The Wellingtonista / May 2011
The Wellingtonista is a blog about Wellington - New Zealand's capital.
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Notional Significance: Gorge
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- [See all Notional Significance posts] The stretch of Hutt Rd from Kaiwarawhara to Ngauranga is a long, dry slog through an artificial valley.
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Let the handmade revolution begin
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- Well ok it’s already started, but Wellington is making a giant leap forward in celebrating all things you can make by hand this Queens birthday weekend at HANDMADE 2011.
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Wellywood Sign Song
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- Comedian Robbie Ellis – who you may remember for his show-stopping performance of Manners Mall Emo Song (Buslane Through My Heart) at the 2009 TAWAs – has a new video. In reaction to the hugely unpopular plan by Wellington Airport to erect a “WELLYWOOD” sign, Robbie has put his feelings into song. Sing along!
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A conversation with Bernard Beckett
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- If you went to a high school in Welly during the last couple’o decades, you may have been taught by Bernard Beckett, and if you were a smart, articulate student, you might have got to actively participate in his classes (too bad if you weren’t).
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Oh god no
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- Remember when Wellington Airport, after the howls of protest and outright mockery, backed off on its cringe-inducing Wellywood sign idea and promised to go away and think of something better to celebrate our film industry? Well, they’ve had a good, long think about it, and this morning’s paper announces that they’ve come up with a brilliant idea: A Wellywood sign.
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fabric-a-brac
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- It’s the third year for fabric-a-brac and demand is still as strong as when they began as a quirky little event for die hard fans of fabric.
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Web devs welcome in Wellington at WDCNZ
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- WDCNZ is tech talks for web developers happening on July 14.
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Food Show, Glorious Food Show
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- You don’t have to buy us breakfast to wax lyrical about the Food Show, but they did anyway.
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Welcome to May-lasia
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- Dosai from Rasa.
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Lamason
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- There are many many ways to make a decent cup of coffee.
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Notional Significance: Reclamation
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- [See all Notional Significance posts] Kaiwharawhara is a node, a knot, a tangle of paths and histories.
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The duchess’ nice frock
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- “Oh, look! It’s Kate Winslet’s wedding dress!” On the night of the royal wedding, while most of us were drinking gins and making snarky tweets about Princess Beatrice’s hat (or pointedly not), fashion designer Jane Yeh was hard at work furiously sketching and sewing a replica of Kate Middleton’s wedding dress, ready to go on display at 3pm the next day.
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Notional Significance: Skyway
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- [See all Notional Significance posts] The stretch of motorway that leaps out from the bluff was known in the Sixties as the “Kaiwarra-Thorndon Skyway”, incongruously combining the Jetsonian optimism of the term “skyway” with a mangled contraction of “Kaiwharawhara” that today would only be used by Pakeha blokes of a certain age.
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Flash mob, flashed up
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- The park in Courtenay Place sees a lot of action during the day – random interpretive dances, fucking annoying people with megaphones who are apparently trying to recruit people to their gym (but I’m sure they must have been hired by the competition because there’s no way anyone who works on Courtenay Place would want to give their money to such loud annoying dickheads), people playing the drums or a piano on a truck – the list goes on. Most of the time, we snap a quick photo and tweet about it. Today, however, we have a video of a Bollywood-style flashmob who were promoting a show we didn’t cover (oopsie!). But it’s better with the remixed soundtrack. Enjoy.
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What’s your favourite song from Wellington?
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- It’s NZ Music Month once again, so we wanna know what your favourite song by a Wellington artist is.
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Double-header imminent at Solander: Works on Paper
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- Solander Gallery: Works on Paper is Wellington’s contemporary works on paper gallery.
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