https://wellington.gen.nz/featured/geotagged Geotagged Featured newsitems https://wellingtonista.com/2024/08/21/review-lizzie/ By Talia Carlisle Have you ever heard someone scream bloody murder? It’s worth cutting down the door to watch LIZZIE, the rocking hit musical by WITCH Music Theatre, where murder sounds hellishly good…. This punk rock’n’rollercoaster will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. So tighten your corset and quieten […] theatre reviews performingarts blogs featured Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2024/08/21/review-lizzie/ The Wellingtonista 2024-08-20T00:00:00Z -41.2903115 174.78053749067737 Circa Theatre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2024/06/21/meet-the-creatives-behind-hine-te-rehia/ Presented by Tuatara Collective, HINE-TE-RĒHIA is a multilingual theatre experience coming to BATS Theatre in July. Devised, created and performed by an all-female BIPOC cast, this exciting show promises to leave you gasping in awe of their talent. I had the chance to interview Jason Te Mete (previous deviser/director), Tāwera Ormsby (co-Kaiwhakahaere of Tuatara Collective) […] theatre tuatara performingarts animals blogs featured Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2024/06/21/meet-the-creatives-behind-hine-te-rehia/ The Wellingtonista 2024-06-21T00:00:00Z -41.293595249999996 174.7846181 BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2024/06/17/best-of-the-week-9-16-june-2016/ Best contribution to society The monthly Repair Cafe at Ngaio Union Church. How cool to have a big room full of incredibly competent humans dedicated to helping others for free (you can contribute koha and if you don’t have coins, ask them for their bank account number). I took a record player and was not […] ngaio places blogs featured Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2024/06/17/best-of-the-week-9-16-june-2016/ The Wellingtonista 2024-06-17T00:00:00Z -41.2482852 174.778291 Ngaio, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2024/02/20/review-goody-goody-glam-pop/ Reviewed by Talia Carlisle Get ready to shake it, to the fabulous rhymes and sick beat of Goody Goody Glam Pop at Circus Bar for one more night! Bethany Miller’s transformation into pop superstar Brooklyn Brooklyn of Brooklyn is Disney magic to behold as she shares her most pop-ular songs – Back to Back, Breathless, […] brooklyn theatre places performingarts blogs featured Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2024/02/20/review-goody-goody-glam-pop/ The Wellingtonista 2024-02-19T00:00:00Z -41.3068649 174.7620585 Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2022/09/22/review-krishnans-dairy/ Review by Talia Carlisle. A wise man once told me that real loves grows, and so does my love of Indian Ink’s now legendary tale of Krishnan’s Dairy that wound up its final season in Wellington this week. The production is a well polished gem in the crown of creative team Jacob Rajan and Justin […] te-papa theatre museumsandgalleries art performingarts blogs featured Thu, 22 Sep 2022 01:31:47 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2022/09/22/review-krishnans-dairy/ The Wellingtonista 2022-09-22T01:31:47Z -41.2903326 174.78192750276241 Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2022/09/07/review-back-to-square-one/ Reviewed by Shona Jaunas Back to Square One invites you into conversation between 95 year old Inga’s living room in Denmark and her grandson, Anders Falstie-Jensen in New Zealand. It starts with the audience all writing their names on the stage front in chalk which immediately brings us into the space; we are all involved […] theatre reviews performingarts blogs featured Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2022/09/07/review-back-to-square-one/ The Wellingtonista 2022-09-06T00:00:00Z -41.2903115 174.78053749067737 Circa Theatre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2022/08/30/review-skin-tight/ Skin Tight is my favourite ever play and I’ve been wanting to see it performed since I first read it. Circa Theatre did not disappoint with their iteration of this show; a gloriously evocative piece with incredible staging, performances and movement. The play is not just a love story to its characters – and the highs […] theatre reviews performingarts blogs featured Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2022/08/30/review-skin-tight/ The Wellingtonista 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z -41.2903115 174.78053749067737 Circa Theatre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2021/12/07/review-illegally-blind/ Now, I’m literally in this show so I figured probably not the best for me to review it. This week we’ve got the lovely Cordy Black writing some kind words! The experience starts in the foyer, after a ritual of scanning and phone-waving – the default programme for Illegally Blind is presented to the visitor […] reviews theatre performingarts blogs featured Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2021/12/07/review-illegally-blind/ The Wellingtonista 2021-12-07T00:00:00Z -41.293588099999994 174.784621840609 BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2021/11/18/review-poprox-improv/   Poprox Improv is the brainchild of a bunch of Wellington theatre stalwarts: Pippa Drakeford-Croad, Dylan Hutton, Austin Harrison, Nina Hogg, Jonny Paul & Nino Raphael, and it is a show absolutely worthy of their talent. Performed for the first time this night at Miramar’s gorgeous new performance venue – Roxy Live (a glorious new space […] miramar theatre places performingarts blogs featured Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2021/11/18/review-poprox-improv/ The Wellingtonista 2021-11-18T00:00:00Z -41.3158392 174.8162766 Roxy Cinema, 5, Park Road, Miramar, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2021/06/22/things-are-getting-surreal-at-te-papa/ We might be stuck in New Zealand for a while, but that doesn’t mean the world can’t come to us (especially if they’re rich, apparently). That’s the cool thing about the new exhibition Surrealist Art: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen He Toi Pohewa: He Toi Marupō o Muhiama o Boijmans Van Beuningen. You’ll get a slice of Europe last century and get to get out of the wind of Wellington all at the same time. te-papa exhibitions museumsandgalleries art blogs featured Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2021/06/22/things-are-getting-surreal-at-te-papa/ The Wellingtonista 2021-06-22T00:00:00Z -41.2903326 174.78192750276241 Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2020/12/03/family-owned-naumi-hotels-open-naumi-studio-hotel-on-cuba-street/ There’s been a hotel on Cuba Street for as long as I can remember. cubastreet hotels places accommodation blogs featured Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2020/12/03/family-owned-naumi-hotels-open-naumi-studio-hotel-on-cuba-street/ The Wellingtonista 2020-12-03T00:00:00Z -41.2937917 174.7754336 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2020/06/03/review-its-behind-you/ We’ve all had terrible Zoom calls over lockdown. zoo animals blogs featured Wed, 03 Jun 2020 03:27:12 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2020/06/03/review-its-behind-you/ The Wellingtonista 2020-06-03T03:27:12Z -41.3222154809263 174.784454842536 Wellington Zoological Gardens, Manchester Street, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6021, New Zealand https://citygallery.org.nz/blog/the-city-gallery-pub-quiz/ 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. cafe media video music animals featured design wellington art restaurantsbars performingarts business museumsandgalleries Sun, 26 Apr 2020 01:27:46 GMT https://citygallery.org.nz/blog/the-city-gallery-pub-quiz/ City Gallery 2020-04-26T01:27:46Z -41.28844155 174.77725074851375 Wellington City Gallery, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2020/03/04/review-dr-drama-makes-a-show/ It was weird for me to go to a show at 93 Kelburn Parade, having completed my own humble BA at Vic almost 20 years ago. kelburn places blogs featured Wed, 04 Mar 2020 07:05:44 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2020/03/04/review-dr-drama-makes-a-show/ The Wellingtonista 2020-03-04T07:05:44Z -41.289205 174.7623927 Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa https://wellingtonista.com/2020/02/14/review-a-midsummer-nights-dream/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the perfect pick for Summer Shakespeare, traditionally held in the Dell in Wellington’s Botanical Gardens at night in the middle of summer, but then the production moved to the basement theatre at Te Whaea in Newtown, and things pivoted from the usual. newtown botanic-gardens places blogs featured Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2020/02/14/review-a-midsummer-nights-dream/ The Wellingtonista 2020-02-14T00:00:00Z -41.2813862 174.7693382827502 The Dell, Serpentine Way, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2020/02/12/review-stupid-bitch-wants-a-puppy/ This is a ‘tune up’ of 2018’s STUPID BITCH which played in a dance studio above Cuba Street in the Fringe Festival. cubastreet fringe places events blogs featured Wed, 12 Feb 2020 04:50:03 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2020/02/12/review-stupid-bitch-wants-a-puppy/ The Wellingtonista 2020-02-12T04:50:03Z -41.2937917 174.7754336 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2019/05/21/review-so-you-think-you-khandallah/ It’s 1982 in New Zealand, a time of Olivia Newton-John, Lazy Susans and brick mobile phones, and the students of the Khandallah Academy of Performing Arts are growing their skills, making friends, and perhaps even finding love, all while they try to get a paying performing arts career. khandallah places blogs featured Tue, 21 May 2019 08:07:12 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2019/05/21/review-so-you-think-you-khandallah/ The Wellingtonista 2019-05-21T08:07:12Z -41.246742 174.7905885 Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand http://slowboatrecords.co.nz/cheers-wellingtonnz-com/ Happy to be featured in wellingtonnz. featured wellington cubastreet places music performingarts retail business Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:25:25 GMT http://slowboatrecords.co.nz/cheers-wellingtonnz-com/ Slow Boat Records 2019-04-23T23:25:25Z -41.2944181 174.7752129 Slow Boat Records, Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand https://wellingtonista.com/2018/12/03/slow-down-you-bastards/ Tom’s been walking again. Follow his latest tramping adventure from traversing the Hutt Valley to Kāpiti via the Akatarawa Road here. huttvalley places blogs featured Sun, 02 Dec 2018 21:09:05 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2018/12/03/slow-down-you-bastards/ The Wellingtonista 2018-12-02T21:09:05Z -41.2125751 174.9057626 Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand http://www.newswire.co.nz/2018/10/anxious-moments-as-armed-police-board-bus/   Passengers onboard the number one bus from Island Bay got more than they paid for this morning when armed police jumped onboard , searching for a suspected robber. islandbay places media featured Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://www.newswire.co.nz/2018/10/anxious-moments-as-armed-police-board-bus/ Newswire.co.nz 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z -41.3322495 174.7716525 Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa http://wellingtonista.com/2018/05/07/a-concrete-legacy/ Many of you will know that most of the Karori Teachers’ College campus, designed by the late Bill Toomath, is threatened with demolition by its new owners, Ryman Healthcare. karori places blogs featured Mon, 07 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2018/05/07/a-concrete-legacy/ The Wellingtonista 2018-05-07T00:00:00Z -41.2844173 174.7444792 Karori, Wellington, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2018/04/18/toi-art-at-te-papa-a-first-floor-glimpse/ Stepping into te Papa’s new Gallery space Toi Art be prepared for something a little different from your standard gallery experience. te-papa museumsandgalleries art blogs featured Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2018/04/18/toi-art-at-te-papa-a-first-floor-glimpse/ The Wellingtonista 2018-04-18T00:00:00Z -41.2903326 174.78192750276241 Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2018/04/05/chasing-the-black-dog-with-beer/ Last night we went to the opening of the new Black Dog brewery on Cuba Street, and, spoiler alert, it was bloody delightful. cubastreet places blogs featured Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2018/04/05/chasing-the-black-dog-with-beer/ The Wellingtonista 2018-04-05T00:00:00Z -41.2937917 174.7754336 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://www.newswire.co.nz/2018/03/new-wellington-remembers-murdered-trans-woman/ Grief and disbelief were evident in Wellington’s Civic Square on Tuesday as around 100 people gathered for a vigil to remember Zena Campbell. civic-square places media featured Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://www.newswire.co.nz/2018/03/new-wellington-remembers-murdered-trans-woman/ Newswire.co.nz 2018-03-22T00:00:00Z -41.2886381 174.7770472723911 Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2016/10/17/floating-cuba-street/ James Smith Market’s Float Well offers submersion into a space that’s been a site for relaxation, meditation, and consciousness-experimentation throughout the 20th Century. cubastreet places blogs featured Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2016/10/17/floating-cuba-street/ The Wellingtonista 2016-10-17T00:00:00Z -41.2937917 174.7754336 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2016/07/07/the-return-of-cactus/ Famed NZ designed-and-manufactured clothing and outdoors equipment company Cactus are opening a new store at 241 Thorndon Quay this weekend. thorndon places blogs featured Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2016/07/07/the-return-of-cactus/ The Wellingtonista 2016-07-07T00:00:00Z -41.2745396 174.7756309 Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2016/06/07/mushroom-mushroom/ Last week Zealandia published a glorious little photo-essay An Enchantment of Fungi, alerting us to the fact that after a long dry summer, the recent rains have brought forth a rich crop of fungal fruiting bodies. sanctuary conservation blogs featured Mon, 06 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2016/06/07/mushroom-mushroom/ The Wellingtonista 2016-06-06T00:00:00Z -41.2917079 174.7521904 Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2016/05/05/downpour/ …but it pours, especially in Porirua today, causing sudden flooding and serious disruption. porirua places blogs featured Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2016/05/05/downpour/ The Wellingtonista 2016-05-05T00:00:00Z -41.1354918 174.8396887 Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2016/05/01/up-alexandra-road/ Up the back of Newtown — past the hospital, past New Zealand’s first branch library, past the community display-window where the Conscientious Objectors’ memorials absent Pukeahu Park quietly underscore ANZAC celebrations — runs a narrow path marking the spine of Tangi-te-Keo (later Mt Victoria). newtown libraries places blogs featured Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2016/05/01/up-alexandra-road/ The Wellingtonista 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z -41.3110524 174.7780368 Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2016/04/23/snapshots_of_mt_vic/ A few photos I took as I walked the dog in the Mount Victoria town belt, 17 April, and the unveiling of a new living sculpture at the Innermost Gardens. townbelt mountvictoria issues places blogs featured Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2016/04/23/snapshots_of_mt_vic/ The Wellingtonista 2016-04-23T00:00:00Z -41.2970453 174.7874066 Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand