Our City O-Tautahi (2002-2010)

Organization

Dates

Existence: 2002 - 2010

Biography

Our City O-Tautahi was an exhibition and events centre which operated as a public facing entity of Christchurch City Council. Established in 2002 in the Former Municipal Chambers Building on Worcester Street, Our City O-Tautahi was a publlic information centre and hosted a number of exhibitions including ANZAC and wartime commemorative exhibitions including Return to Monte Cassino, They Are Not Missing – They Are Here and At The Going Down Of The Sun And In the Morning.

Our City O-Tautahi was also involved in the planning and delivery of a number of Christchurch city wide events such as the Festival of Flowers and Heritage Week.

The operational activities of Our City O-Tautahi ceased following the 4 September 2010 earthquake when the Former Municipal Chambers building was damaged and following assessment was deemed unsafe to work in. No alternative function for city exhibitions of this nature hosted by the Christchurch City Council was retained. Some community exhibition functions were established with a new exhibition space upon the opening of Tūranga in 2018.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Canterbury Provincial Council Chambers: Records, glass plates and etchings, c.1940s-1950s, 1979-2010

File

Identifier: CCC/ARC/S77/1/3

Dates: c.1940s-1950s, 1979-2010

Found in: Christchurch City Council Archive / Christchurch City Council: Heritage Assets / Canterbury Provincial Council Chambers

Christchurch City Council: Our City Records and Collected Artefacts

Series

Identifier: CCC/ARC/S55

Scope and Contents Records relating the planning, delivery and promotion of significant events and exhibitions held by Our City. Includes some items collected by Our City for exhibitions as well as reminiscences of local people collected as part of research for exhibition content. Includes some object entry form and oral history permission forms. Some of this material is on CD, cassette tape and floppy disc.Artefacts do not all relate to Our City but include a Christchurch Drainage Board seal,...

Dates: 1945-2010; Majority of material found within 2000-2010

Found in: Christchurch City Council Archive

Dame Anna Crighton Papers

Series

Identifier: CCC/ARC/S134

Scope and Contents Papers of Dame Anna Crighton largely relating to her involvement in the curation of the Women in the Council Chamber exhibition in 2006. The papers also relate to her involvement with celebrating women's suffrage including attending and presenting at events and involvement with the Kate Sheppard Memorial in 1993.Includes papers relating to the Women in the Council Chamber exhibition in 2006, held at Our City, includes gathered research into former and current female Christchurch...

Dates: Majority of material found within 2005-2006, 2020