There is a villa on Baley Avenue that hides lavish gardens and crystal white walls if you step back just a few meters away from the six-lane main Avenue crossing Christchurch. The villa was severely damaged in the earthquakes but restored with devotion to create a spot that offers an exquisite place to exhibit art. PG Gallery 192 represents leading contemporary New Zealand artists of diverse practice. The gallery also hosts events, giving home to Loop20 on Thursday. Yuri was one of the nearly fifty guests who came keen to appreciate art that evening be it wine-making, painting, sculpting, music or photography. After the speakers and the discussion of the exhibited artwork the guests stay a long time to chat while listening to live jazz music. Yuri talks to me about why she is here even though heavily pregnant. “It’s like fresh air to me, I missed art so much! Before the earthquakes I used to be always out, doing something, very involved in art. But in the earthquakes all the places were ruined, and there was nothing, nothing for so long. Now this place opened and I had to come. It’s great!” Yuri’s night out is a social event as well, she came three of her Spanish-speaking girlfriends in their thirties sharing their thoughts of what they saw. “I’m heading back to Spain in May after the baby has arrived. We will be back but I’m exhausted. Since the earthquake I’ve been fighting to build everything back. It’s going to do us good to take a year off.”