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Earth Day 09

Ki — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:49:57 +0000

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.

Latin Dance Festival

Ki — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:01:01 +0000

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.

Latin Dance Class

Ki — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:27:08 +0000

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.

Sparks in the Park

Ki — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:36:22 +0000

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

Sounday Baby!

Ki — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:45:50 +0000

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.