Photography exhibition and behind the scenes of  the Widows of Shuhada 8-Part Podcast. Saturday 14 March 2020 / 12.30pm. Philip Carter Family Auditorium. Free.

An article about the Widows of Shuhada in The Press - www.press.co.nz today . This is one of the projects I have been working on in the last few months with a group of amazing people. Widows of Shuhada is a podcast series with accompanying photography, depicting the lives of four women whose husbands were killed on March 15th. If you want to know more have a look at the https://www.stuff.co.nz/…/widows-of-shuhada-those-left-behi…. From tomorrow the series will be available at the RNZ and Plains FM webpages. With Lana Hart, RNZ, Plains FM, Nicki Reece, Jumayah Jones, Asma Azhar, Sharon Moreham, Asha Abdi, and the four wonderful women who generously shared their stories with us.

One year since the Christchurch Mosque attacks, New Zealand’s creatives discuss how their work in poetry, music and art can provide relief and healing to a nation in the wake of one of their darkest days. This podcast showcases the Darkness into Light project. Read More …

51 Trees were planted in remembrance of the victims of the tragic events of March 15th 2019. Pony Point Reserve, Cass Bay near Christchurch.

Keeping our Colombian roots alive. The Consulate of Colombia in Auckland in Partnership with The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū invited kids to explore "What unites me to Colombia" book; while having fun with crafts family and our traditional Colombian Food.

The Christchurch community of Muslim Women celebrate unity and show their gratitude to their supporters after the tragic events of March 15th.

Fighting discrimination against Muslim women through awareness and education

National Forum 2019 in association with Tūranga Christchurch City Library

NZ Herald. A month after the Christchurch mosque shootings Lana Hart was invited to the women's prayer session at the Masjid Al Noor, where 42 people died.

Gaby Montejo invites participants to consider the underlying cost of their milky coffee; asking ““Is it worth it?”, “To what end?” and “For the benefit of whom?”

The sound recording will be a recitation describing Va and will be accompanied by the dance performance. Va gives priority to all connections, all binaries, the past, the present, cultural differences and indifference, everything finds a place in the space between.

Vaimaila Urale is an Auckland based artist. Born in Samoa much of her artmaking process draws on traditional Samoan elements expressed through digital media and contemporary social art practices.  Read more... 

New drawings and sculpture at PG Gallery 192

David Shrigley is a master of scathing one liners, crudely composed drawings and a creator of strange and amusing objects. Read more...

Leafa and Faith Wilson are a mother  and daughter who collaborate with an explicit understanding of where they converge and diverge as individual women. In this collaborative performance, the artists will use a popular intersection by the bus exchange intersection to physically and literally realise the idea of intersectionality.  Read more...

Leafa's performance references the history of migrant labour in New Zealand and the strong presence of migrant workers in Ōtautahi Christchurch particularly during the rebuild. Read more...

Lies separate truth from fiction. We lie to save ourselves from reprimand, but we also lie to stop other people from getting hurt. Read more...

FAFSWAG seeks to decolonise their minds and lived experiences through creativity, expression, and the ownership of their own narratives.

FAFSWAG is a Queer Pacific Arts Collective based out of SOUTH Auckland. They celebrate queer brown bodies, contemporary Pacific arts and cultural restoration. Their online platform documents in an artistic manner the cultural connectivity of queer Pacific people of colour navigating their unique identities within NZ’s urban landscapes. Read more...

OutTASpace gestures to an aesthetic of neo-savagery - bringing a playful electricity to traditional forms, and lighting up that which is new, that which is queer, that which is gentle and that which is curious into the work, in order to invite these multiple presences to exist alongside more culturally entrenched ways of being. Read more...

Taking place in the heart of Ōtautahi Christchurch - where collaboration and collective working has become a part of the fabric of this post-earthquake city - MAKING SPACE will involve six diverse artist collectives and over 30 individuals practising at the cutting-edge of the Aotearoa New Zealand art community. Read more...

Communities came together to celebrate the children's  day at the rolleston community centre and reserve. Read more...