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Easy as abc…
One of the books I remember vividly from studying NZ lit at Canterbury University in the early 1990s is the Murray Edmond and Mary Paul-edited anthology The New Poets of the 80s.
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Words to build on
Disasters mean loss and loss means remembrance and remembrance means memorials and monuments.
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Hooked on art
When exhibitions and collections team leader Sean Duxfield and his team got back into the Gallery building after February's earthquake, one of the first tasks on their list was to check and make safe the collection.
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Godley House
The Press announced today that another iconic Banks Peninsula building is to be demolished, Godley House at Diamond Harbour.
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Art News and the Gallery
The new issue of Art News New Zealand is out now, and features a run down of the state of the arts in post-quake Christchurch.
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Lessons on wheels
This term I am in the car taking lessons out and about to schools around Christchurch as part of our outreach programme.
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Open House – our opening (and reopening) exhibitions
It's an open house. Come in. That's the simple message we'll be sending when the Gallery reopens later this year.
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Pupils' self-portraits aid in healing
SELF-PORTRAITS created by a group of year 3 pupils who had spent the morning of February 22 at the Christchurch Art Gallery have become both a permanent record and a way to heal the emotional impact of their experiences.
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Where's my Bulletin gone?
On 22 February B.164 was drying in piles on the floor of Spectrum Print. The job had just been finished and press-passed the day before, and was due to be bound the next day. Of course, that never happened.