https://wellington.gen.nz/texture+waterfront Items tagged with Texture and Waterfront. http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2009/09/24/homegrown-tickets-are-selling-fast.aspx The Homegrown music festival is returning to the Wellington waterfront once again with a fancy new major sponsor, Jim Bean, five stages and an impressive thirty-two band and DJ line-up PLUS event organisers have promised a new site-layout with better facilities and a lot more lush grass areas. events waterfront places blogs Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2009/09/24/homegrown-tickets-are-selling-fast.aspx Texture 2009-09-23T00:00:00Z http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2009/06/08/did-someone-say-paint-party-with-tiki.aspx It sounds like one hell of an awesome dream-sequence.  Tiki Tane + stonking DnB + tons of fluro-colored paint.  Well welcome to the real world Neo, because this party to end parties is actually happening. Shed 6 on Wellingtons waterfront will play host to New Zealand’s first ever, Illuminated Paint Party - featuring former Salmonella Dub front man (and all-round kiwi waterfront places blogs Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2009/06/08/did-someone-say-paint-party-with-tiki.aspx Texture 2009-06-08T00:00:00Z http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/12/16/typography-enthusiasts-unite.aspx Typography enthusiasts will be getting all their Christmases at once this summer. A five day festival to educate and celebrate the art of typefaces will be hitting the Wellington waterfront from the 11 to 15 of February. It is set to explore the notions and voices of typography, and will cover all media typography may appear in, such as graphic design and advertising, photography, film, liter waterfront places blogs Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/12/16/typography-enthusiasts-unite.aspx Texture 2008-12-15T00:00:00Z http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/10/12/head-like-a-hole-reform-for-homegrown-2009-earlybird-tickets-on-sale-now.aspx 90s Wellington rock brats Head Like A Hole have announced they will reform exclusively for the first time in 8 years for next year's Vodafone Homegrown Music Festival in March.HLAH established a strong reputation for their live shows. I remember seeing them play a few times and politely averting my eyes as they often played naked, smeared with mud or paint.Five stages will be set up along the waterfront and as well as HLAH, about 35 bands and DJs have been confirmed to perform. From rock and pop to roots and dub, bands include Supergroove, Fur Patrol, Evermore, Elemeno-P, Tiger Tones, Kora and the Black Seeds. Early bird tickets are available for $70 (plus booking fee) for a short time only. When they are sold out, tickets will be the full $90 (yes, plus booking fee).Vodafone HomegrownWellington Waterfront14 March 2009www.homegrown.net.nz- Kiran  waterfront places blogs Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/10/12/head-like-a-hole-reform-for-homegrown-2009-earlybird-tickets-on-sale-now.aspx Texture 2008-10-12T00:00:00Z http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/09/21/discover-literary-wellington-on-a-writers-walk.aspx 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 waterfront places blogs Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/09/21/discover-literary-wellington-on-a-writers-walk.aspx Texture 2008-09-20T00:00:00Z http://texture.co.nz/blogs/foodreviews/archive/2008/06/25/a-brand-new-noodle.aspx Like ships passing in the night, my sister Lulu returned from London in 1993 just as I was departing on my own pilgrimage to the Old Country. Amongst a raft of useful advice, she insisted I eat at Wagamama - a stylish Japanese noodle shop in Covent Garden. And so I did. And having left Wellingtown just as laksa was making a break for it out of pokey Asian diners, I was wowed by Wagamama's sleek lines, its slick efficiency, and its mammoth bowls of clean, steaming noodles - at only a few bob a pop. It shone like a beacon out of the greasy sea of affordable London eateries. Now here we are with our own brand new Wagamama. restaurantsbars waterfront places blogs Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://texture.co.nz/blogs/foodreviews/archive/2008/06/25/a-brand-new-noodle.aspx Texture 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/05/01/vodafone-homegrown-2008-wellington-waterfront-26th-of-april.aspx Blessed by good weather, Vodafone Homegrown had a lot to prove if it was going live up to all the hype surrounding it's innaugural year. And in most areas that promise was fulfilled. 30+ local acts appearing on four stages for over 10 hours, had all the hallmarks of a logistical nightmare in the making. Yet the Wellington waterfront was a good choice for such an undertaking, providing space and scenery to enhance the spectacle on hand. waterfront places blogs Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/05/01/vodafone-homegrown-2008-wellington-waterfront-26th-of-april.aspx Texture 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z