An all-Christchurch Chapter and Verse

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Canterbury novelist Joanna Orwin has a new, futurist story of a New Zealand changed by cataclysmic volcanoes and tsunami, Sacrifice. And we hear about some of the stories in a post-earthquake Christchurch anthology, Tales for Canterbury.

Lyttelton Pentanque Club Photograph 5

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of people painting wooden pallets, to be used for the Lyttelton Pentanque Club.

Lyttelton Pentanque Club Photograph 4

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A photograph of a musician performing at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.

Lyttelton Pentanque Club Photograph 3

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of Coralie Winn standing next to a Lyttelton resident at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.

Lyttelton Pentanque Club Photograph 2

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A photograph of people watching a musician perform at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.

Lyttelton Pentanque Club Photograph 1

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of bricks stacked to spell out the word 'Lyttelton'. Behind the letters, plant pots have been laid out to form a temporary garden.

Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV, pages 168-169: Lyttelton Petanq…

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A PDF copy of pages 168-169 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Lyttelton Petanque Club'. Photos: Gap Filler

Aftermath of the Indonesian tsunami

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Red Cross aid worker Rosemarie North is in the Banten province of Java where authorities have lifted the alert level for the Anak Krakatau volcano to its second-highest level. She has worked on and off for the Red Cross since 2003 in all kinds of situations, including post-conflict in Sierra Leone, landslides in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, refugee camps in Chad, earthquakes in Nepal and Christchurch, and tsunamis in Southeast Asia and Samoa. [image_crop:72149:full]