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Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 5:00 pm Lyttelton Arts Factory and Te Ūaka The Lyttelton Museum hosted a riotous quiz night on Saturday 22nd May, with well-loved local Joe Bennett the star of the show as quizmaster. With a full house and an eclectic audience, Joe’s left-field approach to general knowledge had the teams in stitches vying for the top spot. Five rounds, including a challenging series of international museum questions saw the leaderboard change throughout the night, with a team of Lyttel...

“I am recreating objects which play an integral part in the city – posts, electrical boxes, which get forgotten about, things people make art on.” At Fiksate Studio and Gallery in Sydenham, a replica of Lytteltons popular Volcano Cafe and Lava Bar shares white wall space with a dirty corner dairy. The latter recreated with exquisite attention to detail with both a Covid-19 screen at the door and a stubbed out cigarette on the footpath outside. Shadow Town also explores, in miniature fo...