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Escarpment

Sat. 24th Oct., 11am-4pm

@ Regional Wine & Spirits, 5 Ellice Street

Go at 11am. Taste some wines. Go back at 3pm. Taste the wines again. Not that, uh, we’ve ever done that.

Saturday 24th October, 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. No Charge. In-store, Regional Wines & Spirits,5 Ellice St, The Basin Reserve, Wellington. We will be tasting a selection of wines from Escarpment.

Harrington’s Brewing Co

Fri. 23rd Oct., 5-7pm

@ Regional Wine & Spirits, 5 Ellice Street

Beer, beer, beer. There’s no better way to start off a Friday afternoon of a long weekend.

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Friday 23rd of October, 5.00pm to 7.00 pm. No Charge. Instore, Regional The Harrington’s Brewing Co in Christchurch are a well established family brewery producing a wide range of quality craft beer. From Pilsners to Porters, Scotch Ales to Summer Ales Harrington’s will be presenting their range of beers in store on Friday the 23^rd of October.

Thurs. 22nd Oct., 5:30–7:30pm
@ Crawlspace Gallery, 231 Lamdton Quay Level 1

NGAIO! Tell your friends who live in the wopwops (but work in the CBD) about this.

Emma Febvre-Richards

Intimate Constructions

Opening 5.30-7.30pm, Thursday 22 October 2009

“Emma Febvre-Richards has taken a map of her own neighbourhood, Ngaio, and re-created

it in three dimensions …. In doing so she goes beyond simply adding her own diminutive

structure to the thousands of full-size ones which surround her, she maps a new space for

herself and the minds of other viewers to inhabit.” Abby Cunane

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Uche Isichei Architect & Michelle Smithard

L1 231 Thorndon Quay

Wellington Ph 472-2878

www.crawlspace.co.nz

Wed. 22nd, 6pm
@ Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 1/147 Cuba St

Don Draper is an artist? This just adds to the allure! Oh. Don Driver. Whoops.

Ron Dixon, Don Driver, Maiangi Waitai

Tea Time

22 October – 14 November 2009

Opening celebration Wednesday 21 October, 6pm

Enjoy presents Tea Time, a show featuring three artists who each challenge the mould of contemporary art practice.

The exhibition centres around tactile physical objects, and the artistic labour and vision vested in them. It draws together three practices across a language of expression through symbology, form, materials, and the vernacular. Outward in its focus, some of the dialogues that resonate within the show tend to echo more widely outside the walls of the gallery space, in terms of acceptance and diversity within the chapters of a New Zealand art history.

Fri. 16th Oct., 4–6pm
@ St. John’s Bar, 5 Cable Street

Nothing makes up for crappy weather like the promise of a free glass of beer or wine. Oh, and did we mention the $1 paua fritters? We expect them to go through a lot tonight!

Hi Theresa That is just how our Heineken is served at St Johns. Wet & Cold! Come down to the warmth of St Johns this afternoon and we will shout you a cold Heineken or glass of Spy Valley wine. All members registered on our website www.stjohnsbar.co.nz will get a free beer or wine if you come into St Johns between 4pm and 6pm tonight. All you have to do is give your name as registered and your first drink is on us! If your friends are not registered then get them to sign up by 3pm today and they will also be eligible for a free drink. Have you ever tried our Paua Fritters? We do fresh house made Paua fritters and we think they are the best! They are normally $12 a serving but tonight we are doing them half price for members, let me do the maths for you, that is $6 for 6 paua fritters. St Johns Heineken Hotel 5 Cable St Central City Wellington St Johns Bar This email was authorised by St Johns Bar; info

Fri. 16 Oct., 6pm
@ Adam Art Gallery, Gate 3, Kelburn Parade

Adam Art Gallery’s openings are always chock full of the most interesting people in the city. Sometimes the artists even throw rocks through windows to create performance art.

Fri. 16th Oct., 5:30pm
@ The Film Archive, 84 Taranaki Street

Film Archive openings are legendary. Not just the food, wine and beer — the chance to get a sneak peek at the exhibition is what lures us in every time. Go. Check it out.

Friday 16 October

The Blue Room | Exhibition Preview

Pelorus Trust mediagallery at 5.30pm

Exhibition preview

Curated by Pippa Sanderson, The Blue Room features the work of artists Elle Loui August, Bekah Carran, Louise Clifton, Andrea du Chatenier, Violet Faigan, Lonnie Hutchinson, Saskia Leek, Louise Menzies, the recently controversial winner of the 2009 Wallace Award Dane Mitchell, Rebecca Pilcher, Johanna Sanders, Sanderson and Stuart Shepherd. Each of the thirteen artists were invited to make work about the psychic realm for The Blue Room.

Free admission

New Zealand Pilsner Tasting

Fri. 16th Oct., 5–7pm

@ Regional Wine & Spirits, 5 Ellice Street

Our favorite type of beer, for two hours, in our neighbourhood liquor store. ‘Nuff said.

Friday 16th October, 5.00pm to 7.00 pm. No Charge. Instore, Regional

Through the last decade New Zealand brewers have made some profound changes to the traditional European Pilsner style. Captivated by the vibrant aromas and flavours of New Zealand hops New Zealand brewers haven’t been able to resist heaping in handfuls of the green stuff towards the end of the boil resulting in a style of the beer that is utterly new. This Friday Regional Beer Specialist Kieran Haslett-Moore will present an in store tasting of some of the lesser known examples of the style.

Tues. 13th Oct., 6–7:30pm

@ Unity Books, 57 Willis Street

The Real Art Road Show, according to Google, is “a mobile art gallery in a giant unfolding truck that travels to secondary schools throughout New Zealand.” This launch is for the book, with “126 essays and color illustrations from the Real Art Roadshow collection.” All the profits from the book’s sale go to help running this non-profit.

See it for yourself when it comes to Wellington later this month!

RSVP to Nikki on 04 472 6006 or nikki [at] missionhall.co.nz (with “RAR WGTN” in subject line).

Tues. 13th Oct., 6pm

@ Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba Street

There’s more than a week of activities in Wellington to commemorated the “2007 ‘terror’ raids.” (Hello, air quotes! anyone else doing ‘em right now?) The kickoff is this exhibition opening, which promises to be just as fun as Thistle Hall’s “Robots” one last week.

12 -18 OCTOBER 2009

EXPLOSIVE EXPRESSION: CREATIVE RESISTANCE TO THE STATE TERROR RAIDS OF OCTOBER 2007

Art Exhibition and Auction Opening 6.00pm Tuesday 13 October with Tame Iti.

Art Auction 7.00pm, Saturday 17 October, Thistle Hall, Wellington – or *bid online* at www.october15thsolidarity.info/artauction. We encourage you to check out the awesome art works.

The ‘Operation 8′ raids on houses in Te Urewera and around Aotearoa targeted indigenous rights, environmental, anti-war and union activists. 18 people still face politically motivated charges. Funds raised will support those affected by the raids.