Podcast – Antarctica

Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from New Zealand’s only specialist human rights radio show Speak up – Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton.

The latest episode deals with issues relating to Antarctica:

• Ice melt
• Climate science and climate change – ice core research
• Antarctic Treaty and international cooperation
• Antarctica as a place – vistas, cold etc
• The role of New Zealand and Christchurch in Antarctic exploration

This show was recorded at the Centre of Contemporary Art and includes discussion with Bryan Storey of Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, Dan Price (Pole to Paris) and Karen Scott from University of Canterbury Law School.

Transcript of audio file

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• Find titles about Antarctica and climate change
• Find titles about discovery and exploration of Antarctica
• Find titles about Christchurch and Antarctica

     

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The show is also available on the following platforms:

• Plains FM website
• SoundCloud
• iTunes

The Gig Guide: February 2017

Planning on attending a concert, show, or gig in Christchurch? Then why not take a look at what we’ve got of that artist’s back catalogue?

Comedy

• Fawlty Towers Live 21 February – 4 March

Kids

• Robin Hood 1 February

Music

• Ty Dolla $ign with Kent Jones and SWIDT 1 February
• Christchurch City Choir & The CSO – Handel’s Messiah 2 December
• The Veils 2 February
• Yulia 3-4 February
• Lloyd Cole 3 February
• T-Pain 4 February
• Ben Salter & Emily Fairlight 4 February
• Scottish Tattoo 4 February
• Herbs 5 February
• Hera 5 February
• Aldous Harding 8 February
• Jimmy Barnes 8 February
• Adam McGrath 10 February
• Lindon Puffin 12 February
• Simple Minds & The B52s 16 February
• Vivaldi – Four Seasons 17 February
• Salmonella Dub – 17-19 February
• Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band 21 February
• Doug Caldwell 23 February
• Electric Avenue: Shapeshifter, Shihad, Hermitude, Tiki, David Dallas, Pitch Black, Greg Churchill, Dub Pistols, Safia, Pacific Heights, Jed Parsons and friends, Decades, Black Fox Trio, The Response, Tom Cosm 25 February

What gigs are you looking forward to in the near future? Anything we’ve missed? Do let us know in the comments.

Reading Poetry Around the World

All the seats were taken and the truly dedicated stood for an hour to listen to people talk about poetry at Scorpio Books on Thursday the 26th of January.

The chance to hear poet and world renowned poetry scholar Stephen Burt in a conversation with Victoria University Press editor Fergus Barrowman, chaired by University of Canterbury Professor of English Paul Millar, explained the impressive turnout and they did not disappoint.

If you couldn’t make it these are the poets Burt read and rated before arriving in New Zealand: James K. Baxter – “one of the great poets of the 20th century”, Michelle Leggott, Bill Manhire, Andrew Johnston, Ian Wedde.

Those discovered after arriving: Bernadette Hall, Joanna Margaret Paul, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell.

Millar’s relaxed chairing – “I’m going to ask you a question and you can say whatever you like” –  let the conversation range freely and some interesting stuff emerged. The visits of American poet Robert Creeley influenced New Zealand poetry markedly; ” an accident of history that had unforeseen consequences”. I am ashamed to say I had never heard of him.

So how much does the Internet change poetry and reading? A lot. Burt and Barrowman agreed that current sensation Hera Lindsay Bird would not exist without the Internet and its international no cost distribution. But Unity Books in Wellington has also sold large numbers of print copies of her book.

Where will the ‘not hip’ poets be read? No-one knows. Burt is sure that the Internet makes it easier for everyone in the room last night to access poetry from other countries.

Burt was off to the The Bats (New Zealand poetry, with its “agreement groups not large enough to live in”,  was compared to the Flying Nun bands earlier in proceedings) so there was time for just a couple of questions. In the event there was only one and I can report that Bob Dylan was not shaped by Minnesota literary culture.

Thanks to the University of Canterbury College of Arts and WORD Christchurch for a very stimulating event. I’ll be keeping an eye out for others.