Vertical Voice Archives
2026
2025
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2024
- Opportunties to Play: outdoors and Mahjong
- Amusement Parks and tunnels
- Spongey Cities and Vertical forests
- Community notices: City centre picnic in Emily Place, Balcony to Bay, Tai Chi classes
- Emily Reserve Summer Picnic
- Tai Chi class intake
- Final week of Neighbours’ month
- Writers’ Festival
- Supporting our urban bee population
- Art classes (clay and painting)
- Along with: Axe throwing, an interesting apartment storage solution and a cool way to recycle your Samsung devices.
- Introducing: Antony Phillips - new VV Editor
- City Mission Foodtogether weekly Fruit and Vege Pop-Up
- Wynyard Crossing Bridge: Update
- Free Soil Saturday
- You’re invited: Te Ara Tukutuku April workshops
- Recipe of the month (from the family recipe books)
- Lime Scooter wardens
- Opera in The Strand
- Repair Cafes popping up in the City Centre
- Kapu Tī with Antony (new monthly column)
- Recipe of the month - Seed Crackers
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2023
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2021
- Emily Place Workshop - this Wednesday
- Greys Ave - an innovative build
- Te Komititanga
- Young families group
- Festivals & Escalators
- Pride!
- Neighbourhood Schooling
- Buildings that howl uncontrollably
- The Year of the Ox
- Understanding Queen St
- Make your own trousers
- and more...
- Balancing Budgets
- Save Merge Cafe
- "Bags of Beans" - Neighbours Day
- Rooflines & Recycling
- Argus House & the link to Passion Fruit
- and more...
- Local walking tours in May
- New Ukulele & Spanish classes
- Opportunities to express your opinion on neighbourhood trials, proposals and changes
- Scooters
- Tom of Albert Park and other local Elephants
- and the rest...
- Urban Farming - yes here
- Feedback on Freyberg (audio)
- A compass, a lamp, a mural & the law
- Alcohol Licencing
- New Courses - Placemaking & Shiatsu
- Goats of the Neighbourhood
- and the rest...
- Matariki
- Much ado about Pedestrians
- Myers Park Caretakers Cottage
- Markets
- Much needed public space
- Muck munching mussels
- Much more...including things that don't endeavour to start with "m"
- Air Quality
- The Gates of Queens Wharf
- Light Rail & Bus Plans
- Phoenix-Fig hybrids
- HomeGround
- Early morning pea shooting
- the rest...
- Random acts of kindness & tofu
- Local coal-fired power station
- Wanted - local volunteering opportunities
- Bench seats & a mural
- The local sound of music
- WRUFFS
- a gentle request
- & all the rest within...
- Locals speaking the vertical truth vertically
- Te Ha Noa - the Victoria St Linear Park
- Good Citizens - identification
- Sorting the scooters from the walkers
- City Centre Residents Group - CCRG
- Steepest street in the 'hood
- St James Theatre
- Fishing from your balcony
- and the rest...
- A touch of Spring for Freyberg
- The solution to a wet bench
- Loneliness - a little local research
- Vampires on the balcony
- Support Local
- Midtown - transformation in the wind
- Parking in the Albert Park Tunnels
- & all the rest within...
- Bells a' pealing throughout the neighbourhood
- Artworks galore - Karangahape & Nelson
- Covid & Apartments - zoom this Friday
- Ka Hao Te Rangatahi: The new net goes fishing
- Shopping Locally - good for everyone
- A ram, a cat & a shortage of Birkenstocks
- & all the rest within...
- Neighbourhood waterways
- Good Citizens - definitely lurking among us
- the Call of the Cornely
- Urban Bananas & Mouse City
- a Specialist in Happiness
- the Great Metropolis Tinsel Swizz
- & all the rest within...
2022
- The Artists Way - kickstarting creativity course
- Hats off for shade!
- Market Square 1921
- The Guild of the Feijoa (AKL)
- Electric Car Charging
- The Desert of Dingleflimble
- & all the rest within...
- Green Fingers on Daldy St
- Show Hospo' the Love
- Calling anyone handy with a Phillips Screwdriver
- Where should the Rates Dosh be spent?
- The Return of Winky
- Apartment life in Melbourne
- Pot Throwing & Ukuleles
- & plenty more within...
- St Matt's Community Garden
- Aaiotanga Community Weaver
- Pete the Cat & Crazy Clay-Making
- Te Ha Noa - Victoria St Linear Park Feedback
- City Centre Residents Group - CCRG
- Rocks & Guava with a purpose
- Special Request - feedback for the Vertical Voice
- An exceptionally large pair of specs
- & plenty more within...
- Electronic Waste Drop Off @ St Matt's
- The Sicilian Defence
- Pooch 101 @ Myers Park
- How Far is Too Far?
- Bamboo Bikes & Bokashi
- Phones for the Soul
- Historic Blanket Labels
- & plenty more within...
- Electronic Waste Drop Off @ St Matt's
- The Sicilian Defence
- Pooch 101 @ Myers Park
- How Far is Too Far?
- Bamboo Bikes & Bokashi
- Phones for the Soul
- Historic Blanket Labels
- & plenty more within...
- Matariki Celebrations
- A viaduct over Queen St
- Neighbourhood Picnic - Emily Place
- Noise & Composting (separately)
- Children in Apartments & Play
- Sir Bevis Hampton of the 1300s
- Lorne St bits and bobs
- Snap Send Solve
- & plenty more within...
- A Neighbourhood Picnic - you're invited!
- Shop Fronts - getting their groove on
- Urban Design - from Tech to Tree
- Federal Street - a tui, a pump & feijoa
- an unintentional focus on Romania
- E-Waste Collection
- a heavy flying coat (June 1937)
- & plenty more within...
- The elections are coming - meet your candidates
- Raupo Rap - a big hook
- Vocal Chord extension - a new choir
- Fale in the 'hood - Samoa House
- Job Opportunities with Census 2023
- Holes in the ground and a whopper on the horizon
- & plenty more within...
- Vote - democracy is depending on you
- You can't grow concrete
- Te Rerenga-Ora-Iti
- "Unbelievable" activity for kids
- Myers Park Cottage
- Free Soil - make your pot plants all loamy
- Local Livestock - "The Guv" & 150,000 Rescue Bees
- Are you a walking smombie?
- & plenty more within...
- the mechanics of collective living
- corporate art requires your gaze
- workshops - dumplings and more
- sedate vs zippy - footpath styling
- found then lost - an anchor
- & plenty more within...
- Angels in Auckland
- This Vibrant Life
- Insurance & Security
- Community Garden Workshops
- The Inspector of Nuisances
- & plenty more within...
- A Memorial Beacon returns
- Sneaky Electronic Billboards
- Garry the Cat
- HomeGround - the book
- Pediments of Customs St East
- & plenty more within...
2020
- City Centre Residents Group - election meeting
- "The Artist's Way" - a course to ignite your creativity
- Aaiotanga Community Space
- The African Snuff Box Tree
- Art, Public Space and more..
- Local groups & activity
- Music & Cheese Makers
- Children & the neighbourhood
- Innovating Streets & Coffee Froth
- Bees at altitude
- New Saturday morning fresh produce market @ Freyberg Place
- Sing your heart out at St Matt's
- Emily Place - tactical urbanism opportunity
- Wooden cheese boards with Warren - its a neighbourhood woodworking workshop!
- Have you discovered CCRG?
- and the rest....