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Audio, Radio New Zealand

The many arts organisations left homeless by the Christchurch earthquake, including the Christchurch Arts Festival and the Symphony Orchestra, have received good news this week from Creative New Zealand. We hear from CEO of Creative New Zealand Stephen Wainwright, manager of the Christchurch Arts Festival Steph Walker, and James Caygill from the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The song 'Antartica' is the latest offering from nine-year-old Christchurch songwriter Bob Gaudin. It's not the first song he's had released - in fact it's the third. He wrote his first song - a one minute thirty second symphony - when he was seven about the Christchurch earthquake, which was played and recorded by the NZ Symphony Orchestra!

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Today marks seven years since the devastating Christchurch Earthquake. We turn out attention to the Garden City, first celebrating the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s 60th anniversary with violinist Natalia Lomeiko, then organist Martin Setchell on the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church organ rising from the rubble.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

An image used as a profile picture on the All Right? Facebook page. The image reads, "Win one of eight $250 Pak'nSave vouchers!" The prize draw was a part of 'Outrageous Burst of All Right: BYO CSO'. This involved the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra surprised customers at Wainoni Pak'nSave by setting up and performing a piece of music in the supermarket itself. The performance and customers reactions were filmed and shared on social media, with All Right? encouraging their followers to share the video around by entering everyone who shared the video into the prize draw for one of eight $250 Pak'nSave vouchers. All Right? posted the image on their Facebook page on 31 March 2014 at 8:33pm.

Videos, UC QuakeStudies

A video showing brass players from the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra performing an impromptu concert at PAK'nSAVE Wainoni on March 27 2014. The video captures customers' reactions as the players set up and perform. Customers are also shown receiving PAK'nSAVE shopping vouchers, donated by PAK'nSAVE, by three dancing 'All Righties'. The video and impromptu concert were organised for the 'Outrageous Burst of All Right: BYO CSO'. All Right? encouraged their Facebook followers to share the video on social media and enter the prize-draw for eight $250 PAK'nSAVE vouchers. The Press published the video on 28 March 2013 at 5:45pm. All Right? uploaded the video to their YouTube account on 31 March 2014. The video was shared more than 400 times on social media by the time of the prize-draw on 8 April 2014.

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Music we know is a great healer, and members of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra have just been to quake-hit Kaikoura to play for children and for people who're struggling. Kaikoura Earthquake Recovery Team invited five CSO musicians to perform for local schools, for residents in the Kaikoura Health Facility, and the wider community during the week. CSO first violin Cathy Irons talks to Lynn Freeman about the experience.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

An image promoting All Right?'s 'Outrageous Burst of All Right: CSO BYO' video and competition. The image depicts a shopping basket and a trombone, and reads, "Win one of eight $250 PAK'nSAVE vouchers! To be in to win, simply share our CSO BYO video. Competition closes 4pm, Mon 7 April. Prize Winners must be from Canterbury." All Right? posted the image to their Facebook Timeline on 31 March 2014 at 8:33pm, along with a description of the competition and a link to the video itself.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of an 'All Rightie' posing with a hard hat for the 'BYO CSO' prize draw. The 'BYO CSO' was one of the 'Outrageous Bursts of All Right' projects, in which the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra entertained customers at Wainoni Pak'nSave by setting up and performing a piece of music in the supermarket itself. The performance and customers' reactions were filmed and shared on social media. All Right? encouraged their followers to share the video around by entering everyone who did so into the prize draw for one of eight $250 Pak'nSave vouchers. All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook page on 8 April 2014 at 6:00am.