Exhibitions

Adam Art Gallery: Victoria University, Kelburn, Camera Work, four exhibition projects considering photography as a process of research, to April 15.
Artrium Gallery: 310 Tinakori Road, All’s Welly and Good, works by local artists, to February 29. The Big, Bold and Beautiful, works by Ami Brown, Lauren Stewart and Christina Litras, February 29 to April 4.
Bowen Galleries: 39 Ghuznee Street, Room 22, Jewellery by Warwick Freeman, to March 10.
Enjoy Gallery: 147 Cuba Street, The Chinese Horoscope Show, works by 12 artists in response to their star sign, to March 10.
Kiwi Art House Gallery: 288 Cuba Street, Stretched Imagination, works by Vincent Duncan, to March 18.
Kura Gallery: 19 Allen Street, Third and Foremost, Whanganui School of Glass students, to February 29. First Light, graduate work from Whanganui School of Glassstudents, February 29 to March 31.
Left Bank Arcade: Cuba Mall, Life Stills: People of Wellington, photo exhibition, to March 3.
Mahara Gallery: 20 Mahara Place, Waikanae, Maumahara: Remember, works by Robyn Kahukiwa, to April 29.
Mark Hutchins Gallery: Figure and Ground, sculpture by Terry Stringer, to March 17.
Michael Fowler Centre Foyer: Works by Newtown artist Paul Forrest with soundscapes by Wellington musician Rhian Sheehan, to March 18.
Photospace Gallery: 37 Courtenay Place, Sea of Trees, works by Shelley Jacobson, to March 10. Alteplano, works by Mark Beehre, to March 10.
Roar Gallery: 189 Vivian Street, Creative Species, March 1-31.
Solander Gallery: 218 Willis Street, Paper, Scissors, Rock, works by Basia Smolnicki, to March 10. A Time and Place, works by Catherine MacDonald, to March 10.
The Maori Arts’ Gallery: Boatshed Two, Frank Kitts: Contemporary Maori art, 10am-5pm weekends.
Thistle Hall: 293 Cuba Street, UFO: Portrait of a Monster, works by Tammy Stretton and Joni Perfect, to March 4. Takin’ it on the Road, collaborative group exhibition, March 6-11.
Vincents Gallery: 84 Willis Street, works by Heidi Ankers, to March 7.

Best of Wellington 2012

Briefs

Making housing affordable 27/03/2013 10:06:00 a.m. With home ownership rates falling and many struggling to play higher rental costs, making housing affordable has risen to the top of the political agenda.
Joel Pringle, campaign manager for Australians for Affordable Housing, and Charles Waldegrave, from the Family Centre, will address a meeting as part of a public discussion on housing at Thistle Hall on April 8.
Waldegrave will look at the human faces of housing unaffordability while Pringle will suggest ways to build public support for affordable housing policies in New Zealand.
Food to the rescue 27/03/2013 10:06:00 a.m.
Food rescue organisation, Kaibosh, has been named supreme winner at the TrustPower National Community Awards.
The Wellington based service group collaborates with food retailers and producers to rescue surplus food that is good enough to eat, but not good enough to sell, preventing it from being discarded into landfills.
Since its inception in 2008 Kaibosh has rescued over 285,000 meals – that’s 100 tonnes of food redistributed to where it’s needed most.