Friday, 12 March 2021, 9:49 am
Visitors revel in Grow exhibitions, workshops, activities
and demonstrations
Gates opened on the first-ever Grow
Ōtautahi this morning and the Christchurch Botanic Gardens
is already buzzing with people enjoying what the Garden
City’s own garden festival has to offer.
Grow
Ōtautahi is free for everyone over three days – Friday,
Saturday and Sunday 12-14 March – in the Christchurch
Botanic Gardens. The festival is in the area surrounding the
Ilex Café – with signs from gardens
entrances.
Festival Director Sandi MacRae says it’s
exciting welcome people to Christchurch’s very own garden
festival
“Grow is all about the community and
Principal Toni Burnside says there is lots of excitement around the new building. Construction is expected to take 16 months and will include a hall, which the school’s current site does not have, along with four teaching pods, an administration block, and a library. The new school will be called Pareawa Banks Avenue School. Pareawa means “adorn the banks of the river”. About 100 students, staff, parents and former pupils attended a symbolic sod turning service on Thursday to mark the start of the development. Principal Toni Burnside said it was an important milestone for the school. “We should have been in our new school in 2017, so we ve got photos of the children who should have been here,” she said.
Verdon Fleece and more. Meanwhile, Morrison is planning a legal challenge against regulations in Northern Ireland that have banned live music over Covid-19 concerns. As one of his notable contemporaries once mused: “When he sings God comes out. When he speaks, the devil’s arse comes out.” Six60 As part of a series of concerts held on Saturdays, Six60 is touring Aotearoa. The tour has received widespread international media attention and recognition noting that Six60 is an anomaly in the world touring circuit right now. Matiu Walters also appeared on
Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid and said: “We felt really fortunate we didn’t want the rest of the world to shut down for us to be able to do this, but look, we are lucky. We had some great leadership, and we did what we had to do.”