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• • Review: The Look Of Love

    • 25 Jan 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I’ve seen Ali Harper before, at Old St Paul’s in 2012, and I was struck by her humour and professionalism then.
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• • A couple of new(ish) bars

    • 19 Jan 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Hey, remember when we used to be on top of all the openings and closings in town and filled with reviews? Yeah me neither.
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• • Family-owned Naumi Hotels open Naumi Studio Hotel on Cuba Street

    • 3 Dec 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • There’s been a hotel on Cuba Street for as long as I can remember.
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• • Preview: The Slutcracker

    • 18 Nov 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • image credit Jason Aldous From School For Gifted Children, and the creator of Change Your Own Life comes a new queer ballet for Christmas.
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• • Preview: Ubu sux

    • 12 Nov 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • It’s citizen versus everything in this totally original, entirely reimagined adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s classic avant-garde satire Ubu Rex.
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• • Preview: Girl in the loft

    • 2 Nov 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Girl in the loft is a solo show by Katherine Wyeth.
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• • Preview: Routine Magic-Magic Routine

    • 2 Nov 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Routine magic – Will Aloysius abandon ritualistic powers acquired during his 10 year social isolation? Magic routine – Can YouTube Influencer Ant Hill find sufficient inner harmony to open a life-changing envelope? This pair of plays, utilising the same set and actors, tell two timely and compelling stories.
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• • Review: The Human Voice (La Voix Humaine; NZO season)

    • 31 Oct 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • TW:  Suicide, overdose, trauma I reviewed a production of La Voix Humaine in February.
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• • Lōemis Festival’s Harmonic Tree

    • 28 Sep 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The Harmonic Tree is a new artwork / musical instrument resembling an exotic plant, with steel strings, percussive fruit and berries.
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• • Preview: New Zealand Improv Festival 2020

    • 24 Sep 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Every year improvisers gather in Wellington to celebrate the New Zealand Improv Festival (NZIF), but this year improvisors from overseas have been COVID-19-blocked.
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• • Preview: The Glitter Garden

    • 22 Sep 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The Glitter Garden is a drag musical extravaganza for kids featuring dazzling outfits and fierce lip syncing.
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• • Review: PLAY

    • 5 Sep 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • It’s strange to be back in a place like BATS during times like these, but I’m very pleased I went along to see PLAY, a gay dating dramedy here from Auckland.
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• • Review: PSA – Election 2020

    • 26 Aug 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Has it really been a year since I last reviewed an interation of Public Service Announcements? Apparently so.
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• • Drink beer, support the arts with Garage Project Ghost Light beer

    • 25 Aug 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Wellington based independent brewery Garage Project has released a new beer to support NZ theatres and live performing arts.
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• • Preview: Ecology in Fifths

    • 18 Aug 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Award-winning director and performance designer Sam Trubridge is bringing a bold new performance to Te Whaea this August.
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• • That’s All She Wrote – Review

    • 13 Aug 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I’ve  found myself in a very lovely, very privileged, and deeply uncomfortable space.
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• • Interview Feature: Venus Rising

    • 10 Aug 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I sat down with Katherine Minor, a soloist with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, to discuss rehearsing during COVID lockdown, what it’s like being back in the studio, and the RNZB’s upcoming Venus Rising tour.
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• • Review: Dungeoning and Dragoning

    • 27 Jul 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The show is exactly thus – four great actors playing Dungeons and Dragons on stage, led by an eminently likeable DM.
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• • A Definitive Ranking of Some of Wellington’s Most Cursed Locations

    • 24 Jul 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Cursed places.
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• • Sunday Sessions at TTE

    • 4 Jul 2020
    • Wellington Jazz Cooperative
    • Featured composer: Duke EllingtonHouse Band: Callum Allardice (g), Thomas Botting (b), Mark Lockett (d)Date and time: Sunday, 5 July 2020, 2-4pmVenue: The Third Eye, 30 Arthur Street, Te Aro Koha
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• • Sunday Sessions at TTE

    • 27 Jun 2020
    • Wellington Jazz Cooperative
    • Featured composer: Joe HendersonHouse Band: Ayrton Foote (p), Seth Boy (b), Mark Lockett (d)Date and time: Sunday, 28 June 2020, 2-4pmVenue: The Third Eye, 30 Arthur Street, Te Aro Koha
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• • DocEdge: Mr Toilet review

    • 17 Jun 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • “Turning poop culture into pop culture is the fastest way to solve the sanitation crisis.
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• • School leavers to watch in 2020

    • 13 Jun 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: Fulltime in last season’s Wellington First XV final, won by Scots College. PHOTO: Andy McArthur.   By Adam Julian, Steven White and Scott MacLean Remarkably the 2019 Hurricanes Under 18 squad featured nine players from Scots College and just a single boy from traditional powerhouses Wellington College and St Patrick’s College, Silverstream. What does...
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• • Review: It’s Behind You!

    • 3 Jun 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • We’ve all had terrible Zoom calls over lockdown.
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• • bring me the food

    • 27 Apr 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Lunch at Leeds Street Bakery, in happier times.
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• • The City Gallery Pub Quiz

    • 26 Apr 2020
    • City Gallery
    • Which New Zealand artist painted herself as a smoking modern woman in 1937? Who had joined her on a painting trip to remote Cass the previous year? In 1941, who wrote the manifesto ‘Individual Happiness Now’ with British writer Robert Graves? In 1947, who wrote ‘New Zealand’s Oldest Art Galleries’ and what were they? What is New Zealand’s oldest (conventional) public art gallery? In 1948, who said McCahon’s work ‘might pass as graffiti on the walls of some celestial lavatory’?  When did McCahon move to Auckland to work at Auckland City Art Gallery? Who was Director of the Gallery back then? When did Bill Culbert leave New Zealand? Who was born Barrie Bates? When did he go blond? When did Peter McLeavey open his Wellington gallery? Who curated New Zealand Māori Culture and the Contemporary Scene in 1966? Who said: ‘My work is an investigation of positive/negative relationships within a deliberately limited range of forms.’ Where and when did he first show his koru paintings? Who was Otago University’s first Hodgkins Fellow? When was Gordon Brown and Hamish Keith’s book New Zealand Painting: An Introduction first published? Of whose work was it said: ‘When you offer only three vertical lines precisely drawn and set into a dark pool of lacquer it is a visual kind of starvation’. Who wrote that? What was the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s opening show? Who was its Director? When was Ngā Puna Waihanga formed? What was it? When was the first issue of Art New Zealand published? Whose work was on the cover? Who painted Drinking Couple: Fraser Analysing My Words? And who was Fraser? Where did Jeffrey Harris go to art school? When did Richard Killeen make his first cutout? Who was crucified in Christchurch the same year? When did Wellington City Art Gallery open and who was the Director? What was his last job? What was ANZART? Has Marina Abramovic ever performed publicly in New Zealand? When did Wellington’s Women’s Gallery open? That year, to where did Robin White and her family relocate? What’s White’s religion? And what’s her tribal affiliation? Auckland art dealer Gary Langsford played guitar in which famous New Zealand band? When and where did Te Māori open? At Art in Dunedin in 1984, who made music using his own dripping urine? Who made Gates of the Goddess: A Southern Crossing Attended by the Goddess and when? What was it made of? Cass Altarpiece has been described as ‘expressionism with nothing to express’. Who painted it? What Christchurch artist based much of her work on alchemy and kabbalism? Who depicted herself as a rat and a tiger? When did Auckland’s Artspace open? How many buildings has it occupied?  What New Zealand artist featured in the show Magiciennes de la Terre in Paris in 1989. What do Marlene Cubewell and Merit Groting have in common? Which Lyttelton artist had a game-changing experience in the subantarctic? What did The Active Eye, Views/Exposures, and Imposing Narratives have in common? In Views/Exposures, who presented five identical images of his own naked torso? Who dressed-up her Uncle Hugh (then suffering from dementia) to restage a series of iconic historical photos?  Which artist died at Waitangi aged 50, the day after the 1990 Waitangi Day celebrations? Who did his pe’a? Who photographed him getting it? With him, which two other expressionist painters comprised the Militant Artists Union? How old were both Clairmont and Giovanni Intra when they died? In 1992, who based the design of his exhibition catalogue cover after the one for the Nazis’ 1937 Degenerate Art show? In 1994, Hamilton city councillor Russ Rimmington was reported in the media saying: ‘I’ve got a mind as broad as a Roman sewer, but this is just sleaze.’ What was he describing? In 1997 who ‘stole’ McCahon’s Urewera Triptych and why? How did they hide it? Where did they steal it from? Who designed that building? What photobook was described as ‘a charismatic exposé of the hideous truths and self-conscious mythologies of unemployed psychopaths who frequent Verona cafe and actually believe in drag’. Who said it? When did New Zealand start going to the Venice Biennale? Who did we send? What was the Bart Wells Institute? Yvonne Todd won the inaugural Walters Prize in 2002. Who was the judge and what the name of her winning photographic series? What did Pakuranga’s Fisher Gallery and Titirangi’s Lopdell House become? Who was in the hot seat longest: Paula Savage as Director of City Gallery Wellington or Chris Saines as Director of Auckland Art Gallery?  When did Bill Culbert represent New Zealand in the Venice Biennale? In recent years, Christchurch Art Gallery acquired five ‘significant’ works by Martin Creed, Antony Gormley, Ron Mueck, Michael Parekōwhai, and Bridget Riley. Why five? Who won the Walters Prize in 2016 for a video where he talked to animals? Who has been the Herald’s art critic for over fifty years and is known for wearing a cape? What group protested Luke Willis Thompson’s inclusion in the 2018 Turner Prize? Answers here.
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• • Review: Bay’s Anatomy

    • 15 Mar 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I once again embarked on the odyssey that seems to be one of Kickin’ Rad/Soap Factory’s Fringe schticks these days – an improvised soap opera, set in Wellington, with a cast of ten and new episodes on the hour every hour from 1-11pm.
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• • Sunday Sessions at TTE

    • 14 Mar 2020
    • Wellington Jazz Cooperative
    • Featured composer: Ahmad JamalHouse Band: George Maclaurin (p), Chris Beernink (b), Mark Lockett (d)Date and time: Sunday, 15 Mar 2020, 2-4pmVenue: The Third Eye, 30 Arthur Street, Te Aro Koha
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• • Review – Oddacity

    • 9 Mar 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Oddacity promised an “award-winning, best-of spectacular with a cast of international luminaries performing stylish acts”, under the beautiful skylight in Bats’ Heyday Dome.
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• • Review: DND Live at the Fringe: When Dwarves Cry

    • 8 Mar 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I wouldn’t necessarily say that Dungeons and Dragons has gone mainstream, but it’s become a lot more popular in the last twenty years.
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