City Market: Chaffers Dock Function Centre, 8.30am, Sundays.
Frank Kitts Market: More than 80 stalls in the car park under Frank Kitts Park, 10am-4pm, Saturdays.
Hill St Farmers’ Market: By the Cathedral in Thorndon open every Saturday, 9am-1pm.
Harbourside Market: Fresh fruit and vegetables, flowers, herbs and fish, 7.30am-1pm, next to Waitangi Park, Sundays.
Ignite Wellington: A variety of talented local speakers will each speak for five minutes about topics such as “couchsurfing”, “Ernest Rutherford”, and “Outdoor Knit”. All speakers must give their talks in the allocated time using 20 slides that appear on a screen, 6.30-10pm, Paramount Theatre, August 3.
Jim McAloon lecture: the fourth lecture, No Idle Rich in Otago and Cantebury, in the Katherine Mansfield Bookclub series on A Question of Class in New Zealand, 12.30pm, Wellington Bridge Club, July 28.
Local Issues Lunchtime Forum: Seamus Brady from the Victoria University Student’s Association discusses, The Kids are Revolting? 12.10-1pm, First Floor, Anvil House, August 2.
Poetry at the Ballroom: A monthly poetry reading with a guest poet and open mic section on the third Sunday of every month, The Ballroom Café, Newtown.
The 4Plinths Sculpture Project: Peter Trevelyan: Wellington waterfront between Te Papa and Circa Theatre, ongoing.
Writers on Mondays: A new writer speaks each week, presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters and Te Papa, John Newton, Ingrid Horrocks, Anna Livesay, and Hinemoana Baker read from their new second books of poetry, 12.15-1.15pm, The Marae, August 1.
Wellington Inner-City Residents and Business Association: Meetings every second Tuesday of the month, Wellington City Council’s committee room 2, 6pm.
30 Classes for $30: New 45 minutes yoga classes on Lambton Quay, Mon, Wed, Fri at 7.30am, 12.15pm, and 5.30pm, and Tues and Thurs at 7.30am, 11.30am, and 5.30pm, Revitalize Health Practice, to August 6.