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Join us in Tāmaki Makaurau for a special community screening. In collaboration with our friends .songsofsolidarity we i...
20/04/2026

Join us in Tāmaki Makaurau for a special community screening.

In collaboration with our friends .songsofsolidarity we invite you to a screening of the anti-caste short film Caste on the Menu Card — which explores how food becomes a site of exclusion, identity, and othering.

Held during Dalit History Month, which honours the birth of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar who was a key architect of the Indian Constitution and a lifelong activist against caste-based oppression.

Dalit? Caste? What do these terms mean?
Why does Dalit History Month matter?
What does food have to do with systems of power and exclusion?

This gathering offers an opportunity to learn together.

The session will be led by Sneha Singh , a feminist with Dalit whakapapa from the lands of Varanasi. Her work sits at the intersections of gender, diaspora, identity, caste, and Hindutva.

We invite curious minds, readers, community members, and cultural workers to come together in conversation, reflection, and learning.

📚Reference materials are available via this post. For those who prefer books, we also encourage you to explore the rich collections available online and

🗓 Thursday 23 April 2026
🕡 6:30pm
📍 165 Stoddard Road, Mount Roskill

Chai and light snacks will be served.

We invite curious minds, readers, community

We have been running these sessions in the background and pleased to be able to re open registrations ✨Come and join She...
03/04/2026

We have been running these sessions in the background and pleased to be able to re open registrations ✨

Come and join Shelly (.one.more.row, she/her, British Indian tauiwi) and Wendy (, she/her, Cantonese tauiwi), who will be facilitating our community yarning sessions*.

A yarn can be a chat or a story, as well as the material that we knit and crochet with. The vision is to create a soft space for women and rainbow whānau of the global majority (Black, Indigenous, people of colour) where we can connect: share stories, experiences, and ideas or just be, as we create with our hands.

There will be materials and pattern links for the I Heart Palestine and Tino Rangatiratanga motifs as found on the flyer (adventurous beginner friendly, designed by Wendy) and a community blanket project for everyone to contribute some stitches to.

There will be support for complete beginners, and anyone can bring existing knitting or crochet projects to work on and/or materials to share.

If this sounds like something that you would like to be part of, please join us. Come alone or bring a friend, neighbour, or whānau member who might not have seen the social media posts.

All knitting and crochet experience levels welcome.

Drop in for a short time or stay for the whole session.
When: Sunday 12 April, 2–4 pm
Where: Mt Roskill, Tāmaki Makaurau.

Registration in our bio.

Snacks, tea, and coffee will be provided. We acknowledge our vulnerable whānau and support mask wearing.

* We acknowledge the significant tradition of the Yarning Circle, a narrative-based, relationship-building practice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

We’ve been working alongside our friends Maha and Laura from .nz for the past few years. Not only deepening our relatio...
03/04/2026

We’ve been working alongside our friends Maha and Laura from .nz for the past few years. Not only deepening our relationships with one another but finding spaces in new places where the pūrakau around Pounamu can be shared as well as the experience of working with pounamu.

Our session in collaboration with brought together our seniors and youth in the Glenavon region of Tamaki Makaurau.
What a combination in being to hear stories from our seniors about their lives and also for some their connections to Te Ao Māori.

With young hands working with and alongside more senior hands - we also got to witness the power of remembering and of passing down knowledge and story to our younger generations ✨✨

We wish to thank and the Whau local board for funding support.

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