DAVID WALKER/The Press
Students at Waimairi School hit the dance floor at the Dance-o-Mat in Gloucester St to bust some moves. (Video first published in July 2015) Initially the Transitional was made up of like-minded gardeners and artists spontaneously coming together for modest and temporary projects on suddenly vacant land. They were mostly in their 20s and 30s, well-educated, artistic, and voluntary. But they were good at getting help – anyone got 3000 pallets and the skills to turn them into a fully consented building with power, toilets and a liquor licence? Later, they formalised into charities with boards of directors and fundraisers.
Press Release – University of Canterbury Free to use, CEISMIC is an award-winning public, online collection of tens of thousands of stories, video, audio, documents and images relating to the Canterbury earthquake sequence, created by and based at the University of Canterbury. It has absorbed the …
Free to use, CEISMIC is an award-winning public, online collection of tens of thousands of stories, video, audio, documents and images relating to the Canterbury earthquake sequence, created by and based at the University of Canterbury. It has absorbed the archives of 36 government, community and research organisations.
This wide-ranging taonga includes GPS Boomerang’s aerial photos, the Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) , the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)’s Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Learning Legacy, and, mostly recently, the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Quakestories archive [see full list below].