A photograph looking over Worcester Street during Canterbury Tales. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A photograph looking over Worcester Street during Canterbury Tales. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.
Martin Setchell, the organist, is shown playing a mouth organ made out of cardboard tubes. This is a comment on the controversy over the replacement of Christchurch Cathedral, which was severely damaged in the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, by a temporary building made out of cardboard tubing. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Saturday 26 October 2013.
A video of a tour through the Christchurch central city Red Zone. The video includes footage of Cathedral Square, Hereford Street, the Hotel Grand Chancellor, High Street mall, Gloucester Street, Worcester Street, Latimer Square, and AMI House.
Three time capsules recovered from the ruins of Christchurch in the days following the February earthquake have been opened. Two came from the John Robert Godley statue plinth in front of the Christchurch Cathedral, while the other came from the old civic building on Manchester Street.
Insurance cover has been cancelled for Christchurch's historic Arts Centre and its Catholic Cathedral which were both badly damaged in the February earthquake.
The Anglican church is considering whether to sell Christchurch's cardboard cathedral to plug a shortfall in the budget for restoring the original descimated in the earthquakes. The church leadership will discuss the future of the cardboard building during meetings at the weekend. It opened opposite Latimer square in 2013 as a temporary place of worship, but soom became popular with tourists too. Meanwhile a 2017 estimate put the cost of restoring the actual Cathedral at just over $100 million, but that's since ballooned to north of $155 million. Harcourts real estate agent, Mark O'Loughlin, speaks to Lisa Owen from Christchurch. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6336786667112
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftershock damage at the Cathedral Square site of The Press caused by the Boxing Day quakes. Damage to the main stairwell on the third floor".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftershock damage at the Cathedral Square site of The Press caused by the Boxing Day quakes. Damage to the main stairwell on the third floor".
A blog post from US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, David Huebner, titled, "Ceres Environment Ready to Chip in for Christchurch".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street. The tower on the right has crumbled and the masonry has fallen to the pavement below. A car has been crushed by the fallen rubble. The dome of the left tower has collapsed and the cross at the top of the building is on a lean.
A photograph of stage lighting in Cathedral Square, which will be used for the Canterbury Tales procession. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a performer amongst large-scale puppets in Cathedral Square, during the Canterbury Tales procession. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.
Parish priest of St Anne's Woolston, Christchurch, and Administrator of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament which was partially destroyed during the February earthquake.
A photograph of Christchurch Labour MP Ruth Dyson holding a postcard depicting Julia Holden's painting 'Catholic Basilica'.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 21 October 2012 entitled, "Back by maternal demand".
A photograph looking over the corner of Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace during Canterbury Tales. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A video of Lianne Dalziel speaking to a public gathering about her reasons for standing for the mayoralty of Christchurch. Dalziel talks about starting her mayoralty where Share an Idea left off, making the Council a high performing team, and getting the community involved in the decisions about the future of the city. The video also includes footage of Dalziel taking a tour of the Christchurch central city. Dalziel visits the ChristChurch Cathedral, pointing out a sign which reads, "The earthquakes stopped us, but inept procedures are killing us". She also visits the new Westende Jewellers building, which she notes was the first rebuild in the Christchurch central city but will come down as part of CERA's Transport Plan. Dalziel is shown socialising with members of the public and watching the Christchurch Wizard bless New Regent Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Snow in the central city red zone".
A photograph showing parts of the interior ChristChurch Cathedral, including the top of a stained glass window, visible through the damaged west wall.
A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.
A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.
A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.
A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.
A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftershock damage at the Cathedral Square site of The Press caused by the Boxing Day quakes. Damage to the main stairwell between floors two and three".
Black-and-white photograph of the Regent Theatre (then known as the Royal Exchange Building) under construction. Photograph taken c1905.
A photograph of a large-scale puppet titled The Merchant. The puppet is in Cathedral Square. The puppet was created by Free Theatre Christchurch for Canterbury Tales, which was the main event of FESTA 2013.
Aerial image of Christchurch taken by the Royal New Zealand Air Force for the Earthquake Commission.