News from Newtown Festival
You are invited to celebrate with one of Wellington’s most exciting, diverse, and vibrant communities. Discover the unique Newtown community at the Newtown Festival Street Fair on Sunday. Free to all – a family-oriented public celebration in the heart of Newtown – this is Newtown’s community party to which all of Wellington is invited.
There will be maps and programmes available throughout the festival and attached to each recycling station. You can also find the programme and map on our website. Download these before attending the festival as there will be lots of website traffic on Sunday.
UPDATED 28/02: Newtown Festival 2021 will not go ahead on Sunday 7 March
Kia ora folks
Well, we’ve talked to a lot of people this morning - from our MPs, the MoH to our key festival organisers - and we’ve made the difficult decision to not run the Newtown Festival on Sunday 7 March. Looking after our community is core to our kaupapa and here at HQ we feel this is the best decision for all involved, despite being disappointing to many.
We’re looking at April 11th as a potential postponement date so go ahead and save the date. We do need a couple of days to work out if a postponement is feasible for our artists, stallholders and infrastructure providers so we will confirm either way this week.
+ AFTER PARTY INSIDE NSC:
9.45 Seren
Massive thanks to Te Aro Brewing for their support
Local Welly outfit Mamazita is a band of all-round talented musicians. The crew are made up from a massive range of bands from H4LF CĀST to L.A.B and much more.
Using the same compass as bands such as Hiatus Kayote and Moonchild, Mamazita bring a tasteful blend of hip-hop, neo-soul and RnB. Their tunes - full of gospel chops, groovy breakdowns and solos – will have you swaying with your friends one minute, then losing your mind in the mosh the next.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3MWtxxmX6jKWMfN8vYY30O
Friday, 9 April 2021, 11:13 am
At its core, Aotearoa New Zealand’s housing crisis is
not about houses, but about the way we think about wealth,
community, ourselves and our neighbours, the economy,
education system, and much more. The only solutions to this
problem involve everyone.
How We Live -
Creating Housing That Puts People and the Planet
First is a report
led by sustainability and ethical business champion MOTIF Agency and
commissioned by the PIF
Foundation, and represents a co-created response to
concern for Aotearoa’s housing ecosystem after the
COVID-19 crisis.
Ben Preston,
How We
Live co-author, says: “This is a problem
Lilstiffy Returns With New Album Ecma Chris Cudby / Friday 9th April, 2021 12:23PM
Premiered last night via Twitch livestream, Whanganui electronic artist
Lilstiffy is back with a new album so keenly anticipated it s been credited with crashing Facebook earlier this morning. Launched via
Pattern Recognition and dedicated to
Ecma s name refers to European Computer Manufacturer s Association with techie-inspired track titles being a lil fedora tip to web developers. Sporting seven tracks recorded over the past year during the great pandemic,
Ecma takes listeners on bullet train journey through a sample-spliced matrix of club friendly sounds, likely drawing on the artist s recent experiences living amongst the futuristic high rises of Tokyo featuring special guest