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The World Buskers Festival has stormed Christchurch for the past 10 days. CHARLIE GATES reflects on the festival and selects his favourite acts.
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REVIEW: If you are a certain age, you will have grown up with puppets.
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The Iron Chicken will take you places.
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The World Buskers Festival can boast its first baby.
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A Japanese busker is performing a trick so dazzling it defies science.
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REVIEW: In stand-up comedy, experience is everything.
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A busker has returned to Cathedral Square for the first time in nearly two years, to put on a special show for Christchurch red-zone workers.
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Love upstaged the buskers in Christchurch during the weekend. Dallas Harema proposed to his girlfriend, Lucy Ferris, with a flash mob dance at the busker pitch in Re:Start Mall on Saturday.
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REVIEW: This is a crazy town. Where else would you gather in a performance space made of blue pallets in a desolate landscape of partially demolished buildings to play bingo?
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The annual World Buskers Festival has kicked off in Christchurch this week, returning to Cashel Mall for the first time since the February 2011 earthquake.
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REVIEW: This is an utterly mesmerising and delightful show.
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OPINION: When the World Buskers Festival started in Christchurch, there must have been more than a few sceptics who thought that, despite or perhaps because of its over-reaching title as a "world" festival, an entertainment involving such an inherently unorganised, anarchic group of people could not possibly survive for long.
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They are younger than the festival itself and not old enough to see many of the shows on offer.
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Christchurch is a place where the Topp Twins can reconnect with their busking roots and "let loose" with spontaneous comedy.
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The buskers are coming and they're bringing millions of dollars with them.
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OPINION: As Christchurch has changed, so has the importance of the World Buskers Festival.
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REVIEW Gamarjobat. The Press Club, Busker Park. 7pm yesterday. Reviewed by Charlie Gates.
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The World Buskers Festival is returning to Christchurch’s CBD, which last year was nearly completely cordoned off because of the earthquakes.
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It's a lighting issue.....it's an intimacy issue.
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If you were thinking of securing pre-release seats to the SCIRT WORLD BUSKERS FESTIVAL shows in The Press CLUB & THE BIG TOP this offer is only available untill 12noon on Monday 14 January from Dash Tickets - and they’re booking out fast!
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He talks fast and doesn't touch alcohol or caffeine. CHARLIE GATES talks to the new manager of the World Buskers Festival.
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The World Buskers Festival will return to central Christchurch for the first time since the February 2011 earthquake.
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The WORLD BUSKERS FESTIVAL is a way for SCIRT's five lead construction companies to remind us all how much we have in common and how much the city's rebuild is something we are all part of.
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We’re not sure if it’ll be Camp Mother & Camp Leader, Ken & Ken, Raylene & Brenda, The Gingham Sisters, Prue & Dilly, or Herty & Gerty.
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Seats can be secured to attend ten of the 2013 SCIRT World Buskers Festival’s evening shows, being held 17 – 27 January, through the Buskers website worldbuskersfestival.com
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Nothing is more uplifting in times of trouble than belly laughter, and the award-winning SCIRT World Buskers Festival served up truckloads to our broken city in January.
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Do you have what it takes to be a critic?
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Pre-release seats for the 2013 SCIRT World Buskers Festival in Christchurch will be available from 9am tomorrow, Wednesday 14 November.
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SCIRT, the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team, today announced it will again be the principal sponsor of the 2013 World Buskers Festival, following the successful event in January this year.
