Legacy making projects: Intergenerational carving
Maha, Laura and Destiny from Aotearoa Bone Collective
28th March 2026
Blockhouse Bay
Legacy making projects: Intergenerational carving
Our seniors and youth will be coming together on Saturday 28th March to make a Roimata pounamu. The Roimata symbolises tears of sadness or healing and provides both spiritual connection to the land and is believed to bring energy and power from the
earth.
In sitting together, in being and making together, this session will also be an opportunity for our seniors to share stories and wisdom in a tuakana – teina model with our youth. We are blessed to be working alongside Maha, Laura and Destiny from the Aotearoa bone collective who will support our community through the tikanga and stories of pounamu.
Manawaka Ao
Manawaka Ao is a creative community space that brings together Māori, Pasifika and people of the global majority creatives to offer intergenerational making practices in community which also intentionally explores our responsibilities to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Our space is inspired by Indigenous, Black and woman of colour who inspire us to build relationships with each other rooted in love and care for community. Our tag line rehearsing freedoms is inspired by abolitionist and scholar Ruth Wilson-Gilmore. Manawaka Ao was founded by Ara Alam-Simmons who is a second generation British Bangladeshi, New Zealander. She is a researcher/practitioner, writer, and educator whose practice is deeply rooted in grassroots community, liberatory art practices and social justice.
