Your high five events for Friday 30 November
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
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Your high five events for Thursday 29 November
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
Cuba: super!
The many facets of Wellington’s most iconic street are commemorated in a book that MARK CUBEY commends for mixing up a cool cocktail of history, personalities and food, glorious food. …
Your high five events for Friday 23 November
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
Your high five events for Thursday 22 November
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
Your high five events for Wednesday 21 November
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
Your high five events for Friday 16 November
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
Your high five events for Monday 12 November
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
Your high five events for the weekend of 10 and 11 November
This weekly feature lists a selection of Wellington events accessible this weekend for $20.00 or less (and ideally free). You may want to check previous high five posts for recurring …
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Your high five events for Friday 9 November
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
Your high five events for Thursday 8 November
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
Listen to Claire Mabey and Andrew Laking on the Sweetman Podcast
Claire Mabey and Andrew Laking aka Pirate & Queen talk to Simon Sweetman for Episode 139 of the Sweetman Podcast. In their second podcast chat (the first one was podcast # 86 …
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“Frankincense” gifts gold to Spelling Bee champ
Marlborough Boys’ College Year 10 student George Turner spelled the word “frankincense” correctly yesterday to be named New Zealand Spelling Bee 2018 champion at City Gallery. In his second run …
Your high five events for Monday 29 October
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events accessible today for $20.00 or less. You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And there are many more …
Plaque commemorating “Robin Hyde” unveiled in Northland today
The short, troubled but productive life of one of New Zealand’s most accomplished writers, Iris Wilkinson, will be honoured today in a ceremony outside her childhood home in Northland. Wilkinson, …
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Your high five events for Thursday 25 October
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events accessible today for $20.00 or less. You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And there are many more …
KM short story award won by WEGC student
Wellington East Girls’ College student Elsie Christoffel was announced winner of the annual Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award at Wednesday night’s award ceremony at the Alexander Turnbull Library. Elsie Christoffel …
Your high five events for Wednesday 17 October
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events accessible today for $20.00 or less. You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And there are many more …
Your high five events for Tuesday 16 October
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events accessible today for $20.00 or less. You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And there are many more …
Listen to Mary McCallum on the Sweetman Podcast
Novelist, children’s author, journalist, broadcaster, songwriter, musician and publisher Mary McCallum recently published her first book of poems, XYZ of Happiness. She heads Makaro Press and new venture, The Cuba Press, and is …
Australian feminist features in pop-up gig following fifth LitCrawl
Pirate & Queen have announced a pop-up event with Melbourne feminist Clementine Ford in the wake of their fifth annual LitCrawl festival programme in November. Clementine Ford (above) is a …
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Your high five events for Friday 12 October
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events accessible today for $20.00 or less. You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And there are many more …
Your high five events for Tuesday 9 October
Dental checks, sound/art installations, editing Wikipedia for equity, ectopia cordis, and cyber threats. That’s your Ava Lovelace Day. Drop in to the Bee Healthy Regional Dental Service at Frank Kitts …
Your extra (library) high five events (for kids) for Tuesday 2 October (and beyond)
There’s so much good free stuff happening during the holidays for children at the city’s libraries that we’ve done a separate post for them… The pre-school te reo Māori story …
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Your high five events for Monday 1 October
Today is International Tenants Day, World Habitat Day, and the International Day of Older Persons. And the first week of school holidays. Kids love theatre that’s interactive. And that’s what …
Former Kiwi/French couple to star in TV adaptation of Wgtn-published Booker blockbuster
New Zealand actor Marton Csokas will star alongside French star Eva Green in a six-part series based on Eleanor Catton’s Booker-prize winning VUP novel The Luminaries, as part of a …
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Your high five events for Wednesday 26 September
The annual Spring Festival continues with the Graves of Note free guided walk at Karori Cemetery (meet at the Main Chapel on Rosehaugh Ave from 10:30am), then there are five …
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Short book series celebrates 50th milestone
In just over five years, the BWB Texts series of ‘short books on big subjects’ has become an essential part of the New Zealand publishing and political landscape. The full list …
Your high five (mainly Suffrage) events for Wednesday 19 September
On 19 September 1893 the Electoral Act 1893 was passed, which means today marks the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand. Suffrage 125 events have been happening all …
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Your high five events for Tuesday 18 September
Try on costumes, zines, scrabble, whales, and the Pyrénées for size… After 25 years in business, The Costume Company at 214 Willis Street is having a closing down sale and everything …
Au kaupapa e rima mo te Rāmere 14 Mahuru
Plenty of affordable fun on Friday, with a book fair, an architecture exhibition, and celebration of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori through reading, singing and film. The Karori Lions …
Au kaupapa e rima mo te Rātu 11 Mahuru
Tuesday of Māori Language Week offers you an Australian agitprop mashup, a book about the strange and difficult English language, interaction with bees, and talks about our first Māori radio …
Starling x LitCrawl = Residencies
Six local writers will take on micro-residencies in November thanks to the annual writers’ festival LitCrawl Wellington and Starling, the online literary journal for young New Zealand writers. The writers …
Your high five events for Tuesday 4 September
Help push for accessibility law, get a former PM to sign her book, hear about peace and cluster bombs, find out about safe food and enjoy a show about staunch …
Local writers featured in latest issue of erotic journal
Six Wellington writers are featured in the latest issue of Aotearotica, the sex-positive, inclusive erotica magazine filled with modern writing, art and illustration. The fifth issue of the Dunedin-based magazine …
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Your high five events for Tuesday 28 August
A new light box exhibition on Courtenay Place Park, a morning tea for mums, two free films, and the author of the first poetry book to be nominated for the …
Like Black Books, but Scottish
The owner of what is now one of the best known bookshops in the world is in Wellington this week to talk about his funny, angry diary of a year …
Your high five events for Monday 27 August
Start the week right with walking, talking, learning… and one of the greatest Filipino films of all time. You can exercise and hear intriguing stories about the early days of …
Your high five events for Friday 24 August
Poetry, singing, mental health, Stravinsky and Rachmanikoff, disco wealth. Welcome to the weekend. Oh yea, oh yay Phantom bring you Poetry Day Read our poem for the kaka Welli events, …
Man Booker-nominated poet drops in with a long take
Poetry riches continue after National Poetry Day, as one of Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary poets visits Wellington on Tuesday for a one-off LitCrawl event. Robin Robertson has been described by …
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Your options for National Poetry Day 2018 on Friday
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day happens nationwide this Friday, 24 August, and there are a series of free events around Wellington. You need to plan your day. At Unity Books, …
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Your high five events for Wednesday 22 August
Today’s free or relatively inexpensive events – for the children, the parents, the foodies, the musos and the lovers of dark art. Parents and children should be at the Wellington …
Your high five events for Tuesday 21 August
Poetry, memoir, art, a satirical alpinist and physics are on the menu today across the city. In an age of hurtling digital expansion, poet David Merrit has constructed his poetry …
Wellington to host Worldcon and George R.R. Martin in 2020
Wellington has been selected as the host for the 78th World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) from 29 July to 2 August 2020, the first time the event has been held …
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DCM bookfair raises over $85,000
The 23rd annual Bookfair run by DCM last Saturday attracted over 5,300 people, and raised over $85,000. The final figure is to be confirmed. DCM volunteers clean up after the …
Wellington brothers accepted into US cycling hall of fame
Wellington’s cycling Kennett brothers – Paul, Simon and Jonathan – have become the first New Zealanders to be accepted into the Marin Mountain Biking Hall of Fame in the United …
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Wellington Zoo wins Museums Shops retail award
Wellington Zoo has won its category at the 2018 Museums Shops Association of Australia & New Zealand Retail Recognition Awards The award, for Best Product or Range – Turnover Under …
Your high five events for the weekend of 4 and 5 August
Many markets today – and a information session on community funding. The DCM Bookfair 2018 is on all Saturday until 6:00pm at the TSB Auditorium, Shed 6, Queens Wharf, Wellington. …
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The Sweetman Podcast: Pip Adam
As well as maintaining a long-running blog, Wellington writer and broadcaster Simon Sweetman is closing in on publishing 125 podcasts, many with notable Wellingtonians. We will be providing occasional links …
Libraries join forces to go beyond the page from Saturday
Wellington libraries are inviting tamariki and their whanau to see them as more than just places to get books, and explore their entrepreneurial, tech-driven and adventurous side during 16 days …
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New Zealand: “more Pacific by the hour”
This Saturday, in the latest of the BWB Winter Series, Damon Salesa asks, “What would it mean for New Zealand to act like a Pacific Island nation?” The free public …