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The Council’s Urban Forest Plan. Yay trees!

International artists returning to the city. Keep ’em coming.

Spoonbills establishing a colony in Travis Wetland.

Three solar farms coming to Canterbury – get that sun!

Resene Bright Spark is a hot sizzle of yellow.

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Wild weather events. Climate change is here – let’s not deny it.

Litterbugs. Come on, Chch, you can do better!

The closing of the Chateau Tongariro. The end of an icon.

Netflix’s new primary location rule. Long live password sharing!

Pre-summer holiday traffic is back – activate patience.

EDITOR’S NOTE

It’s on

Ican still recall the first big concert I went to. It was Coldplay’s Viva la Vida tour, held in the then Vector Arena in Auckland. It exposed to me the wonders of live events like this, so I was saddened as a young person growing up in post-quake Christchurch that we really missed out on a lot of those experiences.

We can now say that things have changed, and we are back!

Over the summer, the city was alive. International acts were back, buskers took to the streets, and horses galloped the polo fields at Hagley Park.

I was lucky enough to attend a number of those events: Elton John’s farewell tour, the Lexus Urban Polo, Electric Avenue, Bread and Circus, and a great new local festival of the arts, Tiny Fest.

With the bumper last two months, it’s heartening to see the city and its surrounds have an even more stacked month ahead.

We take a look at what’s coming up in Ōtautahi. And as you’ll see over the next few pages, it seems everyone is making the Garden City their stage over the coming weeks and months.

The SailGP goes full steam ahead in Lyttelton; we catch up on the legacy of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the Arts Centre brings colour to the CBD, and our orchestras – both national and local – are going from strength to strength.

On top of all this, we also catch up with new local haunt Mr Wolf and venture inside an expertly restored heritage gem.

So go forth, Canterbury. We’ve got a lot to explore, do, and see!

Yours, Liam Stretch

Editor