Kaiwharawhara, Wellington

1886 days ago

Mainly Music Term 4

Parish Administrator from Khandallah Presbyterian Church

Spaces are available for mainly music in Term 4. Contact Bex on kpcmmusic@xtra.co.nz if you would to bring your child along.

Image
1886 days ago

The Halt All Racist Tours movement at 50: the power of protest

The Team from Alexander Turnbull Library

Date: Saturday, 12 October, 2019
Time: 9:30am to 1:30pm
Cost: $10 door sales
Location: Taiwhanaga Kahau — Auditorium (lower ground floor), Corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street.

Prominent New Zealand activists discuss the importance and future of … View more
Date: Saturday, 12 October, 2019
Time: 9:30am to 1:30pm
Cost: $10 door sales
Location: Taiwhanaga Kahau — Auditorium (lower ground floor), Corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street.

Prominent New Zealand activists discuss the importance and future of protest and dissent

50 years on from the formation of the Halt All Racist Tours movement (HART), join prominent New Zealand activists for a discussion on the importance and future of protest and dissent.

Protest and how it changed New Zealand
The years between 1969 and 1985 irrevocably changed New Zealand and the way we see ourselves and the wider world.

From the 1969 formation of HART to the cancellation of the 1973 tour, the 1976 Montreal Olympic boycott, the 56 days of unprecedented protest against the 1981 Springboks rugby tour to the decision by the New Zealand High Court to grant an injunction stopping the All Blacks from touring South Africa in 1985, New Zealand was at war with itself.

HARTS’s protest and what did it achieve
By 1981, the issue of sporting contact with South Africa, for a long time a litmus test for a wide-ranging set of New Zealand values, had become, sublimely at least, more about New Zealand than South Africa.

As New Zealand moved from being a grey, conservative, post second world-war society to a country with a more bi-cultural approach to domestic race issues and a more liberal, internationalist approach to world issues, what was the role played by HART and other anti-apartheid and anti-racist groups to effecting this change? How powerful was HART’s protest and what did it achieve?

Join us for a dynamic exchange of ideas focussing on the past and present with a view to the future.

About the speakers
Sessions will be chaired by Simon Wilson and Rosslyn Noonan. Presenters include:
•Sue Bradford — activist, academic and former New Zealand politician
•Bob Burgess — former New Zealand Rugby player, All Black from 1971 to 1973
•Linda Burgess — short story writer, script and televisions writer, novelist and reviewer
•Moana Jackson — lawyer specialising in Treaty of Waitangi and constitutional issues
•Trevor Richards — HART founding chairman
•John Minto — national organiser of HART
•Dave Wickham — sports fanatic HART activist
•Morgan Godfery — writer and trade unionist

Image
1886 days ago

Fiji language week — Flag raising event

The Team from Alexander Turnbull Library

Celebrating Pacific languages at the Library. More information is available about the Pacific language weeks at the Ministry of Pacific Peoples website.

Date: Monday, 7 October, 2019
Time: 9.30am to 9.45am
Cost: Free event.
Location: National Library podium, corner of Molesworth and Aitken … View more
Celebrating Pacific languages at the Library. More information is available about the Pacific language weeks at the Ministry of Pacific Peoples website.

Date: Monday, 7 October, 2019
Time: 9.30am to 9.45am
Cost: Free event.
Location: National Library podium, corner of Molesworth and Aitken streets, Wellington

All Welcome.

Ni sa bula Vinaka.

Join DIA pacific staff to raise our 5th Pacific Island flag to celebrate Fiji language week beginning Sunday 6 October to Saturday 12 October

Macawa ni vosa vakaviti.

Image
1887 days ago

CHECK BEFORE YOU GO!

Community Engagement Advisor from

Temporary morning and afternoon peak bus changes - New list, new times.

Metlink is continuing to work closely with NZ Bus and Tranzurban to create more certainty across the network for customers due to the bus driver shortage. Find out what’s happening in your area and check alternate times and … View more
Temporary morning and afternoon peak bus changes - New list, new times.

Metlink is continuing to work closely with NZ Bus and Tranzurban to create more certainty across the network for customers due to the bus driver shortage. Find out what’s happening in your area and check alternate times and services before you travel.

For more information visit www.metlink.org.nz...

Image
1887 days ago

Summer road resealing season

The Team from Wellington City Council

Our summer road maintenance and resealing season kicks off this week, and we’ll be resurfacing around 70km between now and March.
Well looked after roads and footpaths help keep people safe, our busy city moving and our roads last longer.
Thanks for your patience, and please take extra care … View more
Our summer road maintenance and resealing season kicks off this week, and we’ll be resurfacing around 70km between now and March.
Well looked after roads and footpaths help keep people safe, our busy city moving and our roads last longer.
Thanks for your patience, and please take extra care through work sites, keep to reduced speed limits, and look out for the hard-working crews.
For more info and to check out work site locations head to: bit.ly...

Image
1887 days ago

Last call for our subscription offer - special for Neighbourly members

Mei Leng Wong Reporter from NZ Gardener & Get Growing

This offer ends today! For 75 years, NZ Gardener has been sharing great gardening advice and amazing New Zealand gardens, DIY projects, seasonal recipes and preserves and more. For the month of September we’d like to offer our Neighbourly audience a special offer for a one-year subscription at … View moreThis offer ends today! For 75 years, NZ Gardener has been sharing great gardening advice and amazing New Zealand gardens, DIY projects, seasonal recipes and preserves and more. For the month of September we’d like to offer our Neighbourly audience a special offer for a one-year subscription at $75. Use the promo code NZGN75.

Image
1887 days ago

Poll: Should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?

Neighbourly.co.nz

The Greens have announced support for voting at 16.

Green party co-leader James Shaw said he saw "switched on" young people demanding to be heard by politicians. They were desperately unhappy about the decisions political leaders were making about their futures.

What do you think?

Image
Should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?
  • 17.6% Absolutely - young people are our future!
    17.6% Complete
  • 70% No - they lack experience to make good judgements
    70% Complete
  • 12.5% It depends on the 16-year-old
    12.5% Complete
1815 votes
1887 days ago

In conversation with Tina Cross and Carl Doy

The Team from Alexander Turnbull Library

Memories of winning the Pacific Song Contest
Forty years ago on 18 October, Tina Cross, a young singer from South Auckland won the Pacific Song Contest, with ‘Nothing But Dreams’ written by Carl Doy. To celebrate this career-defining moment the pair will perform a concert in Wellington at the … View more
Memories of winning the Pacific Song Contest
Forty years ago on 18 October, Tina Cross, a young singer from South Auckland won the Pacific Song Contest, with ‘Nothing But Dreams’ written by Carl Doy. To celebrate this career-defining moment the pair will perform a concert in Wellington at the National Library on October 18.

At lunchtime on the day of the concert, Tina and Carl will speak with Paul Diamond about their memories of their 1979 win and the impact it had on their careers. There’ll also be an opportunity to see footage from the 1979 contest, and from the 1980 contest, where Tina sang another Carl Doy composition (‘Once Again With You’), a duet with Derek Metzger.

This free session is part of the public programme for the National Library exhibition — Pūkana: moments in Māori performance.

About the speakers
Tina Cross ONZM (Te Aupouri/Ngāti Porou) has been a household name since ‘Nothing But Dreams’ took her into living rooms across the country when the Pacific Song Contest was broadcast live to millions of TV viewers. Turning sixty this year Cross celebrates an incredible 44-year career as a singer and entertainer in the business as one of New Zealand’s timeless leading wāhine as a recording artist, TV darling, musical theatre queen, Lady Killer and anti-domestic violence advocate. Not forgetting also that Cross sang the vocals on the original theme song for our longest running soap — Shortland Street.

Carl Doy ONZM is also an icon in the New Zealand musical scene having recorded over twenty piano albums, starting with Piano by Candlelight in the 1980s, which set records with triple-platinum sales in New Zealand and over one million albums sold in USA. As a producer he has been hugely successful producing double-platinum albums for Yulia, Elizabeth Marvelly, Martin Winch (Espresso Guitar) and Brian Smith (Moonlight Sax). He has also been musical director for such NZ luminaries as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Howard Morrison and Rob Guest.

Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi) was appointed as Curator, Māori at the Alexander Turnbull Library in 2011. Together with Ariana Tikao and Vicki-Anne Heikell, he curated Pūkana, an exhibition celebrating Māori performance over time. Tina Cross is one of the artists featured in the Ngā Tāngata Mīharo/Performing Careers section of the exhibition.

Image: L to R: Tina Cross at the Pacific Song Contest, Christchurch, 1979. Photographer unidentified. Private collection. Carl Doy at the Pacific Song Contest, Christchurch, 1979. Photographer unidentified. Private collection.

Image
1888 days ago

Wadestown Playgroup Open on Thursdays these School Holidays!

The Team from Wadestown Playgroup

Wadestown Playgroup will be open for 2 holiday sessions!

Thursday 3 October 9:30am- 11:30am

Thursday 10 October 9:30am-11:30am

Lots of hot coffee ☕️ and lots of entertainment for the little people
View more
Wadestown Playgroup will be open for 2 holiday sessions!

Thursday 3 October 9:30am- 11:30am

Thursday 10 October 9:30am-11:30am

Lots of hot coffee ☕️ and lots of entertainment for the little people

👫👬🎨🤹🏻‍♀️🤸🏼‍♂️⛹🏽‍♀️🌈✂️🖌📝

$5 charge per family (cash or internet transfer is fine!), bring a piece of fruit to share 🍏🍌🍎🍉🍐🍇🍊🍓🍋🍈🍒🍑🍍🥝😋

A great place to take the kids in kindy and school holidays and catch up with old and new friends!

Come and join us, see you there 🤚🏼

Image
1888 days ago

Were you a patient at Calvary Hospital between 1960-87?

The Team Reporter from Stuff

We are looking for people who were treated at Calvary Hospital in Newtown, now Wakefield Hospital, between 1960-87. The hospital was run by a Catholic order of nursing sisters, The Little Company of Mary. We are particularly after those treated in the area of obstetrics/gynecology.

Is this … View more
We are looking for people who were treated at Calvary Hospital in Newtown, now Wakefield Hospital, between 1960-87. The hospital was run by a Catholic order of nursing sisters, The Little Company of Mary. We are particularly after those treated in the area of obstetrics/gynecology.

Is this familiar to you? If so, then please get in touch with alison.mau@stuff.co.nz or at PO Box 6341, Wellesley Street, Auckland 1141 - please note that any communication will be kept confidential.

1889 days ago

Get creative with glass

The Team from Resene ColorShop Thorndon

Lace patterns always look beautiful. Turn this glass vase from plain to pretty with a lace effect and a Resene testpot.

Make the most of this weekend with this easy step by step project idea from Resene.

Find out how to create this quick and easy project yourself

Image
1890 days ago

Daylight saving starts this Sunday! ⏰

The Team from Neighbourhood Support New Zealand

Now is a great time to check fire alarm batteries and make sure emergency supplies are well stocked and up to date.

Image
1890 days ago

Ready the spring forward this weekend!

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

It's that time again! Daylight saving is this weekend. So don't forget - clocks spring forward one hour this Sunday morning. #theregoesthesleepin

Image
Top