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12 Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

News<br />

Tinder for<br />

volunteers<br />

comes to city<br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

A NEW app described as Tinder<br />

for volunteers has been launched<br />

in Christchruch.<br />

Collaborate is an app that<br />

matches potential volunteers<br />

with volunteering jobs. Users<br />

log-in at letscollaborate.co.nz<br />

then select their skills and<br />

interests before swiping through<br />

the opportunities.<br />

Management consultant<br />

Alexandra Nott and lawyer<br />

Camille Wrightson have brought<br />

the national app to Christchurch.<br />

“We’ve been so blown away<br />

by the calibre and range of the<br />

organisations we’ve talked to so<br />

far,” said Ms Nott.<br />

Christchurch listings<br />

include Tiptree Cottage Trust,<br />

Christchurch Youth Council,<br />

Supporting Families In Mental<br />

Illness Canterbury, Big Brothers<br />

Big Sisters, Māia Health<br />

Foundation, Laura Ferguson<br />

Trust and the Breast Cancer<br />

Foundation.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are also nation-wide<br />

listings. Christchurch is the<br />

fourth region to get the app,<br />

following Wellington, Nelson<br />

and Hamilton.<br />

Art work’s hefty cleaning bill<br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

A SCULPTURE of stairs leading<br />

to nowhere at the Botanic<br />

Gardens’ information centre lake<br />

could become a permanent part<br />

of the city’s public art collection.<br />

But ratepayers will have to<br />

keep forking out $700 a month<br />

to clean it.<br />

<strong>The</strong> work, Diminish and<br />

Ascend by Auckland artist<br />

David McCracken, was installed<br />

temporarily in the lake in 2016<br />

as part of the SCAPE Public Art<br />

season.<br />

Today city councillors are set<br />

to discuss recommendations to<br />

make the sculpture permanent.<br />

“Maintenance is currently<br />

being undertaken and paid for<br />

out of the city council artworks<br />

budget at the expense of<br />

maintenance of other art works.<br />

It is currently costing $700-$760<br />

per month to maintain,” a staff<br />

report said.<br />

As the stairs are in the middle<br />

of the lake, gaining access and<br />

cleaning off the duck excrement<br />

several times a week means the<br />

maintenance costs are high.<br />

Since it was installed, more<br />

than $11,000 has been spent on<br />

its upkeep.<br />

<strong>The</strong> location also protects the<br />

artwork from vandalism and<br />

ART WORK: Diminish and Ascend could have a<br />

permanent home in the Botanic Gardens. While Spire<br />

may have its lease extended in Latimer Square.<br />

people climbing it, the report<br />

said.<br />

<strong>The</strong> city council is contributing<br />

$50,000 of the $192,000 needed<br />

to purchase and install the work.<br />

<strong>The</strong> rest of the funding has come<br />

from sponsorship.<br />

City councillors will also<br />

decide whether or not to extend<br />

the lease of another public<br />

art work – Spire in Latimer<br />

Square – until the end of next<br />

year. Christchurch artist Neil<br />

Dawson’s work has been in the<br />

square since 2014, when he selffunded<br />

the work and installed<br />

it himself, but his lease has run<br />

out.<br />

“Mr Dawson is looking to<br />

relocate the Spire to a permanent<br />

location and would appreciate<br />

if the city council would permit<br />

him to retain the sculpture at<br />

this location until the end of<br />

2019. He has indicated that if<br />

a permanent location is found<br />

earlier he would remove it,” the<br />

report said.<br />

<strong>The</strong> work is based on the<br />

Christ Church Cathedral,<br />

to reflect its loss during the<br />

February 22, 2011 earthquake.<br />

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