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• • NZIA Festival of Architecture at Futuna Chapel – 25-26 Sept 2021

    • 27 Jul 2021
    • Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
    • As part of the New Zealand Institute of Architect’s Festival of Architecture, Futuna Chapel will be open for visitors on Saturday 25 September  and Sunday 26 September 2021  from 11:00am – 4:00pm Futuna Chapel, one of the jewels of Wellington’s built heritage, will be opened to the public over the Festival of Architecture weekend.
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    Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Station to Station

    • 23 Jul 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Wellington’s main (only?) central Railway Station has been getting a lot of press recently, mostly over the intransigence of the Heritage NZ lobby who are, to be honest, being silly over the heritage of this building. They’ve only just today approved the installation of a pedestrian ramp out the front doors – the disabled have been forced to use the side door for the last several decades. They’re sitting on the approval of installation of the Snapper ticketing terminals because they don’t like the colour. KiwiRail: do it anyway. It needs to be a living piece of heritage, adapting and changing to the times – not preserved in aspic (whatever aspic is).
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• • Concert: Saturday Service – YOLK & Violet Hirst 7 August 3pm

    • 7 Jul 2021
    • Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
    • Remember mid winter with this intimate matinee performance of two of Poneke’s finest alt folk acts, YOLK and Violet Hirst.
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    Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Tararua Album Launch at Futuna 24 July 2021

    • 7 Jul 2021
    • Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
    • Futuna Chapel is honoured to be hosting an album launch for Tararua’s new album ‘Bird Like Men’ on Saturday 24 July 2021 at 6pm.
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    Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Rescheduled Concert! 18th July 2-3pm

    • 7 Jul 2021
    • Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
    • We are very pleased to say that our Colours of Futuna concert that had to be postponed is now back on. Jerome Kavanagh and Salina Fisher will explore Maori and Japanese music traditions in a contemporary context. Sunday, 18 July 2021 at 2-3pm  To book please follow this link 
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    Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Conversion? No … demolition

    • 4 Jul 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
    • The number of its parishioners had shrunk to less than a score, so it was inevitable that this beautiful 1960s Brooklyn church would have to find a new use. But was demolition inevitable? Demolition wasn’t mentioned when the Modernist St Matthew’s Church, designed by leading Wellington architect Derek Wilson, was advertised for sale at the end of last year.
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    St Matthew's Cooperating Church / Co-operating Parish, 96, Washington Avenue, Mitchelltown, Vogeltown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Support for our events

    • 24 Jun 2021
    • Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
    • We are delighted to have been offered financial support by third-generation Wellington construction company L T McGuinness Ltd for forthcoming 2021 events at the chapel.
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    Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • The history of Jervois Quay

    • 4 Jun 2021
    • Wellington City Council
    • This Queen’s Birthday long weekend, Jervois Quay will be closed to replace the damaged and aging stormwater pipe which caused some disruptions earlier in the year.
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    Jervois Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • The 80s called and they’ve given their magazine back

    • 4 Jun 2021
    • Wellington City Libraries News Blog
    • Wellington City Libraries is bringing the past back to the future with the popular 1980s Wellington City Magazine now accessible online.
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• • Mainline extension update

    • 3 Jun 2021
    • Rimutaka Incline Railway
    • Mainline extension update Hugh McCracken Thu, 3 Jun 2021 - 15:08
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    Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5371, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • News release – may / june 2021 – queens birthday open day

    • 25 May 2021
    • Wrights Hill Fortress
    • FOR IMMEDIATE USE – MAY / JUNE 2021 Wellington’s historic Wrights Hill Fortress in Karori will be open for public inspection again on Queens Birthday, Monday 7th June.
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    Wright's Hill Fortress, Wrights Hill Road, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • St Gerard

    • 5 Apr 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Monasteries have always been freeloaders on society – for the last 2000 years or more.
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• • Pride Festival 2021: Queer History of Te Whanganui-a-Tara at Te Awe Library

    • 15 Mar 2021
    • Wellington City Libraries News Blog
    • Join us this Thursday at Te Awe Library for an evening of sharing Wellington’s queer and takatāpui oral history! We’ll be hearing kōrero from historians Will Hansen and Roger Swanson, both involved in LAGANZ, as well as Kay’la Rian representing Tīwhanawhana, celebrating the organisation’s 20th anniversary. Activist and counsellor Mani Mitchell and MC Georgia Mackay will also be involved. For more info, check out the panellist bios below–assembled by the fantastic team at Te Awe Library!
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• • Futuna Chapel Open Sundays 2021

    • 2 Mar 2021
    • Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
    • Futuna Chapel Open Sundays 2021 The Trust is pleased to confirm that the programme of having the Chapel open on the first Sunday of the month will continue throughout 2021.
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    Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Listing buildings

    • 25 Feb 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Not sure if you realise this yet, but the proverbial cat has just been thrown amongst the proverbial pigeons. Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (what used to be called the Historic Places Trust) has just announced three new grade 1 heritage listings in Wellington: Trades Hall, Wellington Central Library, and a combined Gordon Wilson and McLean flats as well.
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• • Dining out in Wellington in the early 1990s

    • 17 Feb 2021
    • Wellington City Libraries News Blog
    • Newly digitised on our Recollect site, the Sheridan Restaurant Guide from 1993 is another snap-shot of our eating-out habits and a startling contrast to the Menu Guide published a decade earlier.
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• • NEWS RELEASE – JAN / FEB 2021 – Waitangi Day Open Day

    • 1 Feb 2021
    • Wrights Hill Fortress
    • FOR IMMEDIATE USE Wellington’s historic Wrights Hill Fortress in Karori will be open for public inspection again on Waitangi Day, SATURDAY, February 6th.
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    Wright's Hill Fortress, Wrights Hill Road, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Cab and bunker fabrication for Wb 292 and 299

    • 22 Dec 2020
    • Rimutaka Incline Railway
    • Cab and bunker fabrication for Wb 292 and 299 Hugh McCracken Wed, 23 Dec 2020 - 10:18
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    Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5371, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Carriage A1328 restoration update

    • 22 Dec 2020
    • Rimutaka Incline Railway
    • Carriage A1328 restoration update Hugh McCracken Tue, 22 Dec 2020 - 13:21
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    Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5371, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • The gloriousness of teenage girls

    • 17 Dec 2020
    • Katherine Mansfield House
    • From one Wellington teenage girl to another. In Leila Barber's valedictory speech as Head Girl of Samuel Marsden Collegiate in 2020, she finds Katherine Mansfield's writing as a teenager captures something pretty special: the gloriousness of teenage girls.
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    Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • NEWS RELEASE – November 2020 – December 28th Open Day

    • 20 Nov 2020
    • Wrights Hill Fortress
    • FOR IMMEDIATE USE – OCTOBER 2020 LABOUR DAY – OPEN DAY- Monday 26th October, 10AM- 4PM Wellington’s historic Wrights Hill Fortress in Karori will not be opening this year on December 28th.
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    Wright's Hill Fortress, Wrights Hill Road, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Saving (or demolishing) a 19th century landmark

    • 20 Nov 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • When Post Office Square was the centre of town

    • 15 Nov 2020
    • Wellington City Libraries News Blog
    • He roamed from Post Office Square to the wharves, where black mysterious little waves suck under sea-rotted, weed-twined piles, from the wharves back again to various haunts of publicans and sinners.
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• • The Cuba Street Memories Project is moving!

    • 24 Oct 2020
    • Wellington City Libraries News Blog
    • After more than a decade, our Cuba Street Memories Project is moving to a new platform.
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• • Defending the streets of Newtown

    • 24 Sep 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Pukerua Bay's place in region's rail history commemorated

    • 6 Sep 2020
    • Porirua City Council
    • Muri Station may have closed, but it has become a place to talk about Pukerua Bay's colourful history.
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• • Strengthening history at the seams

    • 2 Sep 2020
    • Wellington City Council
    • The future of a 122-year-old building in the heart of Newtown is looking rosier thanks to a helping hand from Wellington City Council.
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• • 128 Abel Smith Street a treasure trove of history

    • 26 Aug 2020
    • Wellington City Council
    • A true Wellington landmark, 128 Abel Smith Street has held a special and sometimes controversial place in our city's history.
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• • Saving a hall and its history

    • 21 Aug 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • The Titahi Bay Marines Hall, built in 1942 as a recreational hall for US soldiers stationed in New Zealand during World War II, has stood empty since 2012 due to structural issues.
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• • Safe as houses

    • 13 Aug 2020
    • Capital Magazine
    • Wellington’s character is under threat, says concerned Wellingtonian Gregor Thompson. He lays out what we could lose if the Council’s “Planning for Growth” proposal goes ahead.
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