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Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A digital photograph in PDF format with caption. Image looks south down Kingsford street. Port hills on the horizon with potholes in the foreground that progressively got worse after the Feburary 2011 earthquake.

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A digital photograph in PDF format with caption. Image depicts the lounge wall where family members had drawn large pictures after the home was deemed Red Zoned.

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A digital photograph in a PDF format with caption. Image showing one of the spectators on the Avondale bridge, a few minutes before the 2012 Earthquake Memorial, looking North-East.

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A digital photograph in PDF format with caption, looking North East down Liggins street, where it intersects with Jean Batten St. An empty Red Zoned lot is also on the corner.

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "When we came to Bexley we were ready for a new life. We slowed down and started to enjoy ourselves. Before we moved to the area we never realised such a perfect place existed."

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A digital photograph in PDF format with caption. A Horseshoe Lake resident emptying chemical toilet into waste tank that sits on the side of the road (Kingsford St).

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A digital photograph in PDF format with caption. Image taken from within a Red Zoned home on Kingsford st. Residents still living here and have written poems on the walls of the lounge.

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "I lived in London all through the Blitz, you get used to these things. Living here after the earthquakes didn’t bother me. I had a small battery operated radio and the neighbour lent me her generator. Initially I used it to run the fridge but after a while I couldn’t get it started. I don’t want to move, to be quite honest. There’s nothing that will be able to replace the life I built here."

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "We all wish we could stay here. We want them to repair our homes, but they say they won't and you know nothing will change their minds."

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "Bexley was a hidden gem. A diamond in the rough. It was a paradise, a place where you could hear the sea and smell the salt."

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A PDF copy of a poster promoting the 'Write Now' 2014 young writers workshops. Some of the best works from the workshop were published in a chapbook and in posters for Christchurch 2014 WORD Festival. The workshops were supported by All Right?, Christchurch City Libraries and The School for Young Writers.

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A PDF copy of a 'chapbook' featuring selected writings of "some of Canterbury's most exciting young writers, aged 10-15 years". The booklet was created for the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival 2014 with the support of All Right?, The School for Young Writers, Christchurch City Libraries, and WORD Christchurch.

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A PDF copy of a poster promoting the 'Write Now' 2014 young writers workshops. Some of the best works from the workshop were published in a chapbook and in posters for Christchurch 2014 WORD Festival. The workshops were supported by All Right?, Christchurch City Libraries and The School for Young Writers.