March 28th, 2009
Filed under: Life | Tags: earth, festival
Earth Hour 09
Earth Hour is all about saving some of the serious energy by getting everyone to turn everything off for one hour. I love this idea. It’s a short enough time to really get a wide acceptance rate and to actually become kind of fun. Even businesses get into the spirit of things here in Christchurch turning off all the lights and serving customers at candle light.
This got me thinking, I wonder how many candles will get used during this years Earth Hour. Millions right, so if you take into consideration the energy and resources used to make, distribute and sell those candles how much energy are we actually saving?
Don’t get me wrong I’m still support the cause and will be switching off my lights in 2 hours time, but to go the extra mile I’m also not going to be lighting any candles. I suggest you do the same. So find some mates and enjoy some good conversation and beers in the dark.
March 2nd, 2009
Filed under: Life | Tags: christchurch, dance, festival
Latin Dance Festival 09
Went along to the Latin Dance Festival this weekend. It was held at the town hall and basically consisted of 2 hours of professional dancers strutting their stuff. The majority of it was very impressive and the crowd really got it to it. During the half time break a Latin band performed and about a quarter of the crowd got up to dance. It was a fun night out.
They also did some dancing work shops during the day in Victoria Square and sold a variety of South American Food. Unfortunately the weather didn’t hold up and rain put a bit of a damper on things.
February 20th, 2009
Filed under: Life | Tags: christchurch, dance, festival, friends
Latin Dance Class
Ivy’s friend and classmate, Maria, runs the Latin Dance Festival here in Christchurch. The festival will be starting on the 28th of February and to drum up some interest she has been running free Latin dance classes at Christchurch Art Museum on Wednesday nights.
Ivy and I went along to this weeks class. I was surprised with the turn out, there was at least 50 plus people there. It started off pretty slow with us all in a line copying some basic steps. Before I knew what was going on we were paired up and learning our first of three dance moves. After an hour of spinning and toe crunching we managed to become quite good at the three moves and were dancing away happily.
It was a pretty fun night and I would recommend it to anyone. Especially you guys out there. The girls out numbered the boys two to one, making dancing classes a great place to pick up chicks. Plus once you learn to dance your chances of pulling while out on the town are bound to increase exponentially.
February 5th, 2009
Filed under: Life, Music | Tags: festival, Music
Classical Sparks in the Park
Just got back from the Classical Sparks in the Park, which is basically a huge free classical music event in Hagley Park which finishes with a fireworks show. The music was reasonable, and the crowd seemed to be in good sorts. Only saw one drunken teeny fight as we were leaving.
Of course the highlight of the night was the firework finally. It started with a flaming apple being shot with a flaming arrow, then moved into a pretty spectacular firework rocket display that match a classical music score that was being played.
Pretty good start to the Waitangi Day weekend.
Fireworks
January 26th, 2009
Filed under: Life, Music | Tags: festival, Music
On Stage with Cut Off Your Hands at Sounday 09
I got me some media passes to Sounday last Saturday. It was awesome. Beautiful day, sitting backstage drinking free beer while listening to some great music. Couldn’t really ask for better. Got the chance to get some pretty good photos as well. If you want to read more check out my full post on
NZ Beats here.
oooooh just like dicky Gere in "shall we dance"…keep it up son,your blog is
full of cool stuff.(read it out to my wife and she started to swooooon…).
love that hand motion(part of the dance or pure inspiration?)
It was part of the dance, but I like to think I gave it a little something special.
2 to 1 Epic! I'm going to have to sign up to these courses in Blenheim!