Just under three weeks on from the second Christchurch earthquake, and it seems the tragedies keep piling up. They're still trying to recover bodies in the city of Christchurch, and now Japan is being put to the sword. Having been through both 7.1 and a 6.3 magnitude quakes, I can't even begin to imagine how …
Christchurch Arts Festival – [who] go[es] here
And keeping on with the theme of bringing you doom and gloom news, I read in this morning's Christchurch Press that the Christchurch Arts Festival is in serious trouble. A quote: The festival has evolved within a relatively short time from a $640,000 operation in 1995 to a $3.96 million enterprise in 2007. To date …
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’tis the season for booklaunches (trala lala la lala la la)
There must be something in the water. Honestly, for a cultural wasteland, Christchurch has a lot going on at the moment! Tonight is the launch of Bernadette Hall's 9th poetry collection, The Lustre Jug (Victoria University Press, rrp $24.99). It's being held in the TelstraClear Club, right in front of the Cathedral. Geoff Cochrane will …
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Christchurch loves Libraries
A non-NaPoWriMo post, prompted by an article in today's Christchurch Press. There was a bit of verbal jousting last month when the Ellerslie International Flower Show opened in Christchurch. For non-Kiwis – Ellerslie is a suburb of Auckland, where the flower show used to be held. We more or less snaffled the show from under …
A Dark Feathered Art 