This is Mark Antony Steelsmith, he is mostly an animation artist. He also has a family, a post grad diploma in fine arts, depression and an exhibition called Black Dog Failure on at until Feb 7th. In this interview we talk about all of these things.
Mark also is holding an animation workshop this Saturday 7th at Toi Poneke from 10 – 2pm ( possibly full but please contact the gallery.)
One of the best days in Welly’s summer calender, is about to become three, with the first one kicking off this Sunday the 8th and the others on the 15th of Feb and the 8th of March. In this interview one of Ciclovia’s organisers, Susan Hutchinson – Daniel, talks about why these car free, open street days are manifesting globally.
Also if you’d like to give a little koha to help with the costs and to secure the event for future neighbourhoods please help out with their Pledge me campaign here;
https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/2932-ciclovia-miramar-peninsula-2015
And if you would love to be part of smiley volunteer team they would love your help:
Thanks to Alastair Smith for the photo’s.
It is so exciting to meet bright young Wellington women such as , who is one of the crew leading the 2nd round of the Smart Energy Challenge, that just kicked off last week. The project won a award for last years efforts, in which one of the three successful projects saw crowd fund PV panels onto the Aro Valley Community Hall as part of these citizen led solutions for climate change.
To find out more about how to be involved in the challenge, what makes Gina so motivated and pretty keen on Wellington listen in. But if you’ve got any budding ideas get them in by Feb15th.
more info here http://www.smartenergychallenge.org.nz/
What a year! And while there have been some losses, there have certainly been some wins. So for our very last show on for 2014 we’ve talked to some of the people who have been working very hard to make sure we as a community, city and nation have had some good wins.
A big thanks to Lee Barry of , Matt Dagger of , Isabella Cawthorn of , Pat Shepherd of , Nina Atkinson of , Karen Fifield, Ceo of the and Marianne Elliot of for sharing this information with us all. Whoop whoop. Nice work.
Father and daughter team, Laurie and Johanna Sanders, have a pretty big vision for the out in Lower Hutt. Laurie, the self appointed “Artisan Godfather”, insists that the market is the future, as all businesses start small and the Village Market will enable more of this to happen. Many of our unique Wellington businesses started in a market so I am inclined to agree, but in this interview I found Laurie is so convinced, he is going to leave this as his legacy for the Hutt community. The Village Market is here to stay.
Kelvin Aris, better known as the Kelvinator, takes over hosting as he is on a mission to get us all excited about summer fun happening next year in Welly. In this show he talks to street festival master, Stephen Templer about the summer games we’ll be able to get involved with. Also artistic director Drew James for , joins them to talk about the incredibly exciting line -up and how to be part of the mother of all festivals about to hit Welly.
All I can say is you’ll need to take a few weeks off by the sounds of things, and I am totally in the mood after listening to this. And if you do one thing check out the Sambassadors you tube track link below.
http://www.boosted.org.nz/artist-profile?id=19041
And for the Sambassadors Bruce Lee Bowla track, don’t miss this.
These are the Mum’s from The Sew Good Cooperative at Epuni School in Lower Hutt. Of all the stories has done, this one is possibly the most powerful, Why? Because their story is a community led response to the economic and social pressures facing a huge percentage of our country. These women are doing it for themselves.
After founder Julia Milne has taken a few awards this year as the Overall Winner at the Wellington Airport Community Awards and the Sustainable Champion at the NZI Sustainable Business Awards for her work and vision on the project, we thought we’d go and have a chat with the Mums to see what the best things about the year were for them…..and it wasn’t what we thought.
If you think these women were doing an awesome thing please vote here as they are in the running for a grant that will really help their Koha Kitchen come to life.Closes Dec 11 so please do it today. It takes two clicks.
http://mcfgrantsvoting.com.au/
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