Myles

My introduction to playing music in a band started out with a big fat lie. A band at my high school needed a bassist. I told them, ‘yeah, man, I play bass. I know exactly what I’m doing when it comes to bass.’ All of a sudden I was a bassist. That weekend, I went […]

Charlotte

I grew up in mid Canterbury, kind of rurally, and went to school down there. I always had an interest in performing and entertaining, especially in music. I’ve had lots of amazing music teachers over the years and they’ve all had a big impact on my life and perspective. I moved up to Christchurch in […]

Adam and Anna

“I went to Australia in 2010 with the intention of being there six months. I got offered a full time job as an assistant winemaker, so I decided to stay. Our winery wasn’t set up for processing our whites, we did it at a contract facility which was Adam’s work and I met Adam there. […]

Helen – Part 2

“Looking back and realizing just what a totally different life I had as a child, I think part of why boarding school was so hard was that nobody actually understood. Boarding school taught me how to live alongside, work alongside people that I now have no contact with, so in life, there was that ability […]

Helen – Part 1

“I grew up in the North Canterbury back country. My father managed a high country station called Esk Head up the South Branch of the Hurunui River. We lived in a sod house with a thatched roof. Outside had corrugated iron because there weren’t people to re-thatch any longer. We had a diesel generator for […]

Tutu

“I’m from Tamaki Makaurau. I have a good job with Riverside market. I am security, and we need this area nice and clean. We don’t want dirty things everywhere, like rubbish. I like Christchurch because there’s lots of entertainment, lots of people, all loving, give me aroha, tautoko mai. Kia kaha, be strong.” I’ve been […]

Joe (Dark Ballad)

“It’s my own obsessed brain. I’ve got a to-do list of what I want to do in a week, but there’s 50 things on each day that obviously can’t all be done. Because I’m always thinking about these things, the moment is not really lived in at all. I was always pretty neurotic like that, […]

John

“Well I’ve always been interested in tourism but I had to retire before I got involved. I was in sales for a number of years but I started my working life on the railways, as a fireman making black smoke. When I was due to retire I came across the kiosk in Cathedral Square of […]

Jordan

“I’m from Wellington but I’ve been living here since 2016. I met by boyfriend online, we chatted for about five months then starting seeing each other. I’d never been to the South Island in my life and I thought wow, this is amazing.  When I was in Wellington I was very different. My dad was […]

Beth

“It sounds pretty cliche, but when people asked me what I wanted to do when I was older, I had no idea but I always knew I wanted to help people. I’ve been in hospitality for about 10 years and I’ve seen firsthand how much food wastage there is. When I heard about the free […]