Warren

March 2026 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 […]

Helen – Part 2

March 2025 “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 […]

Murray

“I’m Tuahiwi and Arowhenua. “I was born in Christchurch, but I started from the bottom of the South Island when I was a young fella. Mum and Dad had farms in Cromwell, Wanaka, Tarras. When Mum and Dad retired, they retired to Timaru. I worked for a building firm in Timaru for years. I worked […]

Allan

They stuffed the whale. The council had the plans; it could’ve been lifted out in one piece. But they basically demolished it and just made another one the same. I don’t quite know why.

Reuben

“It’s a strange feeling I guess, like everybody in the city you still vividly remember that day 10 years ago. Everyone’s affected in some way, some more directly than others. I think for me my life would be so different without the earthquake experience. It’s hard to say that because of the tragedy that the […]

Flatman

“I love that anyone can be a superhero! After the earthquakes I saw a need in my community especially around the university where I was at the time. I started delivering food packages to people’s doorsteps in the middle of night as well as other random gestures of kindness. And I guess it grew from […]