one side of the stage, an old wooden […]
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MOVIES: dive into cool places
- Talk Wellington
- two/fiftyseven welcomes you to a free film series on the places we live, our relationship to them, and how we make them our own Wellington’s grooviest collaborative space – above Unity Books – is showing some ace movies! The next one is Wed Oct 19th – short NZ films about our place. November’s is called Ever...
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Better growing, everybody! Direction-setting in a messy environment
- Talk Wellington
- Greater Wellington is setting its Regional Policy Statement, with some bold direction-setting. It needs and deserves a general thumbs up from us the citizenry – do it by 14th! TL; DR – tell me what to do while I wait for my coffee Good onya. Scroll to our faithful friend, the typing cat! Greater Wellington...
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Review: Title & Deed
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Lox Dixon. Presented as a part of TAHI Festival, 2022. I’m going to make an earnest effort to mention the writing as little as possible in this review because that’s not really the point and everyone probably knows by now that Will Eno is a phenomenal writer. That said, the beauty of this […]
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Ask the Experts – Librarian Recommendations
- Wellington City Libraries
- Recently I took a poll of our library staff asking what books they absolutely loved, whether they were recent reads… Continue reading Ask the Experts – Librarian Recommendations →
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Increased seismic rankings
- Eye of the Fish
- The news was only out yesterday, and briefly mentioned on the news, but I have a horrible feeling that this is going to have a...
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Review: HATCH
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Jules Daniel. Presented by TAHI: New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance, HATCH is an opportunity for five emerging student artists from Te Auaha, Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, and Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington to showcase and develop their work further. The mahi of a program with a kaupapa to […]
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Macawa ni Vosa Vakaviti: Fijian Language Week 2022
- Wellington City Libraries
- Fijian Language Week is Sunday 2 October – Saturday 8 October 2022. This is a chance to celebrate the Fijian… Continue reading Macawa ni Vosa Vakaviti: Fijian Language Week 2022 →
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Buckets of money vs real world change: transport edition
- Talk Wellington
- Money and effort goes in, lots of good sounding words are crafted, then… some strange stuff happens on the ground. What’s going on? GreaterAuckland’s Heidi O’Callaghan takes a look into the machinery This month we’re hearing a lot from wannabe local leaders about “doing this or that with transport money”, including “we’ll pressure Waka Kotahi...
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Go on, do the vote thing
- Talk Wellington
- This is a post from your friendly editor Isabella. If you’re like me, you’re putting off voting cos it’s complex and a bit depressing. This post gives you a broad steer, and some top tips. Go on, do the vote thing! A top tip from all voting advice is: have a broad sense of the...
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