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This is a great topic to discuss in Lower Hutt as we look to regenerate many parts of our city, look to deal with increased anti-social behaviours and the ongoing impact of COVID 19 on our business community.

Placemaking Education on LinkedIn: #placemaking #popups #parklets #lighter #quicker #cheaper #place #hardware… When are not a good idea? It is tempting to think that we can just copy and paste an idea that seemed to work somewhere else into a new…

Last 🌲tree in place! Now all 32 trees 🌲🌲🌲are ready to help you feel🎅 festive as you shop and dine around the High Street. A big thanks and best wishes to allof the artists Normandale School Wā Ora Montessori School Lower Hutt Playcentre Manaaki Ability Trust Alina Gane-Hurcomb - Artist Johannes Mueller-Welschof - Visual Arts Saarah's Henna Juanita Cronje Jo Evans Art joevansart Sophie Gardiner Art gibbs siale falconer
Specials thanks Nexus Display Solutions displayand Resene for the all they do for our Street Art Trees.🎅🌲🎅

Christmas 🎅is nearly here, pop along onto High Street for this year's festive Street art trees🌲. 32 uniquely painted trees 🌲by our creative local artists, schools and community organisations. Shout out to Resene for the hundreds of testpots. Grab a coffee ☕and go for a wander.
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Check out Christmas Memories popping up on windows around the City Centre. You'll find some cool images of Lower Hutt Christmases past. Still time to add your Christmas Memories. Send to [email protected]
Hutt Central - Discover Between the Bridges

The Street Art Trees are adding some festivity to High St. Come and check them out!

Southend High Street🎄Trees have been installed on High Street today, between Margaret St and the Southend of High Street. Year three and a total of thirty-two🎄trees are on display from now until after Christmas🎄adding a bit of festivity in the heart of the city. Pop out onto High Street for a viewing
& put a smile on your face🎄

Big thanks to Resene for their continued support in providing the artists will lots of🎨🎨 testpots. Thanks to all of the creative artists Sophie Gardiner Art Joanne Evans Art Johannes Mueller-Welschof - Visual Arts Bex Falconer Saarah's Henna Alina Gane-Hurcomb - Artist Juanita Cronje Hayley Gibbs and community groups and schools Manaaki Ability Trust Normandale School Lower Hutt Playcentre, Wa Ora Montessori and NZ Blood.🎄🎄

Southend of High Street Art🎄Trees are ready and will be installed along High Street this week. In time for the Southend Business Group's Christmas🎄Late Night Shopping event on 1 December, Our Hutt🎄 Christmas 5-9pm. Check it out Hutt Central - Discover Between the Bridges
One tree has been painted by the Normandale School Envirogroup, predominantly led the project, with the help and support of other ākonga in the school.
They brainstormed ideas to what they thought should put on the🎄tree. Next, narrowing these down into a final design. Once the bauble and koru idea, then each child designed a bauble. Each bauble represents aspects of Normandale School that the children consider special and unique to the school, eg. Kapa Haka and their school song - Nau mai, Haere mai, the library, flora and fauna, the people. 🎄
Normandale School values form the acronym TREE (Thoughtfulness, Resilience, Enthusiasm, Empathy, with an overarching theme of Respect) are represented on each koru. The children were really keen to include these on the🎄tree as they were so delighted by the link. They also wanted to include their whānau group symbols which are native birds and an important part of life at Normandale School.
They really enjoyed the project and we hope that you enjoy their
🎄tree too!

Do you have a favourite Christmas memory caught on film? or on your phone? Would you be willing to share it and be part of our Community Street Gallery?
Can you tell us about the photo below?

Help us decorate this year with real Christmas memories from Lower Hutt. And take home a free 6X4 photo to keep.

Send us a digital copy of your happy Christmas memory
And join the CBD community street gallery
[email protected]

There is 34 days until Christmas! What is your Hutt Christmas memory? Was it captured in pictures? We are looking for Hutt Christmas memories for a Community Street Gallery to be displayed in windows on High Street and CameraHouse on Queens Drive.

Thanks for all of the interest to get involved with 🎄Street Art Trees 2022. We had such a big response and 🎄trees were scooped up in a matter of days. There are 14 🎄trees getting 🎨painted and have a couple of schools, playcentre and some community organisations along with local artists all working to create another year of Christmas on High's 🎄Street Art Trees. Shout out to Resene 🎨🎨supporting this Christmas 🎄tree project again this year, providing paint for every tree.
32 trees will decorate High Street from Waterloo Road to the Southend of High Street. Installation will start from 25 November to get the street ready for this year's Our Hutt Christmas, Late Night Shopping 🛍️🛍️🛍️event on 1 December.
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Southend Business Group is hosting a Community Street Gallery called Christmas Memories. With the help of Camera House on Queens Drive, they'll collect photos and create a walkable gallery along High St and Queens Drive of photos and stories that are shared from the community. Start searching photo albums to phones!

Old school cool? Christmas memories to share?
Christmas Memories
A Community Street Gallery

Help the Southend Business Group and The Camera House decorate the CBD this year with real Christmas🎁🧑‍🎄🎄memories from Lower Hutt.

Send a digital copy of your happy Christmas memory and join the CBD community street gallery to [email protected] - and you can take home one free 6X4 photo to keep!

Post-pandemic are showing us a multitude of ways to change our cities and towns. Programs like About Space Hutt City are a valuable resource for both the property owner of a vacant shop as well as budding artists, creatives and start-up businesses. It adds a uniqueness and newness to a street that changes more frequently than traditional long-term leases. They add to the experience people can have visiting, shopping and dining.

From Dead Store to Pop-Up 'Social Infrastructure' A Boston nonprofit called CultureHouse is demonstrating how empty storefronts can be transformed into instant “social infrastructure.”

An exciting play opportunity is popping up in Lower Hutt on Friday 11th of November. An amazing chalk artist will be arriving at Dowse Square on Friday from about 9am. They’ll be completing an interactive chalk work that will be promoting play week, and playing local. Final touches to the art work will be done around 2pm.

Lower Hutt laneways offers short cuts to move through the city.

Why Alleys Are the Most Important Spaces in a City Go to http://brilliant.org/stewarthicks to save 20% off your subscription to Brilliant and start having fun (while learning) today!Alleys are the unsung hero...

Christmas on High's Street Art Trees 2022
We've had our third instalment of Christmas trees 🎄🎄🎄delivered. Resene has generously sponsored paint, with 104 days until Christmas, we need to get these trees out to local creatives🧑‍🎨, artists and community organisations. There are fourteen trees made of marine ply and finished with a primer coat of Resene paint, ready for community groups, artists to paint a mural on each tree. The trees will line 🎄🎄🎄 the southern end High Street in Lower Hutt city centre from 28 November until 9 January 2023. Contact [email protected] or DM for more info.
Artist's will receive:
An artist's fee, Resene paint and each tree with have a plaque with the name of the artist. Trees will need to be completed and ready for installation by the 25th of November, 2022.

Placemaking Aotearoa is thrilled to announce that the Kūmara Awards are just days away from opening up our 2022 nominations! The kūmara does not speak of its own sweetness, so we are looking to YOU to help us find the best placemaking projects from the last two years in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Te Panepane o Te Ika Greater Wellington Region (including Wairarapa), and Ōtautahi Christchurch, Selwyn and Waimakariri.

Tell us about the projects that made you and others feel included, connected and delighted. Big or small; permanent or temporary - we are eager to celebrate and showcase initiatives that helped uplift you and other local people as well as those which improved the place itself too. The pandemic years have been both challenging and transformative - what has made a positive difference in public space in your place?

Nominations open on Monday, September 12th at 8am and close on October 10th at 6:00pm.

Well time for the prize draw announcement!

Thank you all for participating and please help me give congratulations to the following winners from this year's Winter Woolly Bird Count 2022:

1- Best quote with Facebook post: Penny Collins for "Her Majesty" video clip...brilliant!

2- Most Creative photo: Amy Jennings

3- Funniest Selfie: Hazel Remfry (cuddling the penguins cracked me up)

4&5- Most birds found ( drawn from the top contenders who found all the birds): Jeff Downs and also Judy Chuang

6,7,8,9&10- Random Lucky Draws from both paper entries and Facebook photo posts:
- Karen M Self
- Gray Lu
- Jo & Kiri
- Rachel Petterson
- Ginette Harborne

11- Best Dressed: Chantel Mitchell (for the awesome owl Woolly hat, perfect for the bird count trail!)

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I will contact you all soon with how and when you can pick up your prizes, the photo is of a couple of things that make up the prize packs. Plus some beautiful books for 6 prize winners from the lovely library.

Did you enjoy the Winter Woolly Bird Count today?

Woohoo...it's on and going, come and join in, it's a tad breezy but otherwise, fingers crossed so far a nice day for an outdoor adventure...

Winter Woolly Bird Count 2022 is on NOW! Until 4pm...

Grab a map at War Memorial Library on Saturday 9 July and start your sear for the cutest birds in Lower Hutt!

NZILA and Streetscape are sponsoring a webinar called Lives and Afterlives of urban landscapes.

Lives and afterlives of urban landscapes - webinar | New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora Just released - new webinar

https://www.bloomberg.org/blog/new-study-shows-streets-are-safer-with-asphalt-art/

New Study Shows Streets Are Safer with Asphalt Art | Bloomberg Philanthropies By: Nicholas Mosquera, Julia Nachemson and David Andersson Can art make streets safer? As part of our Asphalt Art Initiative, a new study found that city streets became considerably safer for pedestrians after incorporating art into roadway redesigns.

Something cool to recreate on the banks of the Hutt River featured native birds!

🦅 More unreal work by Beach4Art, made from stones on a Devon beach.

Everyone loves a traditional green Christmas tree with lead glass inspired star ornaments, Lorraine Taylor painted this in 2020

Recognizable artists Aidan Walbaekken Art and Jayden Samuelu-Thomas teamed up to use their style of mural painting to transform this Christmas tree into an urban statement.

Urban Street Art sprinkled with some holiday love and cheer. Painted by Jago Collier in 2020