{"id":610973,"date":"2026-09-25T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610973\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:20:10","slug":"world-of-wearableart-held-at-wellingtons-tsb-arena-cancelled-after-crew-member-dies-suffers-medical-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610973\/","title":{"rendered":"World of WearableArt held at Wellington\u2019s TSB Arena cancelled after crew member dies, suffers medical event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe appreciate everyone\u2019s understanding and ask that the privacy of the crew member\u2019s family and our wider WOW wh\u0101nau is respected at this time. The WOW team will contact all ticket holders for tonight\u2019s performance directly with information about refunds or transferring to another performance. A Taste of WOW at the InterContinental Wellington will still go ahead as scheduled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed emergency services were called to reports of a person experiencing an \u201capparent medical event\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMedical assistance was rendered but sadly the person has died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">The indoor stadium is based on Jervois Quay on the capital\u2019s waterfront and is currently hosting the World of WearableArt (WOW) across September 17 to October 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson with Wellington Free Ambulance told the Herald it sent \u201cmultiple\u201d vehicles to TSB Arena this morning and referred the matter to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe appreciate everyone\u2019s understanding and ask that the privacy of the crew member\u2019s family and our wider WOW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,28440,1975,1558,20703,14900,6179,7126,8231,42,14236,3523,1329,1304,43,1118,1305,16674,31145,6378,1961,5911,40,38,41,39,76405,42580,30534,15900,377],"class_list":["post-610973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-arena","tag-at","tag-been","tag-cancelled","tag-crew","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-event","tag-headlines","tag-held","tag-medical","tag-member","tag-morning","tag-news","tag-of","tag-show","tag-stadium","tag-suffered","tag-suffers","tag-this","tag-tonight","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tsb","tag-waterfront","tag-wearableart","tag-wellingtons","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}