Community Projects
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On the fifth anniversary of the Massacre of 51 Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, survivor Farid Ahmed is delivering cakes to his neighbours. He's joined by U.S. Ambassador at large Rashad Hussain, promoting a simple concept, that love can be more powerful than hate.
When you think of street art what is front of mind? Banksy? Well how about the homeless, people who actually call the streets home because they have nowhere else to live. In Ōtautahi Christchurch, to mark World Homeless Day, the homeless are holding their own street exhibition. Here in New Zealand we call them the Kaewa or wanderers a term of respect for those struggling to find permanent shelter because of hardship, mental health issues or addiction. The project has been organised by Housing First and runs until Sunday the 15th of October https://www.housingfirstchch.co.nz/.../World-Homeless.../ partnering with The White Room Creative Space, Life in Vacant Spaces, Creative Junk and Telling Lives to bring you this event. #homeless #housingfirst #whiteroom #lifeinvacantspaces #tellinglives #christchurchcitycouncil body content of your post goes here. To edit this text, click on it and delete this default text and start typing your own or paste your own from a different source.
Share Kai is an opportunity sit down and chat with different people from different cultures, people you may not normally have the opportunity to meet in your own community. We are a diverse society, but unless we find reasons to come together, we're missing out on a culinary and culture smorgasbord.
As part of Christchurch's Heritage Festival St.Michaels and All Angels is offering guided talks and the opportunity to view some of this city's most significant victorian art work - its stained glass windows. The Church has just completed the restoration of it's Rose window an opportunity to go behind the scenes and look at the ancient craft of stained glass creation and restoration. While St Michael's is dwarfed by the large English and European cathedral's none share the unique flavour of its native timbers and colonial settler aspirations. Yes colonialism, has had many negative impacts, but these early English settlers also brought so many positives when they founded our city, St. Michaels and All Angels holds much of that story in its architecture and cultural referencing. It is a hidden heritage gem.
Housing First Ōtautahi works to rehouse the homeless. They use a collaborative multi-agency approach providing a wrap around service for those experiencing homelessness. Using a harm reduction model they work with clients to promote recovery and wellbeing once they're housed. As the name suggests, Housing First works with people as and where they are, regardless of sobriety or psychiatric issues.
Inner City East Cycles was a collaborative project started just prior to the first covid look down, with lives interrupted we stopped filming until things returned to normal, but that of course that didn't happened. Looking back at this first iteration of the story I can't wait for another opportunity to catch-up with all the wonderful people making a difference to those living on the margins.