Activity Guide

Matatoki: Contemporary Māori Carving

Type: Art Exhibition
Venue: The Dowse, Lower Hutt
Date: Saturday, 21st of Jun, 2014
Time: 10:00am
Price: Free entry.
Season finishes: Sunday, 28th of Sep, 2014
Summary: Matatoki brings together the work of some of the very best internationally-recognised contemporary Māori carvers in New Zealand.

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Wunderruma: New Zealand Jewellery

Type: Art Exhibition
Venue: The Dowse, Lower Hutt
Date: Saturday, 21st of Jun, 2014
Time: 10:00am
Price: Free entry.
Season finishes: Sunday, 28th of Sep, 2014
Summary: Wunderrūma brings together over 200 pieces by more than 75 contemporary New Zealand jewellers and artists as well as Māori taonga and Pacific and historical European jewellery.

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Grant Stevens: What We Had Was Real

Type: Art Exhibition
Venue: City Gallery
Date: Saturday, 28th of Jun, 2014
Time: 10:00am
Price: Free entry.
Season finishes: Sunday, 7th of Sep, 2014
Summary: Brisbane artist Grant Stevens' beautiful big screen video installation explores how human psychology and communication are being reshaped in the digital era – no break up conversation will ever be the same again

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Prismism

Type: Art Exhibition
Venue: Enjoy Gallery
Date: Friday, 11th of Jul, 2014
Time: 11:00am
Price: Free entry. Gallery open Wed- Sat only. Check out enjoy.org.nz.
Season finishes: Saturday, 2nd of Aug, 2014
Summary: PRISMISM is the first exhibition of Emil McAvoy's paintings, alongside other works, which confront the loaded issue of government communications surveillance. Recent disclosures of widespread illegal surveillance by the NSA's PRISM programme, and its connections with the activities of the New Zealand Government's Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), have galvanised public debate.

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Second Afterlife

Type: Theatre
Venue: Bats Out of Site (Corner of Cuba & Dixon Street)
Date: Friday, 18th of Jul, 2014
Time: 8:00pm
Price: $18.00, Concession $14.00, Group 6+ $13.00.
Season finishes: Saturday, 2nd of Aug, 2014
Summary: Dan has done it all – Facebook, Bebo, Warcraft, that unfortunate foray on NZDating. Profiles, used and deleted. Now he’s ready to reinvent himself. It’s time for a new profile.

However, there’s a hitch.

In order to forge a new identity, Dan has to face up to his internet history: the Bebo emo, Warcraft gamer, and NZDating casanova. They’re cooler, savvier, and shot from more flattering angles. And they’re not going down without a fight.

Second Afterlife is a dark comedy about life (and death) in the digital age. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno, and in the tradition of Scott Pilgrim vs the World, it is a twisted allegory for the Facebook generation – a poetic, ass-kicking romp to the darkest corners of web.

Book now at bats.co.nz

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Trophies

Type: DJ
Venue: Betty's
Time: 9:00pm
Price: Free entry.
Summary: DJ Marek and friends playing local and international Hip Hop.

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Get Nice

Type: DJ
Venue: Matterhorn (www.matterhorn.co.nz)
Date: Friday, 25th of Jul, 2014
Time: 9:00pm
Price: Free entry. With Taay Ninh and LRD JXN.
Summary:

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RED SKY BLUES // MELTING FACES

Type: Live Band
Venue: San Francisco Bath House
Date: Friday, 25th of Jul, 2014
Time: 9:00pm
Price: $10 on the door or $5 with Student ID.
Summary: Red Sky Blues are one of the heaviest and most high-energy the RE-ORIENTATION line-up has to offer, and will leave your ears ringing for days (in a good way). They opened for Brant Bjork, and still play killer house parties.

Melting Faces' blend of psychedelic drone space rock will leave you trembling in the corner of the venue, with existential anxiety, and a well massaged pineal gland.

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Afro Delight 2: The Audio Mechanics origins in Africa session

Type: DJ
Venue: Laundry (240 Cuba Street)
Date: Friday, 25th of Jul, 2014
Time: 10:00pm
Price: Free entry.
Summary: Spanning Reggae, Dancehall, R&B, Azonto, Funk, Afro Beat, Hip Hop and more, with Antsman, Range, Ras Stone and special guest Manray.

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Joe Nice (Baltimore, USA) @ Understudy Bar, Bats Theatre

Type: DJ
Venue: Bats Theatre
Date: Friday, 25th of Jul, 2014
Time: 10:30pm
Price: Door sales only: $10 before midnight, $15 after. North America's first and most respected dubstep DJ.
Summary: Joe Nice, North America's first and most respected dubstep DJ, reaches Wellington for the first time as part of his 2014 Asia Pacific tour!

Also featuring: Thief (Rongotai Hi-Fi), Dirty Red, and mic controller Winston Spliff.

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Soldiers of the Pharoah

Type: Live Gig
Venue: Meow - 9 Edward Street
Date: Friday, 25th of Jul, 2014
Time: 11:30pm
Price: Free entry. 12 piece afro beat super band.
Summary: Happy hour 4.30-6.30pm

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Duelling Pianos