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Places / September 2008

October 2008 | August 2008
    • Tea Time!
      • It's time to put down that coffee mug and pick up the tea-cup. If you have paid any attention to kitsch culture in Wellington this year, you would have noticed dainty gold-rimmed teacups, high-tea and cupcakes (think Martha's Pantry) are back, which has lead to Wellington's first mass tea-party.The Sip Wellington Tea Party will take place at Chaffers Dock Function Centre this Sunday to celebrate all things tea, and bring back the art of tea-parties.Tea-cup collector Pamela Cronin is organising the event in a bid to reconnect people with the century's old art of tea drinking. Pam says that drinking coffee, and the clumpy mugs in comes in, has become more popular than tea over the years, but tea is due for a renaissance, something that young women are helping to bring back. Pam, and other enthusiastic collectors, will be displaying and selling about 150 tea-cups and saucers at the event, along with all sorts of other tea-related things, such as linen, silverware, Petone book store Poppy's books on tea, local business Shoc's chocolates, including their earl grey flavour. Zarbos, also at Chaffers Dock, will be putting on a high-tea and Old-Band Arcades' Tempt cupcakes will be accompanying the tea with their decorated, designer cupcakes. So make sure you go along, between 10 and 4pm, and revel in the age old tradition of tea (and cupcakes, chocolate, collectables and linen)! -Stacey. .
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        • Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • EXCITING NEWS! A New Home, New Name for Crossways!
      • Following the sale of Crossways Community House in August, the doors will close forever to the community on 7 October 2008. The New Crossways Community Trust has taken out an 11 year lease on the first floor of a building at 6 Roxburgh Street and will officially begin operating as a community facility here on the 16 October. Mr Southworth, Chair of the Trust said "the battle to Save Crossways
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        • 6 Roxburgh Street, Wellington


    • Icon get no satisfaction
      • It has been announced by the Wellington City Council, that following on from the demise of the proposal for a Hilton Hotel, there will be an ideas competition for the end of the Outer T on Queens Wharf: currently home to an old tin shed, as I’m sure you all know. The Hilton-to-be, as you will recall, was vanquished by the continued badgering of the combined forces of Waterfront Watch and the Civic Trust (go Grey Power!), and no one much seems to have mourned its passing (blogged by Philip back in March). The Hilton’s Auckland architects have left town with their tails between their legs, probably destined never to want to return. While details for the competition for the replacement building have not been clarified yet, there’s one thing for sure: there’s going to be a call for it to be Iconic.
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    • Discover Literary Wellington...
      • Writer David Geary once remarked that if you stay in Wellington long enough, you'll end up sleeping with yourself. I love that line. Wellington has been and is home to a long line of excellent writers: Katherine Mansfield, Bill Manhire, Duncan Sarkies, Jenny Bornholdt and Damien Wilkins spring to mind. I'm not the outdoorsy type at all. A city kid, I tend to come over all panicky if I get too far away from reassuring concrete. But I am bookish. And the Wellington Writers' Walk is a really lovely and fun stroll to take. With September being New Zealand Book Month, now is a perfectly appropriate time to re-discover literary Wellington.Along the route from Chaffers Marina to Frank Kitts Park, there are a series of sculptural plaques and benchmarks inscribed with quotations from New Zealand writers such as Mansfield, Manhire, Denis Glover, Robin Hyde and Bruce Mason. The featured writers have all lived in Wellington at some point, and the walk acknowledges and celebrates the significance Wellington has had in their lives. The concrete plaques (designed by typographer Catherine Griffiths) and benchmarks, three of which are seats (designed by architect Fiona Christeller) have been carefully positioned in delightfully surprising spots. I love the James K Baxter sculpture that juts out of the Te Papa pool, and how the Glover one sort of looks like it has just been washed up on the rocks at the edge of the waterfront. The monuments jump out at you, it's almost as if you're being accosted by them and it makes me imagine unsuspecting tourists walking along the waterfront and being confronted by lovely words set in stone.I love fonts and typography (and let's not forget concrete) and these concrete typographic 'text' sculptures are quite stunning, public artworks. I think Going West is Maurice Gee's best novel, so I reckon the plaque with the inscription from this book is my favourite: Then out of the tunnel andWellington burst like a bombIt opened like a flower waslit up like a room, explaineditself exactly, became thecapital... www.bookcouncil.org.nz/tourism/destinations/wellingtonwriterswalkmap.html - Kiran
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    • The Future of Crossways Community Creche
      • The sale of the Crossways House has left Mt Victoria families desperately worried about the future of their community crèche. Families in Mt Victoria are calling on the Wellington City Council to help the long standing community crèche continue in new premises. Crossways Creche is one of the city's oldest running creches and has served Mt Victoria and surrounding suburbs on a non-profit,
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        • Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • September 2008
      • Tena Koutou, Namaste, Ni Hao, Talofa and Hello to all The Management Committee and Teaching Team welcome new committee members to their roles and look forward to working with them! Key Dates We will be having a Teacher Only Day on Tuesday, October 28.  The centre will be closed on this day. Our last day of the year will be Friday, December 19.  We will be holding our Christmas party on this day. W
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        • 96a Washington Ave, Brooklyn, Wellington


    • THIS WEEKENDS EVENT!
      • ALL BLACK TRI NATIONS RUGBY LIVE on the big screen Watch the resurgent All Blacks in the thrilling Bledisloe Cup and Tri-Series decider at Brisbane. Saturday 13 September: 9.30pm - Entry by Koha - Scrumptious food, BYO for shared bar For info or to book phone Bill 385 6090 or email us. Crossways Community House, 46 Brougham Street, Mt Vic - a fundraiser by the New Crossways Community Trust for
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    • Dust those dancing shoes off
      • Wellingtons annual Dance Your Socks Off! Festival is back in all it's foot tapping, pirouetting , break-dancing glory. The festival is all about celebrating the art of dance and movement, and getting more people involved in it.
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        • Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)


    • Hataitai Swimming Club - 1971 to 2008
      • The early 1970s proved a critical period for the club. The clubrooms were not being fully utilised but of course still had to be maintained to health regulation standards. Membership had declined. There was little supervision of the use of the clubrooms at weekends. The public were using the rooms without making any contribution to the upkeep costs. Learn to swim classes at the beach were spasmodic and were becoming less popular. Lessons ceased altogether at Hataitai Beach in 1972 after 61 years.
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        • Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Hataitai Swimming Club - 1940 to 1970
      • The Second World War robbed the Hataitai Bathing Club of young men and women. However the club continued to operate a learn to swim programme. Community social activity began to flourish after the cessation of hostilities in 1945. The energy of comradeship and togetherness learned during the previous six years greatly assisted the rejuvenation of clubs such as the Hataitai Bathing Club.
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        • Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • No Contingency Plans for Creche
      • In response to a request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act, the Wellington City Council has confirmed that there are no contingency plans to relocate the Crossways Creche:“There are no contingency plans drawn up regarding relocating the Crossways Community Creche to the Bandoliers site. A report regarding the possibility of permitting creche activities on the Town Belt is due to be presented to the Strategy and Policy Committee in late September/early October for decision by Councillors.”The Council’s own estimates show that an investment of around $380,000 will be required to bring the Bandoliers building up to the required standard for an early childhood educational facility. As the work is extensive - new retaining walls, paths, fences, DDT removal, toilets, storage facilities and much more - it seems likely that many months of effort will be required. However no plan for either conducting the work or to manage the disruption to the creche exists.This is clearly unsatisfactory. Council officers were opposed to the retention of Crossways by the community, and at all stages in the process made recommendations that no Council resources be put into the retention of our community house. These same staff members have had nearly 18 months in which to plan for alternatives, yet it appears that they have done absolutely nothing to ensure our community creche can continue operating once Crossways is sold.Families with children at the creche should feel justifiable outrage at how they have been abandoned by Council officers.
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