![]() In September 1995, with the assistance from the Christchurch City Council, a week of activities took place celebrating 21 years of wizardry in Christchurch. It wasn't just local news either - The New York Times ran a piece in 1988. Most of the red phone boxes were later sold off, but a few remain, such as the metal one in Victoria Square. The battle raged for twelve days, and the Christchurch City Council even got involved - suggesting they might charge rent for the public land on which the phone boxes stood, and voting to supply red paint. Ten years later, he was appointed Wizard of New Zealand by Prime Minister Mike Moore.ĭuring 1988, The Wizard took on the "tasteless tyrants of Telecom" by repainting the new blue telephone boxes back to their traditional red colour. In 1980 the Canterbury Promotion Council appointed the Wizard official Archwizard of Canterbury. His fame grew to such an extent that the Director of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in Christchurch contacted the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and arranged transfer of Living Work of Art title to Christchurch. In New Zealand, he began his career with an oration in Cathedral Square in 1974. The Wizard's living body was also donated to the National Gallery of Victoria as a Living Work of Art. His career as a wizard began in 1969 when he was appointed Wizard of the University of New South Wales by the Vice Chancellor and Students' Union, enabling the continuation of experimental teaching and social reform techniques. ![]() After travelling in the Middle East and teaching in Teheran, he became a lecturer, and later a Teaching Fellow, in Australia. ![]() Double Honours in Psychology and Sociology. His career path involved time as a Royal Air Force Navigator. Ian Brackenbury Channell was born in London, England in 1932. Locals and visitors alike know him for his Cathedral Square orations. The Wizard (Ian Brackenbury Channell) is the self-described "official Wizard of New Zealand", classified by art galleries and critics as a Living Work of Art, designer of the Post-Modern Cosmology, theorist of the Fun Revolution, founder of the Imperial British Conservative Party, role-model for Post-Feminist men, and Metaphysical Engineer”. ![]()
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