I found myself back in Christchurch for one night and I discovered the part that I was looking for on my last visit. I knew there would be some rejuvenation, some artistic endeavors, some splatters of inspiration around the city that saw so much destruction in the 2010 earthquake... I just had to look a little deeper and stumble into the Pallet Pavilion to see the real reconstruction efforts at the source.
There is a community effort organisation called Gap Filler that has bloomed and is continuing to grow all over Christchurch. In the formerly conservative city, vacant city blocks are being transformed into works of art, community gardens, pavilions made from pallets, washing-machine-powered dance floors, life-sized chess boards... the list goes on.
The Pallet Pavilion is the wonderful outdoor community area with food carts, a caravan cafe, pallet walls decorated with live plants and flowers and a stage that hosts concerts, Sunday jam sessions, dance performances and all sorts of groovy, funky things of the sort. That's where I got my coffee yesterday morning and where I was inspired to research this ingenious project down to the roots.... this is what I found, and I think it deserves some international recognition:
www.gapfiller.org.nz
And my personal favorite:
http://www.visualnews.com/2012/12/05/dance-o-mat/
Check out the links, be inspired and share the inspiration!
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