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Southern Response…. well this is interesting….

Locked out of undamaged factory for 815 days and still counting…..

Emergency Response Team Volunteers Needed

Taranaki Community Emergency Response Team (TCERT) From the North Taranaki Midweek, May 8 2013 via the TCERT Facebook Page. CD LOOKING FOR RECRUITS The Taranaki Community Emergency Response Team provides a professionally managed volunteer support team for Emergency Management with in Taranaki in accordance with Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management national guidelines. Team [...]

Forum: ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION

Wednesday 5th June 2013 with Dr. Chris Ansley While depression is often considered a low energy state and anxiety is considered a high energy state, anxiety and depression are more related than people think. Depression and anxiety can impact individuals of any age, and people with depression frequently also suffer from anxiety. Dr Chris Ansley ...

Topic: CONFIDENCE and SELF ESTEEM

Tuesday May 21st 2013: – Sue Murray, Catholic Social Services There is often a strong correlation between anxiety, low self-esteem and low confidence. This heady combination can make it challenging for people to restore themselves to health and wellbeing. So, where do you begin to break the cycle? Is it practical to work at reducing...

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Pallet Pavilion – One more Summer? fundraising campaign is GO!

Will our Pallet Pavilion live to see another Summer? We’re running a crowdfunding campaign to decide. The Pallet Pavilion was meant to be coming down now – May. But across March and April so many people have been suprised to learn about its timeframe OR asking us to keep it that Gap Filler decided to [...]

Pallet Pavilion – One more Summer? fundraising campaign

Christchuch Earthquakes-Locked out of undamaged factory for 800 days…

Do we still own our building?  who knows – 273 days…… We wait for “the powers that be” to see what has been proposed for our area. Who knows what nonsense they are cooking up.  I have my suspicions.  An Easter Island statue or monuments!

Forum: All About OCD

ANZAC Day – Lest We Forget The Volunteers

The Origins of ANZAC Day & NZ Volunteer Responders ANZAC Day has its origins in the First World War, and is timed to coincide with the initial landings at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, and the first major battle of the war. After the Second World War, it became a day that remembered and honoured [...]

Anxiety Linked With Increased Cell-Phone Dependence, Abuse

Is this the age of anxiety?

Nature deficit disorder: Is staying indoors harming your health?

Topic: Exercise, Diet and Anxiety

LURP submission

John Patterson speaks out again

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Bay Times Article: Responders – Christchurch Earthquake Books

Co-Author, Pete Seager, is in the news about our book, Responders: The NZ Response Teams Christchurch Earthquake Deployment. It’s great to have recognition outside of Christchurch for the book, and more importantly for the teams. When I agreed to help the New Zealand Response Teams write and publish the book, it was my goal that [...]

Apr 22: Gap Filler’s central city-wide mini-golf course is here!

Ode to Christchurch

Apr 19: Very special fundraiser postponed to 4th May

Apr 19: Autumnal Social Soup fundraising dinner postponed to 4th May

[Photographer: Jessica Slattery] Autumnal Social Soup! Due to rain forecast for this weekend (which we welcome for our gardens’ sake!) Gap Filler has decided to postpone this event. The new date is Saturday, May 4, 5 – 8pm (rain day Sunday 5 May). May the fourth be with you! We hope that you will be [...]

Support Gap Filler! Autumnal Social Soup fundraising dinner on 4th May

Saturday, May 4, 5 – 8pm (rain day Sunday 5 May). The Pallet Pavilion, cnr Durham and Kilmore Streets. Come and join us in a stunning outdoor dinner setting designed by local artists and designers Tessa Peach and Heather Hayward – the brains behind the Social Soup concept. Food will be prepared by local chef [...]

Apr 17: He Tangata! It is People! A creative workshop for young people in the city.

“What is a city without its people?” Gap Filler Education Programme Coordinator Sally Airey asks.  “We are regaining access to more and more of our inner city – let’s re-populate it and in the process remember who we are rebuilding this place for!”   Gap Filler will be running a school holiday workshop on Wednesday, [...]

Reminder: Saturday's LURP Forum

Property Owners Criticise CERA/CCDU

Finally after nearly 26 months. There is an Increasing number of articles reflecting the situation in the central city.  Chris Hutching in the NBR has published an article reflecting some of the remarks made by CORE (“The City Owners Rebuild …

Hello to Ello Cafe at Ballantyne’s Contemporary Lounge

Apr 12: Giraffing Around

Apr 9: COMING SOON: Gap Filler’s central city-wide mini-golf course!

A world-first?    

Sept 23 : Knit Happens

Apr 8: The Transitional City Audio Tour

Christchurch Gondola Reopens after Earthquake

What the year may bring

please share widely - OVTRK open forum on the LURP

notes from the last forum and upcoming events

Forum: How Is Anxiety Treated?

Wednesday April 10th 2013: – Simone Kinley, psychologist, Anxiety Disorders Unit, CDHB. Most anxiety is managed with medication, counselling, therapy or Brief Intervention. For some anxiety is so severe that treatment by a psychologist or psychiatrist is needed.  However, by improving your understanding of anxiety as a condition, your own triggers for becoming anxious and...

Anxiety Plagues Christchurch Residents

After two years of uncertainty, Christchurch is rife with anxiety and despair with more than 66,000 Cantabrians popping anti-depressant pills, mental health referrals at an all-time high and severe psychological disorders starting to emerge. Read more…

Apr 2: Story Festival – Tales at the Pallet Pavilion April 5-7

Come along and join us in celebrating and exploring the magic of story and it’s role in our daily lives. There’ll be awesome performances by various local artists and you too can be part of sharing stories and creating collective stories with words and music! All ages and all experiences! Click here for an electronic [...]

FREE DE-STRESS Course

11-14 April Thurs & Fri – 6.30pm – 8.30pm Sat & Sun 10am – 2.30pm Benefits, Tension-free body, Anxiety-free mind, Emotional stability Heightened mental clarity and awareness, Increased energy levels Over 900 Cantabrians have benefitted since September 2010 To register · free call: 0508 Artofliving 0508 2786 354 · email canterbury@artofliving.org.nz · go to www.artofliving.org.nz

Elderly pensioner's red zone nightmare

CCDU flip-flops again. New-CBD-buildings-to-be-demolished

The insanity of CERA/CCDU continues. Westende House,  a brand new, tenanted building in Manchester Street (130% of the New Building code) to be demolished for a wider roadway. 

CCDU flip-flops again. New-CBD-building-to-be-demolished

The insanity of CERA/CCDU continues. Westende House,  a brand new, tenanted building in Manchester Street (130% of the New Building code) to be demolished for a wider roadway.   Another CERA/CCDU “flip-flop”.  You can not trust what they say.  And expect …

Locked out of undamaged factory for 764 days….

Mar 28: Gap Filler’s Hidden Talent Show

Got a special talent to share with the world? Can you play the spoons? Do a magic trick? Impersonate a celebrity? Well have we got the event for you. Enter Gap Filler’s Hidden Talent Show at the Pallet Pavilion on Saturday April 13 to share your talent with the world AND go in the running [...]

Gap Filler’s Hidden Talent Show

Got a special talent to share with the world? Can you play the spoons? Do a magic trick? Impersonate a celebrity? Well have we got the event for you. Enter Gap Filler’s Hidden Talent Show at the Pallet Pavilion on Saturday April 13 to share your talent with the world AND go in the running [...]

Mar 27: Rock on Eastside!

An outdoor lounge/come artspace on the corner of Linwood Avenue and Aldwins Road, on the Eastside. Inspired by a tour of inner city gap sites 8 local high school students from Youthtown’s GapFiller-supported afterschool programme took three sessions to plan, clear and prepare the site.  With a helping hand from Canterbury University students one Saturday [...]

Speech Lianne Dalziel would have given if the Speaker had allowed the snap debate on the EQC privacy breach

Mar 26: Gap H-Appy!!

The Role of Media in Post Disaster Christchurch- thank goodness for social media

Mar 26: International Reporters | World Stories | DW.DE

This is a pretty special doco Deutsche Welle has made about Christchurch “to see how citizens are creatively filling the holes left by earthquakes”.  

Mar 26: Super Transitional Book review

A fantastic, in-depth review of what we refer to as the Transitional Book documenting all manner of post-quake projects from the very big to the very small. If you haven’t got a copy yet, hurry. There are not so many left. We have some copies at the Pallet Pavilion or you can get them at [...]

Red Zone is very dangerous- do not try this at home

This has got me riled.  After 2 years of telling us that High Street is very dangerous and we have to grovel for access we get this: This is very dangerous, but only if you own any of these buildings. …

Full Moon / Equinox party at the Dance-O-Mat 27th March!

Join us Wednesday 27th March 2013 6-8pm … bring along your favourite crowd-pleaser tracks or email kiwinic@gmail.com!!

Mar 19: Full Moon / Equinox party at the Dance-O-Mat 27th March!

Join us Wednesday 27th March 2013 6-8pm … bring along your favourite crowd-pleaser tracks or email kiwinic@gmail.com!!

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Project Coordinator needed for GtR

Mar 11: Project Coordinator needed for GtR

The Greening the Rubble Trust is seeking Expressions of Interest for a new Project Co-ordinator.  Read more …

Christchurch Earthquake Books Attract Media Interest

My two Christchurch Earthquake Books, Responders and Café Reflections have been in the news quite a bit in the past two weeks. It’s been very exciting to have been interviewed on TV One Breakfast, Newstalk ZB – Chris Lynch’s show, CTV’s Canterbury Life, and in the Mainland Press (Read Article dated_7_March_2013 HERE). Sometimes the questions [...]

Design Assembly article – like!

Emma Ng wrote this fabulous article on Gap Filler for Design Assembly – thanks Emma!   Read on …  

Mar 7: Design Assembly article – like!

Emma Ng wrote this fabulous article on Gap Filler for Design Assembly – thanks Emma!   Read on …