Blogs / July 2024
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Wet Wet Wetlington
- Talk Wellington
- Wellington winter means lots of water. Falling from the sky, and then being all around us… and being all up in our face where we don’t want it. Aaaand we’re going to get it more intensely. So what can we do? Well, hello there rain! How are you doing? Are you ready to surprise us...
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Mr Penk, Parliament, and pandering to Practitioners
- Eye of the Fish
- Following on from the last post (different tune to the Last Post, if you know what I mean), as promised, I went along to Parliament...
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Paris beckons
- Eye of the Fish
- Like many of you, I woke early on Saturday morning to watch the start of the Olympic Games in Paris. Sunny pink sky down here...
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Review: Hine Te Rēhia
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s a chilly winter day in Pōneke, but the joy from the audience surrounding me and my theatre-going companion could warm the most cynical of souls. We’re here to see Hine Te Rēhia, a gorgeous piece of theatre by Auckland-based Tutatara Collective, and the mood in the room is unbelievably high. Forgive my lack of […]
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Derelict on Main Street: property laws, heritage, upkeep, and vibrancy
- Talk Wellington
- A small but important ball has started rolling: moves to allow councils to sort out buildings in their centres whose neglect is bringing the vibe down. But instead of plodding along, NZ could jump to some good practice that’s already live… We all know the thing: a main street which should be a bustling, buzzing...
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H1 or Undone?
- Eye of the Fish
- Apologies for the absence – I’m been busy / away / unwell / take your pick. I just have worn myself out and can’t stand...
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The Grid – New Digital Art Space
- The Wellingtonista
- Written by Nadia Freeman Wellington’s newest and potentially first digital art space opened this month, and I am deeply appreciative of the entrepreneurial spirit of Shannon Brosnahan Inglis and Delainy Jamahl. In an era when investment in the arts is dwindling, launching a venture of this scale and quality is inspiring. Initiatives like this infuse […]
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Meet Pepper Racoon – what a ratbag!
- The Wellingtonista
- 1. Hello, who are you and what do you do? I’m Pepper Raccoon and I’m an artist and merch designer inspired by nature, magic, and internet culture. I design my own affordable art products, and produce a lot of them in my home studio as well, and have been in business for 8 years selling […]
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Best of the week 7-14 July 2024
- The Wellingtonista
- Here’s what’s good and Wellington-related this week! Best book that every Wellingtonian should read because I just did and wow Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam. This has sat neglected on my bookshelf for far too long after it came out in 2017, but as our public transport gets worse, terrible weather events get more frequent […]
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Best of the last little while – June 2024
- The Wellingtonista
- Hey, guess who’s been too busy with other brain things to update this for a while? That’d be me. But let’s not waste time on it. Here’s the best things for a while. Best behaved weather of the week Nice weather on a public holiday allowing us to sit outside around a fire and set […]
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