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Calling all creative cookies and DIY devotees! Resene and Neighbourly are challenging everyday Kiwis like YOU to take part in the Resene Upcycling Awards. Whether it's an old item you've spruced up or something you've found a completely new purpose for, we want to see your creations!… View moreCalling all creative cookies and DIY devotees! Resene and Neighbourly are challenging everyday Kiwis like YOU to take part in the Resene Upcycling Awards. Whether it's an old item you've spruced up or something you've found a completely new purpose for, we want to see your creations!
Submit your entry in the 2019 Resene Upcycling Awards by sharing your upcycled masterpiece with your neighbours. Of course, there are goodies to be won including four prizes up for grabs worth $500 (plus spot prizes). Multiple entries are welcome - don't forget to include your before and after pics and mention any Resene products you've used!
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I'm going to be at Mitre 10 Papanui from 7.30am -2.00pm tomorrow (Friday) selling sausages to fundraise for St John.
Come down for a yarn, a sausage and please tell your friends.
Onions, Watties Tomato Sauce, Mustard - yummy!
The sausages are gluten free and I have gluten free bread … View moreHi All
I'm going to be at Mitre 10 Papanui from 7.30am -2.00pm tomorrow (Friday) selling sausages to fundraise for St John.
Come down for a yarn, a sausage and please tell your friends.
Onions, Watties Tomato Sauce, Mustard - yummy!
The sausages are gluten free and I have gluten free bread too!
Hope to see you there!
Cheers Michelle
Charity Ambassador for St John
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Glass top table, could be useful for a coffee table or for table for a lamp or bedside. FREE to some one that can make use of it. Height 50 cm width 36cm depth 30 cm. Pick up is Kaiapoi.
I listed this about 10 days ago and some one wanted it , but has not picked it up, I need it gone as I … View moreGlass top table, could be useful for a coffee table or for table for a lamp or bedside. FREE to some one that can make use of it. Height 50 cm width 36cm depth 30 cm. Pick up is Kaiapoi.
I listed this about 10 days ago and some one wanted it , but has not picked it up, I need it gone as I need to make space.
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As Christchurch grappled with the grief caused by the mosque shootings last week, a group of Muslim men, dealing with their own grief, set up deckchairs in different parts of the city, and invited people to simply sit and talk.
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As Christchurch grappled with the grief caused by the mosque shootings last week, a group of Muslim men, dealing with their own grief, set up deckchairs in different parts of the city, and invited people to simply sit and talk.
Hady Osman and Bakr Al-Saudi were in Christchurch to help their community and to farewell their close friend, New Zealand futsal representative Atta Elayyan.
The 33-year-old was praying at the Al Noor Mosque next to Hagley Park when he was shot in the terror attack.
Mr Osman and Mr Al-Saudi took their own time to set up chairs and invited people to sit down and chat. They sat near the cordon to the Al Noor Mosque, where people had left notes and flowers next to trees bound together by police tape.
They also sat at the Memorial Park Cemetery, on a day when several fellow Muslims had been buried, again to give people a place to sit and briefly unburden themselves.
The idea came to Mr Osman when he arrived in Christchurch the Sunday following the shootings and went to a memorial, where people were laying flowers, and mourning.
"I can see they don't have closure. They almost feel like they want to talk to someone, but they don't know who to talk to. They don't know who to give condolences to. I felt a lot of people looking at me, for example, they can probably tell 'this person is a Muslim', and I can feel that people want to come and talk, but they don't know how," he said.
While working in San Francisco recently, Mr Osman had seen people setting up chairs and inviting others to talk to them, in an effort to encourage more face-to-face human interaction.
This came to mind as he saw how people were reacting to the tragedy, and he thought it could be a good way to create a place for them to sit down and talk, and be heard.
Mr Osman had also seen and read dozens and dozens of cards written by people, to the Muslim community, in among flowers left as tributes to the dead.
Pictures of Christchurch mosques attack victims sits above flowers at a memorial site near the Al Noor mosque.
One by a young child caught his attention. While scribbled and untidy, it showed raw emotion, Mr Osman said, and was addressed to the Muslim community.
"People are writing cards with very, very raw emotions on there. They must have taken their time; there are cards that are coloured, people have done paintings, people have put a lot of effort in a lot of this, and I was just like 'who's receiving all of this'?"
As a member of the Muslim community, he felt like the cards were written to him, he said.
And so he, Bakr Al-Saudi, another Muslim friend, and a German tourist set up chairs - with signs inviting anyone passing by to sit down, and chat. It was about listening to people, and encouraging them to speak about whatever was on their mind, Mr Osman said.
It often ended with people in tears, like one photographer who was in Hagley Park when people came out of mosque, bloodied and frightened.
"As soon as he was telling that story, he just completely broke down. He just could not make any sense of how something so tragic could happen in New Zealand ... and he just cried, and cried, and cried, and cried."
Bakr Al-Saudi said everyone had been affected in some way by the shooting, like one man he approached. "I just walked up and said, 'how are you holding up?', and he said 'I live six doors from the mosque'.
"At the time of the shooting he had his granddaughter with him, and he was fearing for his life, and so he needed to share that story with someone.
"Those little stories kept repeating themselves. Everybody's got some sort of connection one way or another with the incident, and I think it's really important these people let that story come out, as a first step to moving on."
"At the moment everybody's sharing the same pain, so we wanted to strengthen that bond that's automatically happened.
"We recognise people will move on and probably get back to their busy lives, and we don't want to lose these precious bonds that are happening now.
"The bonds that are happening now are very, very unique. If you can capitalise on that to produce a better, positive future, why not?"
Mr Osman said he hoped to take the idea around the country, and through talking and listening to people, help create permanent, positive change.
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Our rabbit is being fussy and will only eat one particular brand....and it's not either of these 2.
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Divergence: A Festival of Madness 2019
Celebrating the richness of Mad, Neurodivergent and Divergent Lives
Divergence: A Festival of Madness is a week-long celebration in Christchurch from 30 March – 6 April 2019 which will include a variety of different community events, seminars, shows and … View moreDivergence: A Festival of Madness 2019
Celebrating the richness of Mad, Neurodivergent and Divergent Lives
Divergence: A Festival of Madness is a week-long celebration in Christchurch from 30 March – 6 April 2019 which will include a variety of different community events, seminars, shows and awareness raising opportunity designed to re-frame how we view mental distress/ madness/ unique worldviews.
The project is being led by a group of people who work in the mental health and addictions sector in Christchurch as managers, peer support workers and educators. We seek to create a space where we can celebrate seeing the world through different lenses rather than the “normal” or neurotypical way. This is an opportunity to create a space which is relational and experiential as opposed to medical or diagnostic.
We have opted to do this project as volunteers outside of our organisational roles so that it is not seen as being part of a "mental health service". We aim to provide spaces in our community for people with diverse life experiences so we can connect, celebrate, showcase and share the richness of our lives, to one another and the wider community. We want the general public to have an opportunity to be amongst diversity and have an opportunity to understand what divergent people bring to the world.
The Divergence initiative is the brain child of Hannah Komatsu who is a trained social worker and a peer educator in the local mental health sector. She has had her own lived experience of divergence and wants to develop this initiative to raise awareness of the various experiences people have and that diversity should be better understood and celebrated. Hannah is supported by a team of enthusiastic volunteers with experience of event management, project coordination and awareness raising.
The week of events will include our mad wisdom cafe, mad yarning, community listening posts, a mad poetry evening, comedy night, a black dog walk in Hagley Park, a cabaret show and a more formal one day seminar.
Christchurch is a city that has and continues to undergo huge stress. We believe that nurturing human connection and enabling meaningful conversations that are based around validation rather than problem solving is a vital part of our cities healing process. We believe that through community initiatives and projects like this sitting outside of services we can increase social connectedness, reduce isolation and support communities to thrive.
For events information for the festival week visit www.divergencenz.com...
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Through these tough times we have learned the true strength and resilience of our communities and have witnessed first hand the abundance of aroha in Aotearoa.
Now more than ever, the fern seems to best capture the spirit of our country. If we look to our Māori roots, we are reminded of the twist… View moreThrough these tough times we have learned the true strength and resilience of our communities and have witnessed first hand the abundance of aroha in Aotearoa.
Now more than ever, the fern seems to best capture the spirit of our country. If we look to our Māori roots, we are reminded of the twist or pikorua which resembles two intertwined pikopiko ferns - a fern known for thriving in dark, damp areas of our woods. A reminder that difficult conditions can actually be an opportunity for tremendous growth.
The entanglement of the pikorua also has no beginning or end which is often used to represent an everlasting bond. Although we are all on our own path in life, in the end we always come back together - we are all connected through our interwoven lives.
#KiaKaha #ChristchurchStrong #NSNZcelebratecommunity
A man who survived the Christchurch terror attack but lost his wife has told tens of thousands gathered for the national memorial service that he has "chosen love" and has forgiven.
For the first time in our history, Kiwis and people around the globe tuned in to a live broadcast of the … View moreA man who survived the Christchurch terror attack but lost his wife has told tens of thousands gathered for the national memorial service that he has "chosen love" and has forgiven.
For the first time in our history, Kiwis and people around the globe tuned in to a live broadcast of the commemorations for the 50 victims of the March 15 mosque shootings.
Aroha and solidarity rang out loud and clear across Christchurch's Hagley Park as tens of thousands attended a vigil to remember those killed in the mosque massacres.
People, sitting on picnic blankets and on chairs, turned to strangers and embraced, others wiped their partners tears and … View moreAroha and solidarity rang out loud and clear across Christchurch's Hagley Park as tens of thousands attended a vigil to remember those killed in the mosque massacres.
People, sitting on picnic blankets and on chairs, turned to strangers and embraced, others wiped their partners tears and women wore headscarves to show their solidarity.
Speakers stood on a stage meant for the Bryan Adams concert cancelled a week earlier, and in front of them a sea of people sat in absolute silence as the names of the 50 killed were read out by the Linwood mosque Imam Ibrahim Abdul Halim.
Parklands Library will reopen on Friday after a major upgrade and earthquake-related repairs.
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The Commission for Financial Capability (CFFC) is running a free seminar in Christchurch on Tuesday, April 2, about the financial implications of moving into a retirement village, with support from the Retirement Villages Association and experienced legal practitioners.
Speakers from the CFFC, … View moreThe Commission for Financial Capability (CFFC) is running a free seminar in Christchurch on Tuesday, April 2, about the financial implications of moving into a retirement village, with support from the Retirement Villages Association and experienced legal practitioners.
Speakers from the CFFC, Retirement Village Association and the legal profession (if available), will discuss types of retirement villages, the costs of moving into and living in them, and how they operate. The seminar will also explain some important residents' rights and where you can find out more information.
The seminar is 90 minutes long and will include question and answer time.
Tea, coffee and light refreshments are provided.
Places are limited and while attendance is free, registering is essential.
Please register by clicking on the link below:
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