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ust as we were nearing completion of this bumper issue of 144 pages and feeling pleased with ourselves, along came lockdown to add a twist to the pressure, not least for our design team and most of the office who worked until midnight to get this issue into shape. Thank you to everybody who stayed late to help. In this issue we bring you the winners of our first ever Capital photography competition, CPotY. We were delighted by the huge response to our competition, which was judged by a team of experienced New Zealand photographers. We are pleased to say that with the support of our generous sponsors we are planning a repeat for 2022. Details will be announced soon. It has been fun to work with so many talented people. Rugged coastlines and wild weather are features shared by Wellington and Taranaki, along with many other connections. We’ve asked assorted Taranaki locals to tell us what they love about their region, and suggest you plan a visit accordingly. Recognising the season of renewal, we have taken a close look at the current health fancy for the ancient practice of fermenting food. And I am happy to tell you it involves more than those scobys with their unattractive resemblance to a placenta . Just to remind you about Father’s Day, Kate and Zuke Marinkovich talk about working together as a family in Kate’s cafe. In an effort to unravel the problems besetting Wellington’s transport, we asked Tony Randle to reflect upon the progress of the Let’s Get Wellington Moving campaign since his previous column two years ago. Don’t hold your breath. And finally we can reveal our Best of Wellington results. Some new winners have emerged, and some of the region’s established finest still lead the pack. The competition received a great response; thank you to all who took part, businesses and voters. The sheer interest in this competition, particularly online, has surprised and delighted us. See you again in November. Alison Franks Editor

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14 LETTERS 16 CHATTER 20 NOTEWORTHY 22 NEW PRODUCTS 25 BY THE NUMBERS 26 TALES OF THE CITY 31 CULTURE

38 Family foodies

Walk up Marjoribanks St for a cheese scone and chat with Kate and Zuke

46 Heart of arts

Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy, a great patron of the arts

Healthy, wealthy, and wise

Best of Wellington

Break the financial glass ceiling with Kiwi Wealth CEO Rhiannon McKinnon

It’s official, we can tell you where to find the capital’s best bookshop, best beach, best barista… and that’s just the B’s

56 Broken down

Can we please get Wellington moving?! Tony Randle explains why LGWM needs to get this show on the road.

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60 The shipping news

Ika Rere is the Southern Hemisphere’s first electricity-powered passenger ferry

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108 By the book Briefs, the power of poetry, and illustrator Sam Orchard

84 Well cultured

Hold your breath and take a deep dive into fermentation – we’ve got sauerkraut and scobys, plus we meet a kimchi queen and take a peek inside a fermentery-cum-bakery

118 Taranaki

The locals point out the best spots to stay, play, and café, then we step inside the home of John Leuthart, a lover of art and mountains

Snap happy Winners of Capital Photographer of the Year find beauty in unexpected places

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Jasmine & jewels

136 GOOD SPORT 138 WELLY ANGEL 140 WĀHINE 142 CALENDAR 144 PUZZLED

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After visiting the Capital Photographer of the Year exhibition I realised why none of my four entries were selected as finalists. The depth of talent on show was interesting and most certainly impressive. Thanks for providing this zealous “happy snapper” with an opportunity to get out there and have a go. I’d get really serious next year if one of the prizes was the chance to do a photo shoot for Capital. Claire Reed, Mornington

I wish Capital magazine would write something about our city council’s determined prioritising of bicycles over vehicular traffic. Cycleways are a great idea, but surely not to the exclusion of everything but pedestrians? During this winter those cycleways round Evans Bay and along the road to the airport are getting a tiny amount of traffic. There aren’t very many even on Oriental Bay. How many cyclists are going to cycle to work on a blustery wet day? The cost is enormous. And isn’t it surprising how many cyclists would rather ride on the road than on the expensive cycle ways. We’d be better to put the money into decent public transport. Another concern is that new residential buildings, particularly tower blocks are not required to have provision for cars. Is the council hoping to fill the town with childless families, or very aged pensioners, who won’t need cars to live their miserable lives. Annoyed, Newtown (name and address supplied)

B IG G E R IS BETTER I love your magazine, it’s got great Wellington stories, which are right on trend – especially if you look at the Taste issue with all the Matariki and foodie content, and the item on New Zealand’s best beers. Why don’t you say something about the contents on the outside in letters big enough for buyers to read when it’s sitting in the supermarket shelves? C Fish, Wellington Central O F F IC IA L L A N G UAG E I know “It’s cool to kōrero” but when is Capital thinking of branching out and making it “Slick to sign”? Harry Thomas, Brooklyn

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Blueberry Family ties Blueberries are part of the Ericaceae family (commonly known as the heath or heather family) along with azaleas, rhododendrons, and cranberries. Other relations to the blueberry include sparkleberry, farkleberry, whortleberry, and partridgeberry! Unfortunately these family members live in the States. Here at Palmers we are keeping it blue with blue dawn, blue magic, and tasty blue. Eat up Blueberries are a nutritional powerhouse overflowing with antioxidants, fibre, vitamin C, and potassium. They prove that good things really do come in small packages. If this plant were a person it would be… Papa Smurf. Most Smurfs are said to be about 100 years old, but at the advanced age of 546, Papa is the oldest and the leader of all Smurfs. Despite his age, he is still quite energetic. His “obvious” consumption of blueberries must have helped with anti-aging and vitality. Acid trip Blueberries love acidic soil. So plant them in a sunny spot and add organic matter like compost and mulch. If you’ve got clay soil, make liquid sulphur your friend. Once dissolved, it lowers the pH of soil, making it more acidic.

One F l owe r wa tc h i n g Hundreds of mature cherry trees will soon burst into pink and white blossoms, turning Upper Hutt’s Aston Norwood Gardens into a spring wonderland in September. Mark and Fiona Rammell established the gardens in the 1990s, planting more than 350 cherry trees on the 14-acre site at the foot of the Remutaka Hill. Mark says they were inspired to plant the trees after a visit to Kyoto, Japan during Hanami (flower watching) season. This year, the couple are hosting a new event called Blossom Valley (9 September – 3 October) to celebrate the start of spring. As well as enjoying the delicate blooms, visitors can purchase picnics from the onsite cafe, and the gardens will also be open and lit up for special night-time experiences.

Built-in protection You might notice a bit of a whitish covering on some berries, but it’s perfectly natural. It’s called a bloom and it helps protect the berry and keep it juicy.

Ga rd e n g i ve a wa y The metaphor of the garden, seasonal cycles, and nature are at the heart of The Seekers’ Garden, a new novel by Wellington writer Isa Pearl Ritchie. We have a copy of Isa’s book to giveaway. Email hello@capitalmag.co.nz with the subject line “The Seekers’ Garden” to go in the draw.

Did you know? In 2020 the Blueberry emoji debuted on smartphones across the world. Our plant of the month comes from Katherine Beauchamp from Palmers Miramar.

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New in town

S e lf l ove Orinoco Designs is a new boutique store in Paraparaumu Beach on the Kāpiti Coast. Orinoco has women's clothing from New Zealand designers, hand-made jewellery, dried flowers, and a stunning eclectic mix of homewares and gifts. Owner Erin Skelsey says Orinoco’s in store vibe and style offers “an experience for the self”.

Tw o C l i m b eve r y m o u n t a i n The rugged Tararua Ranges are the third most dangerous area for trampers (behind Fiordland and Tongariro national parks), according to the New Zealand Mountain Safety Council (MSC). From 2007 to 2017 there were five deaths and over 180 trampers required searches and rescue. Trampers most commonly ran into trouble when they underestimated the time it would take to reach their destination. New recommendations to reduce the number of safety incidents have been put forward by an independent Issue Specific Advisory Group formed by MSC and the Department of Conservation. A number of solutions were proposed: to provide clarity on expected journey times, a public interface for reporting track issues, encouraging trampers to factor longer journey times into their planning, and ensuring accurate information about conditions is available to trampers so they set realistic expectations.

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I t ’s e l e c t r i f y i n g Thirty more fast chargers for electric vehicles will be installed in the capital thanks to $498,785 from the government’s Low Emission Vehicles Fund. Currently there are around 3,000 electric vehicles in the wider Wellington region, but only 30 charge points in Wellington city. Only 14 of these are fast chargers, which can fully charge a car in under an hour, compared to around six hours for the slow chargers.

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Hundy Seatoun Primary School celebrates its centenary this year. The school is holding a series of special events for pupils and staff, past and present, from 17 to 19 September, including a street parade from Seatoun Wharf, past the old school site, and on to the current school where a new playground will be formally opened.

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Good sports Mother and daughter compete in a variety of sports in There’s No I In Team, at the Dowse until 17 October. The portraits by Claudia Kogachi (pictured) build on an earlier series that explored the dynamics of family conflict through images of her and her mother battling it out in various sporting events set in domestic spaces. This new series shifts the sense of conflict to a spirit of friendly competition. Kogachi and her mother are rendered cartoon-like “in delightfully awkward angles and inviting bright colours” says senior curator Dr Chelsea Nichols.

F i ve See the light Lights and lanterns will brighten up the waterfront this year when Lumino City, formerly the Wellington Lantern Festival, takes place from Frank Kitt’s Park all the way to Waitangi Park (15–16 October). There will be more than 100 light installations from around the world, some of which have been provided by embassies – including a komodo dragon from Indonesia, a Frida Kahlo lantern from Mexico, and some of our favourite regulars like the duck that floats near Te Papa and the penguins at the diving platform on Taranaki Wharf.

S eve n Th e m a n e eve nt A jet-black lion stamped with a silver fern gazes from Parliament’s forecourt across the teeming savannah that is Molesworth St, until the end of September. The life-sized sculpture was painted by former All Black Richie McCaw and artist Dick Frizzell for the Tusk Lion Trail, a global art campaign organised by the conservation charity Tusk. The population of African lions is estimated to have declined by as much as 50% over the last 25 years. There are now fewer wild lions left in the world than rhinos.

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GOOSE REDUCE A “population control operation” was conducted in August to reduce the growing number of Canada geese in the Kāpiti area. Flock Off bird repellent had failed to solve the problem. Anecdotally said to chase children, the large birds foul waterways and can carry diseases such as avian influenza, campylobacter, E. coli, and salmonella. More than 270 of the pest goose species were counted in Otaraua Park on a single day, and 107 of them were shot. “It was done to the highest safety standards and in the most humane way possible,” says Kāpiti District Mayor K Gurunathan.

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Tītipounamu have been sighted on Te Ahūmairangi Hill for the first time in over a century. Zealandia’s Kari Beaven says it’s an incredibly exciting step by the bird species, which were introduced to Wellington’s ecosanctuary in 2019. “A pair being spotted kilometres away from the sanctuary at Te Ahūmairangi Hill is extraordinary.” The rifleman is New Zealand’s smallest bird. It weighs only 6.5 grams, and its high-pitched calls are often inaudible to humans.

Porirua City Council is asking for submissions from the public on a vast proposed storage tank to help stop wastewater overflowing into Porirua Stream and Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour. The tank would be located north of Porirua railway station, between SH1 and the railway line. It will hold up to seven million litres (about three Olympic-sized swimming pools) of wastewater when there is heavy rain. Plans include protecting the existing wetland and planting to screen the tank from sight.

Eleanor Wright’s charcoal and white chalk drawing Paratai (2019) has won the People’s Choice Prize in the inaugural Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award. The artwork portrays Paratai Tai Rakena, who is a member of Eleanor’s extended whanau. “I feel very privileged that my whanau have trusted me to portray their images,” says Eleanor. The award is hosted and administered by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata.

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S C R O L L U P, SCROLL UP In creating Savage, Porirua writer and director Sam Kelly (pictured) was inspired by stories from New Zealand’s boys homes and the early history of gangs. Now the film’s composer Arli Liberman has been nominated for Best Original Music in a Feature Film at the Silver Scroll awards for his work on the movie. Arli is teaming up with Miramar’s Rhian Sheehan (who has also been nominated for a scroll, for Best Original Music in a Series Award) for Spectral Atmospheres, an “intimate, emotive, soundscape-focused collaborative performance” at Old St Paul’s on 25 September.

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Chorus’ cabinet art programme uses artworks to fight vandalism. They commission the painting of around 100 murals on Chorus telecommunications cabinets every year. They’re currently working with Porirua City Council to find artists for four more cabinets. Bill Inge, Porirua City Council’s Village Projects Coordinator, is coordinating designs and artists. “This is a win-win for our communities. Not only do we get fantastic artworks in our streets, but it also provides work and promotes our local artists,” he says.

Greytown photographer and 2021 Capital Photographer of the Year judge Rebecca Kempton has been recognised in the Iris Professional Photography Awards, run by the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography. Rebecca received a silver award in the Landscape Open category for her photograph of the jetty at the Lazy Fish retreat in Marlborough. Four other Wairarapa photographers, Esther Bunning, Amber Griffin, Terry Wreford Hann, and Sharisse Eberlein, also received awards.

Over the past few years the number of rabbits in and around the Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre has ballooned. Pūkaha has also had a year of record ferret and cat numbers, driven by the growing population of rabbits, which form their main prey. The Department of Conservation has announced funding of just under $700,000 over three years for three new jobs to kick-start more effective rabbit control and protect the taonga species in the area.

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30.5%

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adults in Wellington have received one vaccine dose as of 12 August

how much yoga practice has grown in New Zealand in the past decade

minutes, enough high-intensity interval training to be hugely beneficial for your cardio health

of Kiwis getting at least five servings of fruit and vegetables each day

Tea time Put the kettle on

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million more cups of tea consumed in New Zealand in 2020 than in 2019

average price of a takeaway coffee in New Zealand in 2021

times as much Vitamin C in Matcha tea as in oranges

21 – 27 September, Mental Health Awareness week

Mental Health Awareness Check on your mates

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people approximately have downloaded Sir John Kirwan’s mental wellbeing app, Mentemia

would-be clients are reportedly turned away every month from a Wellington psychologist’s office

seconds of deep breathing is a great way to stop and re-centre yourself

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the year Harry Kerr claimed NZ’s first Olympic medal, a bronze in the 3,500m walk

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total medal count for our greatestever Olympian, Lisa Carrington

the final score that secured the Black Ferns their first Olympic Gold

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nder the leadership of its president Clayton Willocks, the Wellington City Pirates Baseball Club enjoyed a 300% increase in player numbers this season. “The success of any grass-roots sports club rests on the support of families, volunteers, and the community,” says Clayton, who expects even more sign-ups when the new season starts in October. Clayton played for the NZ Black Sox Men’s Softball Team for eight years, and during that time they won two World Series Tournaments (South Africa in 2000, Christchurch in 2004). He understands the power of sport to build confidence and create opportunities. “I’m passionate about giving kids the opportunity to play team sports, have fun, meet new friends, and grow the sport of baseball in New Zealand,” says Clayton, who is also on the committee of the Wellington Baseball Association. As a coach, Clayton would love nothing more than “to see a Wellington kid win a baseball scholarship to a USA university and make it through to the major leagues. One day, New Zealand will have a Steven Adams equivalent in major league baseball.” Outside baseball, Clayton’s an officer in the New Zealand Army, and has been in the Defence Force for more than 25 years. “I love the diversity of roles and range of opportunities the army has given me.” Clayton spent two years living and working with the UN in

the Middle East. He was in the response team after the Rena oil tanker disaster in the Bay of Plenty, and the support team following the Kaikoura earthquake. “I’ve lived and worked throughout New Zealand, and there’s always a new role or challenge just around the corner.” These days, you’ll likely find Clayton in the Wellington Botanic Garden. “It’s close to Defence House and a beautiful spot to go running at lunchtime – every day there is different.” That is also the appeal of Wellington Harbour. “There’s always something going on. I love running along the waterfront on a beautiful day – its smell, the view, and how changeable it is.” Clayton’s favourite thing about Wellington is how easy it is “to get out in nature without having to leave the city.” Weekends are pretty full with kids and baseball – coaching, planning, and playing. On Sundays Clayton likes to cook breakfast for his wife and two children before getting outside. “We try to fit in either a walk up Wright’s Hill or a mountain bike ride in the Makara Mountain Bike Park.” He also enjoys surfing, playing golf, and trail running. Asked where he holidays, Clayton says the family heads to Waipu Cove in Northland, where they fall off the grid. “It’s a beautiful beach, the water is warm and clear, and it has a lovely surf break. We have a classic caravan and love camping there on the beach – swimming, surfing, reading, and soaking up the sun.”

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IN THE TRENCHES In World War I, during a Christmas ceasefire, Māori soldiers wanted to play rugby, not football, against some German soldiers – but they assented to football if they got to perform a haka. Putting a twist on this tale, Isaac Lee (who runs a video-production company) made the excellent short film The Haka at his Upper Hutt lifestyle block, where he’d already dug trenches to make a music video. He released The Haka online. Then, secretly, a friend submitted it to film festivals. In October it screens at the Festival des Antipodes in France.

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Boundary-pushing actor, writer, and producer Jean Sergent describes herself as a “hereditary witch. A good witch, of course! I’m a descendant of Cornish Romanichal people, sometimes called gypsies. Also, my great-grandmother was the neighbourhood tea-leaf reader in Naenae, Lower Hutt in the 1950s.” Jean’s witchcraft includes spells, healing rituals, astrology, and tarot. She and long-time friend/collaborator Jonny Potts perform their (separate) tragicomedies in Live Through This, about being in Wellington in times of upheaval. Circa, from 23 October.

Wellington's world-touring soul and R’n’B songstress Deva Mahal – daughter of American blues musician Taj Mahal – felt off balance in 2020, between bad health and the pandemic. That experience inspired her new single, Stand In, released on 28 August. Mahal performs a one-off concert with capital band Fat Freddy’s Drop (18 September, Michael Fowler Centre). Fat Freddy’s album Wairunga was released digitally in late August.

Every year, longtime Māori theatre company Taki Rua stages its Te Reo Māori season, touring children’s theatre that uses only te reo Māori around schools nationwide. This year’s show, by Toro Pikopiko Puppeteers Jeffrey Addison and Whaitaima Te Whare, is about Pourakahua, a cross between a human and a bird. Kids who don’t know te reo can still follow the story – and enjoy the music and physical humour. There’s a final free whanau showing of Pourakahua on 29 September, at the National Library.

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P R E S E R VAT I O N Forty years after the infamous Springbok Tour, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision is staging exhibition Tohe|Protest, which shows how the escalating tensions between activists, rugby fans, police, and politicians were captured by broadcasters and filmmakers. See excerpts from Patu!, the late great Merata Mita’s documentary on the demonstrations against apartheid. Learn how Ngā Taonga staff overcame technical challenges to repair and preserve the film, restoring the quality of the images, colour, and sound, and reinstating scenes trimmed for television. Tohe|Protest is showing at the National Library’s Te Puna Gallery.

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Growing up in Cannons Creek, Porirua, Neil Ieremia made his own opportunities. The dancer/choreographer set up pioneering contemporary-dance troupe Black Grace 26 years ago, and remains its artistic director. Now he directs Black Grace’s first collaborative work with NZ Opera: (m)Orpheus (6–9 October). The “collision of dance and opera” reimagines Christoph Gluck’s 18th-century masterpiece, Orpheus and Eurydice, about Orpheus’ journey to the underworld to reclaim the woman he loves. Set in a dislocated future, (m)Orpheus represents metamorphosis and transformation.

In 2012, friends Allison MacKay and Gabrielle Edmonds stitched 145 socks into WOW finalist creation Is It Socks? In the show, the “sock monster” lifted its skirts to reveal everyone’s lost socks. This year they’re finalists, so part of the show, for the third time. They can’t say much about their creation. “But as a science teacher,” MacKay says she and Edmonds found inspiration in “phasing out plastic bags and sea litter”. They met as teachers at Lower Hutt’s Sacred Heart College.

“I make work for marae, schools, churches, and hospitals,” says esteemed Māori artist-educator Sandy Adsett, aged 82. “I work as part of my community, not as an individual artist which is why I don’t exhibit my work often.” He’s only doing so because Reuben Friend, Pātaka Art Museum’s Director, is a friend and past student. Pātaka is staging Toi Koru (until 17 November): displaying 60 of Adsett’s paintings from six decades.

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A little peek in the drawers of the Bureau reveals hundreds of contributions from the public, all filed away neatly by topic. Under “Animals” someone dreams they are a cow then wakes to find they are still a man. What does this mean? “The Surrealists weren’t really interested in deciphering the meaning of a dream – instead they wanted to use their dreams as a way of diving into the unknown,” says Lizzie. Salvador Dalí’s dreamy painting Couple with their heads full of clouds is one of Lizzie’s favourites. “Dalí has said that this painting depicts him and his wife Gala – the work is shaped like two figures, one leaning into the other. Instead of painting portraits of the figures’ faces, Dalí gives us the feeling that we’re looking into their inner dream lives. The painting is full of strange magical details, like tiny figures in the distance, and beautifully painted, crumpled table-cloths.” Te Papa is hosting two special after-dark events that bring to life the Surrealists’ wild ways. Dreaming After Dark (10 September) offers “otherworldly performance, strange stories, experimental games, and activities” and Dinner, Dalí, and Masterpieces (17 September) is an evening of food, drink, live entertainment, and late-night access to Surrealist Art.

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In October 1924, the Surrealists set up an office in Paris called the Bureau of Surrealist Research. “People were invited to visit and share their dreams, which were then added to an archive of the unconscious. The Surrealists published dreams in magazines and journals, and they captured dreams in drawings, paintings, films, and sculpture,” says Lizzie Bisley, Te Papa’s Curator Modern Art. “They were fascinated by the unknown, the marvellous, and the imaginary. For them, dreams were one of the most important ways of tapping into the mysterious world of the unconscious.” Te Papa’s Surrealist Art exhibition has its own Bureau of Surrealist Research. Visitors are invited to write, draw, or record their dreams, and then add them to the archive.

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GOETHE AND CHILL Grab your popcorn and get ready for the Goethe-Institut’s German Film Festival, complete with eleven new movies from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Presented in their original languages with English subtitles, these films are part of a hybrid festival of film screenings in seven cities and online throughout September. Wellington screenings will be held at the Lighthouse on Cuba Street, 2–5 September.

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Wellington artist Turemeke Harrington moves between objects, furniture, and installation. The first recipient of the Collin Post Scholarship in Sculpture, which supports promising students from Massey University’s Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Turemeke describes her aesthetic as bright, playful, serious, irritating, and responsive. She features alongside sculptors Ben Pearce and Hannah Valentine in a new exhibition, Hand-Held, at Page Galleries from 16 September.

When the Royal New Zealand Ballet performs A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Wellington (28–31 October) they will be accompanied by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. The score is the work of former RNZB Music Director Nigel Gaynor, who used Felix Mendelssohn’s famous overture to the play, and arrangements of Mendelssohn’s chamber music, piano solos, and other orchestral works, to create a two-act ballet.

Dr Kathryn Wightman, winner of the 2019 pattillo Whanganui Arts Review, is exhibiting alongside eight other glass artists in Art Glass 21. “I originally studied glass and ceramics at the National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, in the United Kingdom,” she says. “From this training I developed a practice that was focused on combining image and blown glass.” The annual exhibition at New Zealand Glassworks in Whanganui showcases her work and that of some of New Zealand’s other best glass artists until October.

Spring at Circa Theatre

Crocodile Fever

Written by Meghan Tyler Directed by Stella Reid Performance Designer: Meg Rollandi $25–$52

4 Sep–2 Oct

Home is the hardest place to hide. Following a stellar Edinburgh run, Crocodile Fever explodes onto Circa Theatre’s main stage. This thrilling dark comedy from Northern Ireland promises action, laughs and a killer finish. Starring award-winning Karin McCracken, Hannah Kelly and Circa luminary Peter Hambleton. “This play is a bloody masterpiece” — britishtheatre.com

Sundays at Ira’s

Created by Jane Keller and Michael Nicholas Williams Directed by K.C. Kelly Musical Direction by Michael Nicholas Williams; Company: Hurst First $25–$38

18 Sep–2 Oct

‘It’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s de-lovely’ Told with humour, charm and interlaced with songs from marvellous early 20th Century composers such as Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Noël Coward and George Gershwin, Sundays at Ira’s is a nostalgic and entertaining night out

Mr Fungus

By Fergus Aitken Directed by Fraser Hooper General Admission $15, under 2’s free, Family pass $50 (4 tickets)

5–16 Oct

‘New Zealand’s Loudest Mime’ A refreshing look at absurdity and adventure! Over the past three decades, Mr Fungus has been one of the capital’s most well-known physical performers. World famous in Wellington, the iconic Mr Fungus presents his new, upbeat physical comedy show, sure to delight KIDS OF ALL AGES. So, bring the whānau, bring the grandies, bring the neighbours and come and join ‘New Zealand’s Loudest Mime’, Mr Fungus.

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Hir

By Taylor Mac Directed by Katherine McRae $25-$52

9 Oct–6 Nov

The revolution starts at home. Isaac returns home from a stint in the armed forces to discover his suburban family engaged in a war of their own. His mother, liberated from an abusive marriage, is intent on upending the patriarchy. His younger sibling is transitioning and on a crusade to dismantle the binary. Their dominating father, left speechless and passive after a stroke, is floundering in this new reality. But in this sly, subversive comedy, annihilating the past doesn’t always free you from it.

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Family foodies BY M AG G I E T W E E D I E P H OTO G R A P H Y BY A N N A B R I G G S

A father and daughter with the need to feed and serve.

t’s 11am and the ice has melted from the frosty car windows. Mt Vic has emerged out of shadow at a now steady nine degrees. A stream of women clomp up Majoribanks Street, past the bright white L’affare sign, and turn hard left into the small black coffee shop that is Tomboy. If you blink you could miss it. Inside is a boutique cakery with a towering array of sweet treats, freshly baked on the premises daily. Delicious creamy, herbaceous chicken and rocket sandwiches, monstrous chocolate and peanut butter brownies, and, crucially, hot coffee. Tomboy, named after her son Tomislav, says owner Kate Marinkovich, has been open for five years. Kate’s grandparents owned a dairy milk bar up north; Kate’s mum, Lynsey Marinkovich, owned a catering business; and her dad, Zuke Marinkovich, likes to cook using Mediterranean ingredients, celebrating his Croatian heritage. The love of cooking was inherited by all three children, including Kate’s dancer sister Lucy (Cap #60) who loves baking with “picture perfect” finesse. At the door, Zuke greets customers with a warm smile, offering magazines and filling water glasses. “I’ve been here about three years now. The business was growing and I had retired. So it kept me from mowing the lawns every day, and in here doing dishes.” Zuke enjoys getting to know the locals and calls his contribution “just helping out.” He’s modest – his maître d’ role is fundamental to the tiny café’s friendly vibe, and reflects his years working at Moore Wilson’s before retirement. Kate has dedicated her career to hospitality and she’s entirely self taught. “I had the eventual goal of owning something but the focus for the majority was always front of house, the systems and the service.” Kate was working at Prefab when Bridget Dunn and Jeff Kennedy offered her the role of Head Baker. “I took it from there. That was the last piece of the puzzle and let me know I could open Tomboy.” Her acknowledgment of her parents’ support and help is tearful and heartfelt. “In the beginning my mum was here, right beside me doing the dishes and would come in the middle of the night when she was worried about me. Both of my parents have been instrumental in the success of Tomboy. They’ve really helped me.”

There’s a lot going on in Kate’s day. Already she has made a baby lemon cake topped with pink and white roses for pick-up, in the kitchen a pile of waffles awaits her, ready to assemble for a photo shoot in a Fix and Fogg campaign, along with a new staff member to train. Sourcing local produce is important to Kate. She uses Ruth Pretty tomato chilli relish in her ham toasties, Island Bay pork and fennel sausages in Tomboy’s sausage rolls, and ACME & Co’s famous Oli rolls for her sandwiches. She knows these products and namely the people behind them, having worked for Ruth Pretty and the Prefab team. She tells the story of mastering the Oli rolls. At Prefab when the original recipe was devised, Kate customised the size and shape, and suggested brushing the ciabatta with oil before and after baking. The second brushing “straight when it comes out of the oven”, ensures the doughy rolls absorb the oil beautifully. Five years in small business hasn’t dampened her epicurean enthusiasm. Kate describes her love of Italian shortbread cookies soaked in vermouth, stuffed with Italian pastry cream and rolled in chopped pistachios. “Although every day I’m mentally working,” Tomboy is open for business Wednesday to Saturday and she can close the doors at 2pm each day. “I was a single mum for so long so I didn't want to sacrifice my home life. So the business works for me and not the other way around.” Zuke has no intention of slowing down either. “I don’t want to retire again. I’ve got to keep doing something,” he says. That means starting with dishes and opening the doors at 7.30am. When I ask what it’s like to work with family, Zuke acknowledges “It’s unique, but honestly we don’t have much time to chat and break during the course of the day. Kate works extremely hard and puts a lot of effort into it, so it’s good to back her up.” Kate reflects on her relationship with Zuke, and the similar ways they approach life. She plans to cook her dad a nice dinner for Father’s Day and get him an annual bottle of J&B Whiskey. The two mirror one another at work and have established a sense of traditional service at Tomboy that many hospitality institutions lack.

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Healthy, wealthy, and wise P H OTO G R A P H Y BY SA N N E VA N G I N K E L

Many New Zealanders experience barriers to engaging with their finances. Rhiannon McKinnon, the CEO of Kiwi Wealth, wants to change that. And break some glass ceilings while she’s at it. She talks to Claire O’Loughlin.

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knew before meeting her that Rhiannon McKinnon, the newly appointed Acting CEO of Kiwi Wealth, was not your “average” CEO. At 42 years old, she is one of the youngest people ever appointed to lead a top-10 wealth and investment organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kiwi Wealth is the largest New Zealandowned KiwiSaver provider, with over 220,000 members, and manages more than $8 billion in funds. But I didn’t expect her to be the first person I met at the office, appearing out of nowhere as I battled with the virtual receptionist (an iPad). She helped me sign in, and we sat talking on bar stools in a meeting room. There were no intimidating formalities (scary iPad aside), no stuffy suit jackets, no flustered assistants. The atmosphere was relaxed. It was like chatting to a friend. Originally from the United Kingdom, McKinnon grew up in Watford, just outside of London. Eventually her older brother’s stories lured her into the city. Though she knew she wanted to work in finance, at university she chose the subject that interested her the most: History. It’s a decision she’s always valued. “I think arts degrees are amazing. You normally have an essay question, and have to make a stance and an argument, and distil your argument. Learning how to communicate effectively and succinctly is important as well. That’s a great skill, and I think it’s helped me a lot.” Then came a post-graduate finance qualification — she is a Chartered Financial Analyst — and a position in a graduate trainee scheme at an investment bank, followed by more finance jobs. As in any career, there were ups and downs. “I ended up in a couple of jobs where it was not uncommon for me to be crying before I went to work. The key learning was that not every job suits you. Sometimes you can’t succeed in what you’re doing because you are in the wrong spot. And then in the next place things begin to flow again.”

McKinnon is half Chinese, and after a year in China learning the language, she and her partner moved to Christchurch in 2007, and then Wellington in 2011. She worked in corporate finance and investor relations at NZ Post, before becoming Executive Advisor to the CEO at Kiwibank, and then holding senior roles at Kiwi Wealth. But this recent promotion has been her big “smash the glass ceiling” moment. “I’m super proud of it. A new job is always scary. You turn up and you’re like, am I the right person for this, how do I do this? But just fake it until you make it. If people think that you can do it and you don’t, just believe that you can and go for it.” Now at the helm of Kiwi Wealth, she’s focused on reaching their 220,000 members, and all Kiwis, to engage them in their financial futures. Many people experience barriers to engaging with their finances, she says. The most common ones are knowledge, confidence, and getting started. Even the word “wealth” is a barrier. “Very few people wake up and think ‘I’m feeling wealthy today’. So even that word means that people kind of go, ‘oh, that’s not me. I’m not that person’.” Research shows women are less confident than men about financial decisions, and as a result feel more stressed about their financial futures. However, McKinnon is quick to point out that the evidence also shows that, once they take the first step, women are just as good at making financial decisions and investing as men. She believes the difference is more about finding the confidence and headspace. “I think women are constantly planning for the future, constantly thinking about their children, and logistics. I know I do an enormous amount of thinking about short and medium-term things for my family. And I wonder whether women do so much in that space that we fail to think about ourselves as well.”

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The lack of financial education is also a big issue. Finance and investing isn’t really taught in schools, though that is changing. But mostly, it’s a subject you learn after school and you have to self-start. Men often feel more confident to self-start, she says. It’s similar to the way women can be more nervous to put their hand up for promotion. Her advice for getting started in investing is just to do it. “Dip your toe. You don’t have to take an enormous amount of risk, but just get started in some way, shape, or form. And build your confidence from there.” Managed funds are a great way into investing, she says. In New Zealand there is a focus on property as if it were the only kind of investment, when actually there are many options. You can use a managed fund to save for a house or invest for a deposit. While it’s important to think about timeframes and the risks, investing options are not mutually exclusive, McKinnon says. Share trading platforms have risen in popularity in recent years, when traditionally their high fees and complicated processes restricted them to the already-wealthy. McKinnon says the change has been a democratisation of owning and investing. She believes investment should always come back to your goal – be it a house, a wedding, or an amazing holiday. “Goals make investing more real.” Understanding and engaging with your money and investing can make an enormous difference to wellbeing. According to research, those who feel

they have enough money are three times as likely to define themselves as happy, and people with assets often feel a lot more confident about their future than those who don’t. While Kiwi Wealth’s customers are her focus during the day, as a mother to three kids under seven years old, it’s a big gear-shift into family life at the end of the day. “You come home and you are being called into the bathroom by your three-yearold son to help him.” McKinnon regularly works from home, does the school pick-up, and makes up time working in the evenings. Kiwi Wealth’s flexible working practices help, and she believes making equal and fair workplaces means realising that people have other commitments. “If you look at the traditional old-fashioned workplace where men show up and they’re 100% dedicated to their jobs, it probably means there is somebody in the background, most likely their wife, looking after the kids and making sure they never interrupt their working life. Well, that’s not real life.” Engaging with real life, what’s really going on for people, meeting them where they are at, and helping them get to where they want to go is what McKinnon is all about. “What we’re really trying to do is say, right, if you’re here now, and you want to go over there, we can help you make some decisions to achieve that. We’ll partner with you along the way.”

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Heart of arts P H OTO G R A P H Y BY A N N A B R I G G S

Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy is a tireless supporter of and advocate for New Zealand art. She talks to Sarah Lang about the paintings on the walls of Government House, and what she’ll be leaving behind.

particular favourite is Government House Gardens, hanging in the Blundell Room, by Karl Maughan, who paints full-bloom flowers and foliage in vibrant colours. “David and I were having dinner with Karl and his wife Emily Perkins,” Dame Patsy recalls. “He said ‘I’ve always wanted to paint your garden’, so he did. This painting looks like summer. That’s a pohutukawa in the background, but it’s mainly hydrangeas.” The couple will gift it to the house when they leave. “I think it probably belongs here.” During her five-year term, which ends this September, Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy and her husband Sir David Gascoigne have championed the arts in New Zealand however and whenever they can, an opportunity she describes as “a great luxury” of the role. “David and I have had the opportunity to showcase arts talent, and to support the performing arts, visual artists, and writers.” says Dame Patsy, who was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the arts and business. “The more I’ve learned about the visual arts,” Dame Patsy says, “the broader my tastes have become. David and I have a modest collection of art of our own. I particularly love art unique to our country, and contemporary Māori art is very exciting.” She also likes works with strong historical links. In 2016, the Office of the Governor-General formed a partnership with Massey University to foster the development of Māori and Pasifika visual arts and creative practices. Each year, they choose an annual Mātairangi Mahi Toi Māori Artist in Residence. The latest, musician Troy Kingi, spent

three months in a cottage at Government House to write and record a new album. Dame Patsy believes New Zealand should have a place on the international art stage. In 2017, she was New Zealand’s first GovernorGeneral to attend the opening of the Venice Biennale. It featured Lisa Reihana’s Emissaries, a panoramic cinematic video work that reimagines the French scenic wallpaper Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique, depicting early French explorers. Dame Patsy and Lisa arrived in style. Wearing ceremonial Māori cloaks, they boarded Venice’s largest gondola (which Dame Patsy calls “the Italian form of a waka”) and were rowed by 18 oarsmen to a historic maritime building in the biennale's central exhibition area. “That was a wonderful occasion, and probably one of the highlights of my term.” Another highlight has been curating the art in Government House. “We had a big changeout of the art about a year into my term,” Patsy says. “I think Government House should have art that reflects, if not every major artist, then every major art movement.” Certain artworks are there permanently (some having been donated), and some have been borrowed. Museums, other institutions, and friends loaned Dame Patsy major works including a Shane Cotton, a Gretchen Albrecht, a Don Binney, and a Colin McCahon. And what happens once their term ends? “David and I will continue to be strong supporters of the arts in our personal capacity, as we did previously.” They’ll be leaving the house, but not the arts community.

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Simply the best BY F R A N C E S CA E M M S A N D CA L LU M T U R N B U L L

Voting has closed, the results have been collated, and we now know who is, officially, the best. Capital’s Best Of Awards have made a triumphant return after a short covid-related hiatus. The competition was tough and there were some very close calls. Thank you to everyone who got on board – nominees, campaigners, supporters, and voters, you make sure we have the best of the best right here at Wellington’s front door.

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Best Pizza Pizza Pomodoro

Best Burger Gorilla Burger

Best Fish & Chips The Chippery

Neapolitan pizza is quite different from anything that was available in Wellington back in 2000 when Massimo Tolve began Pizza Pomodoro. His pizzas are wood fired and handcrafted in the traditional way to ensure a soft but crisp crust. “I’ve worked hard to get it as close to the authentic product as you can outside of Italy. In fact, we have been awarded certification from Italy, from the governing body who oversee the production of pizza around the world,” says Massimo.

Opening one week before New Zealand went into the 2020 nation-wide lockdown was “an interesting time to start,” says Gorilla Burger’s general manager Reddyn Wallace. But the “juicy, messy burgers” have been a hit with the locals, and the team has big plans to take over the capital and then the country. Reddyn tells us there are new stores opening in Wellington soon, with “exciting limited-time burgers being released every couple of months”.

There’s a bit of competition between The Chippery’s two gourmet fish and chip shops. Every month the chefs at the Mt Vic and Thorndon stores create a new Burger of the Month, with an in-house competition to see which store sells the most burgers. They offer fresh fish cooked in a variety of ways and several chips options. “We pride ourselves on good fish and chips. The staff have all been trained to make both stores consistent,” says owner Komal Parbhu.

Runner-Up: Scopa Pizzeria

Runner-Up: Burgerfuel

Runner-Up: Wellington Seamarket

Best Barista Frank Hsu Frank Hsu started Frank’s on the Terrace in 2015 in “the coffee capital of New Zealand”. The best part of his day is “talking to people about the story behind the coffee they really enjoy.” He says Wellingtonians know their coffee well and are open to tasting unique and exquisite coffee. “By providing carefully crafted and delicious single origin coffee, we can add further value for coffee drinkers in Wellington.” Runner-Up: Willy at Swimsuit Coffee

Best Cheese Scone Frank’s

Best Sweet Treat Kaffee Eis

Best Bakery Arobake

The team at Frank’s (Frank’s Terrace, Frank’s Newtown, and Frank’s Roastery) are a small bunch of “passionate, all-around professionals excited about making delicious drinks, baking scones, creating an inviting space, cleaning up after ourselves, saying please and thank you, and delivering memorable experiences,” says owner/operator Frank Hsu. We asked him the secret behind his fabulous cheese scones and he wouldn’t tell us! You’ll just have to go try one.

Kaffee Eis (coffee and ice cream in German) make great coffee, but they’re definitely best known for their gelato. “We have over 30 flavours that have won awards over the years,” says Karl Tiefenbacher, including Black Doris Plum sorbet which scored a perfect 100 out of 100 at the New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers Association Awards last year. Awards are cool, but Karl just loves spending time in the production kitchen making gelato. “It’s physically demanding and immensely satisfying,” he says.

Master Baker Maximilian Fuhrer founded Arobake in 1989. When asked why Wellington, he simply says, “Where else?” Arobake has gone from strength to strength over the years; expansions in Aro St, a new bakery and shop in Petone, and plans for more shops and a roastery are in the works. If the fine selection of breads and treats has you struggling to choose, we recommend the rhubarb and custard tart or the lemon sour cake.

Runner-Up: Bellbird Eatery

Runner-Up: Lashings

Runner-Up: Shelly Bay

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Best Asian Little Penang

Best Artisan Food & Drink House of Dumplings

What makes Little Penang stand out from the dozens of Malaysian restaurants in Wellington? Tee Chiew Phie and her husband Keith decided to focus on Peranakan or Nyonya cuisine, which has Chinese, Indian, and ethnic Malay influences. From small beginnings on Dixon St, Tee and Keith have now moved to bigger premises on Victoria St and a second restaurant on the Terrace.

When Vicky Ha invited her friends over for dinner she would make her mum’s dumplings. Vicky’s friends convinced her she should start making them commercially so she went to Australia to work on a prawn trawler in the Gulf of Carpentaria. “I got $20K and used that money to start House of Dumplings.” Vicky says that when it comes to her business, she always tries to do the right thing and create the type of food her grandmother would’ve “using the best ingredients.”

Runner-Up: Mr Go’s

Runner-Up: Six Barrel Soda

Best Cheap Eat Mr Go’s Mr Go’s is known for “quality, quick and tasty offerings with good service,” says Dean White. He’s particularly proud of their Regional Menu Series. Every month or so they pick a region in wider-Asia and serve up a few dishes and drinks representative of the region. “While it’s mostly snack and street food items to keep in line with Mr Go’s, we keep quite traditional with the recipes – it’s really all about that region. It’s teaching us and our guests.”

Runner-Up: Winner Winner

Best Mexican Viva Mexico Newtown

Best Coffee Good Fortune Coffee Co

Best Café Seashore Cabaret

Viva Mexico serves homemade, traditional Mexican meals and drinks made with love and spice. Luis Guerrero tells us their philosophy is “to make our customers feel homesick even if they’ve never been to Mexico.” This means showcasing the culture of Mexico and authentic Mexican food “beyond the typical stereotype”. If you’re not sure what to order, Luis says the enchiladas represent “the best of what we want to give as a restaurant: a fiesta in the mouth.”

Freya Atkinson and Matt Wilson create Wellington’s best coffee at their roastery on Petone’s esplanade, Good Fortune Coffee Co. The pair have worked in the Wellington coffee scene for more than a decade, and are local favourites. For Matt, the support is clear when you look at who’s succeeding in Wellington. “Local coffee roasters have all been supported by the locals, rather than the big guys coming in and having a monopoly on everything.”

Any Wellingtonian worth their weight in table salt will tell you that a seat at Seashore Cabaret is a coveted one. This is the second time Seashore Cabaret has won our Best Café award, signalling a bright future for their new Fitzherbert Street location, the House of Good Fortune café. Owners Freya Atkinson and Matt Wilson are grateful that locals have connected so well with the brand. “People do really love that brand, the artwork, and obviously the coffee,” says Freya.

Runner-Up: Taco Queen

Runner-Up: L’affare

Runner-Up: Swimsuit Coffee

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Best Fine Dining Hippopotamus

Best Brewery Fork & Brewer

Best Bar Little Beer Quarter

Hippopotamus is known for its spectacular harbour views, sumptuous dining experience, and delicious dishes designed with Executive Chef Jiwon Do’s signature quirky flair. “We really hang our hat on our lavish high tea service and degustation menus,” he says. One of the best things about Jiwon’s job is visiting local producers. “I love weaving ethically sourced ingredients into unexpected and experimental flavour combinations, all while using classic French cooking techniques.”

Walk up the stairs at Fork and Brewer and the first thing you’ll see is their brewery bubbling away. Designed in New Zealand and constructed in China, the custom brewery allows the team to brew around 1,000 litres of fresh beer at a time. Visitors can rely on a large selection of regular Fork and Brewer beers as well as special collaboration brews with visiting brewers, seasonal beers, and special occasion offerings.

Four women saw a gap in the craft beer market, for a place that was fun but also where solo drinkers would feel comfortable. So in 2011 they opened Little Beer Quarter. Tucked away in the Edward St Precinct, LBQ offers exciting beers and tasty food. “It’s a massive thing for us to celebrate a decade,” says Stacey Walsh, “There have been so many wonderful memories and great people.”

Runner-Up: Atlas

Runner-Up: Double Vision Brewing

Runner-Up: Choice Bros Ghuznee St

Best Restaurant Ombra The best part of Dean White’s day is “walking into a busy restaurant that’s operating well.” Ombra, which Dean purchased from founder Russell Scott in January 2018, is a “bacaro” – the Venetian version of an Italian osteria. Ombra serves traditional and modern Italian sharing plates, offering a warm and lively environment with excellent food. There are plans for a small kitchen renovation this month “which will give us scope for different dishes,” says Dean.

Runner-Up: El Matador

Best Middle Eastern Babylon Kebab

Best Bookshop Unity Books

Faris Yago and his family make up the tight team behind the best Middle Eastern in Wellington: Babylon Kebab. The business has not been without sacrifice, Faris explains. “My wife Kladis and I worked many long hours to get to where we are today.” It would seem that the hours have paid off. At this year’s CupaDupa, their Middle Eastern dessert table sold out on both days. “We never knew Wellingtonians had such a sweet tooth,” says Faris.

When asked what he loves most about Wellington, Unity Books manager Adrian Hardingham says, “The strong tradition of writing and of books. For years Wellington had a great range of bookshops and, although that faded for a while, it’s great to see new bookshops opening and being supported by readers.” And the best thing about working at Unity Books? “Recommending books we love to readers keen to try new things.”

Runner-Up: Camel Grill

Runner-Up: Arty Bees Books

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Best Homewares Cranfields

Best Fashion Good As Gold

Cranfields offers enduring, quality collections that you don’t find elsewhere in New Zealand. “We get told all the time we should be in Auckland but Wellington is our home,” says Nicola Cranfield. Cranfields were an early proponent of New Zealand made and responsibly-sourced home goods, a strategy they have stuck with over the decades. They are marking their 30th anniversary this year and will celebrate with some special collaborations with local makers.

Ruben Bryant wanted to create “a new type of shopping experience and scene that sold all the best bits from New Zealand and around the globe in a warm and friendly environment.” In 2004 he began Good as Gold. “It was and still is a small boutique run by a small team of passionate friendly staff,” he says. Check out the new digs on Bond St, which are designed and built by Ruben and staffer Oscar Mavropoulos.

Runner-Up: Vessel

Runner-Up: Superette

Best Arts & Crafts Miss Maude

Emma Smith opened Miss Maude in Greytown in 2019. Amongst the great range of high-quality fabrics, patterns, and sewing supplies, Emma says that many customers feel the store evokes “fond memories of childhood trips with their mother or grandmother to their local and long since closed haberdashery.” Emma encourages people to take time to enjoy creating, and not worry whether the end result is stitch perfect. “A sharp and well balanced pair of scissors, or a fine pin with a glass-blown head is sure to bring a smile.” Runner-Up: Wellington Sewing Centre

Best Shoes & Accessories I Love Paris

Best Attraction or Activity Old St Paul’s

Best Florist Flowers Manuela

Samara Collins opened Wellington’s I Love Paris in the Old Bank Arcade in 2004, following in the footsteps of her mum Ava who began the first store in Dunedin in 1988. “Wellington has always felt like a larger Dunedin to me. Everyone has their own style and quirkiness is celebrated. I knew that the eclectic, beautifully made footwear which has been so popular in our Dunedin store for decades would be very well received by Wellingtonians.”

A timber Gothic Revival building, Old St Paul’s opened in 1866 on the site of what was once Pipitea Pā. It’s been a visitor site since the 1970s and is administered by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. “Watching visitors experience Old St Paul’s delights me,” says Tamara Patten, Property Lead. “When I share a piece of the building’s history with someone and see that it has resonated with them, or when someone walks into the building and goes ‘Wow!’ – I just love that.”

When Manuela Lipsham started Flowers Manuela in 1998 she said it was her “dream job” and 23 years later that’s still true. She particularly loves “getting it just right – the marrying up of the foliages, colour, balance, design, and technical floristry. Every bouquet and every flower is different.” At the end of every week she gives flowers to Te Whare O Matairangi, the mental health ward in Wellington Hospital. “We get so much joy – the nurses are awesome!” says Manuela.

Runner-Up: Gubb’s

Runner-Up: Katherine Mansfield House

Runner-Up: The Flower Studio

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Best Barber The French Barber

Best Wellness & Beauty

Jason Hurier began hairdressing when he was just 15 years old, in his hometown of Cambrai, France. He met his Kiwi wife Kajal on the second day of her OE, and they moved to New Zealand in 2015. Jason now owns and operates the Best Barbershop in Wellington, where he is the eponymous French Barber, on Lambton Quay. Quality cuts and beard services come with a “professional, old-school barbering flair.” Extra attention to detail is what Jason says turns customers into regular patrons.

Established in 2014, Wellington Apothecary is a botanical factory, herbal dispensary, and natural therapy clinic. “We endeavour to create a tranquil and sensory experience where you are welcome to smell and try each product, see them being made and gather over a hot cup of herbal tea,” says Chantal Cropp. Qualified herbalists and naturopaths are in store to offer professional health advice and to formulate and prescribe remedies.

Runner-Up: Cuba Street Social

Runner-Up: Spring Spa

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Tommy’s Real Estate’s Best Beach Oriental Bay

Acme & Co’s Best Suburb Mt Victoria

Wellington Airport’s Best Sculpture The Eagles

Almost 20 years ago, 22,000 tonnes of sand was shipped from Golden Bay to expand Oriental and Freyberg beaches. Back then, the project won a Supreme Award from the New Zealand Institute of Landscape and Architects. This year it’s been awarded the coveted title of Tommy’s Real Estate’s Best Beach. Fun fact: the area was once called Duppa after its sole resident, Mr George Duppa. He renamed it Oriental Bay after the ship upon which he arrived in Wellington, the Oriental.

Our best ‘burb, as voted by you the public, is Mt Victoria. The suburb got its English name from New Zealand Company colonists who settled there in the early 1840s and named it in honour of their young queen, Victoria. We must admit we’re not surprised it took the title, sponsored by Acme & Co. Mt Vic boasts spectacular views from Matairangi’s 196-metre summit, a lush town belt, and the HQ of your favourite magazine.

Sponsored by Wellington Airport, the Best Sculpture award, fittingly, has been won by the eagles at the airport. Installed in 2013 to promote The Hobbit, the eagles were created by Sir Richard Taylor and Weta Workshop. One of the eagles is Gwaihir the Windlord, the lord of the Great Eagles, and the other carries Gandalf on its back. Gwaihir made international headlines when the sculpture fell during a 6.3 earthquake in 2014.

Runner up: Scorching Bay

Runner up: Newtown

Runner up: Gollum, by Masayuk Ohashi for Weta Workshop

Radio Active’s Best Street Art The Bowie Mural

Fix & Fogg’s Best Pool Freyberg Pool

Painted by artist Xoë Hall, The Bowie Mural on Ghuznee takes out the award for Best Street Art, sponsored by Radio Active. The mural of three big Ziggy Stardust faces was commissioned by Jam Hairdressing and Xoë says it took “three long days” to paint in December 2016. “The best response has been seeing it become a bit of a selfie spot for Wellington. I love seeing those photos on the gram! It even has its own GIF.”

Located on Oriental Parade, the 33-metre heated indoor pool at Freyberg Pool & Fitness Centre has won Best Pool, sponsored by Fix & Fogg. The 58-year-old pool is named for Bernard Freyberg, a World War I Victoria Cross recipient, and Governor General of New Zealand. The building that houses the pool (plus a gym, sauna, steam room, and spa pools) is classified as a Category I historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

Runner up: Shark mural by BMD – corner of Cable and Chaffers Sts

Runner up: Thorndon Pool

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Broken down In 2019 public transport advocate Tony Randle looked at Let's Get Wellington Moving, laying out the good, the bad, and the ugly. Two years later we ask him, has anything moved?

mong the good things about Wellington are our easy access to political leaders, planners, and specialist expertise. But our city also has serious problems in the same areas. They are apparent in the biggest, most important, Wellington city projects, such as Let’s Get Wellington Moving. It is not news that Wellington has a problem with transport and access to our city centre. It is rated one of the most pressing problems by residents in all the surveys for over a decade, up there with housing affordability. On a normal weekday morning about 80,000 people travelled into central Wellington by various modes: 47% by car, 21% by rail, 16% by bus, 14% on foot, and 2% cycling, according to a 2019 regional council survey. It is expected that by 2036, Wellington’s roads, tracks, and footpaths will need to take 100,000 people into and through town each day. Now let’s be clear, improving access into and through any major CBD is hard work. It takes lots of public money, which means it must be led by politicians and guided by planning and transport experts.

Where are we? Fixing Wellington City’s transport is a saga that started in 2006 with the Ngauranga to Airport Study. Then in 2013, the Spine Study recommended Bus Rapid Transit, and NZTA proposed the Basin Reserve Bridge; but both were blocked by politicians who wanted light rail rather than cars and buses. In 2016, Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) was announced, with central government support for a $6.4 billion package of transport investments. Central government offered to fund 60% with WCC

and GWRC funding 20% each through rates. The best advice I have ever heard on ensuring that large projects succeed is to keep focused on “the main thing”. In the case of Let’s Get Wellington Moving, that is to maintain and improve access for the growing number of Wellingtonians. In the beginning LGWM seemed to understand this. In 2017 when 10,000 of us signalled the same priorities again, the then LGWM Director said: “People told us that they love that Wellington is a compact, vibrant city and that it’s easy to get around. They also love the harbour, our natural environment and diversity. But traffic congestion, slow and unpredictable journeys, and parking are significant causes of frustration.” People wanted more choice, reliability and frequency in public transport for lower fares, but also more and better parking. The LGWM Vision of 2019 pointed to challenges caused by the city’s cramped geography, population growth, and a transport system approaching capacity. And it warned that the city’s valued liveability and culture were therefore threatened. Their 2019 LGWM Programme Business Case set out the relative importance of “providing more efficient and reliable access for users” in its Investment Objectives, rating liveability 40%, access at 30%, safety 10%, and resilience 20%.

Where are we going? In 2020 it was exciting to finally see two real transport proposals progressing, one for the Golden Mile and another for Hutt Road/Thorndon Quay.

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Are we there yet?

Almost all our peak-time bus services get stuck on the Golden Mile, so I was keen to see how our bus service could improve with real investment. I was reassured to see fixing the buses to improve travel time, reliability, and comfort along the Golden Mile given the highest priority in the project Investment Objectives. Now we can see the reality of their recommendations and it is very disappointing. The first problem is that no option increases bus capacity in the Golden Mile, mainly because the road width at four central bus stops on Lambton/Willis/Manners streets is too narrow for buses to pass each other (other parts of the Golden Mile could take many more peak time buses). I asked a LGWM expert why they did not consider spending more to fix these four bottlenecked bus stops, and he said it was “out of scope” as this would exceed the $40 million project budget. Next, if you read their report closely, it becomes clear that Golden Mile Option 2 costing $32 million does a better job at improving the public transport service compared to Option 3 costing $72 million. But this begs the question, why does LGWM think it is okay to recommend Option 3 that exceeds the project budget to pay for walking, cycling and “place improvements” but it is not okay for Option 2 to exceed the budget to fix the four bottleneck bus stops and transform our bus performance and capacity? Why would a transport project whose main purpose is to fix the bus service choose an option costing nearly twice the expected budget which does not actually fix the bus service? I think our political leaders and professional planners have already decided what is important for the city, and that is not more roads or more buses. LGWM allocated a pitiful $40 million, or 0.06% of LGWM’s funding to permanently improve accessibility along our most important corridor for pedestrians and public transport commuters. And just look at the spin implied by the Golden Mile Option names: Option 2 (the best bus option) is called “Prioritise”; while Option 3 (twice as expensive, but only improves walking, cycling, and “place”) is called “Transform”. The same approach is implicit in the Hutt Road/ Thorndon Quay project; I’ve heard LGWM’s next project is to justify building a $2 billion light rail line because not enough buses can travel along the Golden Mile.

The latest LGWM move amounts to abandoning access as an Investment Objective. Papers presented to the Wellington City and Regional councils set out its revised objectives. LGWM cites feedback that safety and carbon reduction via mode shift, are now higher priorities; and they need to “clarify” liveability with an emphasis on “housing intensification, urban development and amenity”, as well as equity of access. As a result, the LWGM Investment Objectives are now carbon emissions and mode shift (40%), liveability (20%), access (15%), safety (15%), and resilience (10%). This downgrading of the importance of access has been voted on and approved by both our councils. LGWM itself says that 20,000 more people will need to come to the CBD daily by 2036 yet it won’t provide capacity for more cars or buses, which will be the only real options for most commuters from most suburbs. Yes, we may get light rail south to Island Bay at a cost of $2 billion, but most new Wellington residents are to live in the suburbs to the north and west of the CBD. How will they get to work? LGWM remains a multi-billion-dollar investment programme, which will get Wellington City things such as: slower and safer streets; high-density housing, congestion charging for cars, light rail, more cycleways, and climate change measures. These will be, depending on what you think makes a great city, good things or a complete waste of money. But the one thing LGWM is clearly no longer trying to get is improved movement into and through our great little city. The LGWM saga so reminds me of John Clarke’s satirical series The Games or an episode of Yes Minister. It would be a hilarious story if it was about any other city, but it is about our city. After spending so much time and money, it frustrates me that our most important problem, access to and from Central Wellington, simply will not be fixed. Let’s Get Wellington Moving, you people have one job and it’s right there in the title. Tony Randle is a resident of Wellington and has used public transport in the city for nearly three decades. He is a long-term public transport advocate and is a member of the Wellington Public Transport Reference Group. He works in IT and lives with his family in the suburb of Johnsonville.

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The shipping news BY J O H N B R I ST E D P H OTO G R A P H Y BY S I M O N H OY L E

Ika Rere, Wellington’s fast new fully electric harbour ferry, is a Southern Hemisphere first, and it was built right here in Wellington.

ast by West, the pioneer Wellington Harbour commuter ferry company, has a new boat: a zippy electricity-powered passenger ferry, built by its own boat-building company. The new catamaran (Ika Rere/Flying Fish) is bright green, and, fully loaded with 135 passengers, cruises at an impressive 20 knots between Queen’s Wharf and Day’s Bay in less than 20 minutes. East by West’s managing director Jeremy Ward says before the new ferry was even in the water, he’d already had inquiries about it from Dubai, Sydney, Indonesia, and Auckland. “Everyone’s talking about it,” he enthuses, “Lots are saying they’re about to build ferries. Portugal says they’re building seven, people in Auckland say they’re going to build them, but we’ve done it!” “East by West needed another boat. Our Wellington Harbour operation’s diesel and engine maintenance costs are large, and I could see them increasing. I thought there must be a better way.” “There are wind and solar power assisted hybrid/electric ferries in Hong Kong so we went over to investigate them, but they didn’t fill me with confidence. There are electric ferries in the Northern Hemisphere, but none felt exactly right for us. We talked to a few boatyards while we were overseas, and eventually thought ‘Why don’t we do it ourselves!’” Five years ago Ward sold a majority shareholding of East by West to a Chinese couple who he says are pretty much silent partners, and wonderful to work with. They run a travel agency in Shanghai. East by West’s Chinese owners partnered with Ward, and

they chose former Whangarei boatbuilder Fraser Foote, who built East by West’s current flagship Cobar Cat, as a third partner. Together they’ve formed the Wellington Electric Boat Building Company (WEBBCo) especially to build carbon fibre electric vessels. Ward says, “I got confidence from making a presentation in 2019 at an Electric and Hybrid Marine World Conference in Amsterdam where I was among around 200 shipping operators. A Greek shipping magnate stood up and said ‘Why should I build electric boats for my operation? My company has 200 big vessels.’” “The Norwegian Maritime Transport Director stood up and asked ‘Can you tell me how much your boats will be worth in 2030 when you’re not allowed to operate them because they’re diesel?’ The shipowner was just stunned, and that was it, because the world’s changing to the sustainable.” “All the major boat operators in New Zealand have been to see us (and even an airline). None of them are building new diesel boats. Why would you?” Jeremy asks rhetorically. Support to build the new vessel came from East by West’s power supplier, Meridian Energy, Callaghan Innovation, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, and the Greater Wellington Regional Council. “It’s sustainable travel, and battery performance is improving while we watch. We bought the batteries for our new boat less than a year ago. Since then the battery cost has decreased by 20%.” Ward expects that when everything’s properly set up, they’ll be able to charge the batteries in the new

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boat in only 15 minutes, between turnarounds. The charger will use an astonishing 1.25 megawatts of electric power. “The electricity providers joke that we’ll dim the lights of Wellington.” “New Zealand’s aiming to be carbon free by 2050. We’re seeing people beginning to buy electric cars now, and I think that within ten years all the new ferries are going to be electric, or perhaps hydrogen-electric. I’ve got a few concerns about hydrogen, but it’s definitely going to be electricity.” With its first vessel already under its belt, WEBBCo’s open for business. “We’re full of great ideas for Wellington. We’d like to set up an under-20-minute ferry and shuttle ride from our Queen’s Wharf base right to the airport via the Miramar wharf, if we can get support to repair the Miramar wharf.” Ward is confident that plenty of airport passengers and commuters from the eastern suburbs will take the ferry to the city each day – “Maybe a couple of hundred thousand a year to begin with – all people and vehicles that won’t need to use the Mt Victoria tunnel, and it could be done for only $20 million.” With Wellington Regional Council, which owns Centreport, supporting the enterprise, they are now seeking backing from NZTA. “We are lucky that our new vessel will be right here in Wellington as a working demonstrator for possible new ferry buyers to check out. We are also eyeing the possibility of building new ferries when the prospective Miramar/Airport service gets going. East by West Ferries began 32 years ago when Jeremy began work as a lawyer and quickly decided the law didn’t suit him. Having always liked playing about in boats, an opening for a revived Wellington Harbour ferry meant only a small jump.

Ferries have transported people across Wellington Harbour to Day’s Bay, Eastbourne, Karaka Bay, Seatoun, and Miramar since 1897. Cobar, a 900-passenger steam-powered vessel ran between Eastbourne, Day’s Bay, and the city from 1906 to 1948. After a 40 year gap, Ward began East by West Ferries in 1989 with the help of a few friends, a home loan, and an old steel catamaran bought from Auckland. Some readers will know the vessel, which now sits by the road in Pauatahanui. Wellingtonians may remember those early ferries, decked out in colours of the local media companies, both early supporters of the harbour ferry venture. “But it was hard going. I used to just about cry every time the weather was too rough to sail,” says Ward. “It was before mobile phones were common. Our commuters would all arrive in the terminal saying ‘Where’s our ride home?’” These days a cancellation can be notified swiftly. Then it meant $600 in bus hire to take 50 homegoing passengers back to Day’s Bay at short notice. “It was tough. My wife Annie has been a huge support, more so once she was reminded that the operation was guaranteed by our house.” It took ten years before East by West could buy another boat from Fullers in Auckland. With a faster ride it allowed them to put the price up, and passenger numbers increased by 25%. Ward could at last look at Annie and say, “This might work!” With the new electric ferry in the water, East by West is doing much more than surviving. Jeremy loves the possibilities for WEBBCo, and for Wellington. He thinks his clever ferry-building company has the potential to be a big employer, and much larger than his thriving ferry business.

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apital Photographer of the Year celebrates the Wellington region, its beauty, creativity, and people. From more than 1,200 entries, just 18 were selected for the finalists exhibition at Te Auaha Gallery. The 2021 CPotY judging panel, made up of twenty of New Zealand’s leading creatives, had the difficult job of choosing the winners of the various categories and the supreme winner. If you’d like one of these on your wall, all of our

winner’s and finalist’s photographs are available for purchase. Prints come professionally framed and sales support the artist. Order online at capitalmag.co.nz/cpoty Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry, voted in People’s Choice, or visited the exhibition. It’s not too early to start thinking about your entry for next year’s Capital Photographer of the Year. Keep an eye out for details – coming soon!

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Yin Hsien Fung Cabbage Consultation Winner of the Mobile category

Brooklyn photographer Yin Hsien Fung is drawn to street photography and hopes that his images provide “a snapshot on how people live every day and how society operates.” He spotted an older couple while grocery shopping in Lower Hutt. “They were not in a hurry and showed a lot of respect and patience with each other, which I thought was a very lovely interaction between human beings. For each item in the trolley, the gentleman would hold it up and patiently ask her opinion before placing it in the trolley. When they came to the cabbage, the gentleman asked ‘How about cabbage for tea?’, she responded ‘Yes’, so he picked a good cabbage and asked her ‘Does this cabbage look okay?’ This is when I captured Cabbage Consultation.” Competition judges noted the strong narrative of the image, saying it “sparked emotion”. Matariki Williams, former Senior Curator Mātauranga Māori at Te Papa, says “Of all the images, this one felt the most candid and human. There is a certain air of mystery about this image that was really compelling, against the backdrop of such a quotidian scene. It took me a while to decipher what the couple were doing and how the woman was sitting in the trolley (I haven’t seen a trolley of this type before). It is great to see accessibility represented in this everyday setting.”

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Rob Vanderpoel Aon Centre

Winner of the Structure category Rob Vanderpoel’s photo of the Aon Centre was taken for a local camera club challenge to photograph in the style of Andreas Gursky. The Lower Hutt resident says, “It was taken from the end of the overseas passenger terminal early evening in winter. I was drawn to the strong lines, the symmetry, and the vignettes visible through the windows.” Rob aims for “an interesting and unique perspective or story that causes people to take a longer look. I look for light and composition to convey this, and ‘work the scene’ to achieve it.” Astro-photographer and CPotY judge Mark Gee says Rob’s image instantly gains your interest and draws you in to explore the office spaces amongst the structure. “The use of a longer lens for shooting this image adds to the graphic nature of the piece, giving it an illustrative feel and adds to the appeal of the image." Judge Rebecca Kempton, photographer and President of the Wairarapa Camera Club, also enjoyed the graphic nature of Rob’s image saying, “the various colours and lines of lights grab your attention and the square crop works really well – I could see this as a piece of art on a wall.” She also noted the “overall conceptual and technical qualities are very high and well seen view by the author.”

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Paul Hamer Bridge Street

Winner of the Whenua category Ngaio’s Paul Hamer photographed this Bridge Street scene partly because of the dramatic effect and partly to record a part of Wellington before it disappears – he was aware the airport was buying up houses in Rongotai, boarding them up, and then demolishing or moving them. He set himself up across from the house and waited for a plane. “Suddenly there it was lifting off in front of me. I had the camera set to take multiple shots rapidly at the fastest shutter speed available, and I took about ten in total as the plane passed over the house. This one was the first in the sequence, and I chose it because the trajectory of the plane matched the slope of the roof.” Judge and photographer Grant Maiden says Paul’s image “manages to tell an interesting story with two elements. The sad-looking boarded-up house, with its best days behind it – and the shiny jet taking off, full with promise of the future.” Judge Janet Bayly, Director Curator of Mahara Gallery, says Bridge Street is “a striking image using simple elements to deliver a powerful narrative suggesting our complex relationship to the natural environment and wider world on which humanity perches, both vulnerable and exploitive. Notions of home, safety, and permanence are impacted by external pressures and ongoing change.”

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Monica Winder Kayden & Xena

Winner of the Society category When Monica Winder, of Wainuiomata, first started taking photos she found a quotation from Henry David Thoreau that really stuck in her mind: “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” Monica says, “I try to look at and document what is happening in front of me with this concept in mind. This photo of Kayden and Xena to a lot of people is just a boy with a poo bag on his head, and it very much is, but there is also a story of his little life behind it.” Photographic artist Virginia Woods-Jack says the image was a “stand-out winner” during the judging process. “The composition of this image is fabulous – it creates an engagement between the viewer and the subject. I feel like I have had a glimpse into a wonderful adventure between this young boy and his dog – the green bag creates so many possibilities of what this adventure could be!” Judge Russ Flatt, last year’s Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award winner, says the image is an interesting take on a traditional portrait. “The young boy stands facing the camera while his trusty dog stands alert with his ears pricked upwards. His expression is cheeky and what made me fall in love with this image is the green plastic bag on the young boy’s head. There is humour in this tender moment.”

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Lorenzo Buhne Clothesline & Flowerbush

Winner of the Youth category At 12 years old, Owhiro Bay’s Lorenzo Buhne is the youngest of the Capital Photographer of the Year winners. His mother, artist and photographer Kedron Parker, lets him use her camera. “I’m very grateful. Taking photos is fun, and I enjoy it,” says Lorenzo. He particularly likes shooting with film. “There is more room for mistakes with film, but mistakes can be good.” Lorenzo won the Youth category with Clothesline & Flowerbush, a photograph he took while visiting a friend’s farm in Te Horo, on the Kāpiti Coast. “I took many pictures of bushes and trees that day and I was inspired.” Four of these images made it into the CPotY semi-finals. “I’m really thankful that they had an orange towel on their clothesline that day.” Judge Russ Flatt says Lorenzo’s image is “beautifully framed and has cleverly made the mundane landscape layered through the domestic/landscaped scene. The colours and tones work well together. It almost seems like a staged image.” Capital’s Art Director and convenor of the CPotY judges, Shalee Fitzsimmons, describes Lorenzo’s image as experimental and energetic. “This photograph perfectly encapsulates the youth category, where boundaries are pushed and trial and error is key. There’s a charm to its frenetic nature, the colour, the subject, and the framing.”

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Winner of the Triptych category and supreme winner of Capital Photographer of the Year Jiaqi Tang’s father bought him a Ricoh XR7 when he was 10. “I took that camera with me on many adventures, and I would take photos from portraits to landscapes. From the first time I picked up the camera, I have never stopped taking photos. I guess my skills got better through practice, but the thing that kept me going was being able to capture moments happening in my own life.” The Karori resident says he’s “honoured and humbled” to have won the Triptych category and the Capital Photographer of the Year supreme award for Untitled. “This gives me great motivation and confidence moving forward. I will continue to pursue art and truth, and I hope to share more of my works with you all in the near future.” Judge Neil Pardington, a photographer who works in the space between documentary photography and conceptual photography, says Jiaqi’s winning triptych conveys “a strong sense of narrative with beautiful light, colour, and composition.” Professor of Fine Arts (Photography) at Massey University Wellington and competition judge Anne Noble calls Jiaqi’s work “a marvellous example of imaginative photographic storytelling. The captured moments, angles of view, lighting, and careful arrangement demonstrate photographic skill, thoughtfulness, and strong editing skills. This is a very strong three-image narrative evoking a life lived, with subtly and empathy.”

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From her Shelly Bay studio, The Sick Bay, taxidermy artist Antoinette Ratcliffe creates artworks. The former veterinary nurse sources animals ethically from the trapping community, vet clinics, and friends and family who have window-strike birds or pest species that need to be collected. Antoinette loves the whole taxidermy process. “In the skinning process I get to see what happened to the animal, and sometimes I also get to see how they lived from observing the condition of their body. I get to care for their fur or feathers, and recreate a form which becomes their new insides.” Antoinette’s passion for bringing animals “back to life” is on display at Katherine Mansfield House and Garden in Still Life | Wild Places (until 31 Oct) , a group exhibition and event series

inspired by the life and works of Mansfield. Antoinette’s contribution is an installation of 28 animals called The Hours Slip Quickly By, after a line from Mansfield’s poem This Is My World. “I was inspired by her journal, specifically the entries where she reflected on her writing process. The more I read, the more I became interested in her anthropomorphic use of animals in her poems and short stories. I decided to make an installation that included some of the characters she wrote about, while also looking at some aspects of her personal life.” KMHG Director Cherie Jacobson says all seven of the artists have engaged with Mansfield’s life and work and responded in totally different ways. “Antoinette’s exploration of inside the writer’s mind is full of surprises with some beautiful and unnerving imagery. We’ve had some visitors say, ‘Oh, I’m not sure about taxidermy’, but then they’ve become fascinated with a work like the cat on the chair, and can’t believe how alive it looks. That’s testament to Antoinette’s skill, her work draws people close and makes them curious.”

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Name: Cabbage white butterfly, or white butterfly. “Small white” in Europe. Māori name: Pepe mā Scientific name: Pieris rapae Status: Not threatened Description: A small to medium-sized creamy white butterfly, 32–47mm across, with small black dots on its wings. As the only white butterfly we’re likely to see in these parts, pepe mā will be familiar to most New Zealanders. They are a common fixture in spring and summertime backyards and gardens, and the bane of many gardeners because of their fondness for cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, rocket, and other brassicas. Habitat: The white butterfly is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but has spread through much of the world, hitching a ride on international food transportation. The butterfly was first found in New Zealand in 1929, and is thought to have arrived here via refrigerated ships, which pupae in diapauses (periods of suspended growth in adverse conditions), could have survived.

Look/listen: Gardeners have a range of options at their disposal for avoiding brassica massacre by pepe mā. Leaves can be checked and eggs and caterpillars removed or sprayed. With cabbages, this is best done when they are still on the outside of the leaf, before they burrow into the centre of the plant. Covering with insect mesh is a good idea for crops which don’t require insects for pollination, or there are various sprays and powders available at garden centres. In 2016, a gardener named Jeff Reardon told the Kaikoura Star his trick for keeping white butterflies away – cutting out decoy butterflies from old ice-cream containers, adding a black line down the middle and some dots on the wings, attaching them to sticks, and poking them into the garden. Apparently pepe mā are very territorial, and this technique works a treat. Tell me a story: If you can’t be bothered combing over brassica leaves for eggs and caterpillars, or using dispersing mesh, powder or spray, try enlisting your kids (or your neighbour’s kids, if you haven’t any). As children we were given butterfly nets and earned 20 cents per lifeless body delivered to our parents, which helped keep the population under control as well as entertaining us away from the television.

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Zara and Shinee McIntyre are the Wellington sisters behind Half Baked Catering. Their “guilt-free” treats are vegan, and free of gluten and refined sugar. We’d like to say they’re perfect for sharing since they cater to most dietary requirements, but good luck finding someone who’ll give up a bite. The Capital office fave is the sisters’ take on Snickers – an almond and cashew base, creamy chocolate mousse, half-baked peanut butter, rich sticky caramel, all topped off with a sweet chocolate ganache.

Two separate studies from the American Heart Association found that both young adults and postmenopausal women had fewer heart attacks and were less likely to develop cardiovascular disease when they ate more healthy plant foods. During 32 years of follow-up, researchers found that participants of the studies who ate the most nutritionally rich plant foods and fewer adversely rated animal products were on average 52% less likely to develop cardiovascular disease.

Produced in the province of Treviso, the Sartori “Erfo” Prosecco Rosé is “the love child of our two most beloved summer drinks: Rosé and Prosecco,” says Sonja Anich from Dhall & Nash. This month the fine wine distribution company will be landing their first shipment of this “Ro-secco”. Expect a delicate and fruity aroma, with hints of wild strawberries.

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HOW A-PEELING Moore Wilson’s has found a tasty way to repurpose the waste from their freshly squeezed orange juice – a delicious collab with Wellington Chocolate Factory. The chocolate folk pick up the orange rinds, process the flavours, and then synthesise the new Dark Chocolate & Orange bar. It’s made with 70% cocoa from Peruvian fairtrade sources. This community-created chocolate proves that one company’s compost is another company’s zesty best.

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From September, Supreme Coffee will phase out their soft plastic packaging. ”Our new paper recyclable packaging is a win for the environment,” says Sophie Evans, Marketing Manager. The new packaging is 85% paper, with a thin layer of soft plastic on the inside to keep your coffee fresh, and can go straight into your domestic curb-side recycling. To support the launch Supreme are giving away free coffee canisters with the first thousand bags sold.

An illustrated cookbook has won the Elsie Locke Award for NonFiction and $7,500 at the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Egg and Spoon is written by chef Alexandra Tylee, illustrated by Greytown resident Giselle Clarkson, and published by Wellington’s Gecko Press. The judges said they were impressed with the book’s “varied and thoughtful recipes accompanied by luscious and often humorous illustrations”.

A flippant comment from a friend – “I’d love to pay you to cook my meals during the week.” – led Jess Brewer to start JUK (Jess’ Underground Kitchen). It was almost like “a delicious secret club”, says Jess, with customers picking up their ready-made dinners from her Auckland home. JUK Everyday Meals are now delivered throughout the North Island. They’re handmade in small batches with real ingredients, and perfect to pop in the freezer.

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Well cultured A single process, or the creative art of turning bad food good? Fermentation has given us foods as different as kimchi, the quintessential comfort food of Korea, sauerkraut, Germany’s much-loved national dish, and kānga pirau, the wafty-smelling corn porridge of Māori kai. A genius way to make an excess of a particular crop last, fermenting (or pickling) has been practiced for millennia and by nearly every culture in the world. Good for the gut, sharp to the taste, funky on the tongue, and occasionally stinky enough (in the case of Sweden’s fermented Baltic herring) to have you fleeing from the dinner table.

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Pickled pink P H OTO G R A P H Y BY A N N A B R I G G S

Esther Lewis loves to get things fizzing, frothing, and fermenting. She talks to Jacqui Gibson about her first love.

he sun’s pouring in the windows of Wellington pickler Esther Lewis’s latest venture — a fermentery-cum-bakery and soon a café on Arthur Street in Te Aro. The 36-year-old hasn’t settled on a menu for the capital’s newest eatery or landed on an opening date. All she’ll say is she and business partners Alex and Tim Grace can’t wait to knock the former Asian Kitchen into shape, hire a team of wait staff and get diners through the doors. For now, the partially furnished space is ideal for Tim’s morning shift cranking out handmade donuts under his and Alex’s Little Dough Co brand. It’s spot on too for Esther’s afternoon shift fermenting and bottling goodies like her turmeric sauerkraut and chilli carrot pickle for various specialty grocers and retailers around the country. Leasing the ex-diner and setting up Eats Ltd with Alex and Tim represents a big step as a business, Esther tells me, grinning with pride. “Fermenting is my first love — and finally I’ve got the space to really go for it. It feels amazing.” A graduate of Wellington’s Good Food Boost mentoring programme run by the Sustainable Business Network, Esther launched her signature line of pickles, preserves, and baked treats in 2019. The move followed decades of hospitality work, serving and feeding customers in some of the city’s best-loved cafes, and almost 10 years raising kids. But it was at Milk Crate, her husband Morgan’s cafe, that her longing to ferment really took hold.

“Years before, at People’s Coffee in Newtown, I’d started to make a pickled beetroot for their menu. It literally flew out the door, so I knew there was a demand for it.” With their kids Emma and Isaac at school, she finally had time to experiment, making condiments for sandwiches, such as pickled mushroom, sauerkraut, and a vegan almond butter. “Then I created whole new product and recipe lines, featuring flavoured almond milks, sauerkraut and pickles, and chia breakfast cups before they were really a thing. It was all about making food that was healthy and good for your sense of well-being.” Right now, says Esther walking towards her roomy commercial kitchen, she’s back in research and development mode. As evidence, 20-litre tubs filled with Esther’s first-ever batch of kimchi are stacked in the chiller. Opening a lid, she reveals a pulpy, rich blend of pickled wong bok, daikon, carrot, spring onion, garlic, ginger, fish sauce, and gochugaru (Korean chilli) Then she lifts the cover of an another vibrantly-coloured new product — her signature kim-chup. She tells me both products took months of careful testing and “breaking a few rules” before eventually going on to star in Lucky Burger’s Lil Kim-chi burger for Wellington on a Plate. Punters paid $22 to devour the burger made of sticky fried chicken, cucumber salad, Esther’s kimchi, gochujang mayo, and a Brezelmania sesame milk bun. Esther’s kimchup was the dipping sauce for Lucky Burger’s shoestring fries.

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That’s not the only fermented treat that made its way from Esther’s commercial kitchen into the bellies of festival-goers this year. Her take on the traditional Mexican tepache (a fermented beverage typically made with pineapple rinds and spices like cinnamon) was a key ingredient in Lulu’s green tea infused whiskey and white rum cocktail. “It’s been amazing to collaborate with some of Wellington’s most inspiring foodies this year,” says Esther, munching on a homemade rosemary and onion savoury granola bar. “I hate those rubbish sweet muesli bars you buy in the supermarket,” she says. “So I made a really yummy savoury bar that tastes like roast chicken stuffing.” Sipping on peppermint tea, she explains: “I’ve learned very few people are doing what I’m doing, yet there’s a huge appetite for the kinds of foods I make. Fermenting isn’t easy to get right. It’s a volatile way of producing food — so you really do have to give it your time and devotion.” Esther says this year’s Wellington on a Plate festival theme, Out of Place, emphasised improvisation and going against the grain, giving

her the freedom to venture into new territory. “I love making the classic pickled condiments and spreads your nana makes that many of us grew up with. But I also love collaboration and being inspired by others. This year’s festival was a chance to do that and have a bit of fun at the same time.” Originally an Elam-trained painter and sculptor, Esther says she wants the fermented food she makes to delight people visually and on the palate. She also wants to give them something healthy to add to their meals. “I grew up in Matakana, north of Auckland, with hippie parents who loved throwing dinner parties. So food was always a source of enjoyment at our house. It meant I came to books on the pleasures of healthy food like Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions cookbook pretty early on. “To me, everyone should have access to food that’s both nutritious and gives you joy. Fermented foods fit the bill perfectly. They give you these distinctive, strong, slightly sour flavours. They promote good bacteria, which is said to be great for digestion. And they make any dish sing.”

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Scoby’s nickname: Monster Age Of scoby: 3 years Origin story: A friend gave me the top part of her scoby, which then sat dormant in my fridge until lockdown. Favourite flavour: Anything berry or floral. Tip: Don't leave your scoby to its own devices and don’t skimp on the sugar, no matter how much you want to.

Scoby’s nickname: Untitled Age of scoby: 2 years Origin story: I got this scoby from Esther Daisy of Esthers. It lived in a dark cupboard and made 20 litres at a time. Then one day it started to get mouldy, I tried to save it, but it's currently struggling. Favourite flavour: Blueberry. Tip: They grow so fast. You need to keep them in check.

Scobys look a lot like the science fair entry your mum worked way harder on than you. They're not pretty, and they don't smell fantastic either. But a scoby, or Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast, is the key component in any good kombucha, and the nucleus of a fizzing sub-culture. Meet five local scoby owners brewing the ‘booch at home.

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Scoby’s nickname: Geoff Age of scoby: 3 years Origin story: Got her off a mate who makes 'booch regularly. Favourite flavour: Feijoa. Anecdote: I've made fermented hot sauces that have produced their own scoby growth during the fermentation process.

Scoby’s nickname: Scoby McScobface Age of scoby: 1 month Origin story: The mother scoby was adopted from my friend Steph. I brought her home, slid her into a batch of sweet black Chanui tea and spiked the brew with micorbial dregs from a wild beer from Hallertau Brewery, called “Funkonnay”. The idea being the wild yeast and bacteria from the beer would harmonise and knit together. Tips: I run my own bio tech business growing yeast cultures for breweries. One myth is that plastic and metal can't touch your kombucha. Breweries and wineries use these all the time, so your spoons, bowls, and tupperware are fine!

Scoby’s knickname: The Mothership Age of scoby: 7 years Origin story: A friend peeled off a piece of her scoby and gave me a lesson about how to take care of it. I was a very bad student and have been winging it ever since. Favourite flavour: A mix of berry and plum fruit tea with chai black tea. Tip: In my experience, scobys are next to impossible to kill (I once forgot to feed her for a solid eight months and she’s still going strong) so don’t be shy about experimenting.

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Good for the Seoul BY JACQ U I G I B S O N P H OTO G R A P H Y BY A D R I A N V E RCO E “Listen closely,” says self-described kimchi enthusiast Hoya Chin as she brings a jar of homemade dongchimi (radish water kimchi) up to her ear and fingers the bulging lid. “You can hear the kimchi trying to get out.” Hoya, who goes by the moniker Miss Korea Kimchi on social media, is referring to the fermentation process occurring within the jars on the table in front of her. It’s Saturday morning at the Riverbank Market in Lower Hutt. Hoya’s vegan kimchi stand is busy with people sampling the Korean delicacy she makes from her garage in Porirua. Some try the low-salt napa cabbage kimchi from jars clearly marked “vegan, low salt, no GMO, no MSG and no sugar”. Others tuck into Hoya’s bok choy kimchi, then grab a couple of jars for the road. Two kids hover over a jar of Hoya’s personal favourite, the mustard kimchi, greedy for more. Every weekend is like this for Hoya, though the market venues change. Today it’s Lower Hutt. Next week it’s Harbourside Market in the city. After that it’ll be Porirua. Kimchi might be in her blood, but Hoya’s new to making it, she tells me, bowing goodbye to a customer. Growing up in Seongnam, near Seoul, Hoya’s mum JiSoo and eldest sister JengSoon were the family kimchi makers. But emigrating from Korea to New Zealand to follow love (she’s now married to the man concerned) in her 30s changed things. Offering me a tiny paper cup of kimchi juice, Hoya tells me she missed home, especially her mum’s kimchi, so she learned to make it herself. Today she creates nearly a dozen types of vegan kimchi, eschewing traditional ingredients such as fish sauce and white rice in favour of traditional vegetables, brown rice, and quinoa. In May last year, she left her admin job in the public service and launched Miss Korea Kimchi to give Wellingtonians her take on her family’s kimchi. “It’s my staple. It’s part of my life. Now it can be part of the lives of Kiwis too.”

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Wakame sauerkraut BY I N M A F U E N T E S F RO M W E L L I N GTO N A P OT H ECA RY A N D B E ST K E P T H E A LT H

eaweed? In Sauerkraut? Really? Yes, really! Wakame kraut is utterly delicious and a nutrient powerhouse. Seaweeds offer the best source of iodine available in nature. Wakame, in particular, is very rich in calcium and magnesium, omega-3, iron and protein, plant-based folate and vitamin B-12; combined with the fibre, vitamins C and K, potassium and phosphorus from the kraut, they make this jar the perfect go-to healthy snack and addition to your dishes. When people talk about the “magic” of fermentation they are not wrong. Fermentation preserves food effectively, makes nutrients more bio-available and easier for

1 small cabbage Sea salt (you will need 20 grams per kilo of cabbage) 1/2 cup Wakame or any seaweed you like, chopped into small pieces 1L clip top jar

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our gut to absorb, removes many toxins and creates new nutrients, some of which have been found to have powerful therapeutic benefits. This is all possible thanks to our beloved lactic acid bacteria (LAB). The LAB convert naturallyoccurring sugars in the food into energy for themselves and munch on the fibres, making fermented foods easier to digest and giving that tangy sour taste we love. This kraut is super easy, cheap, and quick to make. Enjoy it with hummus and crackers, add it to sushi, stir fries, rice dishes, salads, sandwiches – or if you are shameless like me, just eat it straight out of the jar. Go on, put some kraut in your life!

1. The maths are very simple: you need 20 grams of salt per kilogram of cabbage which is roughly 1 tablespoon. 2. To sterilise the jar, preheat the oven to 110°C. Wash the jar with a tiny bit of soap in really hot water then place in the oven upside down for about 20 minutes. 3. While the jar is in the oven, prepare your cabbage. Cut the outer leaves of the cabbage, wash them well and set them aside. These will work as weights to keep your sauerkraut submerged while fermenting. Cut the cabbage finely (but not too thin). Place in the bowl. Add the salt (remember, 20g per kilo of cabbage) and start pounding! You will need to do this in batches if you have large amounts of cabbage. 4. Pound for about 7–10 min, until the cabbage is wilted and there’s quite a bit of juice coming out, (if there’s not much juice, keep going at it, you need enough to cover the cabbage in the jar). Half way through the pounding, add the chopped wakame. I use my knuckles or a pestle but you can also use a sauerkraut pounder. Don’t go too crazy with the pounding, you don’t want the cabbage to be too soft before you put it in the jar. 5. Carefully remove the jar from the oven and let it cool for a few minutes. It doesn’t matter if it’s

a bit warm when you put the cabbage in, just make sure it’s not boiling hot. Place the cabbage and all the liquid in the jar, pushing down as you go. It’s important that you pack as much cabbage in the jar as possible, so don’t be afraid to squeeze it in. Sauerkraut ferments in its own juice – don’t be tempted to add water. 6. If the pounding was done correctly, there should be enough liquid to cover the kraut. Stop at about 2 cm from the top, then place a couple of the outer leaves on top, again pushing down to create a good seal. Make sure the kraut is completely submerged in the liquid so it doesn’t get mouldy. If it isn’t submerged remove solids until covered. 7. Place in a dark cupboard for about a week in hot weather and two weeks in cold weather. After a couple of days, you will see bubbles appearing – this is a good sign. You will need to “burp” your jars a couple times during the process. I burp mine during the first three days. To do this, just open the top a bit, to let some gas out, making sure not to let too much oxygen in. Then close and put it back in the cupboard. When the kraut is ready to eat, discard the cabbage leaves on top and place the jar in the fridge. 8. It will keep refrigerated for six months to a year, but I doubt it will last that long.

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A public talk about the history of Old St Paul’s and its surroundings draws on historic images and film. “There will be lovely and interesting visuals,” says Tamara Patten, who manages the historic place. Since 1866, Old St Paul’s has stood on Mulgrave Street while the landscape around it has changed. Tamara says the land the gothic cathedral sits on has “morphed from originally a pā site to a fully urban neighbourhood. The change over time is really fascinating”. The talk on 27 October at 5.30pm is part of Wellington Heritage Week.

Celebrations for Suffrage month, September, include Tapu: Mareikura/ Goddess on 25 September at National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa. The event is inspired by Wāhine Toa, a book by artist Robyn Kahukiwa and writer Patricia Grace, and brings together artists, thinkers, reformers, and historians. The national library is home to He Tohu, the exhibition displaying Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the original Te Petihana Whakamana Pōti Wahine with its 26,000 signatures.

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MAKING HIS MARK “‘I’m a Christian, and I’m in love with a man, and these two things are irreconcilable,” writes Mark Beehre in the intro to A Queer Existence. The book uses photographic portraits and first-person narratives based on oral interviews to record the experiences of 27 gay men born after the Homosexual Law Reform Act was passed in 1986. Mark, originally a physician and now a photographer, author, and artist returned to school to study photography at Elam School of Fine Arts and at Massey University. The book will be launched at Unity Books on 16 September.

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Jacinda Ardern has spoken repeatedly of her “great regret” that she didn't learn te reo Māori, and this may have inspired some others to learn it. Sales of te reo Māori-language books have increased by 24% from 2019 to 2020. Claire Murdoch from Penguin Random House says publishers are releasing new te reo books and translating legacy books. “More Pakeha New Zealanders are genuinely embracing te reo Māori. It’s tipped beyond a niche interest.”

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Finding myself in poetry BY C H R I S T S E

noticed the book from across the store as I approached the International Poetry section at Unity Books, its black-and-white cover calling to me. The bold, one-word title – Crush – hovered beneath a close-up of a man’s mouth, lips parted slightly to bite down on his fingers. There was an indeterminable stain on his thumb – it could be blood, it could be ink – giving the image a visceral, almost dangerous quality. I knew nothing about this book or its author, but there was something about the combination of the title and the image that said to me, comfortingly and with power: this book is queer. I bought Richard Siken’s Crush and devoured it in one sitting, gripped by its indelible and relatable depictions of queer lust and infatuation, and all the complex secrecy that can accompany them. It was one of the first poetry collections I read that dealt in such matters, and it set me on a path of self-discovery in my own writing. This was in 2005, the year that I completed my Masters in Creative Writing at Victoria University. My writing output during that intensive year was mostly focused on my identity as a Chinese New Zealander and my family. At times it felt like therapy as I interrogated my relationship to my Chinese heritage, which was something I’d been reluctant to write about but was slowly warming up to. There was another side of me that I didn’t dare include in my writing. I was still firmly in the closet at that stage, and writing about being gay felt more terrifying than saying the words out loud. My eventual coming out was a gradual process – closest friends first, a few trusted colleagues and family members, before ripping off the proverbial band aid and finally telling my parents. There was also the process of coming out in my poetry and becoming more

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comfortable with writing about being gay directly rather than obfuscating it with abstractions and metaphors. Putting the truth on the page so boldly felt exposing, but it also gave me a little more encouragement to embrace my sexuality. It’s amazing how much weight can be lifted when you switch from one small pronoun to another in poems about your crushes. These days, writing and reading poetry is still an outlet for me to untangle and explore the many facets of my identity – Chinese, New Zealander, gay. In some ways, I’m still coming out every time a new reader comes across my work or I step up to a microphone to read it in front of an unfamiliar audience. I also see this need to understand ourselves in the work of other poets and writers wrestling with similar topics. Emma Barnes and I read hundreds of submissions and books by queer writers for our anthology, Out Here. These texts captured many different queer and Takatāpui experiences and perspectives; but woven throughout them all I recognised the unmistakable feeling of needing to find a community, and a place within it. I started writing poetry because it felt like the right thing to do as an angsty teenager alone with my thoughts. I never knew it would become such a powerful force in how I came to understand who I am, and open my world to the lives of others. Chris Tse is the author of the poetry collections How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes and HE’S SO MASC. He and Emma Barnes co-edited Out Here: An anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa, which will be published by Auckland University Press in October 2021.

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Comic artist Sam Orchard tells Sarah Lang about coming out and celebrating difference.

am Orchard, 37, came out many years ago as lesbian and then transgender: “It still often feels like I’m coming out to different people,” Orchard says. “I have a beard and I look and sound like a man, but I also talk openly about being trans. Usually I’m not sure who knows and who doesn’t. I watch peoples’ reactions. I enjoy seeing people be surprised and become aware of their own assumptions. Sometimes they’re surprised at their own surprise. Sometimes I’m surprised by their surprise.” “I knew from an early age I was queer. I didn't know about the concept of trans back then – it wasn’t something anyone in my world had talked about. I came out as a lesbian when I was 20 then came out as trans later.” Which one was hardest? “Coming out as trans was easier because I’d already gone through a coming-out process as a lesbian, and had more tools for self-love and self-care, so I didn't angst about it as much.” “But it was harder for my parents because, while they knew about being lesbian, they didn't know much about being ‘trans’, apart from quite negative stereotypes the media had perpetuated, centred around trans women, whereas there was a void of information about trans men. My parents worried that me being trans would make my life harder.” “Back then, most people didn’t know, exactly, what being trans meant, particularly a trans guy. Being transgender was somewhat scandalous, and was talked about as ‘Ah, you’re trapped in the wrong body’. ” Orchard was born in Australia and has three brothers. “We moved around a lot. Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania. My dad is an industrial chemist. Mum is a teacher. We moved to Invercargill when I was 16 – my dad told me it was a resort town!” Eventually he forgave his father for that. “Then I

studied film and media for a Bachelor of Arts, and also law at Otago University. I realised law wasn’t for me, but I got so stubborn that I finished the degree. After all that study, it’s kind of comical that I became a comic artist and community worker.” Orchard has spent 10 years or so doing freelance projects: drawing comics and cartoons, creating infographics, and designing and illustrating resources. He also has his “autobio webcomic” Rooster Tails, which has been going for 10 years. “Rooster Tails started as a way to see people like me reflected publicly – at that time I couldn’t find any stories about queer trans guys in the media or elsewhere, and the easiest and most authentic story for me to tell was my own. It’s about my life, my journey of transition, and what I get up to.” It’s been read by thousands of people. “It’s quite often used as a resource by queer educators who come into high schools and universities for classes that help demystify sexuality and gender.” Sometimes educators from other countries contact him asking if they can translate a strip into another language. Any royalties to speak of? “I usually ask for a koha, but it often depends on who, and why people are using my comics.” Orchard is also one half of the excellent “semicomic” web series Queer Conversations, supported by the Goethe-Institute New Zealand. Largely during lockdown and working partly via Zoom, Orchard and Germany’s Illi Anna Heger drew comics in which fictionalised versions of themselves have “rainbow conversations” in important locations. They’ve also been issued as a printed book. For the past year, he’s been working on his first graphic novel – an adaptation of 2010 novel f2m: The Boy Within, about someone transitioning from

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female to male (hence the title f2m). Orchard and the two co-authors, he explains, have updated the novel’s language and social knowledge around being transgender. He has a couple of chapters to go. They’re looking for a publisher and hope to go international. On his website, which lays out his projects past and present, Orchard describes himself as “a queer and trans illustrator, comic creator, and designer”. Now he can add another role to that description. “I’m the Assistant Curator of the New Zealand Cartoons and Comics Archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library.” The archive includes 60,000 cartoons, comics, and caricatures by and about New Zealanders, from the 19th century to the present, and material relating to the artists’ lives. “It’s my dream job. And probably the only job that someone with my skill-set could get! It combines my two passions: comics and community. I’m engaging with makers of cartoons and comics, and with communities, to develop our archive and collection practices. What are the priority areas? Where are the gaps and what do we need to fill those gaps? I’m particularly looking at diverse voices. I’ve also been learning the systems and theories behind curation and caring for taonga, and ensuring they’re accessible to anyone doing research.” And yes, getting a salary is a nice change. The former Aucklander runs the annual Same Same But Different Literary Festival, held in Auckland in February. “The late Peter Wells set it up in 2016 to celebrate queer writers. Peter asked me to come on board in 2018. We fly in people from all over the country. We’ve also run some Wellington events and are looking at doing more nationally.” There’s a decent budget. He’s worked unpaid on passion projects, and on paid commissions.“Sometimes you do things

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because you love them, though they don’t pay that much.” One paid commission was from the Disabled Students Association at Victoria University, a project to raise disability awareness. “I did illustrations of people with disabilities, to role-model how allies [non-disabled people] can support the disabled community. For instance, if someone in a wheelchair is trying to get up a hill, a stranger might come and push her chair. She’d say ‘no, you can’t just push me – ask me what I need first’.” The illustrations were shared via posters at uni, and social-media. Meanwhile, a Master’s project in creative writing sparked his “Family Portraits" project. Three small volumes (available as print or e-books) tell the stories of nine individuals, and their sexual orientation and/or gender identities. “One man was in a gay relationship before homosexual law reform, and another was a first-generation queer from a migrant background.” The first issue Queer 101 is used by educators in countries including France, Germany, Australia, the USA, UK, and Spain. Orchard is keen to share information. He’s designed and illustrated many resources, including – for the Asia Pacific Transgender Network – fact sheets for trans people, their families, friends and colleagues (available from his website). Is there a strong queer community in Wellington? “Yes. But we’re often asked to speak as if we are a homogeneous group when we actually have different political, and social backgrounds and viewpoints.” “Celebrating differences brings joy to my life – and my comics are largely about queer people celebrating parts of themselves that society might not appreciate. It feels important when parts of myself and other queer people are valued. I think wanting to be valued is the same for all people, whoever you are.”

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In between its famous maunga and sweeping shoreline, Taranaki is rumbling with thunderous energy. The region is bustling with fresh-faced business, creatives escaping the rat race, and an event calendar rivalling our biggest entertainment hubs. Take a trip north-west with us as we explore the homes, haunts, and must-sees of a region making its own waves.

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Jodi Roebuck Farmer

Jodi and his wife Tanya are the co-owners of Roebuck Farm, a seven-acre farm just outside New Plymouth specialising in fast crop, yearround vegetables. They grow $250,000 worth of produce each season for restaurants and retail stores in New Plymouth. The locality means they can deliver fresh, quality produce the same day as harvest – something they’ve worked hard to build from the ground up.

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Gourmet Social Kitchen is my go-to gourmet for sure – they have amazing food. I really like the fact that you not only share a table, but everything you order. I really like that style of dining. They’re just so great to work with and they really get the local and fresh thing.

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Mainstay The best brunch mainstay has to be Monica’s Eatery. They do breakfast and lunch, which is beautiful. We never really used to dine out until we started supplying all the restaurants. And now we dine out a lot. We want to know how the business runs and what they do with our food.

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Rosie Ralph Artist

An artist originally from Wellington, Rosie’s lived in Taranaki for five years. The creative community and proximity to nature have made it easy for her to settle into life in the region. She says it’s an opportunity to make the most of the slow life: “We still work hard here, but break it up with trips to the bush, mountain, or beach. It’s a great place to forge your path and start something new.”

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Twenty-year-old Zhana has been surfing for more than half her life. She’s one of the region’s brightest riders, and a back-to-back Aotearoa Māori Surfing Titles champion. Most of her time is spent along the coast at competitions, or simply enjoying the surf. “The feeling I get while sitting on my board looking back at the beautiful mountain is truly a magic moment.”

On Sundays we try to get outdoors as a family. Some favourite walks are Ratapihipihi, Back Beach, and the walkways – Huatoki, Te Henui, Mangaotuku. There are so many beautiful bushy walkways all over New Plymouth.

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My favourite Taranaki treat, if I can get there before they sell out, is the dreamy doughnuts from Knead Bakery in New Plymouth. There are usually lines around the block to get a box of them!

When I’m going to a soirée, you’ll find me at Snug Lounge having a few cocktails. It’s a beautiful area to celebrate birthdays or have a dinner and a catch up.

Display Koru on Devon (established by local photographic legend Fay Looney and curated by artist Linda McFetridge) has the best art on display. The gallery exhibits a range of contemporary work and is an exciting hub for passionate creatives.

Sunday Most Sundays people will find me either at a local surf competition held at my surf club – Waitara Bar Board Riders Club – or at Fitzroy Board Riders Club in town. If I’m not surfing, I’m always seeking fun with my mates or family.

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Since 2015, Dave and his partner Jo have been using their combined science backgrounds to distil fresh local botanicals into their award-winning Juno Gin brand. They say that building a business in Taranaki is a lot like a line-out in rugby. “When a person gets lifted up by the rest of the team – that’s how we feel Juno Gin has been treated by Taranaki.”

Gary is a tattoo artist and the co-owner of Brother’s Ink in New Plymouth. He emigrated from the United Kingdom aged 14, and says the Taranaki lifestyle is unlike anywhere else. “I can go from the city, to the beach, to the mountain and the bush in such a short space of time.”

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Takeaway When it comes to takeaways, I would fight anyone who thinks Gamma Rays aren’t the best burgers in New Plymouth. They even do a burger that has Mac n Cheese in it!

Stay If friends are staying in town, the Nice Hotel is one of New Zealand’s top 100 hotels. Or try the Belt Road Caravan Park. It overlooks the port and the sea, and they have cabins you can rent. They are just extraordinary.

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We like The Stoke for a drink on Fridays. It’s a little bar in town, and you can creep in around the back. They’ve got an open fire, which is beautiful on a winter’s day. Go sit on a nice fluffy seat and have a nice drink, some small plates, and a bit of a chat.

On Sundays I like to take a walk down to Fitzroy Beach. Stop at The Kiosk for coffee, maybe for a cheese roll. Watch the surfers. There’s enough empty space that you still feel like it’s your beach.

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For a local staycation I take my wife to Pouakai Cabins, under Taranaki Maunga, at the base of the Pouaki ranges. There is a cabin, which you get to via a short walk, set in a clearing of native bush with a log fire and bathtub under the stars.

Tattooists spend a lot of time hunched over, so I treat myself by looking after my posture. Kneaded Massage always takes excellent care of me.

Pathway Taranaki is its own best kept secret. People assume it’s just oil, gas, and really nice mountains. But we have Pukekura Park, our incredible National Heritage garden, right in the middle of town. We’ve got little things to climb, big things to climb, and all sorts of outdoorsy things. We’ve got cafés, galleries, and little wee hidden alleyways with true treasures tucked down them.

Play Play Our most anticipated event is the Garden Festival. We’re really proud of it as gin makers, because some of the gardens around here are growing the botanicals that we use in our gin.

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Taranaki hosts the biggest tattoo festival in the country and this year is the 10th anniversary, so it’s going to be massive and is definitely the event I’m most excited for. It runs for the whole weekend and has something for everyone, whether you want to get a tattoo, listen to some live music, watch the motocross or check out the retail stalls.

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Tane Morgan Café owner

Born and bred in Taranaki, Tane says his whānau have been in the province for five generations. “Our maunga, our ocean, our people, it’s one of the better places on earth to raise a young family.” That connection is at the core of his business, Proof .and Stock Coffee, which he owns with his partner Adrianna. “We give manaakitia and welcome people into our home/ business on a daily basis.”

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Summer is the founder and owner of fashion brand August Jane. Taranaki’s great walks, beaches, and her morning commute along Te Henui walkway in New Plymouth all help provide inspiration for her work, she says. “I really feel that I have flourished as a designer since I’ve been living in Taranaki.” Living in the province came about unexpectedly. She arrived to visit friends, loved it, and within a week had made plans to move, and signed a lease on her property.

Without showing bias towards businesses we supply with coffee, my good friend Jeremy and wife Britt are owners of Fork n Knife restaurant, and it’s our go-to gourmet experience. It’s a New Plymouth hot spot for fine dining, and great service to boot. The Social Kitchen and Table at Nice Hotel is also a must.

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Milarky is an amazing studio in the Quarter Bank and has the best art on display. There are always amazing exhibits at our Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Fenton Street Arts collective is where Adrianna’s parents Jo and Stuart show some of the region’s talented artists – Jo being one of them!

On Fridays we head for a drink at local hot spot Shining Peak Brewery. Jesse brews beer on site. You can get some delicious kai presented by Freddy and topped with amazing service from Luke and the crew, it’s hard to match! Owners Dan and Rene Radcliffe give back to the community. Their 5% project gives a portion of their monthly beer sales towards a chosen charity. They’ve raised over $80,000 to date.

Play We’re really looking forward to Womad. Epic vibe, amazing food, the diverse array of music in a stunning natural setting. We are so fortunate to host this in our province. TAFT do an amazing job orchestrating such a show!

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ohn Leuthart grew up fascinated by a framed photograph of the Matterhorn hanging in his grandparents’ Taranaki home, a poignant reminder of home for his Swiss grandfather. He also lived under the gaze of Mount Taranaki, which he regularly visited as a child and teen. Today, both mountains continue to inspire the 65-year-old, who has art works depicting each hanging side by side in his New Plymouth apartment. “I don’t know if it was growing up under this mountain and looking at those alps on my grandparents wall, but they’ve been an anchor for me throughout my life,’’ he says. Early last year, John’s partner, Piri Sciascia, passed away. They had been living in Wellington, where John built up a career in the cultural sector, in roles including director of the City Gallery and chief executive of Museums Aotearoa. Not long after Piri’s death, John’s sister, Karen, suggested he rent the apartment adjoining her home at Fitzroy Beach. He hadn’t lived in Taranaki since he was 18, but had returned for holidays and had

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spent two decades working with the New Plymouth District Council building public-private partnerships around city assets such as the Len Lye Centre, Womad, and Puke Ariki. “This is my soul place and I’ve always had a connection with it,’’ he says. “It has been absolutely the right place to heal.’’ While today he has a huge network of family, friends, and colleagues in Taranaki, the region didn’t always have such a pull. After leaving school, John was desperate to flee it, and studied to be a teacher in Palmerston North. “I almost felt embarrassed saying I came from there. It’s so weird because it’s the opposite now.’’ Today, he says it is a thriving region with humble, diverse, cultured residents, some of whom have similarly returned from bigger places. “There remains a can-do attitude here where people push the boundaries. It’s an isolated province, so that has driven a sense of pride, and I love that it is so egalitarian.’’

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As for specific attractions, “What I love about it now is the sea, the rugged mountains, and the Govett-Brewster.’’ He first visited the Govett-Brewster when it opened in 1970. Aged 15 at the time, he says, “I was fascinated by the beauty and boldness of it. I’m not an artist. But I thought I’d love to run it one day. Here’s this creative hub, and I kept that in the back of my head and later ended up being director of the Wellington City Gallery.’’ “The Govett-Brewster has been a beacon for me throughout my life,’’ says John, who has come full circle and is now chairman of the gallery. John was 30 when in 1986 he became the City Gallery director, a role he held until 1990, and before that he was the assistant director at the Dowse Art Museum.

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Today, his apartment shows off his heritage and his love of art. John grew up in a Swiss-German family. His grandfather, Leopold, and grandmother, Betsy, who was Scottish, had emigrated from Lucerne, Switzerland, where Leopold was a pastry chef. Leopold hoped to be a farmer in Taranaki but ended up starting the region’s first catering company, which lasted until the 1970s when the couple passed away. Recalls John, “My sister and I were expected to help. We would go along and help set up the trestle tables for a wedding and they’d serve Parma ham and mashed potato. My grandfather also made these beautiful iced cakes. It was a big enterprise and a family affair. I loved being part of it.’’ Leopold made his sons’ wedding cakes, and he also made his grandchildren’s birthday cakes. Along with helping at his grandparents’ catering company, John loved nothing more than going to their home for dinner, when the children would sit around the cherry-wood dining table his grandparents had brought out from Switzerland.

John likes to share the story behind the table. In 1951, his grandparents took their four sons back to Switzerland and put them in ski school for a year. They returned to New Plymouth with the dining table, a sideboard, and a couple of cars. Today, the table is one of John’s prized possessions. “At some stage, one of the sons will inherit it and if they don’t like it, too bad,’’ he laughs. His grandparents died when John was 15, and he later asked to inherit the art work of the Matterhorn. It’s among the treasured artworks, gifts, and memorabilia he has taken between his homes over the years. His cousin’s son Arvo Leo, who lives in Holland, has painted a contemporary image of the Matterhorn which John also cherishes. A huge work hanging in the living room was painted by John’s former school art teacher, Tom Kreisler. It was in a City Gallery exhibition when John was the director. “I’ve always liked its simplicity, and it’s been with me for 22 years in my houses.’’

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Art has always been a huge part of John’s life. When his sons, Josh, 38, and Ben, 34, were young, he traipsed with them around galleries and museums. He has bought art works from exhibitions he has attended or overseen; a piece by local artist Yvonne Coleman, for example, “brings me a lot of joy.’’ A Taranaki vintage plate was a gift from his cousin, Bernard Leuthart, and his wife, Kathleen O’Donnell, who have also followed a similar path and returned home, moving from Wellington back to Taranaki. John can glimpse the sea from his deck and sweeping front windows, and the vivid sunsets invigorate him. “When I lived in Wellington, I had this intent that I would like to live by the sea but that didn’t seem possible because of property prices. Here, my sister swims every day and I try to get out there and swim too most days. It is great to be back in a place which has soul and to be able to contribute, because I can’t imagine retiring yet.’’

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Pukehuia Park in Newlands is now open to the public. Formerly known as Newlands Park, the space has two new play areas to suit both younger and older children, a basketball half-court, and a skate area. Northern Ward Councillor Jill Day was most excited for the parks “all-weather Ki-O-Rahi pitch and being able to head along with my tamariki to play this traditional Māori game.” Time for some fresh air we think.

Berhampore’s Wellington Olympic football team came out as Central League champions against rivals Miramar Rangers last month in a 1-0 victory. The single goal came from a coast-coast pass from left-back Rory McKeown to Kailan Gould, who brought the ball down inside the penalty box to deftly chip the Miramar goalkeeper. The result put Olympic beyond retrieval for the Central League Championship, and secures them a place in the recently updated National league Championship, which will run from October to December.

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P R O P O S A L ST R E S S I want to ask my girlfriend of two years to marry me, but the idea of coming up with a memorable, special moment to ask her is making me sweat at night! Any ideas on how to do it? She likes cats, cake, embroidery, and tramping. Anxious, Lower Hutt

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P E T T Y T HOU G H T S Friends of mine have just been helped in a big way by their parents to buy their first house. It’s really petty and smallminded of me, but I can’t help resenting them. I’ve worked my bum off with two jobs to scrounge up a mortgage, and I’m still not there. How do I remain friends with them when I’m seething with resentment?! Simmer stress, Seatoun Get over it! Grow up! This is totally a waste of your emotional resources! Everyone has different circumstances – jealousy gets you nowhere. It makes one feel worse so compounds rather than relieves the problem that caused it. Be proud you are doing this on your own. Resentment is uncalled for. Stay friends.

You have the answer! Create a one-off event for the two of you that incorporates all of these plus something special that you like to do together and go for it. Make it a surprise. Perhaps invest in picnic plates with cats painted on them, then take a tramp to somewhere like Butterfly Creek, with a picnic including cake, presented on your/ her grandmother’s embroidered cloth, preferably with matching napkins. Hide the ring (maybe use a placeholder ring so she can choose with you later) under her slice of cake – and complete the day with dinner out or a helicopter ride. Create your version of a themed treat day. It is the effort that counts. Stop sweating and just do it! Good luck and happy memories.

A N T I VA X X R AG E How do I handle the differing opinions between my antivaxxing family and my inlaws and friends. My family are completely thoughtless and infuriating in their refusal to listen to any science-related points. They are rude and foolish, but still my family and do I tell them they can’t join us at Christmas? My inlaws are immunocompromised. Not a conspiracy theorist, Tawa

SE X D R I V E D I F F E R E N C E S My partner has said it's okay if I want to find other sexual partners. Our sex drives are quite different. Does that mean I have to offer the same freedoms also? Unsure, Thorndon Find another partner! You must have pride in yourself first and foremost.

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This is going to be an ongoing issue with us. I am with you – we can all vaccinate and take action towards prevention of this virus that is decimating the world and will clearly continue to affect us for a long time yet. It looks like you will be splitting your Christmas celebrations this year. Be charming but stand firm. You need to care for both sides of your family and keep them apart, not just for safety.

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Brett Graham: Tai Moana Tai Tangata Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui) is known for his large-scale sculptures exploring indigenous histories, politics, and philosophies. His exhibition Tai Moana Tai Tangata addresses the New Zealand Wars and their legacy, through the architectures of warfare and war memorials. On now until Sunday 31 Oct Te Ngākau Civic Square, Wellington. citygallery.org.nz

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Judy Millar: Action Movie

Tia Ranginui: Gonville Gothic

Auckland painter Judy Millar, famously ‘paints backwards’, wiping paint off her canvases to create exaggerated, hyperactive brush strokes that seem to float in illusionistic space. Full of drama, her works breathe life into the discredited idea of action painting—she’s a reanimator.

In her new series Tua o Tāwauwau/Away with the Fairies (2020–1), Whanganui photographer Tia Ranginui (Ngāti Hine Oneone) addresses patupaiarehe. In Māori myth, they were the first people of New Zealand. They lived in the forests and mountains, building their homes from swirling mists.

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If you’re new to Wellington, the mild, warm weather which greets us at the start of September might lull you into a false state of hopefulness. Perhaps you put your stockings and polyprops away, or go out without a coat. Hell, you might even shave your legs. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you you’d have fallen for a classic annual Pōneke weather gag in failing to remember about Shitsville. Don’t be disappointed in yourself, we’ve all done it. Even those of us who’ve lived in Wellington forever are sometimes glamoured into trusting the seasonal calendar followed by the rest of the country, forgetting that the Wellington microclimate follows its own rules. The optimism with which we greet this time of year is actually a core feature of Shitsville: because the really deplorable weather is always preceded by a patch of big wide blue – “Spring 1” – which seems to exist solely to get our hopes up. It’s why the creator of Shitsville, Adam Shand, whose “Realistic Wellington Calendar” is locally famous online and has since adorned a charity t-shirt (with another tee currently in the making), says he wishes he’d called the season “Bait and Switch”, or “False Hope”. A friend of Shand’s calls it Sprinter, or “the battle between spring and winter”. Spring 1 arrives on our doorsteps about the time spring is supposed to arrive – unusual for any New Zealand season – and is the stuff of fairytales and Disney movies, bobbing daffodil faces, and bounding lambs in verdant green. The fine spell compels every one of the city’s inhabitants to lop off their jeans mid-

thigh and skip out their front doors, singing “lovely weather we’re having!” at passersby. Spring 1 lasts for about two glorious weeks, if we’re lucky, and then all hell breaks loose. It’s hard to describe the weather of Shitsville accurately, given that unpredictability is its whole thing. These are the days of heading off to work on a clear and calm morning and returning, sodden, in a thundering downpour. Of “unprecedented” hail storms and wind gusts shaking the house so violently you miss an actual earthquake (which happened last year). Shitsville’s guiding principle is havoc. It is the destroyer of umbrellas – it’s only a matter of time before it figures out how to inside-out one of those Blunt numbers. Shitsville hits out of nowhere – you might miss it completely if it weren’t for the baffled refrain sailing constantly on the wind between September and December: “YOU CALL THIS SPRING?!” But part of me actually likes Shitsville. Sure, a mild spring of blossoms and reliable sunshine would probably be better (certainly for those of us with mental health struggles), but the wild weather of Shitsville feels more fitting for what spring actually represents: the tearing apart of earth’s seams as new life thrusts itself into the air. It’s like childbirth – raw and animal and visceral. It shakes you and soaks you and lights the sky in a flash, and while it isn’t comfortable there’s no denying that in this very moment, you are alive. You are a part of this mad storm of life, connected to every living thing around you, and as the earth wakes and begins to shake off the dormant quiet of winter, you feel a pull in your body asking you to do the same. For Matariki, we took a moment to pause and reflect on where we’d been, where we found ourselves and where we wished to go. This, now, is the moment where intent becomes action. Take a look at what you are carrying. What is weighing you down? What could you choose to leave behind? Place them behind you. It’s time to move.

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TOHE | PROTEST

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40 years on from the Springbok tour, TOHE | PROTEST explores how escalating tensions between activists, police, rugby fans and politicians were presented by both government broad casters and activist filmmakers. A free exhibition by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.

The NZ Improv Festival returns with its annual celebration of improvised theatre in all its forms. From comedy to drama, musicals to mystery, and plenty of mischief, there’s something for everyone. Eighteen unique shows over five days at the wonderful BATS Theatre - don’t miss a moment!

A new generation of contemporary women artists have taken over the rooms of Katherine Mansfield’s childhood home with installations, including ethical taxidermy, jewellery, paintings and photography. This exhibition and event series, curated by The Metropolitan Club, is inspired by Mansfield’s beliefs about the relationship between humans and the natural world.

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Toitū Te Whenua The Land Will Always Remain Ian-Wayne Grant, Simon Lardelli, Jacqui Colley, Jenna Packer and Bruce Foster investigate forces which shape our environment. The exhibition’s kaupapa focuses on matters that affect all of us in Aotearoa and around the world: our physical environment, the land, our home, actions, history, and how this shapes our identity. 4 Sep – 14 Nov 12 Bruce Street, Masterton. www.aratoi.org.nz

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September BEE AWARE MONTH TENDER BRICK: THE MATERIAL EPIPHANIES OF PETER HAWKESBY Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, until 12 September ĀTĀROA Paintings and photographs by Rangihiroa Panoho Mahara Gallery, Waikanae, until 18 September CURIOUS CONTRAPTIONS Interactive exhibition of finely crafted tiny machines Te Manawa, Palmerston North, until 27 October JUDY MILLER: ACTION MOVIE City Gallery Wellington, until 31 October SURREALIST ART Toi Art, Te Papa, until 31 October ART GLASS 21 Work from leading contemporary NZ glass artists New Zealand Glassworks, Whanganui, until 31 October BRETT GRAHAM: TAI MOANA TAI TANGATA City Gallery Wellington, until 31 October STILL LIFE | WILD PLACES Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, Thorndon, until 31 October

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TIA RANGINUI: GONVILLE GOTHIC City Gallery Wellington, until 31 October TOHE | PROTEST Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, National Library Building MARIE SHANNON: SLEEPING NEAR THE RIVER Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui TE ARA: THE STORIES OF OUR STREETS Significant stories behind the streets of Upper Hutt Whirinaki Whare Taonga, Upper Hutt SANDY ADSETT: TOI KORU Pātaka Art Museum, Porirua HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS Explore, discover, and create masterpieces Capital E Play HQ, Queens Wharf, Mon–Sat 2 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL The Goethe-Institut presents new movies from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland Light House Cuba, various screening times, 2–5 September

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ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD Performed by NZ School of Music students Adam Concert Room, Victoria University, 3–4 September 4 TOITŪ TE WHENUA, THE LAND WILL ALWAYS REMAIN Works by Ian-Wayne Grant, Simon Lardelli, Jacqui Colley, Jenna Packer, and Bruce Foster Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History CROCODILE FEVER A dark comedy starring Karin McCracken, Hannah Kelly, and Peter Hambleton Circa Theatre, until 2 October 5 FATHER'S DAY CLAY SUCCULENT POT WORKSHOP

13 MĀORI LANGUAGE WEEK 13–19 September 16 HAND-HELD Works by Turumeke Harrington, Ben Pearce, and Hannah Valentine Page Galleries, until 9 October 17 DINNER, DALI AND MASTERPIECES Food, drinks, live entertainment, and entry to Surrealist Art Te Papa, 7pm, bookings essential 18 SUNDAYS AT IRA’s A one-woman musical romp created and performed by Jane Keller Circa Theatre, until 2 October 19 TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY

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DRAG RACING Father’s Day street-car showdown Masterton Motorplex, Wairarapa 9 BLOSSOM VALLEY Celebrate spring under the cherry blossoms Aston Norwood Gardens, Kaitoke, 9–13 September 10 DREAMING AFTER DARK Otherworldly performances, strange stories, experimental games Toi Art at Te Papa, 7.30–10.30pm 12 CARTERTON DAFFODIL FESTIVAL CA N DL E MA KING WOR K SHOP Led by Food for the Soul The Minimal Co, 24D Elizabeth Street, Mt Victoria, 12 & 30 September

FEIERABENDMUSIK “After work music” performed on the Goethe-Institut’s baby grand Goethe-Institut, L6/150 Cuba St, every last Friday of the month, 5–6pm 25 SPECTRAL ATMOSPHERES Rhian Sheehan and Arli Liberman Old St Paul’s, Pipitea, 7pm 30 WORLD OF WEARABLEART SHOW TSB Arena, 30 September – 17 October

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6 (M)ORPHEUS NZ Opera and Black Grace present the story of Orpheus and Eurydice The Opera House, 6–9 October 5 MR FUNGUS An upbeat physical comedy show for kids Circa Theatre, until 16 October

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6. Poaka (3) 8. Flows to the sea (5) 10. Essential to maintain life (5) 11. Animal life (5) 12. Feathered creature (4) 14. Yellow-flowering native tree (6) 15. Wellington ecosanctuary (9) 16. Loved by Aussies, hated by Kiwis (6) 20. Plant of the month (9) 22. Ocean, lake, or sea, in te reo (5) 25. Child-chasing aquatic birds (5) 26. Common fish in Wellington harbour (3) 27. Suburb with a 900-year-old kahikatea tree (11) 29. To harvest the crop (4) 31. Red-flowering native tree (4) 32. Number of native mistletoe species (4) 33. Tree, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush has one called Moko (4) 34. Best florist, Flowers ____ (7) 35. Native bird with a bowtie (3) 36. Tree of death and resurrection in Celtic culture (3) 38. Native wood pigeon (6) 39. General term for plants (5) 43. Super pollinator (3) 44. Hardy shrub with glossy leaves (6) 45. 2020’s Bird of the Year (6) 46. Māori village (2) 47. Large primate (3) 48. Goddess of Spring (10)

1. Pinchy crustacean (4) 2. White-tailed spider does not spin this (3) 3. Undeveloped shoot (3) 4. Luminous larvae of the fungus gnat (4,4) 5. Venomous native spider (6) 6. Nīkau is the only kiwi in this plant family (5) 7. Rare stone (3) 9. Tītipounamu, our smallest bird (8) 10. The science of growing grapes (11) 13. Forename of NZ botanist Dr. Cockayne (7) 17. “The birds and the bees” (3) 18. Famous Wellington cat (7) 19. A tree’s gooey sap (3) 21. This issue’s bug, Cabbage White ___ (9) 23. Leggy wading bird (5) 24. Common flax (8) 25. Heaviest bug in Aotearoa (5, 4) 26. Type of trees at Blossom Valley (6) 28. Tastes like peanut butter, huhu ____ (4) 30. Kiwi born racehorse, bones at Te Papa (4, 3) 35. Eel, in te reo (4) 37. Octopod chased into Wellington Habour by Kupe (5) 40. Dolphin, in te reo (4) 41. These are NZ’s only native mammals (4) 42. Breaking waves (4) 43. Lamb’s cry (3) 44. Dried kūmara (3) 46. Measure of acidity or basicity (2)

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