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Dream a Little Bigger with This Year’s World of Wearable Arts
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- United States designer Grace DuVal (and seven time WOW finalist) has taken the Supreme WOW Award this year with her piece Curves Ahead. Built of bright orange road netting, road signs and bedecked with a mohawk of traffic cones, this piece is a blazing bright beacon amongst the rolling sea that is Dream Awake – […]
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Review: Best on Tap Stands Up
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- The Fringe Bar is packed to the gills for Best on Tap Stands Up, a little out of the ordinary for a Sunday crowd, but this is a Fringe show and this is a Fringe crowd, and Best on Tap are an excellently well-established performance company, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. More well-known as […]
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Review: STUPID BITCH wants a puppy
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- This is a ‘tune up’ of 2018’s STUPID BITCH which played in a dance studio above Cuba Street in the Fringe Festival.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What’s on this week Fringe?
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- It’s the last week of the Fringe Festival *wails* Here is some publicity for shows.
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Preview: Fringe shows to 11 March 2018
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- The Fringe Festival has officially started (YAY) and here is some publicity for shows that sent us their publicity.
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It’s Festivals time!
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- It’s almost that glorious point in Wellington’s calendar when the New Zealand Festival (23 February – 18 March), the Performance Arcade (23-25 Feb, 1-4 March) the Pride Festival (24 February – 10 March) and the NZ Fringe Festival Wellington (2-24 March) are all on at the same time.
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Read Books, Save Lives – The Annual DCM Bookfair
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- Instead kicking off on all the amazing books you’ll find at Bookfair this weekend.
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TSB Arena, Frank Kits Park Path, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Ahi Kaa Festival
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- Celebrating Matariki with the best of Maori theatre and dance, the inaugural Ahi Kaa Festival officially opens tonight.
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Theatre review: Brave
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- One of the few shows on in Wellington that are not part of the Fringe Festival, The Brave is showing at the Hannah Playhouse until the end of February.
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Downstage Theatre, Courtenay Place, Mt. Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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New Zealand Fringe Festival
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- The New Zealand Fringe Festival is coming at you with their 25th year of exciting, frightening, amazing, and puzzling works.
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Curl up with a good Bookfair
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- It’s true i get excited by books, and every year i get excited by the Annual DCM Bookfair, which lucky for my excitement meter (which dipped a bit post film festival) is on this weekend.
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Fringe Festival 2014 – Brooks & Brown in Literally Anything
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- We sent along intrepid theatre goer and Yarn Celebrity Tash Barneveld to check out a new Fringe Show by Brooks & Brown.
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The New Zealand Fringe Festival
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- The New Zealand Fringe Festival has been going for a week and it’s got just over two more weeks to run. Sadly, I’ve only made it to two shows so far (because moving house) a pathetic effort really, because there are HEAPS. Cabaret, circus, comedy, dance, music, theatre, visual art – there are a lot of […] The post The New Zealand Fringe Festival appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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The kids are just fine at the Capital E National Arts Festival
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- While the urbanites of the ‘ista are all currently abuzz about the Fringe Festival, those amongst us who are parents (yes, we exist) are more excited about the Capital E National Arts Festival set to happen from March 11-23.
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The Bats Ride Again
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- The Bats are playing in Wellington on Saturday, November 3rd at Bar Bodega. As a frequent attendee of their gigs I can attest to their consistent awesomenes. The loyal following of groupies, supporters for over 30 years in many instances, indicates I’m not alone.
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Pablos Art Auction 2012
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- Pablos Art Auction — that gala highlight of the local art scene — is once again imminent, and this year it’s bigger and better than ever and in an all-new venue: Massey University’s Great Hall.
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Ladies & gentlemen, start your salivating
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- The Visa Wellington On A Plate festival was launched last night at the Saint James, in amidst lashings of Ruth Pretty’s whipped butter, ginger beer-battered fish and Whittaker’s chocolate creme brulee.
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NZ Fringe Festival 2012 into week two
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- The New Zealand Fringe Festival presents emerging artists in a festival of weird and wonderful performances around Wellington.
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Island Bay Festival 2012
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- The 28th annual Island Bay Festival kicks off tomorrow (Sat 11 Feb), with a heap of events and activities planned for the coming week.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Batucada Sound Machine in town to shake it
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- Cuba Street Carnival favourites Batucada Sound Machine have returned to New Zealand with a new album of tried and true road-tested tunes entitled Don’t Keep Silent, due for release January 23rd, 2012.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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WOW comes early
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- The Wellingtonista has been going along to the World of WearableArt show for the past three years, and we’ve come to have a bit of affection for the grand celebration of the extravagant mash-up of fashion, design and costumery that is wearable art.
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Cos we ain’t not no hollaback girls
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- You know what sucks? Getting yelled at on the street (unless it’s someone yelling “Hey Wellingtonista, you’re awesome, come and have some free drinks in my bar if you like” in a non-threatening way.
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Pie time
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- Many fingers in many pies and bunny men of the moment, The Nudge have their album release gig this Friday night at San Francisco Bath House. You’ll recognise these three from a concoction of other incarnations: Ryan Prebble, James Coyle and Iraia Whakamoe with special guests Warren Maxwell and DJ Electica. $15 on the door
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The bookworms be out in force
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- One rather delightful advantage of the Rugby World Cup is the arrival of the Downtown Community Ministry book fair in July, 2 months ahead of it’s normal timing.
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Two marches you might want to join
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- Wellingtonians have two great opportunities in the next couple of weeks to join important causes and demonstrate that you are decent human beings.
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The little Fair that Could – Turns 5
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- Saturday marks the 5th birthday of Craft2.
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Get rid of your old computer crap
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- Photo by Flickr user StormPetrel1 You know all that stuff under your bed, in your wardrobe or in your bottom drawer? Yeah, that old laptop you were going to sell on Trade Me when you upgraded five years ago, and your crappy old cellphone you could never go back to since you bought your spiffy new smartphone.
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Need something indoors to do with the kids?
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- During the school holidays the good folk at the Film Archive run a kids movie programmed called Mini Sized Square Eyes (not to be confused with the Square Eyes Foundation).
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Book yourself into the book fair this weekend
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- Normally around this time our lovely Sue would be getting all rapturous about the Downtown Community Ministry's Annual Book Fair, but since she's rather busy, let me just tell you that the fair is happening again this weekend (August 21 & 22) at the TSB Arena, with doors will open from 9am to 4pm each day.
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Band Substances
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- An unfortunate number of Wellingtonistas are rather fond of making rather terrible puns quite frequently, which means a lot of my time is spend making "Badoom chish!" sounds.
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