Warren

I got into biking six years ago, maybe seven, for stress reasons. I had a fun time at school with the earthquakes and the trauma kids. There was a bubble of kids that came through very, very broken, and then there was another bubble that came through immediately after. We had sort of six, seven […]

Rhys

I’m all about planes. I’ve always been obsessed ever since, like, my dad first took me to the airport. I remember being on his shoulders in the regional terminal and just seeing all the planes. Now my plan is to be a pilot. I’ve spent a lot of time on flight simulators and stuff. I’ve […]

Feather

When I was a little kid, one of my grandparents took me to see my first play. I have this really magical, vivid memory of just being so consumed in the magic of theatre. All the external problems were outside for a little moment. I wanted to leave school at the end of year 12. […]

Elissa – Part 2

A lot of adults don’t play. I was in the city for whatever, I think I was with a colleague. We had just been to the convention centre and we walked back to where we parked. There were some puddles, and instead of walking around, I jumped onto one of the blocks, and ‘boink, boink’ […]

M

I live in an apartment building in the central city. I am always, you know, out doing things in the city, going for walks, spending time with friends and family. I love getting coffee and just sitting in the sunshine and enjoying the sort of connection to nature, but also the life that goes on, […]

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 […]