Step with us inside the TV ONE Ice Dome and be transported to a world of winter wonderment in this high-energy highlight of the Christchurch Arts Festival 2009.

A survey of outstanding animation and film from New Zealand and the world will be screened in the Waharoa at the entrances to the WinterGarden, creating an intimate arena
to showcase this contemporary medium.

Sample the skills of the students and staff from the freshly minted Creative Industries Faculty at CPIT in a day long programme of performance on Friday July 24.

MY HEART IS A BEAST is a series of performances evoking the enigmatic presence of the wild spirit of humanity bursting to exist within the confines of the city. HERNE the Hunter, ancient pagan deity, invites us to enter a world of dreams, senses and myth.

In 2007, the Festival commissioned an animated television commercial that encapsulated everything the WinterGarden was about. The result was a visually-engaging product that inspired the creation of the colossal Snow Orchids, which return for 2009 by popular demand!

Waharoa: Storybox: celebrating people
& place is a site specific video installation documentary project that explores layers of history and the connections of themes through time.

A photographic exhibition developed by Murray Hedwig and Anita Peters over the last eighteen months as they documented whitebaiters through photographs and interviews.