{"id":7917,"date":"2011-09-05T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=7917"},"modified":"2011-09-05T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T12:23:54","slug":"wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/wow\/","title":{"rendered":"WOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wearable Art, Outside WOW<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday I took a much needed getaway from the everyday writing round and the anniversary of the initial, 7.1 earthquake (yes, it was exactly\u00a012 months\u00a0yesterday since\u00a0Christchurch’s ‘year of living dangerously’ began) and went to WOW—the World of Wearable Arts<\/a> event in Wellington.<\/p>\n

And let me tell you, this was a show, with a wonderful array of artistic creations across\u00a07 categories—Children’s, Illumination & Illusion, Creative Excellence, Open, Man Unleashed, Avant Garde, and Kiwi Icons—choreographed together with dance and vocal performance. And\u00a0many of the entries had a decidedly SFF feel–including a very “steampunk”\u00a0Commended \u00a0entrant in the Avant Garde category, titled ‘When Brunel Met Chanel.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

WOW has been going for over 20 years now, growing from a small event in Nelson to a major international one in Wellington, and it is the first time I’ve been. But allow me to say—-I was wowed: the World of Wearable Art is an amazing experience and definitely worth every cent of the ticket, imo.<\/p>\n

No photos allowed, unfortunately, so\u00a0I can’t\u00a0convey the visual spectacle, but you can see all the category winners and commendeds on the WOW website, here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I took a much needed getaway from the everyday writing round and the anniversary of the initial, 7.1 earthquake (yes, it was exactly\u00a012 months\u00a0yesterday since\u00a0Christchurch’s ‘year of living dangerously’ began) and went to WOW—the World of Wearable Arts event in Wellington. And let me tell you, this was a show, with a wonderful array […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}