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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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