Many women use drama, weaving, tapa cloth making, knitting and crochet, food preparation, to affirm goodness and to assert their positive power. We’ve experienced a wealth of this creativity in March WISE (Women, Inspired, Strong, Empowered & Enterprising) and the ARMS Trust (Auckland Refugee and Migrant Services) had a splendid display of craft work at the Corban Estate […]
More Women’s Creations…
March 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Nicky McFall-Hastings has lit up the trees in Aotea Square to make the Festival Garden for the Auckland Arts Festival. Tanya marvels at the work involved in making Pasifika lei and weaving them around the trunks and branches… …and many women have knitted or crocheted woollen squares to clothe the trunk of a giant pohutukawa outside Te Pataka Korero […]
Te Henga
March 17, 2015 by 1 Comment
Te Henga, one of Auckland’s wild and beautiful west coast beaches, is only 20 minutes drive from Earthsong. It’s a place for solitude, simplicity and the endless sound of the sea, for cloud-watching, swimming in a freshwater dune lake, body-surfing the cresting waves….walking through cool native bush to a waterfall and plunging into the deep pool at its base, […]
Autumn at last…
March 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
We’re very lucky here that Cyclone Pam gave us 35ml of rain but no damage. At last the pond is full again, the ducks delighted, and the baby frogs which have been hiding in garden damp spots can return to their home. Spent summer beds are being weeded and composted, and green manure crops of lupin, mustard […]
Auckland’s Anniversary
February 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Sunday 25 January: we took a morning train to downtown Auckland Thought we’d better go and see what Auckland City was doing to celebrate it’s “175th birthday”. Tamaki Makaurau has been loved and lived on by Maori for more than seven centuries; but our Anglocentric culture only starts counting from 1840, when 3000 acres of land were […]
Waitangi Day
February 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Friday 6 February: 6am on the foreshore at Okahu Bay. We came for the dawn blessing, and found the ceremony was also the opening of the Auckland Pride Festival. With the sun about to rise, the inimitable Mika (a wonderful performer, and a powerful voice for the marginalized young people in our society) with support […]
Our 30th Anniversary
February 19, 2015 by 9 Comments
In 1985… 30 years ago, Tanya rang Charmaine, then principal of AGGS, to book a room at the school for a “Lesbians Opposed to Waitangi Celebrations” meeting on Waitangi Day. After a chat we made a date for dinner on Friday 8 February “to share our experiences as women in leadership positions in “the system”.” And the […]
A visit to Awhitu…
February 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Friday 13 February: we set off for our first visit to the Awhitu Peninsula since leaving earthtalk@awhitu in April last year. We stayed at a favourite holiday haven – Spyve’s Cottage, right on the beachfront at Orua Bay Camp Ground. Beautiful swims morning and night for two days! We visited Alison and Steve, the owners […]
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