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Texture / April 2009

Texture is an events guide, place guide, interactive guide to this fair city. Its role is to hook you up with the best spots to spend your nights and where to recover during the day, all the latest news and information you want from round town and a place to meet only the best people from all over the place. Texture is brought to you by Positively Wellington Tourism with support from heaps of kindly folk round town.

May 2009 | March 2009
    • May for Music… New Zealand Music
      • Love it or hate it.   New Zealand Music Month is upon us again.Now in its ninth year, this homegrown musical celebration originally sought to raise awareness of New Zealand tunes on the airwaves, television and on ‘the charts’, with this more or less achieved, it’s now focused on nationally celebrating the special and creative talents of New Zealand musicians.Now for the cynics amongst u
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    • Ajax
      • Australias Ajax is a busy boy. Between his fashion lable (Tsubi) and record lable (Sweat It Out) he regularly plays iconic spots Fabric in London and Showcase in Paris as well as tearing up Australia. He is involved in Modular recordings, is the frontman for recent visitors BangGang and has racked up a highly impressive list of accolades including, but not exclusive to (deep breath): Technics In T
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    • Fancy a free coffee on Wednesday morning?!
      • Well fancy no more, you totally can, courtesy of Organics Aotearoa New Zealand, Inca-Fé coffee and Anchor Simply Organic milk!That’s right, this Wednesday morning, between 7.30am to 9.30am, you can pick up a free flat white or long black at the Civic Square to celebrate Earth Day.Earth Day is a global celebration that happens every year on April 22nd to inspire awareness and appreciation for the E
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      • civic-square

        • Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • 'Fly My Pretties' are coming home
      • After a couple of years in hiatus, the live multimedia experience that is 'Fly My Pretties' returns for a must-see performance in 2009. Led by the incomparable Barnaby Weir (Whose Black Seeds were soundly beaten in the inaugural Summerset Cup by Fat Freddy’s Drop), Fly My Pretties will be playing at Wellington’s Saint James Theatre on Friday the 12th of June. This outstanding musical collaboration
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    • Tongan Ninja to Screen at the Film Archive on Thursday...
      • See what the chaps from comedy duo Flight of the Conchords were up to six years ago - go and see Tongan Ninja, which will be screened at the Film Archive on Thursday. The Tongan ninja was trained in the ancient art of ninjitsu. When his father was eaten by a fish, Sione (Sam Manu) was brought up to follow the way of the ninja. Now he must journey toward his greatest challenge and defend the b
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      • comedy

    • Move over Dorothy Patisserie…
      • Dorothy Patisserie started the ball rolling when it ceased serving its delicious sweet treats and smooth hot beverages after eighty years in the business. This was apparently due to their rent sky-rocketing a whooping $67,000 in six years… …THEN… …Many concerned Wellington residents were shocked and outraged by the news that the Courtney Place institution Espressoholic was given a mere month to relocate.
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      • restaurants-and-bars

        • Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • De La Soul: Do as De La Does
      • It’s time to get excited. Excited like “yo yo yo yo we’ve got De La Soul in the house” And by house, I mean the Opera House on 12 May 2009. That’s right, this hip hop group form New York is undertaking an extensive New Zealand tour to mark the twentieth anniversary of their epic debut album 3 Feet High and Rising. This album was, and still is, heralded as one of the most influential albums in hip
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    • No more Fringe Festival??
      • That evil global economic downturn is looking to strike again, and this time the unfortunate victim may just be Wellington’s Fringe Festival. After well over a decade of entertaining the masses with some weird and wonderful antics, the Fringe may be abandoned as of next year, due to an overall lack of funding. The Fringe Arts Trust is in dire need of money, as budget cuts have already affected thi
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