Category: Festivals & Shows
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Topiary Animals in the Botanic Gardens
These topiary animals are currently on display in the Botanic Gardens as part of the Festival of Flowers.
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Kite Day at New Brighton Beach
Kite day is such a fun and colourful day out for everyone. It’s also photography subject overload – just so many wonderful kites to photograph. I got lucky with this shot – about 3 minutes prior a whole bunch of people were right in front of me, but then the kids ran up to it…
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Buskers in the Re-Start Mall
The buskers are back in town for the 20th annual World Busker’s Festival. Every year I try to see as many acts as I can, but it’s getting harder to keep up, with so many wonderful performers. Today, I ventured down to the Re-Start Mall and caught Nigel Blackstorm, Mr Fish and The Eastern. I…
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Breeze Lazy Sunday
Late this afternoon, I caught the last two songs of the band that was playing in the Botanic Gardens as part of the Breeze Lazy Sundays (free music in the park). I’d been in the museum looking at the excellent Earthquake Exhibit they have on at the moment and came out just in time to…
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Portaloos on Pine Mound, Botanic Gardens
A new ‘floral’ take on the Christchurch portaloo – as seen on Pine Mound in the Botanic gardens. This is part of the annual Festival of Flowers. Well worth a look for the giggle!
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Buskers at North Hagley Park
I finally got into North Hagley Park for a look at some more busker acts. Here’s a little photo montage of some of the performers I saw today. Seeing the buskers in Hagley Park made me feel very nostalgic for past busker festivals that have been hosted in the Arts Centre or the inner city.…
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Street Cirucs Act, Buskers at New Brighton
I caught the Street Circus buskers at New Brighton this afternoon. They were excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed myself in the sunshine at the beach. I hope to check out a few more acts tomorrow at Hagley Park. It’s so good to have the festival back as it really made me feel like we were…
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Carnival Ride at New Brighton
This morning I went along to the carnival at New Brighton to take a few pics. A bit of normality for the kids (though you wouldn’t get me on one of the rides at the moment – I’ve had enough excitement!).
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Colours of India Dancer
This is one of the dancers that opened the Colours of India Festival that is on this week at the Christchurch Art Gallery.
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Vertical Meadow
The vertical meadow is part of the Festival of Flowers and celebrates the Kiwi backyard. You can see it on the side of the Canterbury Museum which is in the Arts Precint. It’s pretty cool.
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Flamin Good Aussie Entertainment from FlameOZ
I caught the FlameOZ Busking show on Saturday night – they were quite simply breathtakingly brilliant! Hard to photograph without a tripod so I’ve turned the pics black and white and just left the flame for some drama! If they are in a town near you, go and see them, they will blow you away. …
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