At the 2018 Word Christchurch writers' festival, Chessie Henry (and GP father Chris) discusses her family memoir We Can Make a Life with Bronywn Hayward.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 08 February 2014 entitled, "Festival of Flowers".
A video of journalist Charlie Gates introducing the 2014 World Buskers Festival. Gates visits former festival venues in the Christchurch central city and the new performance venues for the 2014 festival, to show how the city has changed since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.
A PDF copy of pages 94-95 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Buskers Festival Relocation Around the Events Village'. Photo with permission: Buskers Festival
A laminated sign for the 2011 Festival of Flowers attached to a wooden planter. The plants in the planter are dry and dead. The photographer comments, "The theme for the 2011 Festival of Flowers was 'burst! of water'. The Christchurch February earthquake came and water and sand called liquefaction burst out of the ground all around the area. Ironically the plants for the festival were left unattended in the cordoned off red zone and they would have loved a little burst of water".
A Christchurch arts event that took one of the biggest hits in the September earthquake last year, was the annual Body Festival.
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.
A video of journalist Charlie Gates introducing the 2012 World Buskers Festival. Gates revisits the performance venues for the festival in the Christchurch central city to show how the city has changed since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 22 December 2013 entitled, "Rise Festival Big Walls Artists".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 15 March 2014 entitled, "Festival of Fables".
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.
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.
Page 11 of a World Buskers Festival programme in the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 4 January 2012.
Page 46 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 22 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 23 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 38 of a World Buskers Festival programme in the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 4 January 2012.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 19 February 2012 entitled, "Festival of Flowers".
Page 18 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 7 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 15 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 14 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 19 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 20 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 11 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 12 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 8 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 5 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 1 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Page 3 of a World Buskers Festival supplement in the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 January 2011.