This particular Wellingtonista was just down at a protest taking place at the Greater Wellington Regional Council offices.
Of course, the GWRC transport plans (PDF) are well worth protesting about: more roads, no light rail? Despite the hundreds (and the great majority) of submissions asking for the opposite?
In pre-Covid days, Friends of Te Papa enjoyed some delightful presentations from Joji and Shani covering the textile artists of India, from hand weavers in the villages to the creation […]
With an estimated quarter of a million negatives, the Spencer Digby / Ronald D. Woolf Collection is a treasure trove of images of faces and moments from Wellington’s past. The collection ranges from the 1930s to the 1980s and includes studio portraits, wedding photographs, and shots from community events like wrestling tournaments and cat shows among many other things.
By Adam Julian When Old Boys University (OBU) hosts Oriental Rongotai at Rugby League Park this Saturday the Billygoats will be wearing Inglewood-themed jerseys. Inglewood is a small Taranaki town 16km southeast of New Plymouth, close to Mount Egmont. It’s known for servicing dairy farming and as being the hometown of legendary All Blacks halfback...
An emotional immersive storytelling experience using live electronic music, song and poetry performance to share the history of the Girmit people who were taken from India to Fiji for indentured servitude.
