What happens when you dress beautiful ‘real girls’ in gorgeous local frocks and put them on fun urban bikes from at the on a beautiful night in Wellington?
The Wheel Stylish fashion show of course. You can almost feel like you were there in this interview with the designers, models and members of .
Is volunteering with VSA (Volunteer Service Abroad) on your bucket list? Me too, so when I met Mike Stewart, deputy principal at my daughter’s school SWIS, who had just returned with his wife Hannah after two and a half years in PNG, I thought we should have a chat with them about the big things they got from their experience,and how they coped with local tradition’s like wife capturing.
These guys need capes and perhaps should wear their undies over their tights, because they are aiming to raise funds to provide 50 000 meals this month, with the “Miss a Meal in May’ campaign. We talk to volunteers and recipients of our food rescuers about what is so good about not putting our food waste in the landfill and getting it to those that could really do with it.
are doing a seriously good job of getting climate change higher on the political agenda. I had a chat with Paul Young, Generation Zero’s spokesperson, at one of their political stunts outside Parliament, about other countries that DO have a climate change plan and an opportunity that NZ cannot afford to miss.
For many years I have been wanting to ask about her journey in music, how she came to live in Welly and what it is like having as your Dad. So on her recent trip back from New York she came in to have a chat about these things. She also uncovered some interesting points about the differences between performing in Wellington and New York and what made Wellington’s musical heyday. Her new band also goes off the richter scale in reviews every time they play live.
I met Liz Gibson and Alan Berman from on a couple of our school trips. I was so astounded by their commitment in getting hundreds of kids in and out of wet suits so that they can know our Marine Reserve, that I got them out of the water, to come and talk to us about why they never get tired of doing this.
Jeremy Taylor of Wellington’s longest running independent record store talks about Record Store Day at Slow Boat 2014, why records are still so loved and his best day ever!