ArtBox is a project set up to provide studio and gallery space for local artists in the central city. The brain child of Martin Trusttum from Creative Industries at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, the complete plan will see 18 ‘boxes’ combined into four buildings that will act as a hub for people to socialise and engage in the arts …
The Physics Room is a contemporary art project space located centrally in the Old Post Office (OPO), alongside tenants C1 Espresso, Christchurch Art Gallery and Alice in Videoland (among others) …
A community initiative on a tiny scale, the Escapist Library is an easy-to-miss cabinet of books featuring titles by Danielle Steel, New Zealand writer C.K Stead and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, Anne Tyler …
Situated on Moorhouse Avenue, Chambers 241 art gallery is helping to reinvigorate the Christchurch arts industry in more ways than one …
Adding to the businesses already at home in The Archive on St Asaph Street, Room Four provides the art and performance element of a space that includes the Darkroom bar, RDU radio station and Galaxy Records. An ‘open studio’ and community art space, the gallery was opened by four graduate fine art students in the middle of 2012. Feeling the dearth of creative places in Christchurch, the founders took it upon themselves to fill the gap that was left by the loss of galleries and venues …
Located on the north end of Wilsons Road in Waltham, Dog Park is one for those with an interest in new and experimental art practices …
A popular culture museum set in the unexpected location of the curator’s garage in Oxford, North Canterbury, Time Travellers is not your usual cultural offering. In fact, expect a rather surreal experience. Enter the museum through a Tardis and into a narrow hallway with walls covered floor to ceiling in original movie posters from eras gone by …
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