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    • Celebrating our Midwives
      • 2020 is International Year of the Nurse and Midwife and the world has suddenly been presented with a stark reminder of how essential our frontline healthcare workers are. During COVID-19, babies continue to be born and women still need support during pregnancy and birth. Today we celebrate our midwives for the significant and important roles they play in the lives of so many.
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    • Wagamama joins Mojo at Kumutoto
      • In what appears to be one of Wellington’s more anticipated restaurant openings for years, a branch of the international noodle bar Wagamama has opened in the Meridian building, and already queues are forming out the door: indeed, breaking all Australasian records for turnover in a first week, despite it being the middle of a very bleak winter. It evidently has been a phenomenal success.
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    • One Day Sculpture
      • If you are an art follower you may have already know the One Day Sculpture project. One Day Sculpture was launched in Wellington in March 2008 in conjunction with the New Zealand International Arts Festival. Since then there have been 7 projects presented. These were all commissioned by different institutions around Aotearoa/New Zealand and have taken place in Auckland, Hawera, Wellington and Dun
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    • The Wrap Up (Term 3, Week 4)
      • This week the Wrap Up brings stories of success at the national Toi Wearable Art competition, the NZ Cyber Security Challenge and World Scholars Cup. We welcome the new International students who joined us in Term 3 and shout out our support for the Persian Food and Dessert fundraiser taking place at Newtown School today. All this and much, much more in this week's Wrap Up!
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        • Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • The Wrap Up (Term 3, Week 4)
      • This week the Wrap Up brings stories of success at the national Toi Wearable Art competition, the NZ Cyber Security Challenge and World Scholars Cup. We welcome the new International students who joined us in Term 3 and shout out our support for the Persian Food and Dessert fundraiser taking place at Newtown School today. All this and much, much more in this week's Wrap Up!
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        • Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Latest Onslow College Newsletter – 20th November
      • Latest Newsletter, He Karere o te Kura, is out now! This edition of He Karere includes: Jono Wyeth’s latest update, 2026 Start of the year important dates, Pō Whakanui Awards, International Students enjoying our region, what is coming up for the rest of the term: Year 9 & 10 Activities Week, Year 9 & 10 […] The post Latest Onslow College Newsletter – 20th November appeared first on Onslow College.
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        • Onslow College, Burma Road, Broadmeadows, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Men's Head Coach
      • North Wellington FC are delighted to announce Stu Pyne as our new Men’s First Team Head Coach. Stu joins us with 20 years experience, built in the sports industry and education sector. He has previous Central League coaching experience, Stu has also worked professionally in the Middle East, and in 2016 tasted international competition at the OFC Nations Cup. In his native England, Stu coached at Middlesbrough F.C and Manchester United.
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    • The Hutt knows how to throw a party
      • The Petone Fiesta has gone from strength to strength, and this year looks like it will be a bit of a stunner. The action kicks off at 6pm, 7th March, with the The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra. The Woolshed Sessions also play, and if you fancy something a bit louder to waggle your dags the Wellington Batucada will be out in force. Check the full line up here.
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    • Lower membership fees for YWCA Greater Wellington
      • This year, the YWCA of Greater Wellington is celebrating International Year of Youth and making their organisation more accessible for young women to join. YWCA of Greater Wellington’s Executive Director Makere Derbyshire says, “The YWCA here in Wellington is maybe one of the only organisations that has reduced its membership fee in this day and age, making it more accessible for women to be a part of the YWCA movement locally.”
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    • August 2014: 4 Plinths 5 call for proposals
      • The four plinths are the massive bollards situated on the waterfront between Te Papa and Circa Theatre. It is on this site that the Wellington Sculpture Trust showcases New Zealand sculptural practice with the biennial temporary sculpture installation: the 4 Plinths Sculpture Award. The chosen sculpture will form part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival’s visual arts programme and remain in place outside Te Papa for up to two years.
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    • Another bustastrophe
      • Public transport is an essential public service. I am with the bus drivers. We, the public, are fed up with another bustastrophe. Bus drivers are essential workers who deserve to be treated well. They need priority recognition, fair and decent work conditions. Who of us can hang around waiting for a ‘job’ in a part time, split shift way, never quite knowing whether we will be home for tea, or working all weekend, or into the night, or whether our pay rate will be a decent one when we go the extra mile? That is not fair and will never make for a reliable service or sufficient numbers of drivers. What is more, we pay rates, taxes and fares so that we can have a reliable non polluting bus system. But we just do not have that.
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    • NZ National Futsal Team To Take-on Australia In Friendly.
      • The NZ National Futsal team, the Futsallwhites, take-on their Tasman rivals, the Futsalroos on Saturday 3rd May at the Dural Leisure Centre, NSW, Australia. It will be the first time the two sides have met since the Oceania qualifiers in Canberra 2004 with Australia winning 4-0. The weekends clash sees only two players survive that encounter with many of the NZ squad making their international debuts including Assyrian-born Wellingtonian, Victor Zaia.
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    • Rethinking the airport barrier
      • Despite being surrounded by high hills, Wellington is fortunate to have an international airport that is under 10km from its CBD, with flight approaches over Cook Strait to the south and just missing the Newland hills to the north. The drawback is the runway which forms a major physical barrier over 2km long between the city and the airport terminal and the growing population of over 20,000 residents who live east of the airport on Miramar Peninsula.
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    • Kia ora rawa atu Altrusa Ohariū
      • Altrusa is an international non-profit organization making local communities better through leadership, partnership, and service. Altrusa Ohariu were so kind to donate 20 handmade toiletry bags, each full of donated items for the residents of our whare. These bags were made by Karen, an Altrusa member, and the donated toiletry items were packed at the May Altrusa meeting. Natalie the Club President delivered the bags and we were able to give her a wee tour of our whare and learn abit more about her mahi.
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    • Firebirds Squad For Round Two Of Plunket Shield Named
      • Wellington Firebirds squad announced for Round Two of the Plunket Shield, brought to you by Budget Rental The Wellington Firebirds squad to play in the second round of the Plunket Shield against the Central Stags at Saxton Oval, Nelson from October 23 to 26, 2015 is: Michael Papps (Captain) Brent Arnel Tom Blundell Craig Cachopa Dane Hutchinson Matt McEwan Stephen Murdoch Jeetan Patel Michael Pollard Matt Taylor Anurag Verma Luke Woodcock Notables: Matt Taylor replaces Luke Ronchi, who is now on international duty with the BLACKCAPS.
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    • Ahoy me hearties!
      • So it's one week until that most beloved of all days - International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I bet you're wondering how you can celebrate it instead of going to the Driving Government Performance - the development goals at work conference. Luckily, the Museum of Wellington City and Sea has the perfect solution: The Great Pirate Corporate Challenge! The challenge takes place between 12.30-2pm on the day, and will see teams of five compete in a treasure hunt on Somes/Maitu Island, a peg-leg race and a tug'o war.
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    • Host a student with EF Foundation
      • EF Foundation has exciting opportunities for families to work with us as a volunteer host family for one of our international high school students. The students are aged between 15 and 18. They'll be arriving in NZ in July and they're here for a year. We've got students from Brazil, Germany, Japan, just to name a few countries. We'd love to hear from anyone who's interested, even if they're only able to host for the first couple of months as an arrival family. For more details, or to apply, contact Alyson on 0800 259 433.
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    • February 2012: New work by Regan Gentry
      • Colin McCahon’s famous waterfall paintings are being realised with an 11m high waterfall, McCahon Incarnation by Regan Gentry, installed on the western (city library) end of Wellington’s City Gallery. The work opened on 23 February 2012 as part of City Gallery’s Obstinate Object sculpture exhibition and runs until June 2012. The exhibition coincides with Wellington’s International Arts Festival. McCahon Incarnation is the third work the Wellington Sculpture Trust has commissioned from Regan, others being, Subject to Change (2007) on Karo Drive, and Green Islands, originally on the Plinths and now in the Botanic Garden.
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    • Wellington Storm prizegiving 2023
      • Earlier this month, our annual prizegiving took place at Miramar Bowling Club - and despite some classic Wellington weather, there was a great turnout from club members and their families. Angus Stallmann, as acting president, gave a summary of the year (including tournaments Storm had attended or hosted, and how Storm players had performed on the international stage) before prize winners were announced. With the formalities out of the way, the rest of the evening involved a good amount of food, socialising, and a dose of nostalgia with a ‘name the player’ game of old Storm photos.
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    • June 2013: Glen Hayward selected to make forth iteration of the Four Plinths
      • Glen Hayward selected for the forth round of the Four Plinths Temporary Sculpture project Glen Hayward's Rita Angus used to grow her own vegetables was selected by the Trustees and our Arts Advisors for the fourth iteration of the Four Plinths Temporary Sculpture Project. His work will be unveiled in February 2014 during the International Festival of the Arts and will remain in place for two years. You can view Glen's exhibition I don't want you to worry about me, I have met some Beautiful People in the North gallery of the City Gallery, Wellington at the moment.
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    • CricHQ Wellington Under 17 Team Named
      • The following players have been named in the CricHQ Wellington U17 team to contest the National U17 Tournament at Lincoln University from Jan 13-21; Matt Blair (Tawa College) Tim Campbell (Wellington College) Nick Greenwood (Wellington College) Sam Millmow (St Pats Town) Ollie Peterson (Wellington College) Cam Preston (Onslow College) Nick Pile (Onslow College) Gareth Severin (Johnsonville Cricket Club) Dylan Sharma (Wellington College) Haydon Smith (Newlands College) Jesse Tashkoff (Hutt International Boys School) Devan Vishvaka (Wellington College)   The side will be coached by Matt Tilley with Sean O’Connor assisting. The post CricHQ Wellington Under 17 Team Named appeared first on Cricket Wellington.
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    • REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the airport Part 1
      • Shortly after the release of the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed Wellington airport runway extension, prepared by Sapere for Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) I wrote a post in which I posed the question “If they build it, what if no one comes?” Since that post, I’ve been to one of the open day/public consultation meetings, have read and thought about the documents more thoroughly, and have read various pieces written by others, including the new one by Ian Harrison that I linked to yesterday.  I have also had some engagement with Sapere and WIAL, which has helped to sharpen my sense of what the issues really are. The cost-benefit analysis is not a business case document.  It has been prepared in support of a resource consent application.  What I hadn’t known when I wrote earlier (and was advised of by Sapere) is that  under the RMA the applicants will need to be able to demonstrate national benefits to get permission to fill in some more of Lyall Bay, to extend the runway. I’m sure that the cost-benefit analysis is not serving as a business case for Infratil, the major shareholder in WIAL.  But since this project is generally accepted to be viable only if there is significant public funding, and any such funding can only be defended if there would be material net public benefits , the Sapere cost-benefit analysis is by default serving as something of a business case at present.  If the numbers don’t stack up, neither the Wellington region councils nor central government should be putting any money into the project (beyond WIAL’s resources, and of course Wellington City Council is a 34 per cent shareholder in WIAL). In this post, I will offer a few thoughts on the plausibility of the assumed increase in international passenger traffic to/from New Zealand as a result of the extension. Extending the runway at Wellington airport could materially reduce the cost of some forms of international travel in and out of Wellington. If long-haul flights were offered,  lower costs could result by reducing the time taken (eg. by eliminating the one hour flight to Auckland and the stopover time in Auckland, it might reduce the total time for a trip to Singapore (and onward points) by perhaps 2.5 hours).  For those travelling anyway, those gains could be material –  time has an opportunity cost.  In addition, by allowing long-haul aircraft to fly into Wellington, the direct cost of international airfares in and out of Wellington could also be expected to fall –  quite materially, if the numbers Sapere quotes are correct.  Those gains apply not just to long haul routes themselves –  a Wellington-Singapore direct fare should be materially cheaper than the current options via Auckland, Christchurch or Sydney –  but also to trans-Tasman flights, as the longer runway would also facilitate used of wide-bodied aircraft on trans-Tasman routes (as for examples, the Emirates flights between Christchurch and Australia). Of course, simply building the runway extension does not bring about any of these savings.  They depend on airlines finding it profitable to run additional services.  And although international air travel has increased enormously to and from New Zealand in recent decades, provincial New Zealand is littered with the dreams of local authorities (airport owners) with aspirations to have an international airport.  New Zealand has plenty of attractive places, but one main international airport. Wellington, of course, has a significant business market, and business travel is typically much more profitable for airlines than leisure travel. And unlike the predominantly leisure travel into Christchurch, the Wellington business travel probably isn’t very seasonal.  So the idea the long haul flights into Wellington could be viable isn’t self-evidently absurd.  But, on the other hand, the economic cost of making such flights technically feasible – lengthening the runway –  is far higher than in many other places.  At $1m a metre, it is considerably more costly than putting some asphalt on some more grassy fields in Christchurch.  Wellington isn’t a natural place for a long-haul international airport. The WIAL proposal uses modelling by international consultants to estimate likely growth in traffic and passenger numbers with and without the extension.  There are some questions about the baseline forecast, including for example around the potential future impact of climate change mitigation policies.  But my main interest is the difference between these two –  the increase in traffic that would result from the runway extension itself. It is hard to pick one’s way through all the numbers, but the bottom line appears to be that the cost-benefit analysis is done on the basis that by 2060 there will be an additional 400000 foreign international passengers per annum arriving in Wellington, and an additional 200000 New Zealand international departures per annum through Wellington[1].  Many of these are people who would otherwise have travelled via Auckland or Christchurch, so that the net gain in international travel numbers to New Zealand is around 200000, with an additional 100000 or so New Zealanders travelling abroad.    Many of the gains are forecast to occur early in the period.  Thus, by 2035, the analysis assumes an annual net gain to New Zealand of around 125000 international visitors (relative to the no-extension baseline). How plausible is this?    The various reports highlight the phenomenon of “market stimulation” –  putting on new air services tends to stimulate total passenger numbers.  That shouldn’t be surprising.  Not only do point-to-point services lower the cost of visiting a particular place, but marketing expenditure raises awareness of the destinations concerned. On the other hand, one can’t just take for granted that such market stimulation will render long haul flights into and out of Wellington viable.  After all, there are plenty of cities around the world with few or no long haul flights.  Closer to home, Rotorua is an attractive tourist destination and can’t sustain direct flights even to Sydney. What of Wellington?  The modelling exercise involves lowering the cost of foreigners visiting Wellington –  to some extent artificially, because the costs of providing the longer runway are not passed back in additional charges to those using long haul flights –  but not the cost of them visiting New Zealand (since Auckland and Christchurch fares would stay largely unchanged).   Any long-haul flights into Wellington will almost certainly be from cities that already have flights to Auckland (and possibly to Christchurch).  Is it really plausible that an additional 200000 people per annum (or even 125000 by 2035) will visit New Zealand simply because they can fly direct to Wellington, or (in respect of trans-Tasman traffic) fly into Wellington more cheaply than previously? Perhaps I’m excessively negative on Wellington.    I reckon it is a nice place for a weekend, but not a destination that many long haul leisure travellers would choose.  What is there to do after the first two days?  And there is little or nothing else in the rest of the bottom of the North Island.   So it is plausible that lower fares resulting from additional competition would attract more weekend visitors from Australia. But no one is going to come for a weekend in Wellington all the way from China or Los Angeles.  And since the principal attractions of New Zealand are either in the upper North Island or the South Island, how many  more people are likely to come to New Zealand just because they can choose Wellington as the gateway for their New Zealand holiday? And what of New Zealanders travelling abroad?  Since the costs of Wellingtonians (and others in the nearby areas) getting to desirable destinations abroad would be cheaper if there were direct flights from Wellington, it is credible that the total number of New Zealand overseas travellers would increase.  In fact, whereas the modelling suggests twice as many new foreign visitors as new New Zealand international travellers (and in total there are twice as many international visitors to New Zealand as travelling New Zealanders), in this case I wonder if the putative new  routes would not be more attractive to New Zealanders than to foreigners?  One can illustrate the point with a deliberately absurd example: put on long haul international flights to Palmerston North, and they would be quite attractive to people in Manawatu (much easier/cheaper to get to desirable places like New York or London) but not very attractive at all to foreigners (for whom Manawatu has few attractions). But even if wide-bodied aircraft flights from Wellington did make overseas travel more attractive to New Zealanders, is the effect really large enough to be equivalent to one more trip every year for every 10 people in Wellington and its hinterland?  And would the effect still be remotely that large if passengers (users) had to cover the cost of providing the longer runway (which should really be the default option)? Reasonable people can differ on these issues. In my discussions, a lot seems to turn on just how attractive people think Wellington is.  I’m pretty sceptical that long haul tourists will ever come to New Zealand to see cities.  Perhaps if one is thinking of visiting New Zealand cities, Wellington is more attractive than our other cities, but even if so Wellington still has the feel of being a logical gateway to nowhere much.  It isn’t an obvious starting point for a “whole of New Zealand” trip, or a North Island one (given that most of the attractions are further north), or a South Island one.   So I’m left (a) sceptical that the net addition to visitor numbers to New Zealand will be as large as the analysis assumes even if the users don’t bear the costs, and (b) suspecting that the boost to the demand for New Zealanders to travel abroad might be greater than the boost to the demand for foreigners to visit New Zealand. On that latter point, the experts point out that they assume that the new long haul services will be provided by foreign airlines, and that the evidence of recent new air services to New Zealand provided  by foreign airlines is that they disproportionately boost the number of foreigners travelling.  I have no reason to doubt the numbers, but I still wonder if the same result would apply to routes into Wellington.  New flights into Auckland are often the first direct flights offered into New Zealand (as a whole) from that city or country.   My impression is that “New Zealand” is the destination marketed to long haul passengers.  But direct flights to/from Wellington do more to open up the world (more cheaply) to Wellingtonians than they do to open New Zealand to foreigners.   And if so, would the foreign airlines be keen to offer the Wellington services at all? This post has been about the sort of increased passenger numbers that might be expected if the runway was extended.  In some sense, that should be largely an issue for WIAL.  If they can extend their capacity and attract sufficient users at a price that covers the cost of capital of WIAL and its shareholders, the rest of us might not care much (I’m not much bothered about environmental issues, although my family enjoys the waves at Lyall Bay beach).    But the cost-benefit analysis being used to lure ratepayers and taxpayers into funding much of the proposed expansion suggests that there are very large economic benefits to New Zealand which cannot be captured directly by airlines or airports.  I think they are wrong, and my next post will explain why. [1] From tables 5.11 and 5.12 in the InterVISTAS report.
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    • *official press release*orchestra wellington’s fourth...
      • *OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE* ORCHESTRA WELLINGTON’S FOURTH SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT   “FATE” Concierto de Aranjuez -  Joaquín Rodrigo Piano Concerto No 2 in F Major - Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No 4 in F minor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Orchestra Wellington Marc Taddei, Musical Director Michael Houstoun, Piano Andrey Lebedev, Guitar Rodrigo’s guitar concerto casts a shaft of warm Spanish sunlight over Orchestra Wellington’s largely Russian programming this year. The Orchestra welcomes Russian-born Australian guitarist, Andrey Lebedev, performing it as part of his prize for winning the 2013 Gisborne International Music Competition. Gisborne International Music Competition manager Mark La Roche says he is incredibly proud of the partnership formed with Orchestra Wellington to provide the overall winner of the GIMC with the opportunity to perform in Orchestra Wellington’s subscription series. “I can vividly recall Andrey’s winning performance and know you will thoroughly enjoy hearing him play the Rodrigo Concerto - he is an exceptionally gifted and thoughtful musician.” Continuing its association with Michael Houstoun, Orchestra Wellington also presents Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto as part of this year’s Russian Piano theme. Shostakovich was a virtuoso pianist and a composer with a reputation for grim and cryptic works. But in this concerto he paid tribute to his son, for whom it was written, with a piece reflecting the boy’s lively, mischievous nature. He also gifted him a slow movement filled with beautiful melodies and lush harmonies worthy of the great Romantics. With his Fourth Symphony, Tchaikovsky stopped trying to be anything other than himself. It opens with the full brass section hammering out an uncompromising theme inspired by the “Fate” motif in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. As Musical Director Marc Taddei says, “The Fourth Symphony is Romantic to its core, with clear programmatic expressions of fate, melancholy, grandeur and joy”. Tchaikovsky’s heartfelt expression of his inner life has found resonance with audiences everywhere ever since. Andrey Lebedev on Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez Lebedev says that the concerto had a profound impact on his life when he first heard it as a teenager. “I knew that I had experienced something very rare and special, and it was a key moment in my journey to become a professional musician. “My goal is to create this same magic when I perform - to remind ourselves that there is something greater than just the here and now.” He likes to view the concerto as a triptych framing the second movement. “The second movement is all about expression and meaning. I strive for intense beauty of sound, intimacy, lyricism, and direction - leading the music organically from the first bar all the way to the climax in the cadenza and resolving into the major cadence at the very end. When all of these elements come together I think the impact can be earth-shattering.” “The first movement introduces Rodrigo’s sound world and draws the audience into a relationship with the guitar and orchestra. It is joyous and spirited. The music has a natural vitality that stems from Rodrigo’s fascination with ancient Spanish rhythms and the flamenco tradition. “The final movement is a buoyant and uplifting finale, again using elements from the Spanish baroque in a modern context. I am still young, and every year I feel like I am discovering amazing new things about music. This piece has grown and developed just as I have over the last years. Most notably I now strongly feel that this is both a flamenco concerto and a baroque concerto, and somehow finding the balance of these elements lies at the heart of understanding the music.” Andrey Lebedev Biography Recognised for his powerful and expressive sound and exceptional musicality, classical guitarist Andrey Lebedev has defined himself as an artist pushing the boundaries of the instrument and gaining acknowledgment from new audiences. Born in Moscow and raised in Adelaide, he was brought to international attention as the first-prize winner of three major multi-instrumental competitions. In 2012 he won both the Australian National Fine Music Young Performers Award and the Sydney Eisteddfod NSW Doctors Orchestra Instrumental Scholarship, in both cases the only classical guitarist to receive this award. His artistry was further highlighted in 2013 as winner and recipient of the Bach prize at the 25th Gisborne International Music Competition, and the only Australian winner of the Adelaide International Guitar Competition. Now based in London, Lebedev enjoys a dynamic performance career as soloist with orchestra, solo recitalist and chamber musician. His engagements for the 2014/15 season include solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall, and the Adelaide International Guitar Festival. He has featured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Canberra Festival Camerata. Lebedev studied with Timothy Kain at the Australian National University School of Music and is a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Lewin on an ABRSM international full scholarship and Julian Bream Trust scholarship. ORCHESTRA WELLINGTON  “FATE” Saturday 5 September, 7:30pm Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Tickets from Ticketek box office (0800 842 538) or online HERE Ticket Prices: Adult Full Price $60 Under 35, (with ID), $25 Concession (Gold Card Holder), $48 Community Services Card $12 Student (with ID) $12 Child (still at school) $10
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    • 2020 Wellington Bowls Secondary School team
      • Congratulations to the following students who recently represented Wellington Bowls in a regional secondary school match against Taranaki: Adam Wyatt (Rongotai College) William Tether (Hutt International Boys’) Jemma Roberts (St Catherine’s College) Jordan Keane (Onslow College) Ivan Snowman-Rongokea (Naenae College) Quest Teariki Tangahou (Naenae College) Xander Meadows (Naenae College) Jayden Burns (Naenae College) Alex Greenfield (Naenae College) The team traveled to Waikanae to play Taranaki Schools on Saturday , and while therewere some tough matches, there were also lots of learnings and good foundation for next time.  Well done to all. The post 2020 Wellington Bowls Secondary School team appeared first on College Sport Wellington.
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    • With just over 1 week to go until our next concert 'SONG OF THE...
      • With just over 1 week to go until our next concert 'SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE' next Saturday, here are a few words from our head conductor & music director Marc Taddei on the ideas behind the shows ‘Bird’ theme! "Sometimes as programmers we get a little ‘cute’ with concepts and I could not resist the idea of a ‘bird’ concert! Of course, themes like this work only if the music is first rate! I love the connection between the master of the 20th Century and his teacher. One can clearly hear the exoticism that Stravinsky absorbed from Rimsky-Korsakov. These are two orchestral tours de force. The Ravel G major concerto is a genius work of modernism that is clearly inspired by Jazz while the Haydn symphony expertly balances the grave G-minor tonality with a light-hearted quality that soon wins out”  For a full rundown of the concert head HERE Tickets are still available online from TICKETEK NEW ZEALAND and also from the Ticketek Box Office so don’t forget to utilise our special offer, by presenting your PITA & THE WOLF’ stub (or proof of purchase as your details will be on file) you will get 50% OFF full-priced Adult and Gold Card Concession tickets! Absolutely Positively Wellington #WickedWellingtonAdventure
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    • We’ve been nominated as a finalist for the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards 2018!
      • Wellington Youth Choir has been nominated as a finalist for the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards 2018! We’re incredibly thankful for the support of the community and look forward to the Awards ceremony in July! About the Awards Every year, Wellington International Airport, Wellington Community Trust, and the five local councils come together to recognise the work carried out by community groups in the wider Wellington region. The focus of the Awards is to celebrate volunteers for their valuable contribution to society. Finalists from each region to compete for the overall award in their category, and the opportunity to be named Supreme Winner. Members of the public are invited to nominate any not-for-profit group or organisation working in the interests of the community.
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    • 2019 Junior Touch Championships Results
      • COLLEGE SPORT WELLINGTON JUNIOR TOUCH TOURNAMENT – RESULTS 14 November, 2019   Girls Final Results 1st & 2nd Wainuiomata High 3 – 2 St Oran’s College 3rd & 4th Sacred Heart College 4 – 3 Paraparaumu College 5th & 6th St Mary’s College 5 – 2 Hutt Valley High 7th & 8th Queen Margaret 5 – 2 Newlands College 9th Equal Samuel Marsden 0 – 0 Taita College   Boys Final Results 1st & 2nd Silverstream 4 – 2 St Bernard’s 3rd & 4th Scots College 6 – 3 Wainuiomata High 5th & 6th Paraparaumu College 3 – 1 Kapiti College 7th & 8th Hutt International 8 – 4 Wellington College 9th & 10th Taita College 6 – 5 Hutt Valley High 11th & 12th Newlands College 4 – 3 Tawa College The post 2019 Junior Touch Championships Results appeared first on College Sport Wellington.
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        • Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)


    • Wellington Firebirds squad announced for Fourth Game of Ford Trophy
      • The Wellington Firebirds squad to play in their fourth game of the Ford Trophy against the Auckland Aces at Eden Park, Auckland on January 6, 2016 is: Michael Papps (Captain) Brent Arnel Tom Blundell Craig Cachopa Alecz Day Dane Hutchinson Matt McEwan Stephen Murdoch Jeetan Patel Michael Pollard Anurag Verma Luke Woodcock Notables: Jeetan Patel requires one more wicket to achieve 200 in List A matches Brent Arnel requires four wickets to achieve 100 in List A matches Grant Elliott is absent on international duties and is replaced by Alecz Day The Firebirds are currently fourth on the table, with a one win, one loss and one ‘no result’ from three games. Match can be followed via live scoring at www.cricketwellington.co.nz
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    • Newtown Community Centre Art Workshops
      • Community Art Workshops are back! The Newtown Community Centre will be hosting their 5th annual Community Art Workshops from Monday September 29th till Thursday October 9th For the past four years, the Centre has organised a series of art workshops with the aim to make art more accessible to the wider community, offering a chance for participants to get creative and learn a new skill in a visual arts practice, at a very affordable rate and in a community friendly environment. The classes are headed by local art and crafters keen to share their time and skills with others in an informal and relaxed setting. The classes are designed to reduce the normal financial barriers, with most if not all materials being provided and entry fee being a koha of the participants’ choosing. The workshops cover a wide range of arts and crafts, from making your own Native American dreamcatchers and traditional Pervian necklaces to purse making and how to make your own paint from natural clays and oil. See the Newtown Community Centre facebook page and website  for the schedule and details for the workshops. The Centre has always received great feedback from participants who have really enjoyed the opportunity to get creative without having to invest in a costly course or feel out of place at a formal art institution – we hope you can join us this year!
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        • Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


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