Tag: Book Launch

  • Celebration and Explanation

    Celebration and Explanation

    22 March, Pipitea Marae. A Saturday, a little windy, a little cloudy, a little quiet at the Parliament end of the city. People started wandering towards the marae atea, expecting to stand and wait to be told their next move, expecting someone would call them forward toward the wharenui in the form of a karanga…

  • Celebrating our community

    Celebrating our community

    Yesterday was a big day for the community of Waiwhetū and for me. It was a shared time of celebration for the many years of work has quietly been happening in the background for the people here, keeping mau rākau and mau taiaha knowledge alive by my teacher. People have been part of the TUMA…