Blogs / October 2023
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Review: Hansel & Gretel
- The Wellingtonista
- The RNZB’s Hansel & Gretel is back for an end of year sweet treat. This was my first ever ballet when I moved to Wellington, and it was an utter delight to get a chance to check it out again for this year’s iteration. Choregraphed and composed by my favourite RNZB duo, Loughlan Prior and […]
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Review: The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Wellingtonista
- Circa Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest has marked itself down as a fantastic retelling of my favourite non-New Zealand play, and an excellent night out besides. Staged in a thrust stage in Circa One, Jonathan Price’s directorial hand is evident as a play that is often so caught in (delightful) internal conversations is broadened […]
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More Town Hall
- Eye of the Fish
- Thanks to Greenwelly for alerting me to the substantial report on the WCC website, which is both exhausting, and fascinating. There will be a book...
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A tool to prevent gentrification?
- Talk Wellington
- Everyone wants their neighbourhood to be a better place to live, but how do you avoid the fundamental laws of the market forcing people out who’ve often lived and loved there for generations? One tool can help… Gentrification. It’s one of the few genuinely bad things about the otherwise process of making nicer places to...
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Listening recommendations! Housing and climate
- Talk Wellington
- Two killer podcast recommendations: a great myth busted, and some hard facts reiterated Both of these deserve their own “Review” post so if you’re keen to pen something please sing out! The great housing supply myth Also known as the conventional wisdom of “housing is incredibly expensive because there’s a supply shortage so we just need...
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Leslie Adkin’s Excursion to Kāpiti Island
- Te Papa's blog
- Leslie Adkin (1888–1964) was a farmer by profession, based in Levin.
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Kapiti Island, Kāpiti Coast District, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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City future-making: get amongst it this Thursday!
- Talk Wellington
- Another great local thing to light up your post-election world Every election season, regardless of your views of the parties, it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered: it’s all about the Heavy Hitters making grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. So it’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most...
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Review: Ruthless
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Talia Carlisle “Where does talent come from?” This is the key question asked by character Sylvia St. Croix (Bea Lee-Smith) in Kauri Theatre’s talent-full production of Ruthless at Gryphon Theatre on until Saturday. The show, directed by Bonita Edwards is brimming with talent from Bea Lee-Smith’s sequin covered entrance. There’s cheerful dance numbers, […]
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Rule of Thumb
- Eye of the Fish
- I have no idea why, but we appear to have elected someone who likes to use his thumb. Perhaps over-use his thumb. So, i think...
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Niue Language Week Storytime – Friday 20 October
- Wellington City Libraries
- This week, from Sunday 15 October to Saturday 21 October, we are celebrating Faahi Tapu he Vagahau Niue | Niue Language… Continue reading Niue Language Week Storytime – Friday 20 October →
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Review: A Bit Dramatic
- The Wellingtonista
- This show was incredibly popular and got reviewed multiple times during the Improv Fest! Check out a variety of those reviews below. – Reviewed by Thalia Kehoe Rowden In an intense, moving 60-minute show, the cast of four take inspiration from real-life journal entries – unseen until the performance – and invent and explore the […]
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Review: NO SLEEP
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Rebecca Stubbing. Friday the 13th was the perfect occasion for NO SLEEP, a joyfully chaotic improv show presented at this year’s New Zealand Improv Festival. The show began at 9:30pm on the wonderful Stage at BATS Theatre, and the slightly sleepy audience were immediately reassured by the performers not to worry, we were […]
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Election Day
- Eye of the Fish
- As I write, and possibly while you read, we are still on Voting Day, although this awful weather will probably keep many people away from...
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Vote your power for better urban New Zealand!
- Talk Wellington
- For your empowered voting enjoyment… We hear at Talk Wellington that you our readers appreciate us being really unequivocal and evidence-based about urban policy and whether it’ll make for fairer, more sustainable, more prosperous towns and cities and people. We’re into it, whoever’s proposing it! So, dear urban citizens of Te Upoko o te Ika and 84%...
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Dense Hutt
- Eye of the Fish
- In all the fun and fuss over things like the Election, the country’s love affair / hatred of Winston (there is something very 1984 about Winston being the BiG Brother watching over us / controlling our every move), we (well, me) may have taken our eye off the ball. Well, not the ball, but the Hutt. It seems that the Hutt has fully adopted the MDRS changes proposed by the Government, to the extent that all the following things, which were proposed, have now been implemented, and are now operative. This includes some revisions to the Proposed District Plan, and there are many pages that look like this (only usually more words and less diagrams).
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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It’s a news roundup!
- Talk Wellington
- There’s just been a lot happening in the Wellington region in the last few weeks. Here’s stuff that may’ve slipped past your nose… In no particular order… It’s actually real! The Golden Mile revitalisation is officially underway! Cities and neighbourhoods: they’re complex ecosystems, they’re always changing – nice piece on incomings and outgoings in Te...
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City space: for some, for all, for a while: great event this Tuesday
- Talk Wellington
- LettingSpace was an extraordinary phenomenon and there’s now a book about it. So first: enjoy learning about LettingSpace, and then: go to the book launch! It’s good for everyone when street-facing commercial property in city centres is actively used – because vacanct premises are the lowkey Dementors of street life, chilling the soul and sucking...
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Taxes, rates, value and land: Common Ground Aotearoa
- Talk Wellington
- Rates, taxes and whatnots: are there better options than New Zealand’s current system of getting money to fund public services like pipes? Post from Common Ground Aotearoa, nerdy advocates for a better way Principles of taxation and how our rates system stacks up Principles of taxation When determining how to raise revenue, governments should try...
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Town Hall rebuild costs go sky high
- Eye of the Fish
- As far as cost blowouts go, this is a big one, and heads should roll. We here at the Fish have written about the old...
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Wellington Town Hall, 109, Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Digby/Woolf Project is wrapping up…
- Te Papa's blog
- For almost two years, Te Papa has been digitising the Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf collection of photographic negatives. Now the project has reached the end of its funding, here's some highlights from the current team members. Read more
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