What’s on this week - Christchurch
CCC MEDIA
ADVISORY
Monday 5 March
2012
What’s on this
week?
Friday 9
March
Farewell to the
Godwits
5pm
Southshore
Spit Reserve, South New Brighton
A full
complement of Christchurch’s much-loved visitors, the
bar-tailed Godwits, will embark on their epic journey back
to Alaska. Traditionally, at the end of each summer,
Christchurch residents have the opportunity to bid farewell
to the Godwits (kuaka) at a brief and informative ceremony
before they head back to their Alaskan breeding grounds. The
return path takes several weeks with stopovers around
China’s Yellow Sea, the Korean Peninsula and Japan, before
the home-run crossing of the Bering Sea to
Alaska.
Saturday 10
March
Culture
Galore
noon–4pm
Ray Blank Park, Maidstone
Road
Cancelled if
wet
Experience the world and celebrate cultural
diversity at Culture Galore! Be entertained with more than
50 cultural performances and demonstrations, a huge variety
of ethnic foods, art and crafts for sale and loads of fun
activities for the whole family. Tempt your senses and
delight your taste buds with the huge array of exotic smells
and flavours to sample and purchase. Children’s activities
include a bouncy castle, Plains FM recording booth, baseball
batting cage, origami, stone and soap carving and face
painting. BYO rug or chairs and make a day of it. Limited
parking is available.
Sunday 11
March
Akaroa Rhythm Method (The Breeze
Lazy Sundays)
Archery Lawn, Botanic
Gardens, 3.30pm–5pm
A motley mixture of
peninsula people who come together for the love of music to
play anything, anywhere, anytime! With a wide range of
cultural and musical influences, they can keep it cool or
fire it up, depending on where the music takes you.
Sunday
Bandstand
noon–1.30pm
Addington
Brass, Central Lawn, Botanic
Gardens
Leopard Coachlines Canterbury
Brass, Scarborough Reserve,
Sumner
Sumner Silver,
Allandale Community Fete, Allandale Domain
These events are all free and part of the Garden City
SummerTimes festival. For more information please visit
summertimes.co.nz.