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  • Joanna,

    Meanwhile, perhaps your comments could take up the theme of forthcoming events that may interest your fellow Public Address readers.

    Anticipation of Wellington on a Plate starting next week has me very very hungry. And, if you'll allow me some self horn tootage, at the Wellingtonista we're doing a ton of restaurant giveaways to celebrate it.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    If you are down Waikato way, the annual Spark :International Festival of Media, Arts & Design is on 9-13 August. Guests include artist & photographer Mary Mattingly, singer & songwritewr Vince Harder, journalist Greer McDonald, artist Michael Harrison, KHF Media, Belgrade animator Rastko Ciric--and Paul Holmes! I am doing a pecha kucha thing on Tuesday eve. www.spark.net.nz It all leads into the Hamilton leg of the Film Festival (Aug 12-29) in the sumptuous new Lido. So if you missed any films in Auckland or Wellington ...!

    Hamilton Girls/Hamilton Boys High are putting on a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream Aug 7-14. You all should go (not just because my daughter has a role as Peachblossom!) but because it shifts the action, in an interesting way, to the days of the British Raj.

    So, it is going to be a busy week...but enough of the sales pitch!

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Hamilton Girls/Hamilton Boys High are putting on a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream Aug 7-14. You all should go (not just because my daughter has a role as Peachblossom!) but because it shifts the action, in an interesting way, to the days of the British Raj.

    Kewl -- sounds a lot like a really beautiful production of Britten's opera Baz Luhrman did for Opera Australia. It even had a single and music video --

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    You all should go (not just because my daughter has a role as Peachblossom!)

    Ha, I was Peaseblossom in Dream! (This should in no way be taken to imply anything.)

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • philipmatthews,

    Canterbury readers of a noise music persuasion would be directed to this on Saturday:

    http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2010/aug/lyttelton/eye-mela-stanier-black-five

    I saw Eye two years ago in the Arts Centre basement; reminiscent of Repent-era Dead C but less abrasive. And includes legendary drummer Peter Stapleton. The other two acts I don't know ...

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2007 • 656 posts Report Reply

  • Sue,

    Well it might be a bit of a way off but set aside the 30th of October and the 18th of December for Craft2.0 in Wellington.

    book flights now and you could have a lovely weekend of hassle free handmade shopping

    I hear it's a rather marvelous day out, not that you know i run the event or anything.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 527 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Funny you should say that - there's going to be a craft market along those very lines (well, smaller for one thing) at the Paraparaumu memorial hall next Saturday (August 14), from 10am to 2pm. Not that we're involved in it or anything.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Joanna,

    Ha, I was Peaseblossom in Dream! (This should in no way be taken to imply anything.)

    Uh oh, your daughter's going to grow up and have opinions!

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report Reply

  • Tim Michie,

    Aucklanders can visit MOTAT for free this month but see the site for tram maintenance days...

    Auckward • Since Nov 2006 • 614 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Hear from someone on the ground in Gaza...

    Constantine Dabbagh, Executive Secretary of the Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees in Gaza is speaking :
    in Wellington, 5:15 - 6:30pm at St John's in the City Church hall, cnr Willis and Dixon Streets on Thursday, 12 August.
    (poster: here )

    And in Christchurch at Knox Church lounge,
    12:30 - 1:30pm, 28 Bealey Ave on Friday 13 August.
    (poster: here )

    He is a Palestinian Christian deeply immersed in meeting the needs of all Palestinians and striving for a non-violent future where Palestinians control their own land.
    CWS is helping present these talks.

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • webweaver,

    Entirely off-topic I'm afraid, but it's such good news I just had to mention it - California's anti-gay marriage legislation, Proposition 8, has been overturned because it's unconstitutional.

    The money quote from Judge Walker (my bold):

    [T]he evidence presented at trial fatally undermines the premises underlying proponents’ proffered rationales for Proposition 8. An initiative measure adopted by the voters deserves great respect. The considered views and opinions of even the most highly qualified scholars and experts seldom outweigh the determinations of the voters. When challenged, however, the voters’ determinations must find at least some support in evidence. This is especially so when those determinations enact into law classifications of persons. Conjecture, speculation and fears are not enough. Still less will the moral disapprobation of a group or class of citizens suffice, no matter how large the majority that shares that view. The evidence demonstrated beyond serious reckoning that Proposition 8 finds support only in such disapproval. As such, Proposition 8 is beyond the constitutional reach of the voters or their representatives.

    Final ruling in full here (Scribd)

    BBC story here - US judge overturns California same-sex marriage ban

    Daily Kos commentary here - Prop 8 Struck Down: The Decision

    Supporters of Prop 8 are planning to take this all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary, but the "careful logic and structure of Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s opinion" has made it much harder for them to win - In Same-Sex Ruling, an Eye on the Supreme Court (NY Times)

    Hooray!

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 332 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    Ha, I was Peaseblossom in Dream!

    Sorry, it should be Pease and not Peach, even though she really likes Peaches!

    Kewl -- sounds a lot like a really beautiful production of Britten's opera

    They do have a very inventive drama teacher (Margi Wynne-Jones). The last production was Hamlet, set in a emerging fascist state.

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Supporters of Prop 8 are planning to take this all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary

    Which they're perfectly entitled to do, but (with the caveat that I'm no scholar in American jurisprudence) the language of what I've read of Walker's opinion is hardly the work of a bug-eyed liberal judicial activist, and I understand his background and judicial record is actually pretty 'conservative'. Just that it's the kind of logical, evidence-based, rule of law respecting conservatism the Tea Baggers despise. FFS, he was appointed to the bench by that notorious fag-hag Queen Georgie La Bush The First; but he happens to be gay, so I guess we can predict the character assassination to come from the usual suspects...

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    Just that it's the kind of logical, evidence-based, rule of law respecting conservatism the Tea Baggers despise

    And the burden of proof is where it should be. He's demanding that Prop 8 supporters come up with some evidence to justify unequal treatment in law, not demanding that gay people prove they should have equal rights. That makes it extremely difficult to counter, as there is no evidence to support that position.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • Kyle Matthews,

    happens to be gay, so I guess we can predict the character assassination to come from the usual suspects...

    Sadly it's this last fact about him which will no doubt lead to death threats and who knows what other stupid shit, over the fifteen complimentary things you said before that which are the things that qualify him for the job.

    But yay for wiping that obnoxious law off the books, may it stay off and may the other states quickly have to remove their equivalent laws.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Give Pease a chance...

    The last production was Hamlet, set in a emerging fascist state.

    what about that famous Shakespearean midsummer road play pastiche Hamlet and Louise with Brad Pitt as Bottom...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    Or that new Kiwi TV production of Mesure for Mesure?

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    But yay for wiping that obnoxious law off the books, may it stay off and may the other states quickly have to remove their equivalent laws.

    Not quite that simple -- because the federal Supreme Court is a strange and eccentric law unto itself and even marriage equality advocates are realistic about what a difficult hurdle that will be to get over. All that said, I think Andrew Sullivan has made an important point Walker's temperate, carefully reasoned and highly conservative opinion has actually raised the bar for opponents, and SCOTUS, too.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Or that new Kiwi TV production of Mesure for Mesure?

    I hear one of the Bard's best comedies is due to be played by a troupe of systems analysts in As You Like IT.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    But yay for wiping that obnoxious law off the books, may it stay off and may the other states quickly have to remove their equivalent laws.

    Yeah, nothing's going to happen quickly, because everyone knows this is going straight back to court in California. And of course people have only just got started screaming about 'activist judges over-throwing democracy', they have to let off some steam.

    Meanwhile, here at home, my partner and I can't legally adopt.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • andrea quin,

    may it stay off and may the other states quickly have to remove their equivalent laws.

    A few interesting bits of research suggest that although this law may not stay off the books in the medium term, it won't be too long until opposition to gay marriage in the States effectively dies off.

    Auckland • Since Dec 2009 • 44 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Barred from Stratford...

    Mesure for Mesure

    originally written as The Merry Wives of Stepford

    As You Like IT

    changed, after legal problems, from iMacbeth

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Isabel Hitchings,

    Emma - so you with your formal, written down in the record books civil union can't adopt while we, who are living in sin because we're too slack to formalise anything, might be able to if we ask really nicely? That's ludicrous!

    Christchurch • Since Jul 2007 • 719 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    Oh. OH. I was *so confused* about Emma's post, because I thought she was saying that she was with a woman as a partner, and I was all 'gosh, that's sudden! Wonder what happened there?' Reading comprehension fail, etc.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Phil Lyth,

    The event's half done, but still three lectures to go in University of Auckland's 2010 Winter Lectures: The End(s) of Journalism

    Audio files and text available at the site, and credit to NZHerald for putting up this afternoon Colin Peacock's notes for the second lecture.

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report Reply

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