People you should know: Blanket Man – Ben Hana
Bernard “Ben” Hana, a.k.a. “Blanket Man” was a homeless man who wandered the inner city streets of Wellington in the 2000s. He was a local fixture became something of a …
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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 …
Your high five events for Wednesday 28 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 top ten events for the weekend of 24 and 25 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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Don’t Guess the YES campaign launches today
A campaign continuing the drive to change attitudes and behaviours around alcohol consumption and sexual consent launched today in Wellington. Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Ben Quinn Hospitality New Zealand Wellington …
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 …
Blues Club returns to the crossroads
The Capital Blues Club goes back to the corner of Taranaki and Dixon Streets, launching a new home at Jack Hackett’s this Thursday, 22 November. Pip Payne, driving force behind …
Restrengthening plan to close Old St Paul’s
A multi-million-dollar fundraising appeal for building restoration has been launched to strengthen historic Old St Paul’s in central Wellington, ahead of its temporary closure next year to allow the work …
Buttons push message at Children’s Holocaust Memorial
The Children’s Holocaust Memorial will be officially launched at the National Library in Wellington today, honouring the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust, including children related to New Zealand’s …
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Capital commemorates centenary of city’s worst natural disaster
The influenza pandemic that started in 1918 killed 757 people in Wellington. with most of those people buried in Karori Cemetery. This Sunday at the cemetery the 1918 Influenza Project …
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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 …
Prepare yourselves for a noisy Sunday morning
If you hear big guns and a roaring chorus tomorrow morning, do not be alarmed. Tomorrow morning at 10.50am, gunners from the 16th Field Regiment of the Royal Regiment of …
Armistice Centenary commemorated this weekend
At 11am on 11 November, Aotearoa New Zealand will mark the centenary of the Armistice that ended the First World War in 1918. A range of commemorative events are taking …
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 …
Eleven bells for Armistice centenary, then cacophonous chorus
The Rangimarie peace bell of the National War Memorial Carillon will toll eleven times to mark the start of the two-minute silence of remembrance at 11.00am on Sunday at the official Armistice …
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Remember Kristallnacht, fight fascism, embrace hope and violins
On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, it’s time to look back 80 years and ask: who makes the Nazis? Then look forward with hope and music. By Mark Cubey Smashed windows …
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Your high five events for Friday 2 November
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 …
Hundred-gun salute to mark Centenary of Armistice
A 100-gun salute on the Wellington waterfront in front of Te Papa on Sunday 11 November will launch the commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of the signing of the Armistice …
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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 Friday 26 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 …
Explore Wellington’s heritage this week
Wellington Heritage Week has returned for a second year to showcase the history of the city with events, tours, exhibitions, and sneak peeks behind the scenes of some hidden treasures. …
Your high five events for Labour Weekend, 20 to 22 October
This feature lists a selection of Wellington events accessible on the weekend for $20.00 or less. You may want to check our previous daily entries for recurring events. And there …
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Captain Cook sighted in Wellington
A famous explorer who’s been dead for 240 years was resurrected yesterday, leading a walking tour down Taranaki Street and across the waterfront. Story and photos by Mark Cubey Next …
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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Hop into the history of The Wide Mouth Frogs
The latest addition to Audioculture, the “noisy library of New Zealand music” tells the story of the short but glorious career of Wellington’s all-female rock/pop band The Wide Mouth Frogs. …
New heritage plaques honour great local women
An iconic and much-loved Wellington broadcaster was remembered this week with the unveiling of a plaque in her honour. The plaque on the Dixon Street footpath outside the Hope Gibbons …
St Johns reopens in style
St Johns Bar & Eatery reopened today for the opening of Visa Wellington on a Plate after closing for an interior refit just after the Jazz Festival. It was already …
Great War Exhibition to close
Sir Peter Jackson’s World War 1 exhibition will be removed from the Dominion Museum, after Massey University and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage were unable to reach an agreement …
Great War Exhibition to close
Sir Peter Jackson’s World War 1 exhibition will be removed from the Dominion Museum, after Massey University and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage were unable to reach an agreement …
When Satan rocked the high school social
“Come, come, come to the Sabbat, come to the Sabbat: Satan’s there!” chanted the wildly dancing students. Psychedelic lights swirled and intoxicating rhythms poured from Marshall amps as Timberjack, dubbed …