SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY: 10am - 3pm - Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria
Yes, the first of an annual Mt Victoria Inner city festival will be taking place in 2009!!
This is being organized by a festival committee of the New Crossways Community Trust and it is our vision for this to be the first of an annual festival for Mt Victoria and the inner city to;
· support and celebrate the community and its diversity through the arts, community support groups, culture and learning
· raise money for New Crossways – Mt Victoria’s community facility
· highlight the new facility, following the sale of Crossways
Registration forms can be found on the Mt Victoria website by clicking here or emailing us to recieve information via email.
Theme
The theme is sustainability and organic living
Location
Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria - the streets will be closed between Majoribanks St - Caroline St from 7.30am – 5pm to allow for stalls, music, and workshops
Our community facility is based at 6 Roxburgh street, upstairs and this is where our festival headquarters will be, as well as community stalls and workshops around sustainability.
The Plan
This first festival will be on a small scale, with both commercially driven and community minded interest groups, a music stage, food, entertainment, bouncy castle, local artists, 'speed shops' (i.e. composting, growing vegetables on your balcony/small section, wind farms etc), activities for kids/youth/adults alike with a carnival atmosphere.
If you are interested in having a stall, performing, being involved, running a workshop on sustainability, volunteering to help the organising committee or in any other way, please contact us. All interest and enquiries welcome!
Stallholders
Registration and payment are due by 6th February 2009.
A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE IN WELLINGTON?
“AFTERSHOCK”The Mt Victoria Civil Defence & Crossways Trust will screen this documentary by the Gibson Group at New Crossways on
Thursday 4 December: 7.30pm
Wellington sits on a dangerous active earthquake fault. This film visualises what would happen to Wellington if there were a major earthquake.
Spend the evening watching this film and find out how you can protect yourself and your family if the big one hits, and the civil defence needs in Mt Victoria.
A great wakeup call for the community!
Join us at Crossways, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria - up the stairs this Thursday.
HONE TUWHARE - Successful fundraiser at the Paramount
A successful fundraiser was held at the Paramount Cinema on Sunday 30 November. Due to the popularity of Gaylene Preston's "Hone Tuwhare - No Other Lips" we sold out our first session and promptly organised a 2nd screening to follow.
Once again Gaylene Preston spoke about the film and answered questions, at both screenings and we heard readings of Hone's poems. A short film loaned by Bruce Gatward-Cook of Hone's poem "drunk" was also screened during the first session.
DVD's of Gaylene's films - Hone Tuwhare, Lovely Rita and War Stories were available on the day for purchase - great Christmas presents!
A huge thank you to Gaylene for her ongoing support of Crossways and the importance of community; the Paramount Cinema, Bruce Gatward-Cook, to all who attended and to our volunteers particulary Pat McGiven for making this fundraiser a success.
Once again Gaylene Preston spoke about the film and answered questions, at both screenings and we heard readings of Hone's poems. A short film loaned by Bruce Gatward-Cook of Hone's poem "drunk" was also screened during the first session.
DVD's of Gaylene's films - Hone Tuwhare, Lovely Rita and War Stories were available on the day for purchase - great Christmas presents!
A huge thank you to Gaylene for her ongoing support of Crossways and the importance of community; the Paramount Cinema, Bruce Gatward-Cook, to all who attended and to our volunteers particulary Pat McGiven for making this fundraiser a success.
Mt Victoria inner city festival
Saturday 28 February 2009: 9.30am - 3pm
Book this date in your diary!
More info will be posted in due course. If you are interested in performing, having a stall, sponsoring or volunteering, please email us.
This is a fundraising event to raise money for the "new" Crossways at 6 Roxburgh Street
Book this date in your diary!
More info will be posted in due course. If you are interested in performing, having a stall, sponsoring or volunteering, please email us.
This is a fundraising event to raise money for the "new" Crossways at 6 Roxburgh Street
Crossways movie fundraiser - Sunday 30 November
4pm at the Paramount Cinema, Courtenay Place
$20 Adults, $10 Children
The New Crossways Community Trust is running another of its hugely popular movie afternoons - This time it's the Gaylene Preston documentary of one of New Zealand's most acclaimed poets, Hone Tuwhare, who died at the beginning of this year.
The movie will be introduced by some readings of Hone's poetry, and Gaylene will talk about the documentary and the man at the conclusion of the movie.
Tickets can be purchased by e-mailing hone[at]mtvictoria.org.nz - and all proceeds will go towards running our new community centre in Roxburgh Street.
The Paramount's bar will be open for coffee, ice cream and drinks from 3:30pm, so see you there!
New Crossways Officially Opened!!
As part of the Meet the Candidates event last Thursday (16 Oct), the New Crossways Trust chair, Bill Southworth, officially opened the building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Two of the stalwart members of the old Crossways management committee, Ralph and Margaret Pannett, did the honours of pronouncing the building opened, and were thanked by Bill on behalf of the community for their enormous efforts over the years.
In addition to their many years of work on the management committee, Ralph and Margaret made a huge contribution to the campaign to save Crossways. While this was ultimately unsuccessful, the time and effort Ralph and Margaret put into the campaign helped make it possible for Crossways to relocate to its new premises in Roxburgh Street.
The community owes them a debt of gratitude for all their work over the last three decades.
Grand Opening for the New Crossways & a Candidates Meeting 2008
MVRA together with Mt Cook Mobilized and the New Crossways Trust hosted the candidates for Wellington Central at New Crossways, 6 Roxburgh St, Mt Victoria.Thursday 16 October, 7.30pm
The Mt Victoria and Mt Cook communities ran a hugely entertaining Meet The Candidates meeting at new Crossways community centre. Ten candidates for the Wellington Central electorate informed and entertained a full house, punctuated with sloganeering, backchat and interjections, as well as considered policy and in-depth discussion of the issues facing New Zealand.
As the first public meeting for the new Crossways it was a great way to welcome the neighbourhood to our new community facility. It was also a great way to meet a number of great people from Mt Cook Mobilised, who joined us to grill the candidates on local and national issues.
The Candidates that attended were;
Heather Roy - ACT
Richard Wallis - Alliance
Sue Kedgley - Greens
Grant Robertson - Labour
Stephen Franks - National
Vaughan Smith - United Future
Don Franks - Workers Party
Grant Brookes - RAM
Rebekah Clement - Kiwi Party
An apology was received from the Libertarianz candidate Barnard Darnton.
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