Tagged: dunedin
Community voice : society through the ages
On Wednesday 24 October I’ll be part of a panel presenting and discussing this topic. My talk will be looking at the community of named student flats in Dunedin.
If you’d like a taster, here’s a selection of images I’ll be showing as part of the presentation which is entitled: a unique community in the north end of Dunedin: 80 years in 10 minutes.
If you’re interested in attending – please check out the link below and register.
Community voice : society through the ages
Nominee for 2011 Top Flat competition
A house with the leftover carcass of a rotisseried animal lying in its backyard and the hides of bush pigs hanging over a fence is vying for a prize in the Next Top Flat Competition in Dunedin.
Listen to the story here.
Source : Radio NZ 28 September 2011
Save the Scarfie / Inappropriate Magazine
“You can be a student anywhere but you can only be a Scarfie in Dunedin” Mark Wilson looks at the prospect of extinction facing this New Zealand cultural icon.
Save the Scarfie / Inappropriate Magazine
Interview with two members of Six60
An interview with two members of Six60.
Video and ODT story about Six60
Sounds by Dunedin Band Six60 (named after their flat 660 Castle Street).
Here’ an article about them, From Castle St to Big Day Out / ODT 15.01.11
Three new flats
The Ski Lodge (Warrender St), Tipsy Tiger (North Road) and Permafrost Cottage (Pentland St).
See more photos and stories on the Facebook Group.
Mouse House
Mouse House, my first flat. 888 Cumberland Street, Dunedin. It was 1991.
Ten years of flats from Grange Street
Here’s a bunch of named flats from Grange Street in Dunedin c.2000-2010.
Anything Could Happen / The Clean
knowpasse:
The Clean – “Anything Could Happen”
…and now I’ve listened to the original version a few dozen times in a row.
Pecha Kucha 5 – Dunedin Public Art Gallery 21/3
PK 5 went really well, heaps of fun with some incredibly interesting and amusing speakers. Lots of laughter and applause, chocolate and Emmerson’s beer – it was terrific.
Thankfully I was on before the The Dust Palace, a burlesque group. G-strings and shaving cream would have been a hard act to follow.
A recording should be posted on the International Pecha Kucha site soon.