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Chapter 1: What makes Wellington a unique creative capital?
You're listening to a Sharesies podcast. I grew up here. I care a lot about Wellington. I love New Zealand. I love the city. We are not too big, not too small. We're sort of perfectly right-sized to be the creative capital of Aotearoa. I think that I have, you know, over the last 10 years and especially building you may observed so much incredible talent being born of Wellington.
You know, Wellingtonians have gone on to do incredible things on the world stage and we don't necessarily celebrate it enough because we're a very modest breed here.
I think you've thought so deeply about what Wellington needs and how important creativity is in Wellington. And it's always been the essence of creativity. of what makes this city really special on a global stage, let alone here in Aotearoa. And how can we re-own that creative technology capital that we are?
So I think it goes back one step, right? How do you make Wellington a
place that people want to live raise their families build businesses you know how do you make it just a fun beautiful exciting vibrant place to be and that probably is a combination of several things in order to have that infrastructure that allows you know creativity to thrive so there's probably you know those links for students who are coming out of their degrees I remember
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Chapter 2: How is Wellington's creative talent impacting the global stage?
When I finished my degree, there was not heaps of resource and no super clear ways to get into the industry. It was all like a little bit figure it out. And so being able to put some of those frameworks in place, more investment and capital infrastructure around creative industries. We don't often speak about how we punch on the world stage, but We really do.
People like Sabine Marcellus studied here. We have people like our friend Seb Hunt from Entire Studios building an incredible brand over in L.A., which has absolutely gone global. You know, lots of people don't know that these people are from Wellington.
And I think we need to really show the kind of value that that creativity can have in the economy and the ecosystem that we live in and build that infrastructure for the next generations to come up and for it to thrive here. It's no secret that Wellington's been through a bit of a rough time. We've had a lot of construction happening, but you know, that is starting to wrap up.
Our civic buildings are opening. We have the library, we have the city gallery, town hall, you know, rotunda, these things are opening back up. And I, I just hope that it inspires the community to, you know, start getting involved in their own initiatives and bringing some of that, um, you know, flavour back to Wellington, which I'm excited about.