Strong Voices

ANZ is making its banking services accessible to more customers by creating easy-to-read documents. Earlier this year the bank sent a team to an IHC Easy Read training session run in Wellington by the Council for Intellectual Disability in New South Wales.

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Singers, dancers and musicians from IDEA Services recently put a newly upgraded community theatre in Wellington through its paces.

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Christchurch woman Linda Hider turned 70 in June, and she hopes to live for much longer. Linda is raising two of her grandchildren – her son’s 12-year-old boy and 11-year-old daughter – and wants to be there for as long as they need her.

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Indika Mendis has won the IHC Matariki Drawing Competition with a pastel drawing in which creatures emerge in an explosion of colour.

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Dr Terry Caseley devoted his career to making sure people with intellectual disabilities were given the chance to live their best lives. The former President of IHC and influential Christchurch paediatrician died in Christchurch on 18 May 2023, at the age of 89.

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For 10 years some environmental warriors have been battling to protect the Castlecliff sand dunes at Whanganui.

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Four exceptional works by three prize-winning IHC Art Awards artists have been selected to showcase a limited edition run of AF Drinks’ 31-pack of non-alcoholic cocktails.

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Photography has always been a feature of the mixed media IHC Arts Awards, with strong images competing for attention among hundreds of paintings, drawings, sculpture and textiles. Last year IHC launched a separate competition – Capture the Moment – to give photographers their own platform to showcase their art.

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Young Kāpiti Coast artist Max Hinds-Brown has won the IHC Art Awards for 2023 with a beautiful retro painting of a red chair. There was a strong showing by Kāpiti artists in this year’s awards, with them winning first and third prizes.

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It wasn’t quite dark, but the lights and sights of LUMA 2023 filled the Queenstown Gardens with mystery and excitement.

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