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Gap Filler Project 07: Think Differently Book Exchange
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The Think Differently Book Exchange is an internationally recognised community project that encourages members of the public to participate in a book exchange scheme. Gap Filler set up a fridge on an abandoned building site in the city centre with a yellow path leading up to the door. Passers-by are invited to take a book, or come back later and leave one.
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Gap Filler Project 01: It All Begins Here
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"It All Begins Here" was an event space on the site of the demolished South of the Border Restaurant and Denis Moore Auto Electrician on Colombo Street. The space housed a temporary garden cafe, a petanque court, live music, poetry readings and an outdoor cinema.
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Gap Filler Project 04: Gap Filler Fun Fair
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The fourth Gap Filler project was a fun fair put together to raise money for The New Zealand Red Cross and Gap Filler. The fair featured craft and bake sales, carnival games, a bouncy castle, sausage sizzle, races and a concert organised by the Addington Action Committee.
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Gap Filler Project 06: 1950s themed bowling alley, CPIT Design/Build
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The 1950s themed bowling alley was a project put together by Architecture students at the Christchurch Polytechnic. The vacant site of the Jetset Lounge on St Asaph Street underwent a transformation into a bowling alley, inspired by its previous use as a student recreation venue. The architectural design students created a temporary, interactive ten-pin bowling installation where anybody could go and play ten-pin bowling for free. A 1950s theme was embraced through the running of the Jetset event.
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Gap Filler Project 02: Ortszeit
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Ortszeit is an exhibition of photographs documenting architectural change in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin wall. Taken by Stefan Koppelkamms, the photographs were brought to Christchurch by Gap Filler and laid out in an empty building site for the public to view.
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Gap Filler Project 09: As Far as Eye Can See
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"As Far as Eye Can See" was a gallery sized crochet artwork, displayed at The Colombo shopping centre. It consisted of an eye made out of crochet, created by 22 Adelaide women who wanted to refocus the attention onto post-earthquake Christchurch. Gap Filler also commissioned artist Briar Cook to work with the community and create a companion artwork, a collection of small mandala-like objects woven from the materials that were ubiquitous during the rebuilding of the city: tarpaulins, high visibility fabrics and industrial work-wear. These mandalas were displayed alongside the crocheted eye. Christchurch businesses and the wider community were invited to bid in an online auction to purchase the artwork. The plan was to use the money raised by the artwork to help Gap Filler with other projects.
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Gap Filler Project 05: Words of Hope, CPIT Design/Build
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"Words of Hope" was a project put together by Architecture students at the Christchurch Polytechnic. A vacant site on Ferry Road was transformed into a symbolic human-scale Christchurch City with recycled and found objects serving as the buildings. These 'buildings' were painted white and visitors to the site were encouraged to share their ideas and words of hope and support by tagging or writing on them.
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Gap Filler Project 08: Lyttelton Petanque Club
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The Lyttelton Petanque Club was a multi-purpose public space with a performance stage, community garden, handmade tables and benches, and a petanque pitch, on the corner of London and Canterbury Streets in Lyttelton. The site was created and maintained by Gap Filler in collaboration with Volcano Radio, Project Lyttleton and volunteers from the community.
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Gap Filler Project 03: Film in the Gap
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Film in the Gap was a temporary cinema on a vacant building lot in Sydenham. Free music and movies (projected onto the back wall of the Mitre 10) were available to the public after five o'clock each night.