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Page 5 of a New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival advertising feature in the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 30 September 2011.
Page 1 of a New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival advertising feature in the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 30 September 2011.
Page 2 of a New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival advertising feature in the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 30 September 2011.
Page 3 of a New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival advertising feature in the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 30 September 2011.
Page 8 of a New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival advertising feature in the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 30 September 2011.
Page 7 of a New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival advertising feature in the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 30 September 2011.
Page 4 of a New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival advertising feature in the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 30 September 2011.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 2 November 2011 entitled, "Bloggers Quilt Festival: My Picking up the Pieces Quilt".
The first major arts event to be held in Christchurch since the February earthquake kicks off today.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Loons Theatre Company is performing Macbeth here on the site of the Volcano Cafe, Lyttelton during the Christchurch Festival".
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 19 November 2011 showing posters for the outdoor theatre production 'The Pirates of Corsair Bay' and the 2011 Lyttelton Summer Festival events scheduled for February and March 2011. The posters remained in the window of the red stickered building until it was demolished in early September 2012. A...
Photographs of people gathered in the grounds of Parliament on 1 March 2011 to observe two minutes silence to remember the people killed in the Christchurch earthquake on 22 February 2011. Arrangement: Images were originally in a folder labelled '2 Minutes Silence for Christchurch Earthquake Mar 1 2011' within the folder '300111 Fairs, Festivals & Protests Jan to July 2011' Quantity: 15 digital photograph(s).
The extent of liquefaction in the eastern suburbs of Christchurch (Aranui, Bexley, Avonside, Avonhead and Dallington) from the February 22 2011 Earthquake resulted in extensive damage to in-ground waste water pipe systems. This caused a huge demand for portable toilets (or port-a-loos) and companies were importing them from outside Canterbury and in some instances from Australia. However, because they were deemed “assets of importance” under legislation, their allocation had to be coordinated by Civil Defence and Emergency Management (CDEM). Consequently, companies supplying them had to ignore requests from residents, businesses and rest homes; and commitments to large events outside of the city such as the Hamilton 400 V8 Supercars and the Pasifika Festival in Auckland were impacted. Frustrations started to show as neighbourhoods questioned the equity of the port-a-loos distribution. The Prime Minister was reported as reassuring citizens in the eastern suburbs in the first week of March that1 “a report about the distribution of port-a-loos and chemical toilets shows allocation has been fair. Key said he has asked Civil Defence about the distribution process and where the toilets been sent. He said there aren’t enough for the scale of the event but that is quickly being rectified and the need for toilets is being reassessed all the time.” Nonetheless, there still remained a deep sense of frustration and exclusion over the equity of the port-a-loos distribution. This study took the simple approach of mapping where those port-a-loos were on 11-12 March for several areas in the eastern suburbs and this suggested that their distribution was not equitable and was not well done. It reviews the predictive tools available for estimating damage to waste water pipes and asks the question could this situation have been better planned so that pot-a-loo locations could have been better prioritised? And finally it reviews the integral roles of communication and monitoring as part of disaster management strategy. The impression from this study is that other New Zealand urban centres could or would also be at risk and that work is need to developed more rational management approaches for disaster planning.