Southern View: April 22, 2021

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021 

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Music a way to 

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Kicking off a big league career 

ON THE CHARGE: There was no stopping Te Waka Unua captain Eru Tito during his side’s 3-0 

win over Rolleston Primary in the final of the annual year 5 and 6 Canterbury primary schools 

rugby league tournament at South Hagley Park last week. •More photos, page 6 

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Bid to save 

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• By Ella Somers 

A COMMUNITY group 

has plans to save the historic 

Canterbury Yacht and Motor Boat 

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Governors 

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The Bays 

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Group want 

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to near the 

long jetty in Governors Bay. The 

club building has escaped demolition 

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sitting in a storage area on 

Lyttelton Port Company land. 

The group wants to restore and 

reopen the club building to the 

public in time for the building’s 

100th anniversary in 2023. 

Louisa Eades, a member of 

the Bays Boat House Group and 

secretary of the Governors Bay 

Jetty Restoration Trust, said the 

response from Lyttelton residents 

to saving the club building had 

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Thursday April 22 2021 3 

Green light for skate park 

WORK ON a new skate park 

in Sumner should roll into gear 

next summer after plans for 

the wider village green were 

approved. 

The Waikura/Linwood- 

Central-Heathcote Community 

Board has signed off the Sumner 

Village Green landscape plan 

and the site name. 

Board chairwoman Alexandra 

Davids said 

the decision 

to approve the 

overall landscape 

plan 

means work 

can move forward 

on the 

Alexandra 

Davids 

development 

of the skate 

park. 

“A strong community is built 

on strong connections and the 

new skate park offers an inclusive 

space where ... young people can 

gather and become more confident 

while growing their skills,” 

she said. 

“The community has certainly 

demonstrated overwhelming 

support for the skate park and 

contributed to the design, so it’s 

wonderful to sign off on these 

landscape plans. 

“While funding is not available 

until 2025-26 for the greenspace, 

PUMPED: Work on the skate area is set to start this summer. 

we can build the much-needed 

skate park to meet the needs of 

our many local skateboarders.” 

The skate park will include a 

1.9m deep pool bowl with an upper 

1.2m deep mini bowl section, 

a 1m to 1.2m flow bowl with a 

corner extension, a turnaround 

quarter pipe and an “across and 

down” ledge. 

The plan also includes ramps 

into the pump bump area and 

the manual box, along with a 

high pump bump, a rail, a quarter 

pipe, a rollover finger and 

learner, bank and angled ledges. 

Seating, pool-style fencing and 

landscaping will mark the skate 

park area off Nayland St. 

Davids said the wider Sumner 

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Village Green area will be a space 

for the whole community to enjoy. 

Work on a detailed design for 

the skate park will start soon, 

with the final build subject to contractor 

availability and relevant 

consents. 

Fencing will be put in place to 

restrict access to the rear of the 

site. 

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Waka Unua School from Woolston beat Rolleston Primary 

3-0 in the final of the annual year 5 and 6 Canterbury 

primary schools rugby league tournament at South Hagley 

Park last week. 

Hornby Primary edged out St Bernadette’s 4-2 to take 

third placing . 

Canterbury Rugby League development officer Dom Tola 

said a number of pupils got their first taste of the sport at the 

tournament, which was timed to lead into the club season. 

He said it provided a great opportunity for those new to 

rugby league to give it a try before deciding whether or not to 

sign up with a local club. 

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Unua captain 

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LEST WE FORGET 

ANZAC DAY 

SUNDAY APRIL 25, 2021 

Remembering our Anzacs 

“The darkness, calm and chill of the early morning; 

the sound of the single tap of the drum of the parade; 

the emotionless faces of the catafalque guard, and 

the mournful notes of Last Post sounded by a lone 

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remember those who have served and those who lost 

their lives in war. The term ANZAC is the acronym for 

Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, and was first 

used in World War 1. These groups of soldiers back then 

were known as ‘the Anzacs’. 

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ceremonies – one at dawn (timed to coincide with the 

initial landings at Gallipoli by Australian troops who were 

the first ashore) and/or one later in the morning. The 

ceremonies are rich in tradition and generally begin with 

a parade of returned servicemen and military personnel 

followed by cadets, youth groups and local dignitaries. 

War veterans, proudly sporting their medals lead the 

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parade, which leads to a local cenotaph or memorial gate 

where the ceremony includes a service with hymns, laying 

of wreaths, dedications, prayers and the Last Post played 

on a bugle. Morning tea follows and allows people to share 

memories and catch up with friends and neighbours. 

Anzac Day was first observed by servicemen in 1916 to 

mark the anniversary of New Zealand and Australian 

soldiers landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. It soon 

became a day where all New Zealanders and Australians 

took time to remember the men and women who 

perished in the Great War. In 1921, Anzac Day became an 

official holiday and by 1922 it was declared a full public 

holiday where shops, banks and hotels remained closed 

for the day. 

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poppy is commonly worn on Anzac Day. The first Poppy 

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the sales of small and large silk poppies helped relieve 

suffering in war-ravaged northern France. A paper version 

of the poppy is now sold by the Royal New Zealand 

Returned Services Association on Poppy Day to raise 

awareness for Anzac Day and funds for returned soldiers 

and their families and local communities. 

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ANZAC DAY CEREMONIES 

& SERVICES 25 APRIL 2021 

Dawn Parade & ANZAC Service 

Cranmer Square, Christchurch 

6.15am 

The Parade March, beginning from the RSA on 

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The Service Ceremony commences, including 

a minute silence 

Citizens’ Service 

Transitional Cathedral, Latimer Square 

10.00am 

Service commences 

Guardians of the 19th Battalion and 

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8.00am 

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Musical therapy a way to support children 

In her nearly three-decade 

tenure as a musical therapist, 

Julie Wylie reckons she’s 

witnessed a miracle every single 

day. 

Music plays an integral part of 

life at the Champion Centre in 

Burwood – a non-profit organisation 

providing early intervention 

for babies and children with 

disabilities, or born prematurely. 

Looking back, she has seen 

a child sing their first words, 

take their first steps, and even 

helped a four-year-old boy on the 

autistic spectrum find his voice 

through music. 

But after 28 years, it is time for 

Cashmere’s Wylie to pass over 

the conductors’ baton. 

“Every child I’ve met has 

taught me so much. It’s not about 

their limitations, but about how 

children can fly musically,” she 

said. 

“When you allow them to find 

their voice and let them be the 

leader, they take you on the most 

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Children with Down’s 

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IN SYNC: After nearly three decades, it’s time for Champion Centre musical play therapist 

Julie Wylie to hand over the conductor’s baton. 

Photo: Geoff Sloan 

developmental dyspraxia, autism 

spectrum disorder or brain injuries 

were usually referred to the 

centre by paediatricians. 

During the 1990s, Wylie and 

the centre’s speech-language 

therapists studied how music 

affected the brain and the wellbeing 

of child and parent. 

Neuroscience discoveries 

showed elements of music 

could be used in specific ways 

to promote well-being and 

regulation. 

Said Wylie: “I started writing 

and reflecting after every session, 

then I came across an amazing 

book on music and the mind and 

I thought, ‘this is the beginning.’ 

I could see that music could 

bring parent and child into synchronicity.” 

When a child is in a calm, 

regulated space, “then they can 

learn.” 

Music rhythm, melody, tune, 

dynamics such as “loud or soft,” 

music with a clear beginning, 

middle and end, and the harmony 

of instruments impacted 

systems in the brain. 

Depending on how they were 

used, they can either contribute 

to regulating or deregulating a 

child’s systems. 

“Music that has a steady beat, 

close to a resting heart rate, encourages 

lower parts of the brain 

and the body to come into synch 

and produce a feeling of calm,” 

Wylie said. 

Wylie referred to herself as 

a conductor, not the leader. 

Parents were the leaders as they 

could carry on the music at 

home. 

And ever since music was 

introduced to the Champion 

Centre, children and parents 

have flourished. 

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with disabilities 

“Looking back, I have probably 

seen a miracle every day,” she 

said. 

“There was one little boy on 

the autistic spectrum, aged four. 

He looked like an angel and 

had the most incredible voice. 

Nobody was seeing anything 

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musicality. I asked his mother to 

play him Mozart and he stood 

with his ear to the radio.” 

A parent could be full of grief, 

but “something hilarious” could 

happen during the music session. 

“The parent then has a good 

belly laugh and comments that 

they haven’t laughed like that 

since the baby was born,” Wylie 

said. 

“It’s a cathartic experience for 

parent and child.” 

Many graduates of the centre 

who once used music as a form of 

therapy have gone on to pursue it 

either in their careers or through 

study. 

Graduate Thomas Eves is 

now the chief trumpeter at the 

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, 

and Jasmine Butcher was 

studying music at university, she 

said. 

“Another boy, Rohan Soper, 

aged 17, who was born premature, 

has been learning percussion and 

has sat an exam through Trinity 

College,” Wylie said. 

“India Neville, now 21, is 

studying at a music academy in 

Canada.” 

‘I’ve done everything 

I’ve been asked to and 

wanted to do, and now 

it’s time to bow out.’ 

– Julie Wylie 

Just because Wylie was retiring 

from the centre, it did not mean 

she was saying goodbye to the 

world of music forever. 

She will continue to run her 

music school, the Julie Wylie 

Institute of Musical Play, and 

educate the next generation of 

therapists through the Postgraduate 

Certificate in the Psychology 

of Musical Play – a qualification 

she developed. 

“When I started at the 

Champion Centre, I was crying 

out, ‘please consider music.’ Now 

wherever I go, people are singing 

and using music,” she said. 

“I’ve done everything I’ve been 

asked to and wanted to do, and 

now it’s time to bow out.” 

The Garden City Rotary 

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last Sunday, 1200 seven to 

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24th running of the annual 

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It is the major fundraiser 

for Garden City Rotary, 

to support Rotary Youth 

programmes and a new 

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$200,000 tag for project 

• From page 1 

“Many Lyttelton people have 

happy memories of the building 

when it was used by the Sea 

Scouts,” Eades said. 

The Lyttelton Port Company 

has provided storage for the 

club building until the site is 

taken on by a new lease. This 

leaves the future of the building 

uncertain. 

Eades said the previous custodians 

gave the deed of the club 

building to the Bays Boat House 

Group “on the understanding that 

the building will go to Governors 

Bay”. 

The whole project is expected to 

cost about $200,000. “This figure 

is just an educated guess,” Eades 

said. “Once we have completed 

the first stage of the project we 

will have a much clearer idea of 

the cost.” 

The first stage includes completing 

a concept design, determining 

the options for transporting the 

building and repiling the site, and 

producing a costing report. 

“We are fortunate to have been 

gifted a grant from the R & N 

Wait Charitable Trust, proudly 

managed by Perpetual Guardian, 

to complete this important first 

stage,” Eades said. 

Repiling the proposed new 

location, resource and building 

consent and transport of the 

ON THE HARD: The boat house in storage at Lyttelton. 

BELOW: The building’s interior. PHOTOS: LOUISA EADES 

yacht club building are likely to 

be the main costs. 

Eades said the group anticipates 

the main source of project 

funding will be heritage grants. 

“Although the building is not currently 

on the heritage list, it holds 

many memories for the yachting 

and Sea Scouts communities.” 

Heritage NZ has written a letter 

to the Bays Boat House Group in 

support of their efforts. 

Recipes flood in 

for cookbook 

• By Samantha Mythen 

MORE THAN 200 recipes 

have been submitted for the 

next edition of a cookbook 

celebrating the culinary 

creations of Lyttelton people. 

Harbour Kitchens, published 

its first edition in 2009, when a 

group of parents from Lyttelton 

Main and Lyttelton West primary 

schools decided to create a 

cookbook as a school fundraiser. 

They did a reprint in 2010, and 

published a special earthquake 

edition in 2011. 

This fourth edition will be 

published in spring. 

This year’s editor Gaynor 

Stanley said they have received 

well over 150 submissions. 

“The contributions coming 

in are marvellous. There is an 

amazing amount of talent in the 

community,” Stanley said. 

“They are heartfelt, funny, 

straight-forward, eclectic and 

fun. It really reflects the makeup 

of our engaged community.” 

They have received recipes 

from the school principal, 

Brendan Wright, as well as from 

esteemed local chef, Giulio 

Sturla. 

The group behind the book 

FUNDRAISER: Kim 

Hickford creative director 

for Harbour Kitchens. 

decided to do another edition 

after the Lyttelton Primary 

School’s biennial Peninsula Art 

Auction had to be cancelled due 

to Covid-19. 

Although, the auction will run 

again next year, revisiting the 

cookbook appealed as good idea. 

The creators are all volunteers 

and 100 per cent of proceeds 

from the book’s sale will go 

towards the Lyttelton Education 

Charitable Trust. 

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week Tanya Jenkins writes about the 

McCormacks Bay Wetland Reserve 

restoration project 

IN 1990, the city council 

prepared a restoration plan for 

the neglected wetland area of 

McCormacks Bay. 

In 1992, the divided 

causeway ground was cleared, 

some planting was completed 

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created, providing safe 

roosting areas for birds. 

However, funding then ran 

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The Estuary Trust realised 

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with permission from the city 

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In 2013, 

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with the large amount of 

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Members from the Mt Pleasant 

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Frankie’s roller coaster ride to 

Frankie Bakker of Little 

River has quit full-time 

work to be an artist. 

She talks to Samantha 

Mythen about her 

creative practice and 

her journey along the 

way 

Where were you born? 

I was born in Zimbabwe. 

My parents studied tropical 

agriculture and went to 

Zimbabwe to work. I was lucky 

enough to be born there. But I 

was about one when I moved 

to New Zealand. Diamond 

Harbour is where I spent my 

childhood. 

What was it like growing up 

in Diamond Harbour? 

Amazing. I always spent 

time outdoors. We had a big 

garden. The nature is probably 

the biggest thing, being able to 

walk up the hill and go for ocean 

swims in the middle of winter 

just because you feel like it. 

When did you find yourself 

living in Little River? 

About three years ago. A lot 

of stuff happened prior – I went 

travelling and got really ill and 

needed to be home with my 

family. The longer I’ve stayed 

here, it’s the community that 

makes me want to stay. There’s a 

little house the previous owners 

used to live in while they were 

building the main house and 

that’s my studio. It’s at the top 

of a little hill and has a balcony 

looking over the whole valley. I 

turn music on and paint. There’s 

no reception or Wi-Fi up there. 

What’s been your journey 

to where you are now, calling 

yourself an artist? 

After graduating from the 

Rudolf Steiner school, which 

got my creative juices flowing, I 

wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, 

so I decided to apply to one fine 

arts school (Elam in Auckland) 

and see if they would accept me. 

I got in, moved there and then 

completed my fine arts degree, 

which was a roller coaster. 

In art school, I focused a 

lot on being human and our 

CREATIVE: Frankie Bakker working on her latest piece. 

obsession with hedonism and 

consumerism. After graduating I 

had a couple of group exhibitions 

in Auckland. I dealt with a lot of 

mental health stuff, which has 

made a big impact on my art. 

My focus turned to the female 

body and it was naked because 

it’s about self-acceptance, as in 

you don’t have to dress a certain 

way to be accepted in a certain 

way. From there, I put the bird 

head in, which is still very 

prominent in my work today. It 

represents freedom. 

There’s so many birds out 

there. They’re all beautiful, 

completely distinct. No one 

really judges them and they don’t 

judge each other. This idea has 

since structured my art work – 

self-acceptance and self-love. 

After uni I went to Japan to do 

an art residency. I really wanted 

to travel and I love Japan. It was 

picturesque in my head – like the 

ART AT LITTLE RIVER: The concept design for a mural Bakker 

will create at Little River School. 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

sakura, the Japanese blossoms. It 

draws you in. 

That was an incredible time 

for self-development. I’d gone 

on this big trip all on my own 

and everything I did was 

creative. I had support from all 

these amazing people, we did 

exhibitions – it was incredible. I 

also did a mural at a zoo. 

Between then and last year, 

I kind of lost it a little bit. But 

the Pop-Up Penguin happened, 

and this was a huge highlight. It 

pretty much sparked the desire, 

“I want to do this.” 

I started doing the Little River 

School mural designs in that 

time too. 

So this year I have quit my fulltime 

job. I have a small cleaning 

job in Akaroa, which is totally 

delightful and I love it. It means 

I have spare time to paint. So far 

I’ve had an exhibition in New 

Brighton Library called Unwind, 

and then I had the Christchurch 

Art Show. 

What’s been your favourite 

project? 

Japan Zoo was huge. This was 

the first mural I had ever done. 

A couple of weeks before I was 

due to leave Japan, I asked, “Can 

I paint that wall down the road?” 

It was completely grey and I 

thought, “It needs colour!” 

I talked to my residency host 

and she explained there was 

quite a commitment to painting 

something like that. 

A year later I was invited back 

to paint the zoo’s wall. It was an 

incredible two-month project. 

Everything was gut feelings – I 

went with the first design I drew. 

The support was incredible. I 

had 100 children at the opening 

day who came and did some 

painting. It was a huge artistic 

highlight. 

Tell me about your Pop-Up 

Penguin, which raised $17,500 

for Cholmondeley’s Children’s 

Centre. 

I was talking to the Wairewa 

Community Trust about 

painting a school mural and 

then heard about the design 

competition for the penguin. 

The trust titled it ‘Gateway to 

the Peninsula’, which I thought 

was really cool. So I went with a 

gate. I wanted it to be gold and 

to look valuable as this place 

is so valuable. I wanted it to be 

rich because the whole Banks 

Peninsula is so rich in nature. 

There’s a lot of blue for the waters 

and skies. Then the plants, birds 

and insects that we can see 

everywhere here. 

What project are you working 

on now? 

I am creating a mural at 

Little River School. It started 

with my own design and the 

Wairewa Community Trust 

Committee loved it, so we 

started putting a proposal 

through. We then decided to 

make a whole new design with 

the children’s input. 

So I put together a teaching 

plan for the kids and we 

organised an open day with a 

working bee around the tennis 

courts to get people involved, to 

give it more significance as well. 

I had no idea the mural would 

have such involvement. I thought 

I would have done it by now and 

painted it within two weeks. But 

here we are, it’s going to be done 

in May and I’ve done something 

for it, every day. 

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artistic dream 

• From page 1 

What has it been like working 

with children? 

So beautiful! I started the class 

off by presenting myself as an 

artist. They were very excited to 

have me there. I rock up with this 

presentation. I show them the 

Japan mural and the penguin. 

And then I showed them a photo 

of the tennis court wall and 

asked, “What do you reckon?” It’s 

bland and has nothing and then I 

said: “I’m going to paint a mural 

on here and I need you guys to 

give me some great ideas so that it 

looks amazing.” 

This was the interesting point. 

They all sat in pairs with a piece 

of paper and started drawing 

with pencil and then furiously 

erasing what they had drawn. I 

said, “Guys, this isn’t a piece of art 

work. This is the sketch process, 

this is the thought process. It 

doesn’t have to be perfect.” But 

you could see things ticking in 

their head, like “This doesn’t look 

like I want it too, I’m not sure if 

it’s good.” 

So I ended up going around 

and asking them to tell me what 

they were drawing and I also 

asked them, “What does that bird 

eat, what does it do, what kind 

of fun things can you imagine it 

could do?” 

When I started going around 

on the second lap, kids started 

throwing out ideas of moons that 

were disco balls. It was cool to see 

them gain some confidence. 

Then at the end I asked them 

if they had any further ideas. We 

heard about trains flying through 

the sky with birds hanging out of 

the windows. 

After the class, I spent hours 

going through their designs and 

ideas and then drawing them 

myself to put together the design. 

You can see how art sparks 

those kids. When the teacher 

asked the kids what they had got 

out of the class, they all started to 

say how it inspired them and how 

great they feel and they love the 

creativity, and it calmed them, 

which is amazing. 

I have this little dream, by like 

40 years old, to be able to do art 

SPARKING CURIOSITY: Bakker at the opening day of the 

mural she painted at Yuki Park Zoo in Japan. Children 

show Bakker their own drawing creations. 

therapy. To go back and study 

and learn the psychology behind 

it and find more sparks. 

Where do you find 

inspiration? How does Banks 

Peninsula influence your work? 

The wildlife is huge. Even just 

driving through Little River, 

there will be pheasants and little 

quail on the road, and I will think 

those are beautiful and then I will 

get home and I will start looking 

at images, and then other ideas 

pop up from that. 

Also, my art reflects what is 

going through my head and what 

I’m working through. Like at 

the Art Show, some people said; 

“Well, you have a bit of a crazy 

mind coming up with this stuff.” 

And I thought, “I guess I do.” 

What does being an artist 

mean to you? 

I am learning what the steps are 

to get there. But for me it 

has always been a dream. Like 

when people ask what did you 

want to be when you were 

younger, I didn’t want to be a 

fireman or a doctor or anything 

like that, I always wanted to be 

an artist.What are you if you 

don’t follow your dreams? You 

are lost. 

In the meantime, I want to 

meet all these other amazing 

artists and people that are 

involved in art communities and 

I want to share my art. Like that 

Japan mural and the penguin – 

the joy they brought to people 

was incredible. So why would you 

not do that? 

Even the art exhibition last 

weekend. It was so interesting, 

how some people were like, what 

is going on with that art, and 

other people just loved it. 

In the end, I left thinking that 

was really successful. I had so 

many great conversations and 

met so many amazing people. 

The two ladies that were in my 

corner as well, like now I’m doing 

a collaboration hopefully with 

one of them. She does poetry and 

I’m going to do the images. It is 

opening doors. 

How does being creative 

enrich your life? 

I feel like more of a whole 

person when I’m getting creative. 

It gives me a purpose and a 

positive outlet. Being creative 

means I’m doing something with 

my thoughts. 

What advice would you give to 

those wanting to start their own 

art practice? 

You need to want it. That’s 

what it is. And then you give it a 

go. Start by factoring in an hour. 

People go to the gym for an hour 

so why can’t you take another 

hour of ‘me time’ where you 

decide you are going to create. It’s 

the same with writing. Say, “OK, 

three o’clock to four o’clock today 

I’m going to sit in the park and 

just write. I don’t care what I’m 

going to write, I’m just going to 

write something.” 

IT’S DEFINITELY autumn now, 

with leaves falling and the night 

drawing in. 

Anzac Day is this weekend, 

and I am looking forward to attending 

commemorations across 

our communities starting with 

the dawn service in Heathcote 

before speaking at the Halswell 

commemoration and heading to 

Sumner for their service. 

These commemoration are 

recognitions of the sacrifices 

made by our defence forces here 

and overseas to protect our 

democratic system. 

They help us remember the 

sacrifices made by local residents, 

like George Ferguson of 

Halswell who enlisted in the 

Canterbury Mounted Horse and 

was killed in action on the 21st 

August 1915 in Gallipoli. 

Whole families were affected, 

like the Dromgooles of Lyttelton. 

Four of the six Dromgoole boys 

served in World War 2, serving 

in the Royal New Zealand Air 

Force, the army and the merchant 

navy. Three of them died 

on active service as a result of 

enemy action. 

This year I hope we all also 

remember the sacrifices our 

defence forces have made to 

support New Zealand’s Covid-19 

response and the managed isolation 

and quarantine systems. 

All the staff working in managed 

isolation and quarantine 

give up so much in order to keep 

us all safe. We’ve been incredibly 

well-served by our defence force 

contribution to the Covid-19 

response, and I am very grateful 

for their hard and brave work in 

difficult conditions. 

Tracey McLellan 

Member of Parliament Banks Peninsula 

Time to remember 

sacrifices made 

during war, Covid 

So this Anzac Day, let’s remember 

those who’ve served in 

the past and those who’re still 

serving today in a different kind 

of battle. 

And if you do see me about 

on Anzac Day, please say hello 

as it’s always lovely to make new 

connections. 

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have seen coverage in the Bay 

Harbour News of the proposed 

logging of the Moepuku Peninsula. 

I have received letters from 

community members and the 

residents associations of Church 

Bay, Diamond Harbour, and 

Charteris Bay. It is great to see 

the community being a strong 

watchdog for our harbour. 

Like them, I am deeply 

concerned about the potential 

environmental impact of sediment 

run-off from the proposed 

logging into the harbour. 

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For further information and enrolment 

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our website www.papanui.school.nz or 

email rpb@papanui.school.nz or telephone 

our office on 3520701. 

With over 50 events happening in Term 

2 at the WEA, there will be something 

for everyone, with topics including: arts 

and crafts, dance, movement and music, 

environment and science, history, language, 

literature, philosophy and more. 

There are regular groups and clubs, 

including Pod-Cast-On, who knit for 

babies at NICU and PIPS while listening 

to fascinating pod-casts; Craft for a Cause, 

making items to support causes and groups 

around the city; Book Group, meeting 

monthly to discuss an interesting read; 

WEA Norwest Branch, meeting every 

Friday in Papanui with a varied schedule of 

speakers; WEA Outdoor Painting Club who 

paint at various locations; and WEA Field 

Club, offering monthly trips to encourage 

outdoor activity and enjoyment of the 

natural environment. 

Some highlights this term include Social 

Activism – Local and Global, a six-part 

course delving into social activism here in 

Aotearoa and abroad; All About Eid, an 

introduction to the Festival of Eid which 

celebrates the end of Ramadan; Afternoon 

Tea with Sara Templeton, Councillor 

for Heathcote Ward; and The Belief 

Continuum – an introductory talk on the 

origins of six major religions, what they 

have in common and what sets them apart. 

Courses are held throughout the week 

in daytime, evenings and weekends, with a 

strong focus on social and environmental 

justice – if it’s good for the people and 

planet – then it’s good for the WEA. 

On a busy day we can have up to eight 

events happening, with dozens of people 

coming and going or sitting chatting with 

a cuppa in our sociable kitchen space. Our 

community is diverse and includes people 

from a variety of cultures and ages, coming 

together to learn and share skills and 

experience, and make friends. As well as 

our central city location we also hold classes 

in Lyttelton and New Brighton. Committed 

to keeping our prices affordable, we offer 

some free talks and workshops each term. 

Visit us at www.cwea.org.nz to find out 

more. Or drop into the WEA office at 

59 Gloucester Street between 9:30am and 

3:00pm Monday to Friday.



continuing education 

Risingholme’s Adult and 

Community Education 

Courses for Term 2, 2021 

Spaces are 

limited so enrol 

now to avoid 

disappointment! 

autumn is here and with this term 2 is just 

around the corner! now might be a good 

time to learn something new! 

With the cooler weather upon us have you 

considered enrolling in a cooking course? For 

Term 2 we are offering a wide range of cooking 

courses – Egyptian Cuisine, Indian Cuisine 

Beginners, Italian Cuisine and Thai Cooking. 

We are also excited to be offering a new 

cooking course for Term 2 – 

• Simple, Healthy Meals on a Budget. 

Over five weeks you will learn how to make 

five different healthy, easy, low cost tasty meals 

you can cook at home for yourself, family and 

friends. 

If you have been thinking of extending your 

Pattern Drafting skills, we are offering in Term 

2 Pattern Drafting and Pattern Manipulation 

– Own Project course. This course gives you 

the opportunity to start creating your own 

designs. 

We are expanding our programme by 

offering some new and exciting courses from 

Term 2 onwards. Topics offered 

are varied including a new 

cooking course, a range of new 

art courses, and a job readiness 

course. 

Our full range of courses 

and their locations can be 

viewed on our website 

www.risingholme.org.nz 

If you have an enquiry, please 

do not hesitate to email us at 

info@risingholme.org.nz or 

telephone the office on 03 332 7359. 

Course brochures 

are available at the 

Risingholme office 

and CCC public 

libraries. 

Adult and Community Education Term 2, 2021 

Come learn with us 

Risingholme Community Centre offers 

a wide range of short courses, each 

term, at a range of venues. 

Risingholme Community Centre 

Art (Creative Art, Mixed Media, Painting with Acrylics, Drawing 

& Sketching), Fabric & Craft Skills, Guitar, Pottery, Sewing Skills, 

Upholstery, Using your Overlocker, Sewing Retreat, Yoga, Wood 

Sculpture, Woodwork, Woodwork for Women, Zentangle, Fermented 

Foods, Te Reo Maori, Patchwork and Quilting, NZ Sign Language, Reiki, 

Junk Journal, Designing Water Colours, Upcycling Furniture Workshop 

Christchurch Girls’ High School 

Te Reo Maori, Drawing & Sketching, German Language, Painting with 

Acrylics, Spanish & Go, NZ Sign Language, Pattern Drafting, Spanish 

and Go, Simple Healthy Meals on a Budget 

Hornby High School 

Te Reo Maori, NZ Sign Language, Thai Cooking 

Riccarton High School 

Calligraphy, Indian Cuisine For Beginners, Italian Language, NZ Sign 

Language, Russian Language, Te Reo Maori, Photography, Egyptian 

Cuisine, Italian Cuisine, Sewing Skills 

Full details available on www.risingholme.org.nz 

Risingholme office at 22 Cholmondeley Ave, Opawa, Chch 

Phone 03 332 7359 | Email info@risingholme.org.nz 

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