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With a head of poisonous snakes and a murderous gaze, Medusa has come to epitomise female monstrosity. Caravaggio painted her. Shakespeare wrote about her. Freud had a bloody field day. The...
I like any event centered around wine, so I’m really excited about Budburst, coming up on November 11 – the country’s only natural wine festival.
Natural wines, you say? What exactly does...
She Danced on a Friday is a spiritually evocative and heartbreaking play about a Hamilton murder in the early 1990s. Having only been in the country for four days, 32-year old Margery...
As should be obvious by now, we love a free dinner here at the Wellingtonista. So when we were invited by Harrington’s Smallgoods to dinner at Logan Brown, of course we said yes. It ended up...
What would you do if you found Kate Sheppard in your bed?
I’ll be honest, I don’t really know, but Modern Girls in Bed attempts to find out.
Ally (Maria Williams) and Petra (Isadora Lao) are...
Maggie Flynn is buried and under the earth at Kororāreka. She’s dead but a thing like that isn’t going to stop her from telling us her tale in the hopes that her memory at least will last...
I’m not entirely sure how to describe this show.
Part costumed-wonder, part avant-garde art piece, (A Smidge of) Pidge is a black comedy about identity and anxiety and pigeons.
I...
I’ve had Art vs Science’s song Parlez-Vous Francais stuck in my head for two days because of this show and I’m not even a little ashamed to admit it.
The Cabaret de Paris is a glorious...
Red Leap Theatre presents Kororāreka: The Ballad of Maggie Flynn, written by Paolo Rotondo and directed by Julie Nolan. The show is set in the era of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, up at...
Hank of Thread presents (a smidge of) Pidge, a black comedy about identity and the anxiety that is inextricably tied to it. The show fuses clowning, song and dance to show the myriad ways that...
Take one part absurd comedy, one part awkward dinner with your parents, and a dash of glorious manicism, and you have The Dinner, a unique improv show currently being played at Circa...
Head to Shed 6, this Saturday 4 August, 8am-6pm, for the DCM Bookfair (the largest of its kind in Wellington) supporting an amazing cause – ending homelessness. Yes, go shopping for books...
In all good hackathons there has to be a range of organisations supporting the event.The finest supporters are those that directly contribute to the attendees at the event - ensuring the WiFi...
Circa Theatre is delighted to announce the lineup for its annual WTF! Women’s Theatre Festival.
A packed line up of four plays, one devised work, one developmental season, two play readings,...
I’ve lived in central Wellington for more than five years and had no idea there was a hotel on The Terrace behind Willis Street, nestled just over a dark residential hill. The more you...
Songs for Nobodies shares five life-changing encounters between five everyday women whose lives have been touched in some way by five legendary divas – Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith...
Songs for Nobodies shares five life-changing encounters between five everyday women whose lives have been touched in some way by five legendary divas – Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith...
The six things every hackathon / unconference / barcamp needs are well known, namely:Suitable venueConvenient date / timeEngaging ddentity (“logo”)“Just right” PurposeRelevant peopleALL the...
Lust, Murder and Revenge.
The Don is a bastardization of Don Giovanni, and I mean that in a very good way. One man, accompanied by a musician, several films, and a puppet, aims to...
Lust, Murder and Revenge.
The Don is a bastardization of Don Giovanni, and I mean that in a very good way. One man, accompanied by a musician, several films, and a puppet, aims to...