Kia ora! This morning we launched a
Boosted campaign for DAWN - the debut film by Jasmine Day - it’s a powerful South AKL story based on her own experiences navigating housing insecurity and police discrimination while raising her siblings. Pls tautoko if you can!
www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...
Kia ora old friends and strangers, just wanted to drop in and say hi, hello, I hope you’re well. 🫶🏽
Beabadoobee would have totally played at P3 in the 90s
Ruapehu, Taranaki, Ngā Pae o Tararua and Te Wai Pounamu were all startlingly clear from Ōtaki tonight (and poorly captured by my phone)
What’s happening with all of the Kainga Ora development around Hendon Ave? Is it just not anymore?
Bruh the regulatory standards feedback form sucks
Ya know, I’ve been programming Indigenous films for 12 years and every year I continue to be shocked by new levels of colonial and capitalist depravity
Today was a massive day for Ōtaki with Rā Whakapūmau at Te Wānanga o Raukawa and then our own celebration at Māoriland for our editing grads. Seeing everyone getting their tohu ☺️ magic
I don’t trust people who drink lattes
People who own rabbits etc, just lose their sense of hygiene eh. Why are you comfortable with poop on your floors. That’s gross man.
Watching a doco on an Indigenous fight against oil and gas on their whenua and the oil company gifted them a slab of plastic bottled water and packets of cigarettes as a sign of peace. This happened in the last couple of years. I wish I was joking.
TIL that people still call Sápmi Lapland because white people are all over my tiktok calling it that. Ew
I benefited from a mid career history teacher with a broad understanding of the topic.
NCEA’s flexibility - allowing teachers to customise their areas of learning to students can be powerful if teachers are supported to grow themselves, and valued so they stick to the profession.
Riefenstahl wasn’t ’in the curriculum’ persay but I was inspired to do the work on my own, achieved excellence, read books, watched and analysed films, wrote essays and developed knowledge that I still have today.
For example my history teacher knew I was creative. When we studied world war 2, he encouraged me to research Leni Riefenstahl for one of my internals. He supported me to find and understand sources and sparked my curiosity into doing my own learning across the period.
At the same time the arts have been devalued but the arts motivate curiosity and can be a portal to wider learning.
There’s a focus rn by govt on numeracy and literacy but it strikes me as a bit backward. Not because those things aren’t important - but we already have the world at our fingertips - so how do you give young people a point to learning and using those skills.
This may be a sore take but it sounds to me like a teaching problem. And as long as we undervalue teachers, how is that going to improve.
I did NCEA, I found the assessment style basically the same as UoA, and actually reused my l3 and scholarship essays for my first year of English papers 😅 so what’s changed?
Our gallery at Māoriland - Toi Matarau retails all kinds of Toi Māori 🫶🏽
toi.maorilandfilm.co.nz
One of the absolute highlights of my reviewing years was getting to go to the media call and opening night when Wicked came to Aotearoa.
I was so suss eh, and then the film opened and I still knew every word 😅
I thought I was a recovered Wicked fanatic but ….. something has changed within me 🐸
RNZ news today: A report shows that Māori are 11% more likely to be prosecuted than New Zealand Europeans for the same crime.
Next item: The new Police Commissioner is open to thinking about the routine arming of police.
Join the dots / do the maths.
And today this
www.health.govt.nz/news/whoopin...
They know this, they know the patch ban will put more Māori in jail, and listening to Mark Mitchell this morning - it’s the point.
This government has a policy of increasing the prison population, which doesn’t really benefit any of us at all. We knows prisons don’t work and incarceration generally worsens outcomes. If life is already hard, prison makes it worse, and even harder to get out of a cycle of poverty.
What does Luxon actually do. He doesn’t have any portfolios, he evidently doesn’t read anything and isn’t across anything, he doesn’t appear to have any interest or respect for the people of Aotearoa. Why are you there?
Fuck you’re cool Caleb. This is mean.
