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Ben Elton performs his latest stand-up show in Christchurch this month as part of a national tour.
VICKI ANDERSON offers a few highlights of events in Ōtautahi Christchurch this weekend and beyond. Mosque attack survivor, Mazharuddin Syed Ahmed is one of the most beautiful people I’ve had the good fortune to meet. Since that fateful day he has devoted his attention to painstakingly documenting every act of aroha and support shown to our Muslim community. An academic, he has developed a course that aims to spread aroha in our society. He still struggles with what happened that day and has hard times but has turned his focus to helping to create a positive future. His presentation, Ferns of Aroha, is on Friday, make time for it if you can. I imagine he will be nervous so show up and support him. You won’t regret it.
“I am recreating objects which play an integral part in the city – posts, electrical boxes, which get forgotten about, things people make art on.” At Fiksate Studio and Gallery in Sydenham, a replica of Lyttelton s popular Volcano Cafe and Lava Bar shares white wall space with a dirty corner dairy. The latter recreated with exquisite attention to detail with both a Covid-19 screen at the door and a stubbed out cigarette on the footpath outside. Shadow Town also explores, in miniature form, the grimy side of urban life from a replica overflowing nightclub toilet, with “ smut scrawled on the door”, to a mini skip complete with rubbish and a stop sign.