Help FESTA to put on Christchurch’s biggest street party, Lean Means - a spectacular temporary city
FESTA, a vibrant weekend celebration of collaborative urban creativity and regeneration, is asking the New Zealand public to
help transform Christchurch with its biggest street party, Lean Means - a night full of lights, colours and people.
This Labour Weekend FESTA’s headline event will once again put community back into the heart of the city on a
spectacular night out that brings together thousands of Cantabrians, as well as visitors. The large-scale reimagined
city called Lean Means is live for one night only, on Saturday 22 October. It is free and open to all.
This year's festival is focusing on making the most of the resources (our people and reusable materials) available to
us. For this extravaganza, eighteen student studios from seven leading design and architecture schools from across
Australasia will transform inner city spaces by transforming materials: they will design and fabricate imaginative and
immense installations from reused 'waste' materials.
The temporary city will be full of art, events, music, performance, markets, pop-up food vendors, kids activities and
more.
FESTA is currently running a crowdfunding campaign via Pledgeme and asking members of the public to participate in
helping to create a large-scale, spectacular temporary reimagined city for the public to enjoy. With so many
collaborators - from artists through to local businesses - this is a crowd-created festival, so festival organisers see
crowdfunding as an appropriate way to fund the big night out and another way to involve the public.
The transformation is set to be spectacular. Make sure you are in Christchurch on Saturday 22 October for this wonderful
event.
Learn more about FESTA in this video
Learn more about the Leans Means - a spectacular temporary city made from reused waste materials, in this crowdfunding
campaign video
For more information about the Pledgeme campaign, visit here
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