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Vicki Anderson04:55, May 28 2021
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Kiwi metal band Alien Weaponry will partner with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for a concert in Christchurch this weekend.
VICKI ANDERSON offers a few highlights of events in Ōtautahi Christchurch this weekend and beyond. Did you try to take a photo of the blood moon using your cellphone? Did yours look like an orange pimple on an elephant’s butt too? Never mind. Maybe we can try again in 40 years? Meanwhile, the South Island Moon Festival launches in September. The celestial celebration will add to our popular lantern festival tradition but will also include moon cakes and moon poetry.
The evening was “a chance to fall in love with nature all over again”, he said.
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Jane Lush, Willow Lush, Jim Lovell-Smith, Valerie Wycoff and Christopher Musgrave hope the evening will inspire action for the environment. “We’ll also consider the seriousness of the climate and ecological emergency and of social justice issues we face, and be inspired by words and music to care for ourselves and the climate.” Among those taking to the stage will be Christchurch student Lucy Gray, singer/songwriter and a leader of the School Strike 4 Climate Change protests. There will be poetry from 9-year-old environmentalist activist Evangeline Casey and co-director Valerie Wycoff said the lineup would also include Lisa Tui, Global Voices and Women in Harmony.