The Cherry Blossom Festival is on this Sunday, the 20th of September at the St James Theatre and Te Papa.
The Sakai Association (Sakai is Wellington’s Japanese Sister City) will be hosting a range of fun activities including: traditional kyudo (Japanese archery) demonstrations, shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and shamisen (three-stringed musical instrument) music, beautiful ikebana (flower arranging) and the peaceful tea ceremony.
Handle the kyudo bows/arrows and the Japanese musical instruments, create ikebana, make tea, play with traditional Japanese toys and learn origami.
Read more about it at this link, or download the .pdf brochure.
Today is the first day of Wellington’s inaugural Japan Festival, which will run until the 11th of July at the Town Hall and the Ilot theatre. It is ‘one week of Japanese themed activities, including a musical fair, business breakfast and highlighted by a Japan festival day with food stalls, crafts and entertainment.’ The Japan festival is this Saturday, the 11th of July, from 1pm, and there will be loads to do.
I’m looking forward to the food stalls the most, as when it comes to Japanese food I can’t stop.
Looking for some friday night fun? Head along to Karori Pool on Friday 26th June from 7pm for a pool party. Only $8! Sold!
Free sausage sizzle, a DJ, inflatable, a bomb competition, and zorb action. Like it says on the poster —>
‘Dr’ Lee Prebble is a musician’s dream come true. He is a music production guru, and he’s all ours! Well… for an hour or two anyway.
Lee Prebble has worked with top NZ bands like Trinity Roots, The Black Seeds, Twinset, The Phoenix Foundation, Fly My Pretties and Dave Dobbyn!
You can catch him at the Wellington Central Library on May 26th at 4.30pm. He’ll be giving you guys the tips and tricks about how to get your band recorded and anything else you want him to talk about (you could ask him about that ‘Dr’ title for a start…)
No bookings required!
NZ Music Month is May (which is next month, like two weeks away), and as usual the library will hold NZ music-related events. On the 8th of May, Friday, at about 4.30pm, Wellington hip-hop artist Rapture Ruckus will be in to talk on ‘How to get somewhere as a muso’. Mark your calendars!
Check out a clip of him performing live:
We’ve a lot of photos from last weekend’s Cuba Street Carnival. The library has a stall set up to promote the Cuba Street Memories Project, which aims to build a history of the street. My great-great-grandfather used to own a part of it; if only he hadn’t sold it in 1860 or thereabouts, I could be rich! Ah well.
If you’re in any of these photos and wish you weren’t, email us!
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