Blogs / March 2023
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St Gerard’s new owners
- Eye of the Fish
- Great news this week that at long last the venerable St Gerard’s monastery has been sold. Long seen as one of the true icons of Wellington architecture and the focus of many tourist snaps, St Gerard’s church was started first way back in 1908 by the catholic Redemptorists (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer) to a design by John Swan and then added to in 1932 by an almost twin structure of monastery, poised on the flanks of Mount Victoria. It is a symbiotic pairing of the architecture of two of New Zealand’s greatest ecclesiastical architects – both John Swan and Frederick de Jersey Clere. Swan and Clere worked together, but it is rare to see their work side by side like this. More recently it has been owned by the Institute for World Evangelisation – the ICPE Mission.
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St Gerard's monastery, Hawker Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Young girls and femmes in the city: visible yet forgotten
- Talk Wellington
- Cities can easily forget about or fail to serve certain groups of people; one of those is young people. Young girls and femmes learn to navigate the city in a unique way. What can we do to create spaces that work for and keep this demographic safe? We often try to give some insight into...
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Review: The Best is Yet to Come
- The Wellingtonista
- Featured Image Graphic designer: Jared Pallesen Featured Image Photographer: Leoluchino Linumus The performance style for The Best is Yet to Come has a little bit of everything autobiography, ted talk, magic show and queer inspirational guidance. Adorned in wonderfully sparkling nails and gems across his forehead, Jeremy Rolston opened the show with some guidance […]
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Say Yes to sensible street changes (Kate Sheppard would approve)
- Talk Wellington
- There’s humble and sensible proposals to make Thorndon and Kilbirnie a little bit friendlier for people, rather than just cars. The suffragettes didn’t do all that hard work for nothing: as onto-it citizens who now have a voice, put in your Yes by 5pm Monday 27th March! Long overdue, there’s finally some movement to make...
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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15-minute cities (the latest conspiracy?)
- Talk Wellington
- If we didn’t know it already, humans are able to be afraid of the strangest things. The 15-minute neighbourhood is the latest and out of a morbid curiosity, we wondered how people are able to be scared of “have good life without needing car”… This is one of the typical videos we’ve found. A journalist...
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Mana taonga in action: Cyclone Gabrielle recovery in Ngāti Kahungunu
- Te Papa's blog
- Iwi and hapū in regions affected by Cyclone Gabrielle suffered damage to marae, urupā, and taonga – some irrevocable – causing long-term impacts on these communities. Te Papa staff had their boots on the ground to help out at four marae in Ngāti Kahungunu. Here, they share their kōrero.Read more
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A tasting plate: superb satire, bodies for buses, and wicked webinars
- Talk Wellington
- There’s heaps of good stuff recently, enjoy! Wicked Webinars! When we change (a little bit) the money and direction going in at the Very Top Of The Transport System, does anything change on the ground? Researchers have analysed the effect of the 2018 Government Policy Statement on Transport and … well, we’re agog to hear...
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Review: Concept for a Film
- The Wellingtonista
- A Beautiful Harmony of Theatre, Music and So Mush Spore. I loved the novel format of storytelling that ‘Concept for a Film’ delivered. The scene opens with Max Barton, sitting at a desk that faces the audience, reading out the script for a film. These readings are intermittently dispersed with many disruptions including phone calls […]
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Dying or just tired?
- Eye of the Fish
- I was really puzzled by the article in the Dom Post in the weekend featuring local architect Angela Foster claiming that Wellington was an “expensive...
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Review: The Sensemaker
- The Wellingtonista
- Produced by ‘Woman’s Move’ from Switzerland and co-directed by choreographers Elsa Couvreur and Iona D’Annunzio. The Sensemaker starts as a clever and understated comedy that uses dance, movement and sound as its main devices. Theatre like this is at its best when minimal and perfectly timed, which is a key strength of The Sensemaker. The […]
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