Texture / March 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.
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World Cinema Showcase Opens on Thursday...
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- The World Cinema Showcase is nice lead-up of sorts to the New Zealand International Film Festival and it opens this Thursday. Committed to compiling a diverse and engaging programme of international arthouse films, the selection this year looks as strong as ever. John Crowley's galvanising realist drama Boy A impressed me immensely last year in the NZIFF, though I felt that it undeservedly fell un
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Skate or… Die
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- No no no… the Richter City Shakedown: The Grudgemaker is not your traditional flat-oval-track-spandex-wearing roller skate race… heck no… this is a contemporary-all-woman roller derby bout at its absolute baddest and will of course feature the sport’s trademark theatrical athleticism, mock-violent pseudonyms and third-wave feminism aesthetic.The Richter City Shakedown: The Grudgemaker is the inaug
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A Landmark Night for Dance Music
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- This Saturday will be a landmark date in dance music for the entire Southern hemisphere. And the great thing is that it will be celebrated right here in Wellington. It’s the official launch party for Southern Cross music, a new entity created to become a digital portal for dance music producers and enthusiasts. This massive gig will kick off at 10pm on Sat, hosted by that rather s
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Filmmaking Insights - An Evening With Sima Urale
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- Filmmaker Sima Urale is one of the best filmmakers of her generation presently working in New Zealand. One of the hardest things for a filmmaker to master is not only to tell a good story, but to translate it successfully via moving images. Urale's films which include the excellent shorts Still Life, Coffee and Alah and O Tamati (which won the Leone d'Argento or Silver Lion Award in Venice) are fi
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Smugglers and Highwaymen party at Motel
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- Break out of the monotony and join Motel bar in celebrating all things illicit and lawless - with their Smugglers and Highwaymen party this Thursday evening. Make sure you get into the vibe, because those in costume get a cocktail on arrival, with the best dressed male and best dressed female receiving rather fabulous prizes. Food will be provided, fine tunes will be played, convi
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Match-point: Flight of the Conchords
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- The Flight of the Conchords' masterminds, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, have achieved outstanding international success over the last five years… a Grammy… two Emmy nominations… four New Zealand Music Awards… 184,826 myspace friends....and are now a major-draw card for an upcoming charity tennis tournament at the Wellington Renouf Tennis Centre… neat…
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Goodbye Valve, Hello Hole In The Wall...
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- When Valve bar closed it's heavy steel doors last November after 11 years in the business, punters were left wondering whether anything would replace the niche venue, which by and large catered to the punk and metal scenes. I've fond memories of seeing some terrific doom metal shows at Valve, which were made memorable thanks to the fantastically grunty and loud rock PA and dry ice machine. I know
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The rebirth of Italian cool
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- Goodbye Boulot… and hello Fratelli. Just a few months after Blair Streets best restaurant closed, another has arisen in its place, to take-up their European mantle. However, Fratelli is a very different beast to the dearly departed Bressolin Bros enterprise. It harks back to the good old days of classic Italian restaurants, showcasing a select menu of the many fo
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BAMO! Show me the Art!
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- I am overwhelmed. Given any week, there are always so many fantastic exhibitions happening around Wellington and with the weather set to slip into the cool, crisp conditions of autumn it is positively fitting that I share with you the exhibitions I’m going to tap in the next wee while: Karen Mills, Thistle Hall, 9 - 15 March: I love the expressiveness and elegance of a burlesque performance;
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Are You For Real?
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- The thing about real-life is that it can be a far-sight more interesting than anything anybody could have made up. 2009’s DOCNZ international Documentary Film Festival, is about to prove this case (With footage!) when it hits the eager streets of Wellington this Thursday evening. 52 vastly different films from over 20 countries will be on show. You will see stories about revolution, do-
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I want to sketch a sexy burlesque dancer…
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- …and you can to with the launch of the Wellington chapter of Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School on Saturday March 14th from 4pm at Mighty Mighty.Dr. Sketchy is a life drawing session with a difference… it is different in that it seeks to mix the sassy and risqué elements of a cabaret, circus and burlesque performance with the (usually dull) experience of an art-school life drawing class… put simply, ins
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Our Love Will Destroy The World and Peter Wright play at White Fungus 10th Issue Launch Tonight
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- White Fungus has established itself as a pretty good example of a local literary and arts journal that champions the arts, experimental music and literature. It features interviews with interesting musicians, in-depth essays and articles, and photographic spreads. The 10th issue will be launched tonight at the Adam Art Gallery with the unstoppable line up of Our Love Will Destroy The World, Upper
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They're Only the Best Band in the World: The Dead C on Friday...
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- And you know I'd never say such a thing to you so flippantly. Presented by VUWSA and VBC 88.3FM, The Dead C, Rory Storm and The Invaders and So So Modern will play at The Front Room (the old James Cabaret) on Hania Street (off Kent Terrace) on Friday as part of Orientation/VBC's 2nd birthday. I can honestly say that nothing this cool was ever organised for any Orientation shows when I was a studen
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Jazzing Up the Town Hall
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- 208 litres of paint, 8 truckloads of staging and construction equipment and 6,500 metres of scaffolding is just the start of the construction process underway in Wellington's Town Hall to create the purpose-built jazz club holding 900 seats - the Pacific Blue Note - for the new Wellington Jazz Festival. Organisers are raising the floor to the existing balcony level and seating will
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Orientation Week… it’s time to get loud
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- Oh gaaaawd… it is Victoria University’s Orientation Week… and like all Orientation Weeks you can bet on a few things: cheap drink deals, girls wearing small dresses, an obnoxious treasure hunt and, more importantly, bloody good music.Generally, the Students’ Association’s events team do a pretty good job at selecting the musical line-up, as they mix the finest local talent with, if possible, a cou
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