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- Freemasons Collection
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- Freemasonry is one of the world's oldest and largest fraternal societies. There are approximately five million Freemasons worldwide and 10,000 in New Zealand. Freemasons are ordinary men in the community, 21 years and over, of all religions and backgrounds, who share a concern for human values, moral standards and the rights of individuals.
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- Raymond Morris's Paintings
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Digital copies of pen and ink and watercolour paintings of heritage buildings, painted by Christchurch artist Raymond Morris.
Raymond Morris is a New Zealand artist who lives in Christchurch but works internationally, and specializes in painting heritage buildings in pen and ink and watercolours. In recent years he has completed a series on 'Heritage English Public Houses', as well as presently working on paintings of '100 Classic Homes of Canterbury'. Digital copies of these paintings will in due course be offered to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust for their archives. He has also contributed illustrations to New Zealand book titles including ‘Lancaster Park, a History’, ‘Timaru at Last, Arrival of the Strathallan’, and ‘Christchurch Buildings Watercolour Collection’ for which he donated the digital copies of the paintings to the Nurse Maude Hospice for their fundraising.
As well as painting many fine buildings of the present era, one of his great passions is recreating, in a colour painting, the historic buildings of bygone years. Due to the 2010/2011 earthquakes he has and is still working on painting many of the familiar buildings which were around Christchurch prior to the earthquakes and have now disappeared. Fortunately he had an extensive photographic record of city buildings as an aid in painting the missing buildings. Most of his historic photographs from previous extensive travels are now with the National Museum of Australia and the Alexander Turnbull Library in New Zealand. Other paintings may be accessed on his website www.raymondmorrisnzartist.com.
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- Leslie McKay's Writing
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- This collection holds poems by Christchurch writer Leslie McKay about the Canterbury earthquakes. Leslie writes, "I'm a poet, Christchurch born and bred. My work is informed by landscapes from inner city Christchurch to South Brighton where I lived before the earthquakes. The Pirate House evolved from the aftermath of the February quake when I saw my flatmates ukelele sitting beside the front door, alone and vulnerable as Pirate Girl became. The piano had long been consigned to the garage and my flatmate said the quakes would eject any boarders, hedgehogs for example, which made us laugh on those disturbing incomprehensible days. Notes From The Catastrophe is my record of places loved now lost, from the elegant houses boarded up on the corner of Madras and Chester Streets to Templar Street, off River Road in Avonside, where my grandmother lived and my father grew up. It was one of the sweetest places on earth to my brother and I. We met there to touch base at the end of last summer and as we sat on the concrete apron of the pump house a passer by told us the houses were to be demolished. Nothing is sacred in Christchurch any more, not even democracy. But we have our memories, love, creativity and integrity. Kia Kaha.
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- Silkannthreades: About the little things in life
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Entries from Gallivanta's blog, "Silkannthreades: About the little things in life" (http://silkannthreades.wordpress.com).
Gallivanta writes, "This blog has three main purposes: to communicate our daily life to our family all over the world; to explore the theme of Joy & Woe as expressed by William Blake in Auguries of Innocence; to counterbalance the woe caused by the four large earthquakes and the 12,500 after shocks (to date) our city has experienced since the first big shake on September 4, 2010. (The earthquakes destroyed the centre of the city and damaged many many other properties in the suburbs. Although the big things have changed and continue to change, the little things prevail and bring joy.)" Gallivanta is an alumna of the University of Canterbury, graduating in 1978 with a BA in French and German.
Note that the blog posts have been converted to PDF format for archiving, which may have resulted in changes to the formatting and layout of the pages.
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- Crack'd for Christchurch
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Crack'd for Christchurch is an organisation created by a group of Christchurch residents after the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. After the earthquakes, Crack'd for Christchurch collected pieces of broken china from hundreds of homes in Canterbury and used them to create mosaic artworks for the city. Their most famous artwork took the form of a chair and ottoman (dubbed Flora and Otto) which were gifted back to Christchurch as a memorial for the city's lost history and a celebration of the rebuild.
This collection holds photographs outlining the gathering, preparation, and sorting of the china, and the construction of the artworks. It also contains background documents such as plans for the artworks, a poster of the launch, and an early logo.
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- Steve Taylor's Photographs and Video
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- Photographs, video, and digital images of the earthquake damage and demolitions around Christchurch, created by Steve Taylor.
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- The Space Between Words
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'The Space Between Words' is a photojournalism exhibition created by artist Guy Frederick. It examines the journeys of Cantabrians and their responses to the Canterbury earthquakes through portraits and interviews.
Frederick created the exhibition during his time as the Fellow of the NZ Mental Health Media Grant in 2011. It exhibited at the National Library of NZ in Wellington for seven months, in Auckland as part of the Festival of Photography, and in Christchurch by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA). In August 2013, the project was the recipient of an Australasian Mental Health Services award for Mental Health Promotion.
Frederick said of the exhibition:
"It was the perfect opportunity to investigate an area of personal intrigue. I had my own experience, perception, thoughts and response to the quakes – but I was only one in a city of thousands. What were the rest of the community going through and how were they dealing with it?"
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- GPS Boomerang Aerial Images
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- GPS Boomerang is based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Founded by Synco Reynders, GPS Boomerang develops and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) which can be used to collect and recover aerial data. Their SmartBird UAV is a rugged flying-wing airframe that has been designed to fly a predefined flight-plan. This has allowed GPS Boomerang to repeat tours over the Christchurch red zone in 2012 in order to show the changing environment and rebuild of the Central City. This collection contains videos and snapshots from these tours.
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- The Shaken Heart: Earthquake stories from the heart of Lyttelton
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- "The Shaken Heart" was a project conducted by Bettina Evans, a member of the Lyttleton Community, after the September 2010 and February 2011 earthquakes. The aim of the project was to record the earthquake stories of Lyttelton residents, creating a kaleidoscope of stories specific to Lyttelton. This collection holds audio recordings of participants' interviews taken after either the September 2010 or February 2011 earthquake. The September interviews were recorded between one and six weeks after the quake, and the February interviews were recorded between three and eight weeks after the quake. Links to the transcript of each interview can also be found in the description of each audio file.
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- We Lived Here
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'We Lived Here' was a collaborative project between photographer Juliet Nicholas and writer Fiona Farrell. The project aimed to record the experiences of residents from the Avon Loop whose land was zoned Red after the 22 February 2011 earthquakes and houses were demolished. Interviews were conducted with the residents and their homes were documented through photography.
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- Empowered Christchurch
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Empowered Christchurch is a community group which seeks to ensure Christchurch residents get fair settlements from insurance companies and the EQC. They aim to research and expose injustices in the Canterbury rebuild, to empower residents, and to protect democracy in Christchurch.
This collection holds:
- Copies of Empowered Christchurch's newsletters
- Documents and recordings of a meeting with MBIE and several Christchurch residents' groups
- A copy of Empowered Christchurch's submission to CERA's Draft Transition Recovery Plan
- Letters and Official Information Act Requests sent by Empowered Christchurch to ministers and government agencies
- A collection of campaign images and documents critiquing CERA's Draft Transition Recovery Plan
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- The Church in the Quakes Te Hāhi i Ngā Rūwhenua
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The Church in the Quakes Te Hāhi i Ngā Rūwhenua is a project undertaken by author Melissa Parsons. The aim was to document the experiences of Christchurch churches and their congregations during the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. From August 2012 to December 2013, Parsons surveyed more than 90 churches in the Christchurch region, and conducted 50 interviews with individuals from 17 denominations. These stories were later published in her book, Rubble to Ressurrection: Churches Respond in the Canterbury Quakes.
This collection holds transcripts of many of the interviews from this project. Where possible, audio and video files have also been added to the collection.