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A video of a CERA press conference about the plans for the Christchurch central city. Warwick Isaacs, Chief Executive of the Central Christchurch Development Unit, announces that Boffa Miskell will be the lead company in a consortium of businesses that will design the central Christchurch rebuild. Don Miskell, Director of Boffa Miskell, talks about the company and their excitement about the job.

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A video about the earthquake damage to the Christchurch Town Hall. The video shows footage of a tour through the inside of the Town Hall, recorded on a GoPro camera. It also includes interviews with Councillor Glenn Livingstone and Councillor Tim Carter about their impressions of the damage and the work that will be needed to fix the building.

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A photograph of Daniel (back-left), Kristie (back-right), Clive (front-left) and Karen Lingley Richardson (front-right) in front of their former Kaiapoi residence. The photograph was taken by Cosmo Kentish-Barnes for Still Here, an artistic project supported by All Right?. Kentish-Barnes produced a series of photographs of exiled residents, accompanied with a first-person account of their life since the earthquakes.

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A 'wrap up' video created by All Right? showing their presence at the 2014 SCIRT World Buskers Festival at Hagley Park. The video shows three 'All Righties' interacting with the members of the public and the buskers themselves. All Right? uploaded the video to Youtube on 6 February 2014, and posted the Youtube link to their Facebook Timeline on 10 February 2014 at 10:01am. "Check out the slick wrap up of our All Righties at World Buskers Festival. We love the way they and all the #buskers shared the laughter this January. They also loved cramming themselves into that MINI!" - facebook.com/allrightnz

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A video about the South Brighton Motor Camp which has been given a month by the Christchurch City Council to close down. The video includes an interview with campsite leaseholder Dominic Brownin, and residents Malcolm Farrell, Ngaire Fyffe, and Deidre McGowan. The residents talk about the lifestyles and community that will be lost if the camp is closed.

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A photograph of Struan Ashby from Tape Art NZ creating the 'Dream Machine'. The 'Dream Machine' was a 9-day long creative project that used dream stories from the audience to turn a shipping container into a 40 foot mural. The photograph was taken at the 2014 SCIRT World Buskers Festival in Hagley Park.

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team examining an earthquake-damaged building on Acton Street. The closest section of the outer wall has collapsed, and the bricks and other rubble have fallen onto the pavement in front. A boat which was being stored inside has toppled over and is now sticking out of the building.

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A video of interviews with staff from The Star and The Press about their experiences during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The video includes stories from Tim Cronshaw (farming reporter at The Press), Andrew Holden (Editor at The Press), Olivia Carville (junior reporter at The Press), Barry Clarke (Editor at The Star), Richard Cosgrove (Illustrations Editor at The Press), Andrew Boyle (General Manager at The Press), Coen Lammers (Deputy Editor at The Press), and Shane Victor (Advertising Manager at The Star).

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A video about the removal of 'Rocky', a 15-tonne boulder which tore through a house in Heathcote during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The video includes an interview with Jan Kupec, Chief Geotechnical Engineer at CERA, about the dimensions and path of the boulder. It also includes interviews with James McKenzie, the manager at the Mt Hutt Ski Area who purchased the rock, and Phil Johnson, the owner of the Heathcote property who put the rock on sale.

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A video of an address by Peter Davie, Chief Executive of Lyttelton Port Company, at the 2012 Seismics and the City forum. The talk is about how, in today's technological and economic environment, the ability to prevent, prepare for, or quickly recover from a disaster is a critical success factor. The seismic simulations that the Port of Lyttelton ran as part of its long term development plan became a key part of the Port's emergency response, and meant that cargo kept flowing with minimal downtime.

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The sign for Perry's Cafe has had "Shaken but not deterred" added under the name of the cafe. One of the iconic figures of two workmen painted on the side of the building, which have regularly-changed speech bubbles commenting humorously on topical subjects, are saying "Is my crack showing?" The paint has peeled from the other speech bubble, obscuring the reply. The photographer comments, "After the numerous earthquakes in Christchurch a lot of buildings were damaged and made off limits. This affected a lot of cafes and take aways, so if you were open you needed to make it known. The words missing from the speech bubble are 'Don't be silly'".

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An aerial photograph of the IRD Building in the Christchurch central city and the surrounding area. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "There are many empty sites in this part of the CBD. The street running up the photograph from the left to the right is Cashel Street. The empty site left of centre with the trees is where St John's Church has been demolished. To the left of the IRD building, is the site of the CTV Building".

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A chalkboard paper sign outlining the programme for the evening of April 1st, 2011 at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project. The sign reads, "Gap Filler: 1st - 10th of April. Free live music and films from 6pm onwards. 6 - Daren Tatom, 7 - The Blues Professor, 8 - Film 'Gordonia'.....Bring a blankie and a cushion. Ex demolition site. Please be safety aware. Proper footwear must be worn!". The sign is stuck to the rear wall of Mitre 10 in Beckenham, facing inwards to the site of the project.

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A photograph of a child battling Captain America at one of Christchurch Hospital childrens' wards. Captain America was there as part of 'Outrageous Burst of All Right: Superhero Surprise', which involved people dressed as superheroes surprising children at Christchurch Hospital with gifts and entertainment. All Right? posted the photograph to their Facebook Timeline on 2 July 2014 at 12:44pm. It was posted with the caption, "Captain America versus Gorgeous wee superhero".

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A photograph of a floating installation titled The River on the Avon River. The installation consists of two chairs, a lamp and a table, 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.

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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.

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A photograph of participants at the second annual Out of the Heart Pacific Women's Leadership Conference, held at Riccarton Racecourse on 21 May 2016. On the left is Miliakere Tabukova, who was one of the models for the All Right? I Am... Identity project. The conference was sponsored by All Right? and featured posters from the All Right? I am ... Identity project.

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A photograph of Erica Duthy and Struan Ashby from Tape Art NZ creating the 'Dream Machine'. The 'Dream Machine' was a 9-day long creative project that used dream stories from the audience to turn a shipping container into a 40-foot mural. The photograph was taken at the 2014 SCIRT World Buskers Festival in Hagley Park.

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A photograph of an AWA Trails poster on the gates of Wainoni School. The poster on the right identifies this spot as Location 1 on the Wainoni Trail. The photograph was taken at the launch of the Wainoni AWA trail at Wainoni School. All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook page on 2 September 2015 at 3:56pm.

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A photograph of some of the tape art creation by pupils at St Mary's School. The photograph was taken at Street Talk, a Tape Art residency held from 6 - 9 March 2014. Street Talk was a collaborative project between All Right?, Healthy Christchurch and Tape Art NZ that had Christchurch communities create large tape art murals on the south wall of Community and Public Health.

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A video of a presentation by Dr Sarah Beaven during the Social Recovery Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Leading and Coordinating Social Recovery: Lessons from a central recovery agency".The abstract for this presentation reads as follows: This presentation provides an overview of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's Social Recovery Lessons and Legacy project. This project was commissioned in 2014 and completed in December 2015. It had three main aims: to capture Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's role in social recovery after the Canterbury earthquakes, to identify lessons learned, and to disseminate these lessons to future recovery practitioners. The project scope spanned four Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority work programmes: The Residential Red Zone, the Social and Cultural Outcomes, the Housing Programme, and the Community Resilience Programme. Participants included both Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority employees, people from within a range of regional and national agencies, and community and public sector organisations who worked with Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority over time. The presentation will outline the origin and design of the project, and present some key findings.

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Members of the University of Canterbury's Digital Media Group in their temporary office in KB02 in Kirkwood Village, the complex of prefabs set up after the earthquakes to provide temporary office and classroom space for the university. The photographer comments, "The e-learning group and the video conferencing team are now located in the Kirkwood Village at the University of Canterbury. It's a very impressive project, about 60 buildings arranged in various configurations with some used for teaching or computer labs, and others as staff offices. We will probably stay here for several years now. Looking up the centre of the room towards the front doors. The video conferencing team and Nikki Saunders, the course reader publisher, sit here. (The pizzas are for a moving-in celebration held just after I took these photos.)

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Photograph captioned by the New Zealand Defence Force, "The NZ Defence Force helps out after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. Army and Air Force Medics as well as Hercules crew and Air Security transfer elderly patients from NZDF ambulances to the Air Force's C-130 Hercules for transport to other parts of NZ".

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Carlton Hotel on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Papanui Road. The walls along the western side of the building have crumbled, bricks spilling onto the footpath. Scaffolding and steel bracing has been erected up the side. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon. In the foreground, road cones line the street.