Festa, or the Festival of Transitional Architecture, will light up the inner city this weekend. The Luxcity event, during the evening of Saturday, October 20 can be accessed from Latimer Square.
Lighting up the inner city though is just one of a number of events that makes use of empty sites and highlights the work of Restart and Gapfiller.
The Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) is a new annual event, celebrating temporary architecture and DIY urbanism in Christchurch. Its organisers believe that Christchurch has the opportunity to be a global epicentre for creative urban renewal, through transitional and experimental architecture, art and performance.
Transitional projects have already provided a way of creatively and immediately reoccupying and regenerating the central city. They give us a chance to experiment, meet pressing needs and harness the community’s craving to be involved in creating their city.
The closing weekend features Gap Filler’s latest venue, the Summer Pallet Pavillion, which is being built on the former Crowne Plaza site.
FESTA was conceived concurrently by two separate groups of people who eventually found each other. One group emerged from George Parker’s desire to contextualise and grow the Art Circus project. The other stemmed from the mind of Stuart Candy, a Melbourne-based futurist at Arup.
source: mostly from the Festa website
