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Events and entertainment

World Buskers Festival, get your tickets now!

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One of Christchurch’s most loved festivals returns to the city streets and iconic venues (18-28 January 2018) with an impressive international and local performer lineup to celebrate 25 years of World Buskers Festival.

On offer is 10 days of highly entertaining street theatre hosted at various iconic sites around the city and 11 nights of world class shows including headline acts Tape Face, Le Gateau Chocolat, The Topp Twins, Urzila Carlson, Ginger Minj and Ali McGregor.

The grand finale of the festival, Buskers Best Bits will be hosted in the stunning Isaac Theatre Royal on Sunday 28 January. Featuring as many performers from the festival as possible, they all present their best bit, their newest bit, their naughtiest bit or just some other random bit.

For everything you need to know about the WBF 2018 performers, venues, partners, show times and how to book head to www.worldbuskersfestival.com  

Postgraduate study

Education, Health and Human Development in the spotlight

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On Thursday 2 November the College of Education, Health and Human Development is hosting a one-day Postgraduate Student Showcase.  This inaugural showcase has been timed to acknowledge the move of the College into its new home in Rehua, a purpose-built space on the Ilam Campus, early in 2018.  The idea of the Showcase came from a desire to acknowledge the postgraduate research at both masters and doctoral level that has occurred on the Dovedale campus over many years.  With the move to Rehua, the College wished to acknowledge the journey of so many students, and the work of their supervisors, in contributing to our understandings of education, health and human development.  Once the College is settled in Rehua, this gathering will be part of our annual programme of events.

The venue is Wheki 302 and will be opened by Professor Angus Macfarlane at 9.00am.  The morning will be dedicated to Pecha Kucha presentations from across the College; the afternoon session will be poster displays and a keynote address by Associate Professor John Freeman-Moir – The Worth of a Doctorate.   The day will close at 2.00pm.  All welcome – if you’d like to be in the audience please rsvp to Jennifer.clayton-smtih@canterbury.ac.nz

Associate Professor Annelies Kamp – PG Coordinator

Student contributors

Building awareness around food waste

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Jack Whittam

ELDP students Jack Whittam, Katy Byrne and Ailine Kei.

12,856 tonnes. It’s not only the weight of the Eiffel Tower, or even the amount of weight you feel like you’ve put on since the Hot Wok started doing daily $2 rice, it’s also the amount of bread thrown away every year in New Zealand!

In fact, bread is the number one food thrown away in New Zealand, making up 10.5% of all food that is wasted. As a part of a national food waste awareness campaign, in conjunction with Love Food Hate Waste New Zealand and Christchurch City Council, a bunch of keen UC students built a pyramid out of 2,283 loaves of bread, representing how many loaves are wasted in New Zealand every hour.

As members of the Emerging Leaders Development Programme (ELDP), a group of us were able to volunteer at the event, preparing the pyramid for construction and feeding curious students passing by with a ‘meal in a mug’ – a super simple sweet treat that minimises food waste, and maximises easy cooking, convenience and taste!

The ELDP has a great focus on teaching leadership skills to students through community volunteering opportunities, and our contribution to this event punctuated the last of seven service projects the Emerging Leaders cohort has undertaken this year.

Other voluntary service projects have included sorting food relief packages at the Christchurch City Mission, walking rescue husky dogs for Husky Rescue New Zealand, maintaining public spaces for Gap Filler and providing free academic tutoring to high school students.

The student’s enthusiastic contribution toward these events reflects the passion these students have shown to make a real difference in their community.

Written by Jack Whittam ELDP student