Covid 19 coronavirus: Wellington events affected by alert level 2 this week
28 Feb, 2021 08:51 PM
4 minutes to read
Cricket on Wednesday would be played to an empty Sky Stadium. Photo / Mark Mitchell
NZ Herald
Postponed festivals, a cancelled air show and cricket played behind closed doors: this is how level 2 will affect this week s events in Wellington.
A number of events around the capital have been affected by the region s move to alert level 2 for seven days from 6am on Sunday.
Following the discovery of a community case unlinked to the current cluster, on Saturday the Government announced Auckland would re-enter level 3 lockdown and the rest of the country would return to alert level 2 – limiting gatherings to 100 people.
The Phoenix Foundation Unveil Single Beside Yourself Feat. Fazerdaze Chris Cudby / Wednesday 24th February, 2021 10:11AM
The Phoenix Foundation may have wrapped up their
Friend Ship album release tour of Aotearoa, but like a roving pack of sonic Santas they ve still got plenty of treats tucked up their sleeves for fans. They ve teamed up with
Amelia Murray aka
Fazerdaze for a peppy new cut from a forthcoming two song EP nautically named
Life Boat, launching on strictly limited Lovely Turquoise Clear 7 vinyl in mid April, backed with the enticingly titled Blood On My Hands both of which are drawn from the
Ludus Two Of The Same Debut Album Release Show Announced Chris Cudby / Photo credit: Tim Onnes / Thursday 18th February, 2021 11:27AM
Ludus aka
Emma Bernard is following up a winning run of releases and live / DJ performances with the launch of the producer s keenly-awaited debut album
Two Of The Same, the first long player from new local imprint Strange Behaviour Records. Responsible for curating last year s
Artists In Residence collection of Aotearoa tunes created during lockdown, as well as ace tracks via MARGINS and A Low Hum, Ludus will be bringing the party at Valhalla in early March alongside an all-mega lineup of crowd movers featuring
MONIQUE FORD / STUFF/Stuff
At last year s Performance Arcade on the Wellington waterfront, South Korean performance group MULJIL and members of the refugee community performed in tanks filled with water.
As 2021 slowly wakes, we can look forward to a parade of festivals making the most of Wellington’s one reliably clear weather patch. While much of the world struggles with lockdowns and social distancing, Wellington’s free events programmes encourage the opposite. Later this month, the programme is released for
What if the City was a Theatre? a new city-wide performance series across February and March encouraging us “to rethink the limits of public space”. It’s the work of ever-innovative waterfront live arts festival Performance Arcade, which will also once again spill voluminously out of shipping containers.
Christchurch is our most exciting city: you just need to know where to look.
While a quintessential Kiwi summer holiday usually involves long beaches, endless boogie boarding, cars packed with camping paraphernalia, diving for crayfish and scallops, sausages on the barbecue and all-round barefoot great outdoorsiness, there’s a lot to be said for a summer in the city. Your favourite attractions are less crowded, you can get a table at restaurants that are usually packed and there’s an easy-breezy feel to cities when workers are away.
SUPPLIED Auckland New Zealand’s biggest city is truly at its best over summer. Nothing beats that sun sparkling off the beautiful Waitematā Harbour with Rangitoto ever present. Locals take things slower and it seems there’s some event on every weekend – farmers’ markets, international cricket, Auckland Anniversary day Regatta, International Buskers festival, concerts (Crowded House