Blogs / September 2023
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Rainy day watching and listening fun
- Talk Wellington
- Some great city-building watching and listening we’ve been enjoying… PODCAST: Infrastructure construction, and how to f*ck up (spoiler: it’s quite easy!) There’s (rightfully) lots of noise at the moment about New Zealand’s staggering infrastructure deficit, and some really big talk about what big infrastructure things politicians promise they’ll build for us (especially the kinds of...
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Nelson Designer Takes Out WOW’s Top Award for Second Time
- The Wellingtonista
- Nelson Designer Gill Saunders was awarded The World of Wearable Art’s Supreme Award this Friday for her design, Earthling (pictured). Taking its inspiration from the rising popularity of adult colouring books and promoting mindfulness in a “world under increasing stress”, Earthling celebrates earth’s natural wonders in a beautifully crafted garment made from EVA foam, acrylic […]
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Countering misinformation & disinformation in our communities: power yourself up!
- Talk Wellington
- False information is really, *really* unhealthy and, unsurprisingly, it’s infiltrating the public discourse around even the most “no brainer” city changes.
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Don’t be resigned to renting being rubbish. It needn’t be!
- Talk Wellington
- Just your regular reminder that the munted way we do some things in New Zealand isn’t Just How It is. And, in fact, being better is straightforward! This is from a recent, generally cheerful update on the state of NZ’s housing market, where Ged Cann reports on a NZ Herald investigation of the impact of...
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Vote Housing
- Eye of the Fish
- You may have noticed that there is a general election coming up, and the amount of hot air increasing from all sides. Billed as the...
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Review: Mamma Mia!
- The Wellingtonista
- Te Auaha’s Musical Theatre cohort for 2023 is bringing Mamma Mia! to our shores this September, and we are all better for it. A spellbinding, fabulous version of Catherine Johnson/ABBA’s jukebox musical knocked my absolute socks off last night, and I’m seriously considering going back to see it again. You might have seen the 2008 […]
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Review: I Want To Be Happy
- The Wellingtonista
- I must confess, I’ve always been a fan of Joel Tobeck, so when I saw his name in the cast for ‘I Want To Be Happy,’ I was keen to check it out. Coupled with the promise of a surrealist premise exploring the parallel lives of a lab scientist and his guinea pig, I couldn’t […]
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Teeny local businesses…and what we need to make them common again
- Talk Wellington
- “Residential” zoning has a lot to answer for, including that thing where you have to get in the car and drive 10 minutes to fetch… anything. Little hyper-local neighbourhood businesses are great for 1,000 reasons so how do we let them come back? For a lovely summary of why tiny neighbourhood businessess are the best,...
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Locally-driven civics: talanoa-wānganga and citizens’ assembly on climate change
- Talk Wellington
- Another of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world Every pre-election season it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered, as the Heavy Hitters make grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. It’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most meaningful and tangible changes come locally. Driven...
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Public health & low carbon transport: what parties said
- Talk Wellington
- While the relationship between these might seem obvious to readers of Talk Wellington, public health researchers thought they’d ask political parties about this directly, and see what they said. The results are… We recently discovered that there’s a Public Health Communication Centre – how very useful! They’re doing a graet public service this election year:...
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Locally-driven civics: talanoa-wānanga and citizens’ assembly on climate change
- Talk Wellington
- Another of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world Every pre-election season it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered, as the Heavy Hitters make grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. It’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most meaningful and tangible changes come locally. Driven...
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Shells, not Shelly!
- Eye of the Fish
- Talk about a NewsFlash ! Wow – the Shelly Bay development, that no-one seemed to like or want, has just been cancelled. Not postponed, or...
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Shelly Bay, Shelly Bay Road, Maupuia, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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