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Boosted Ōtautahi Supports New Cultural Play Trail For The City
Monday, 26 August 2024, 3:27 pm | Gap Filler
Te Kōrero Tākaro/ Stories of Play is a collaboration between Gap Filler (Pae Tākaro), Our Stories and InCommon. This is an oral history project, we’re teaching rangatahi how to interview their elder’s about play and traditional games. More >>
New Augmented Reality Experience Featuring Local Artists Launches For Ōtautahi Christchurch
Friday, 21 June 2024, 9:27 am | Gap Filler
Gap Filler’s Pae Tākaro Place of Play programme has collaborated with Dr Troy Innocent from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) future play lab to create an Augmented Reality (AR) journey in Ōtautahi Christchurch called ‘64 ... More >>
New Augmented Reality App Featuring Local Artists Launches For Ōtautahi Christchurch
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 1:41 pm | Gap Filler
‘64 Ways of Being’ is an urban art experience that uses location-specific participatory artworks, game design and stories to bring the streets, parks and Ōtākaro Avon to life via mixed reality. More >>
A New Focus As Gap Filler Restructures
Monday, 4 September 2023, 3:14 pm | Gap Filler
Amidst a cost of living crisis and tough economic conditions many of us are feeling the pinch at home, at work or both. Gap Filler has morphed and changed over the years as many small enterprises do, expanding and contracting in response to a changing ... More >>
Yarn Bombing Festival Launches Saturday 10 June - Kicks Off With Knit Around The Tram
Friday, 9 June 2023, 10:33 am | Gap Filler
Yarnarchy 2023, an Ōtautahi yarn bombing festival, launches tomorrow Saturday 10 June (Worldwide Knit in Public Day)! The Yarnarchy crew will celebrate the installation of more than twenty yarn bombs around Ōtautahi’s central city tramline by joining ... More >>
Pae Tākaro Place Of Play By Gap Filler
Tuesday, 2 August 2022, 3:26 pm | Gap Filler
Ōtautahi Christchurch is already well known for its creative interventions in the city over the past decade. Now, Gap Filler has established the Place of Play HQ at 153 High Street. This is the headquarters of a new three year programme to establish ... More >>
Dance-O-Mat To Live On!
Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 11:56 am | Gap Filler
This city’s Dance-O-Mat will remain on Christchurch streets thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign that closed on Tuesday at midnight. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2203/0da1ad3e7c810d232846.jpeg" width="720" height="480"> Gap Filler, creators of the ... More >>
Placemaking At One Central Wins International Award
Friday, 5 November 2021, 12:18 pm | Gap Filler
<img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2111/9b65cf4eba1643c78c2e.jpeg" width="720" height="480"> The Placemaking at One Central programme by Gap Filler and Fletcher Living was awarded one of the top prizes at ... More >>
Programme To Activate Wellbeing In Christchurch’s CBD Is Back!
Friday, 4 December 2020, 6:15 am | Gap Filler
Moodshift is back! Gap Filler is at it again to brighten up otherwise ordinary days for inner-city workers. Moodshift is a free pop-up event series happening every workday lunchtime during the second week of December (7th-11th), from midday to 2:00pm in ... More >>
Tool Lendery: a new community resource
Thursday, 18 July 2019, 8:36 am | Gap Filler
A new community resource has popped up in town: the Tool Lendery, Christchurch Central , and it is about to have its official launch! More >>
Swinging from Sunrise to Sunset in the central city
Thursday, 20 June 2019, 12:42 pm | Gap Filler
A sunrise to sunset ‘swingathon’ is taking place in the central city this Saturday to mark the shortest day of the year on the city’s newest and brightest swing. Members of the public are invited to come along and take turns to help keep the swing ... More >>
Mini World Cup for the Central City This Week
Sunday, 1 July 2018, 6:42 pm | Gap Filler
Football is coming to the central city. This Wednesday, July 4, 16 teams from a range of workplaces will battle it out for the Workplace World Cup. The friendly competition which coincides with the Football World Cup in Russia, is being organised by Gap ... More >>
AyoAyo now installed!
Thursday, 2 November 2017, 3:49 pm | Gap Filler
This phase has seen the organisation work with members of the Nigerian Canterbury Association to create a mancala board. Known as an Ayoayo in Nigeria, mancala is a game that involves moving pieces or seeds from ‘dishes’ usually carved into ... More >>
2000 City Adventures Taken in 2 months!
Monday, 2 October 2017, 12:47 pm | Gap Filler
A parking meter with a difference has issued 2,000 tickets since being installed in Cathedral Square two months ago. More >>
Ping Pong Travels to Christchurch Airport!
Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 11:39 am | Gap Filler
Ping Pong travels to the Airport! Christchurch Airport has added two outdoor ping pong tables, previously located in the central city, to its outdoor plaza this week. The tables had their first public outing near the Bridge of Remembrance and Re:Start ... More >>
Student games to feature on giant outdoor arcade system
Monday, 25 September 2017, 1:45 pm | Gap Filler
Gap Filler’s giant, outdoor arcade gaming system, Super Street Arcade, is soon to host several new games made by Christchurch high-school students. The students from Burnside, Lincoln and Papanui HIgh Schools have been working on creating games ... More >>
Wonder Wheels : pop-up roller skating event
Wednesday, 13 September 2017, 12:01 pm | Gap Filler
Wonder Wheels: Year 6 students organise pop-up roller skating event in the city tomorrow. More >>
Christchurch Parking Meter With A Difference
Thursday, 6 July 2017, 10:57 am | Gap Filler
A repurposed parking meter in Cathedral Square has started issuing tickets of a very different kind. More >>
New Game for Super Street Arcade - an ode to Space Invaders
Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 2:19 pm | Gap Filler
A new game is about to be unveiled on Gap Filler’s Super Street Arcade system this week. “Space Raiders: The battle for Christchurch” is a new game developed by local game developer, Brent Silby of Def-Logic. It is an ode to the 80s arcade ... More >>
Ping Pong tables departing. (In part!)
Thursday, 27 April 2017, 9:12 am | Gap Filler
After five months of use in the the central city, Gap Filler’s concrete ping pong tables will be moving on. Two of the tables, which have been located at the end of Cashel Mall since December, will be departing, while one will remain until mid-Winter. More >>
