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A photograph of the large-scale puppets titled The Scholar and The Wife of Bath. The puppets are in Cathedral Square. Lying on the left are heads and hands of The Friars. The puppets were part of the Canterbury Tales procession. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.

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A photograph of Melanie Oliver, director of The Physics Room (left), and two others, presenting at Urban T(act)ics. Urban T(act)ics was a symposium held at The Physics Room to explore tactics and acts of urbanism. The event was organised by Barnaby Bennett and was part of FESTA 2013.

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A photograph of the former sites of several houses on Bangor Street. The houses were demolished after the land was zoned Red. A stake has been placed in the ground to the left. A message written on the stake reads, "412 Oxford Terrace waste water". Grass has begun to grow in the empty sites.

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A scanned copy of a black and white photograph belonging to University of Canterbury alumnus Colin Lau. Colin describes the photograph as follows: "Our science building (where I got my physics degree in 1972) on the left, lecture hall in the middle and engineering school to the right & behind the lecture hall".

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A view down London Street in Lyttelton. The road has been closed to traffic because of the unstable and damaged buildings in the area. On the left is the Empire Hotel where bracing has been placed on the front of the building. On the right is a shipping container in front of the damaged Wunderbar. The word 'coffee' has been spray painted on the side.

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A photograph of the As Far As Eye Can See exhibition. On the left is a crocheted image of an eye, created by a group of women from Adelaide, and on the right are woven fabric artworks created by Christchurch craft artists in response.

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A digital copy of a poster from the Te Waioratanga project of the All Right? campaign. The poster features a black and white photographic portrait of kapa haka practitioner Te Mairiki Williams with his twins Ruruhira (left) and Te Kotuku (right). The caption reads, "Embrace the epitome of 'aukati'. Auahi, waipiro, taru, patu kore. To prolong and sustain life".

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A photograph of St James School pupils (left), Ciaran Fox from All Right? (centre-right) and Burwood-Pegasus Community Board Member Tim Baker. Fox is presenting the AWA Trails to members of the St James School community. The photograph was taken at the launch of the St James AWA trail at St James School.

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A photograph of people holding balloons before they are released. Worries and wishes are written on the balloons. Included in the photograph are Tracey Chambers from The Canterbury Community Trust (left) and Sarina Dickson from Kotuku Creative (right). The photograph was taken at The Worry Bug book launch at St Albans School on 8 July 2015.

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A photograph of Ciaran Fox (left), Donovan Ryan (right) and another All Right? staff member getting ready to plant coloured flags around the city. Each flag has a slogan beginning with "It's all right." All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook page on 14 May 2013 at 10:24am.

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A photograph of All Right? with their Consumer Council Award at the 2014 Canterbury Health System Quality Improvement and Innovation Awards evening. From left is Michael McEvedy (Chair of the Consumer Council), Sue Turner (All Right? Campaign Manager), Dr Lucy D'Aeth (Public Health Specialist for CDHB and All Right? Steering Group member) and Dr Don Mackie (Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health).

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road. The bricks at the top of the tower have crumbled, and the wooden bracing is hanging half off the building. The spire of the tower can be seen to the left where it was moved to following the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

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A photograph looking south out a window of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Building. Notable landmarks include: New Regent Street and the Rendezvous Hotel on the left side of the photograph; the Novotel in the centre; the Lyttelton Times building to the right; and the Hotel Grand Chancellor in the background.

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake cleanup. Police and Army pounding the beat in Christchurch to reassure residents of earthquake damaged areas that help is there if they require it. Eleven year old Jaden (left) Davies and his ten year old brother Jacq passing the time of day with Sgt. Ryan O'Rourke (Police) and Pvt. Jo Tucker and Cpt. Graham Tucker".

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Volunteers photographed around one of Gap Filler's painted pianos. The piano has been set up at the demolished site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. A wooden structure has been built around the piano with Perspex and corrugated iron on top and plastic sheeting to the left and right. This is to protect the piano and pianist from wind and rain.

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Children in Diamond Harbour and Purau who decided to try and cheer up all the sick and elderly in the community after the quake by taking them bunches of daffodils. From left are Charmaine Cameron, Alex Cameron, Liam Schmidlin-Wilson, Ruby Gilligan, Ellie Rice, Sofia Rand, Zac Cottrell-Vincent (rear), Dorothy Schmidlin-Wilson, Sky Dehne and James Rice".

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake Commission Public Meeting at the SBS Events Centre. Reid Stiven, representing the Earthquake Commission (EQC), responds to a query during the meeting, which was held to inform the public about making claims to the EQC relating the 7.1 magnitude earthquake on 4 September. The meeting was hosted by Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew (left)".

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A photograph of High Street taken from across Tuam Street. Wire fencing has been placed across the entrance to High Street and a USAR team member is standing in front of this cordon as a guard. Building supplies have been stacked on the left side of the road, behind the cordon.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house on Major Hornbrook Drive. The chimney has collapsed and many of the tiles have been lifted on the roof. Tarpaulins have been laid over the holes in the roof as waterproofing, but the closest has shredded. Gaps can be seen between the bricks in the wall and the wall to the left has crumbled.