Two things

Keir Leslie on SCAPE 8 Public Art Christchurch Biennial http://pantograph-punch.com/post/ruining-the-fun

"Several commentators have claimed that this moment in Christchurch’s history is a particularly friendly one for public art. Charlie Gates talks in the Press about “a quiet public art renaissance", while Warren Feeney writes that, post-quake, “the message has finally got through about the value of the arts to a city that, historically, has frequently been hostile.” Unfortunately, these Panglossian pronouncements are at odds with the evidence from this year’s Scape. New Intimacies is marked by a collection of banal and shallow works, interspersed with a few more daring attempts to spark something more interesting."

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Inside Out - We All Belong from Inside Out on Vimeo.

"The crowd are here for the launch of Inside Out -  a collaboration between Rainbow Youth, Curative, Core Education and Auckland University - to create a set of educational resources targeted towards school students. They aim to challenge norm-based thinking and reduce the amount of homophobia and transphobia in schools." http://tearaway.co.nz/these-videos-will-turn-learning-about-sexuality-inside-out/