A photograph of performers in medieval costumes playing checkers outside a tent beside the Avon River. The game is part of the Canterbury Tales event. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of performers in medieval costumes sitting inside a tent beside the Avon River. The tent is part of the Canterbury Tales event. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.
An aerial photograph looking south over the Christchurch CBD centred on Colombo Street. The Town Hall and beginnings of Gap Filler's Pallet Pavilion can be seen to the bottom left.
An aerial photograph looking south of the Christchurch CBD. Christ Church Cathedral can be seen in the centre left.
An aerial photograph of Anzac Drive in Burwood.
An aerial photograph of Durham Street with the Provincial Council Chambers in the centre.
A photograph of a floating installation on the Avon River as part of Canterbury Tales. The installation consists of a floor lamp, dresser and stool situated on a grass-covered platform, with net curtains hanging from the frame. It was created by students from Lincoln University's School of Landscape Architecture for Canterbury Tales, a carnivalesque procession and the main event of FESTA 2013.
An aerial photograph of Locksley Avenue in Dallington.
A PDF copy of pages 42-43 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Oxford Terrace Temporary Streetscape and Interpretation'. Photo: Tim Church. With permission: Christchurch City Council.
An aerial photograph of Avonside Girls High School in Avonside.
An aerial photograph of Cambridge Terrace near Manchester Street. In the centre of the photograph is the site of the PGC Building, now a patch of grass.
An aerial photograph of Kerrs Reach in Avondale.
A photograph of a removed sculpture lying on a patch of grass beside the Avon River, taken from behind a fence on Oxford Terrace.
An aerial photograph of Avonside and its surrounding suburbs.
People cast flowers into the Avon River during the River of Flowers event held in Riccarton Bush, commemorating the second anniversary of the 22 February earthquake. In the background is the string quartet from Christchurch Girls High School which played before the event.
People cast flowers into the Avon River during the River of Flowers event held in Riccarton Bush, commemorating the second anniversary of the 22 February earthquake. In the background is the string quartet from Christchurch Girls High School which played before the event.
People cast flowers into the Avon River during the River of Flowers event held in Riccarton Bush, commemorating the second anniversary of the 22 February earthquake. In the background is the string quartet from Christchurch Girls High School which played before the event.
A woman casts flowers into the Avon River during the River of Flowers event held in Riccarton Bush, commemorating the second anniversary of the 22 February earthquake. In the background is the string quartet from Christchurch Girls High School which played before the event.
A video telling the story of a Dallington house which was built by Bill Cooper in 1957. The house was demolished last month as part of the clearance of the Christchurch residential red zone. The story of the house is used to illustrate what is happening in many Christchurch suburbs. The video also includes the story of a sea elephant that lived in the Avon River in the 1970s and 1980s.
A photograph of people wearing high vis jackets gathered on Oxford Terrace for a briefing before Canterbury Tales. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.
People gather beside the Avon River in Riccarton Bush for the River of Flowers event, commemorating the second anniversary of the 22 February earthquake. A sign reads "In memory of those we lost, Feb 22nd 2011, River of Flowers". One of the organisers holds a basket of flowers, to distribute to people who couldn't bring their own.
An aerial photograph looking south west over Armagh Street with Victoria Square in the bottom right, the Forsyth Barr Building to the left and the Victoria Apartments to the right.
An aerial photograph looking south west over the Christchurch CBD, the cathedral just visible in the centre left.
An aerial photograph of New Brighton looking north-west over the Cockayne Reserve. Pages Road can be seen in the lower left.
A photograph of a large cardboard platform wrapped in blue plastic and ropes, lying near the Avon River on Cambridge Terrace. The platform is part of Canterbury Tales, which was the main event of FESTA 2013.
When I was a kid this bit of land in the foreground was level and extended at least three times further out, but after the earthquakes you can see the angle that land near the river slumped. We used to catch a lot of herrings (yellow -eyed mullet) here when I was a kid, hence the local name of Herring Bay. Across the river is the Bexley Wetlands.
All this is "red zone" after the earthquakes and has to be demolished. The roof of my "old" house (now owned by the government) can be seen between the third and fourth river-side houses.
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For six weeks after the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake millions of litres of raw sewage - along with lots of liquefaction - poured into the Avon and Heathcote Rivers. A team of biologists quickly got to work to measure the impact of this catastrophe on life in the Heathcote River and as they tell Alison Ballance, they were surprised by what they recorded over the next few months.
A photograph of musicians performing on the riverbank of Oxford Terrace during Canterbury Tales. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.