Kia Ora

As you would have seen from our works update Karangahape Station has made significant progress over the last month. However, there is also lots going on and upcoming around our site along with an exciting new learning innovative the Link Alliance have just launched.

As always if you have any questions or wish to contact us please email Karangahape@linkalliance.co.nz or call 0800 CRL TALK (0800 275 8255 and press option 4).

Ngā Mihi

Karangahape Station Team

Kweens of Kroad

To celebrate the success of Karangahape Road’s own drag superstars, currently appearing on RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, we’re inviting you to drag up and come through.

Following a Meet & Greet at Pocket Park (cnr Pitt St & Karangahape Road), Kita Mean and Anita Wigl’it will be hosting a runway competition to discover K’ Road’s Next Drag Superstar!

The grand prize package for the runway competition is a VIP double-pass to the June edition of Kita and Anita’s Drag Wars.

So whether it’s your first time in drag or you’re serving high fashion realness — paint your face, get your hair done and sashay to First Thursdays on Karangahape Road!

Pocket Park stage:
4-7pm — DJ Little Bok Choy
7-9pm — DJ Kylie Monogamy
5pm - 6:30pm — Meet & Greet Kita & Anita
6:30pm - 7pm — Runway Competition (sign up here)

Line up at Flying Out
7pm — Jupita
8pm — Emily Edrosa

All events:
Karangahape Market with Queer AF, around Beresford Square by Alpha Market KRD, 4-9pm.
Phoenix Cabaret — Dragvine from 7pm.
S.O.A.P. Dancehall — 'Blitz' New Wave, Post Punk, New Romanic, Cold Wave dance party from 9pm.
Monster Valley — Wrought Material exhibition opening night.
Bun & Bao — All You Can Eat Dumplings. Tickets avail. from 19 May - links in this event discussion.
Northern Line Bar — DJ’s, vinyl record sale & exchang_e + all night Happy Hour from 4pm.
Checks Downtown — Collab with No Comply (Anti Est.)
The Thirsty Dog — Funk & Fusion from 8pm.
Pitt St Pub — Happy hour from 4-9pm.

Auckland Festival of Photography

We are delighted to announce in line with Auckland Festival of Photography a new exhibition along our hoarding at Hopetoun Street from early June.

Since 2020 the Link Alliance has partnered with the Festival to help build a city-wide contemporary cultural experience. This year the exhibition will feature the people at the heart of the project, many of whom disappear underground each day. Auckland based photographer Mark Barber has captured the humanity of the moment within construction through his art portraits. Mark, the photographer for the project, has carefully selected and curated the photos that will be displayed.

Dame Whina Cooper ready to bore

Earlier this month on a beautiful sunny morning a special ceremony to mark the start of Dame Whina Cooper our Tunnel Boring Machine’s drive was held at Mt Eden.

Transport Minister Michael Wood described the launch as an “exciting milestone” for New Zealand’s largest ever transport infrastructure project – “one,” he says, “that is helping our economic recovery and supporting jobs”.

The Transport Minister was joined by Dame Whina Cooper’s whanau, Auckland Iwi, the city’s Mayor Phil Goff and City Rail Link workers at the launch celebration.

Visit www.digCRL.co.nz, a website dedicated to the machine's groundbreaking journey. There you will find information about its namesake, the machine's progress and location, the people who drive it and answers to more questions you may have.

Online learning programme

The Link Alliance has recently launched the schools learning programme which virtually takes students on a tour of the City Rail Link project. Through this programme tamariki get to travel online and follow the environmental, cultural, and social sustainability stories from the City Rail Link rail project, and rangatahi can see the diverse opportunities within a STEM project.

Learn from two workers from the Karangahape Station, Cecilia (CeCe) Palu an Apprentice (click here) and Katerina (Kat) Howard a CPS Senior Tunnel Engineer (click here).

Schools can enrol to take part in the online field trip on 8 June. You can learn more about the programme and the project by signing up at https://www.learnz.org.nz/futurejourneys212

Adit tunnel
An adit is an entrance to an underground mine which is horizontal or nearly horizontal.

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Karangahape Newsletter - May 2021