Evergreen Wellington bowler Judy Howat and partner Euan Wong have won the Wellington Mixed Pairs tilte for 2011–12. They defeated Helen and Ben King on the windswept Johnsonville green in extremely trying conditions. Judy wins her 33rd centre title and Euan his first. For Euan it's been a good year as he also won the New Zealand Secondary Schools singles.
Tauranga-based artist Cordula Taiwo is set to open her exhibition, "Of a Wild God," at Thistle Hall, intentionally overlapping with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Wellington concerts (Feb 5 & 6). This sophisticated body of work is a deeply personal creative response to Nick Cave’s music, his public correspondence (The Red Hand Files), and his published conversations (Faith, Hope and Carnage).