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.
A buskers village was set up in Hagley Park for the first time in 2012 for the World Buskers Festival.
A buskers village was set up in Hagley Park for the first time in 2012 for the World Buskers Festival.
A video of journalist Charlie Gates introducing the 2014 World Buskers Festival. Gates revisits the performance venues for former festivals to show how the central city has changed since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.
Tonight Christchurch's Bread & Circus Buskers festival is swinging into action, and its promising to lure the biggest crowds to the central city since pre-earthquake times. But organisers admit the festival hasn't escaped its dire financial past, despite new management and a rebrand as the Bread and Circus Festival last year. And it it will still be running at a loss until about 2022. Katie Todd reports.
An image featuring a man in a suit with accessories made from pink straws, which reads, "Win with All Right and Buskers!" The image advertises a social media competition for a family weekend away in Hanmer, which was entered by posting something with the tags '@allrightnz' and '@worldbuskersfestival'. All Right? posted the image on their Facebook Timeline on 17 January 2014 at 3:52pm.
Bike stands in Re:Start in the shape of fern fronds. In the background, a crowd watches a busker perform during the World World Buskers Festival.
A photograph of three 'All Righties' at the World Buskers Festival in Hagley Park. The photograph was used as a cover photo on the All Right? Facebook page on 28 February 2014 at 6:24pm.
A photograph of people posing with two 'All Righties' in Hagley Park, during the World Buskers Festival. All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook page on 27 January 2014 at 1:53pm.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 21 January 2014 entitled, "Silly Sign".
A map showing the location of temporary Buskers Festival venues in Hagley Park.
An image featuring a man in a suit with accessories made from pink straws, and reads, "Win with All Right and Buskers!" The image advertises a social media competition for a family weekend away in Hanmer, which was entered by posting something with the tags '@allrightnz' and '@worldbuskersfestival'. All Right? posted the image on their Facebook page on 17 January 2014 at 3:52pm.
Aspects of Christchurch life after the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, modelled on acts performed at the Buskers' Festival being held in Christchurch. Include `Silt walking'through liquefaction; 'Orange zone', representing the paralysis of homeowners whose properties were classified as 'orange', or of undecided status; 'Jugglers "Marryatt" and "Red Zone"': the Christchurch CEO, Tony Marryatt, juggles with money, his large pay rise, while the red-zoned householder juggles with unattractive options; 'The boy [CBD] with red tape all over him', referring to the cordon which was strangling the Central Business District; the columnist Joe Bennett with his dog, refusing to move from his house in Lyttelton, a cause celebre of resistance to the earthquake authorities in those days. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).