Cup Week at Addington

Be part of the magic: Cup Week at Addington

There’s nothing quite like Cup Week at Addington and the Christchurch Casino New Zealand Trotting Cup Day on Tuesday 13 November is not to be missed.   This year four lucky winners will ‘Arrive in style with Christchurch Helicopters’. Simply purchase your General Admission or Lindauer Lawn ticket before 30 September and you […]

Celebrating women’s suffrage

Celebrating women’s suffrage: 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand

Christchurch will host a special event next month to mark the beginning of the celebrations of the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand.     This will be an opportunity for local people to celebrate Christchurch as the birthplace of the women’s suffrage movement. Mayor Lianne Dalziel says we’re incredibly […]

Dr Libby Weaver

Dr Libby’s Nutritional Beauty: Q&A with Dr Libby Weaver

We all know nutrition plays a key role in how we feel, but Dr Libby Weaver explains, it’s also integral to how we look. Dr Libby shares her advice on beauty from the inside out. A beautician recently told me that what you put inside your body is so much more important […]

April McLennan

No limits for youth: April McLennan

When she finished highschool in 2015, April McLennan was overwhelmed with the sheer number of choices facing her, in order to fill the 80,000 hours that research tells us we work in our lifetimes. It was a concern which was front of mind when she attended Festival for the Future. At the […]

Garden Tour

Gardens for Good: Garden Tour

Search out your sunscreen, sunhats and panamas, for spring has sprung and there’s no finer pleasure than to gaze upon the fragile perfection of a beauteous bloom, or to delight in the sweetest, headiest fragrances that perfume the air.   Sunday 2 October, 2018 brings us Garden Tour – a fundraiser for […]

Lilia Tarawa

An Empowering Escape: Lilia Tarawa

Lilia Tarawa’s childhood was both heaven – and hell. The large, isolated community of Gloriavale where she was raised, 70km inland from Greymouth on the West Coast, near the Haupiri River, was both idyllic – and cruel. The granddaughter of Hopeful Christian, founder of one of the country’s most notorious religious cults, […]