Press Release – Grow O Tautahi Stranded on a space flight to Jupiter, Grow tautahi will challenge Christchurch high school students to create solutions to water, energy, food and waste problems in a sparse environment. The launch of Project Jupiter 2022 is just one of the ways …
Stranded on a space flight to Jupiter, Grow Ōtautahi will challenge Christchurch high school students to create solutions to water, energy, food and waste problems in a sparse environment.
The launch of Project Jupiter 2022 is just one of the ways Grow Ōtautahi is using science to highlight environmental issues and get young people excited about sustainability and our planet’s future. Grow Ōtautahi Science Ambassador Dr Trevor Stuthridge will introduce the 2022 project to around 50 students on Friday morning (12 March 2021) and invite people to take part in the project next year. He will be joined by Dr Sarah Kessans, a scientist from University of Canterbury, who will talk about her cutting-edge
Set-up starts today (Friday 5 March 2021) in the
Christchurch Botanic Gardens as the city gets ready to host
the first-ever, free Grow Ōtautahi festival.
Fences
are going up on-site and exhibitors will start to arrive
over coming days to get ready for gates opening to the
public for three days from 9am on Friday 12 March. Grow is a
garden festival like you’ve never seen before and it’s
FREE for everyone.
Take a look at the Grow
programme to see what’s on and plan your visit over
the three days of the free event.
One of the many
festival highlights will likely be the interactive City
Bic Runga Shares Christchurch Earthquake Anniversary Song Annabel Kean / Wednesday 24th February, 2021 12:49PM
Monday this week marked ten years since Ōtautahi was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, leading to 185 lives lost and the transformation of an entire city. The anniversary has been acknowledged in every which way, with a service held at the Christchurch earthquake memorial where the Prime Minister spoke, the names of the dead read aloud, and thousands of flowers cast into the city s rivers and tucked into the tops of road cones. Today
Bic Runga, one of Ōtautahi s most prized gems, shares No One Walks This Night Alone , a song commissioned by the Christchurch City Council for the ten year anniversary of that life-altering day. Runga and 90-person choir
Vicki Anderson offers a few highlights of events in Ōtautahi Christchurch this weekend and beyond. Oi Manawa, the earthquake memorial along the riverside, is a special place. Whenever I am passing, I like to stop and run my hand across the smooth pounamu, especially at night when the moon bathes it in a warm glow. It is a beautiful tribute to the sad events of February 22 and those who died in the 2011 earthquake. Aside from the civic event to acknowledge the 10th anniversary of that day, people throughout Ōtautahi are holding events. Connecting together as a community matters at these times.
On the streets of the 1900s replica township you’ll find local food, craft drinks, theatre and markets. The boutique music festival includes two stages for performances by Bic Runga, Leisure, The Beths, There s A Tuesday, Wax Chattels, Ha the Unclear and more.
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Bic Runga performs as part of the Nostalgia Festival this weekend. (File photo) Hot tip: James Dann, aka Ed Muzik, takes over the tiny Arcadia Cinema at Ferrymead and uses the quaint space to show Christchurch and New Zealand made music videos. As he did last year, the 20 videos will feature artists who are playing at Nostalgia or who have played in the past.