A good turnout tonight to hear Generation Zero on transport options, and get a preview of the restoration of Laura Rosier’s History of Newtown.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
OUR TOWN NEWTOWN – Community Visioning Wall
In Collaboration with the Community Centre we have transformed the Before I Die…… Chalk Mural into a Community Blackboard where the public can share ideas and suggestions…….
We live and work in a great suburb but how can we make it better?
What works, what doesn’t and what would you love to see happen here?
What are Newtown’s STRENGTHS?
What would you like to CHANGE?
What are the OPPORTUNITIES for Newtown?
What are Newtown’s CHALLENGES?
The ideas wall will be in action in Wilson Street till Christmas. Get your friends and family along to and add ideas and suggestions. Newtown Community Centre and the Timebank are helping us record the wall
Paint Up NEWTOWN 2013
The mural designed and painted by a group of year 6 students from Newtown School in collaboration with lead artist Kiri Hiha is now well under way in Carrara Park.
Every Wednesday afternoon the Newtown Paint Up crew and Kiri are onsite transforming the Carrara Park Substation at 107 Daniell Street. Come along and check it out.
Their colourful design was inspired by Newtown – its history, people, colours, food, smells, landscape and bird life. The students acknowledge their place, Newtown, for being the best place to live!
This mural plan has been a collaborative design process between Kiri and 10 young artists based at Newtown school, and is a reflection of how they see, smell, taste and feel about the community and landscape of Newtown.
All of the images included in the mural are individual drawings from the young artists involved, in response to workshops that have centred around voices from the Newtown community’s past, present and future.
The young people working with Kiri have listened to oral histories of the whenua from the local iwi, found out about how the neighbourhood has been shaped by the people who have built, settled and created “New Town” and have been actively encouraged to draw how they, as the future of Newtown, see and value this vibrant and rich little epicentre of culture.
During each design session, the young artists were exposed to a different expert that held knowledge about the Newtown community. These little seeds of knowledge were shaped into visual representations of what the children had heard, talked about or seen or understood themselves about what makes up Newtown as a whole.
Paint Up Newtown is an Eastern Southern Youth Trust project supported by WCC City Arts, the Newtown Residents’ Association and the Newtown Community and Cultural Centre.
Paint Up Berhampore has been running at the same
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Transport Spine Part 4: – Team work with Generation Zero
Our Association is working towards developing a fine grain crafted fit of the Public Transport Spine options through Newtown.
Generation Zero have been promoting a coordinated approach to Wellington’s transport involving Safe Cycleways, Car Share and congestion free Public Transport. The same things our Association is already underway establishing.
For our November meeting Generation Zero are our feature guest speakers – presenting their ideas for the city and sharing expertise on ways the Public Transport Spine might successfully include Newtown and link to the airport.
Young people are moving beyond the car. They want good choice about how to get around.
There are smarter, cheaper and better ways to solve our traffic problems.
Safe Cycleways, Car Share and congestion free Public Transport.
Smart low-carbon cities designed for people, rather than just cars, are what we need to tackle climate change and to attract young talent and keep our economy humming.
But Wellington’s current transport plan is outdated and expensive – a massive motorway expansion costing more than $2.5 billion and putting at risk the very things that make Wellington special and cool.
Part 3: Transport Spine Study – a continuing story
Part 2: Casting the devil out of the detail – public Transport Spine Study
Part 1: Early heads-up Wellington Transport Spine Study – implications for Newtown
Next Meeting: 18 November
7.30 at the Community Hall 71 Daniell Street, at the Constable Street playground
Guest Presentation – Generation Zero
For our November meeting Generation Zero are our feature guest speakers – presenting their ideas for the city and sharing expertise on ways the Public Transport Spine might successfully include Newtown and link to the airport.
Come along and help our Association to develop a fine grain crafted fit of the Public Transport Spine options through Newtown.
Generation Zero have been promoting a coordinated approach to Wellington’s transport involving Safe Cycleways, Car Share and congestion free Public Transport. The same things we have been establishing.
Laura Rosier Archive Presentation – Trams
Given the guest speaker topic it seemed appropriate to show images from the chapter on Public Transport……..
Newtown Community Hall 71 Daniell Street, at the Constable Street playground
(opposite the Mediterranean Warehouse)
Paul Forrest Exhibition
Event: The Art Resuscitation Project.
Venue: The Studio, upstairs @ 146 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington
When: 8th – 17th November
Come along if you can. They’re looking grand.
Newtown artist Paul Forrest is having an exhibition of his new works at The Studio at 146 Riddiford Street for 10 days from 8th-17th of November.
On show will be his new oil paintings on top of old classic art prints that have been gleaned from secondhand stores around Wellington. He’s become the artist as ‘life guard’ breathing the 21st Century into these works, making his mark on them – the art of recycling art.
The artists include; Canaletto, John Gully, Renoir, Gainsborough, Constable, Corot, Vermeer and many more. He’ll be at The Studio 10am -5pm everyday over those 10 days creating new work.
There’s 40 paintings on show. Hung to delight your eye.
You can also go to his website www.paulforrest.co.nz to see what’s on show.
“Remember it’s not all about selling art. Come and see what I do. That’s free.”
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