A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Man in green snake skin shoes - Gough the Property Investor. Looking towards Southwark Street and Colombo Street".
A photograph of shipping containers supporting the facade of the Excelsior Hotel on Manchester Street.
A photograph of shipping containers supporting the facade of the Excelsior Hotel on Manchester Street.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Watermark River Precinct construction starts, at the boatshed on the Avon".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Watermark River Precinct construction starts, at the boatshed on the Avon".
A photograph of a military armoured vehicle parked on the site of a demolished building. The vehicle has been used to support advertising signs for a relocated business.
A photograph of a house damaged by the collapse of the cliff behind it. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Redcliffs and Sumner".
A photograph of the Ash Keating mural, 'Concrete Propositions'. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Central city, Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The cosy container installation in Sumner being installed".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The cosy container installation in Sumner being installed".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Man in green snake skin shoes - Gough the Property Investor. Looking towards Southwark Street and Colombo Street".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 16 July 2013 entitled, "Holding up a mirror to the past...".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 26 June 2011 entitled, "Four quilts on a fence = a productive weekend!".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 25 December 2011 entitled, "Merry Christmas....".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 7 March 2012 entitled, "Benefits of a giant sort out.....".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The side of 147 Hereford Street where Community House has been demolished".
The University of Canterbury is known internationally for the Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE) corpus (see Gordon et al 2004). ONZE is a large collection of recordings from people born between 1851 and 1984, and it has been widely utilised for linguistic and sociolinguistic research on New Zealand English. The ONZE data is varied. The recordings from the Mobile Unit (MU) are interviews and were collected by members of the NZ Broadcasting service shortly after the Second World War, with the aim of recording stories from New Zealanders outside the main city centres. These were supplemented by interview recordings carried out mainly in the 1990s and now contained in the Intermediate Archive (IA). The final ONZE collection, the Canterbury Corpus, is a set of interviews and word-list recordings carried out by students at the University of Canterbury. Across the ONZE corpora, there are different interviewers, different interview styles and a myriad of different topics discussed. In this paper, we introduce a new corpus – the QuakeBox – where these contexts are much more consistent and comparable across speakers. The QuakeBox is a corpus which consists largely of audio and video recordings of monologues about the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. As such, it represents Canterbury speakers’ very recent ‘danger of death’ experiences (see Labov 2013). In this paper, we outline the creation and structure of the corpus, including the practical issues involved in storing the data and gaining speakers’ informed consent for their audio and video data to be included.
A pdf copy of a resource list for third-sector organisations.
A photograph of a detail of damage to the Music Centre of Christchurch.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Cardboard Cathedral construction, corner Madras and Cashel Streets".
A story submitted by Donna to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Philip Cockburn to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Margaret Jefferies to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Pat to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Drew to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Secretary to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Darren to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Rebecca to the QuakeStories website.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Kerrs Reach Rowing Club arson".