Arts & Culture

Cityscape’s home of everything entertainment and art in Christchurch.
 

Top picks for the Bread & Circus Backyard Buskers Festival

What's On - Arts & Culture

It's that magical time of year. Fish are jumping, birds are singing, and we're up to our balls in jugglers. That's right, the buskers are back ...

 

Canterbury Museum exhibition highlights the diversity of Islamic culture

Arts & Culture - What's On

A new exhibition – Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community – which aims to demystify Islam for non-Muslim New Zealanders opened at the weekend at ...

 

New Zealand Opera’s 2021 season announcement brings The Marriage of Figaro to Christchurch

Arts & Culture - What's On

Appropriately themed ‘navigating love’, NZ Opera’s 2021 season is set to make us fall in love with opera all over again with a variety of operas ...

 

Ten top Christchurch galleries to scratch your art itch

Arts & Culture - What's On - Explore

Canterbury has a thriving arts scene, with ultra-talented local veteran and newcomer artists filling Greater Christchurch's many galleries. ...

 

Entertain me - Summer 2020/21

Arts & Culture

We round up great films, reads, shows to bingewatch, new albums to treat your ears to and a couple of decent podcasts to enlighten. Watching Film ...

 

The Wrightmann Collection: A short history of Canterbury contemporary art

Arts & Culture

Spanning almost three decades, The Wrightmann Collection comprises nearly 1000 works of art and objects by Aotearoa New Zealand artists, ...

 

Q&A: Magician Jarred Fell

People - Arts & Culture - What's On

Witty, naughty and razor-sharp, Jarred Fell is coming to Christchurch to premiere his new show, Again. He talks street magic and sleight of hand ...

 

Anthony Wright: Museums, masterpieces & matagouri

Arts & Culture - People

Anthony Wright and his partner Selene Manning recently completed the stunning home-cum-art collection Wrightmann House. All the interior walls of ...

 

Q&A: Daniel Weetman of The Black Seeds

Arts & Culture - What's On - People

Reggae summertime legends The Black Seeds are playing Christchurch into the new year at Hagley Park on December 31. Singer and percussionist ...

 

Getting up: Street art in Christchurch

Explore - Arts & Culture

The depictions on Christchurch’s exterior walls are a massive part of the city’s post-quake identity. Cityscape talks to a few of the artists who ...

 

Q&A: Joel Hart

People - Arts & Culture

Joel is a Christchurch graphic designer and urban artist with a proclivity for creating art around the themes of beauty and decay. What are the ...

 

Q&A: George Shaw

People - Arts & Culture

George, originally from the UK and having come to Christchurch via Nelson, is one of the masterminds behind street art organiser and commissioner ...

 

Celebrating 150 years of Canterbury Museum: House of Taonga

Arts & Culture - Explore

Canterbury Museum’s doors first opened on October 1, 1870, and over the past 150 years its collection has swelled from 25,000 items to more than ...

 

Unbeatable collab: Synthony returning to Christchurch

Arts & Culture - What's On

Orchestral-spectacular Synthony is coming to Christchurch Arena. For a live music experience that gives you chills, gets you dancing and just ...

 

Q&A: Wongi 'Freak' Wilson

People - Arts & Culture

Wongi Wilson is a street artist with a reputation for high-quality, large-scale works in prominent positions around Christchurch. What motivates ...

 

Q&A: Nomi Cohen

What's On - Arts & Culture - People

For everyone who’s ever sat bored through the sports or ancient history part of a pub quiz, Nomi Cohen is bringing us a thigh-slapping, ...

 

Q&A: Dcypher

People - Arts & Culture

A mainstay of the DTR street art crew, Dcypher cut his teeth in Canterbury before spending a decade in Los Angeles working as a freelance artist ...

 

Q&A: Jacob Root

People - Arts & Culture

A relative newcomer to the Christchurch street art scene, Jacob Root uses stencils, screens, acrylic and aerosols to create works scaling from ...

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