WOW in Wellington

Downtown Wellington hosts the annual World of Wearable Art Awards Show this month featuring spectacular and truly bizarre creations from artists around the world - and all are wearable...at least that's the theory. 'WOW' as the event is colloquially and I suspect aptly referred to, runs from 20-30 September across 9 performances all held at the TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf.

"Step into a world where art and the human form combine, where dance, music and lighting tell a story of the body as a canvas; where the lines of fashion and art blur and merge as one…

A Montana WOW® Awards Show can be difficult to describe, hard to define and utterly impossible to forget. A montage of theatre, dance, colour, movement and art, simply put, the Montana WOW® Awards Shows are theatrical spectaculars".

First shown in 1987 and with an audience of around 30,000 each year, this event has grown into a very successful NZ brand from its humble origins as a promotion for a rural art gallery in Nelson, where a WOW museum showcases creations past and present. For full info about the event and its background, visit the dedicated website. I personally have my eye on the discreet little number to my left.