You don’t need to do a Wall Walk for these short talks to make sense. They are stand-alone presentations. If you HAVE done a Wall Walk, these short talks will broaden and deepen your knowledge. At present, we offer two short talks.
Anonymous Māori ‘dress reformers’ seen in photographs taken in the early 1900s exemplify the wilful forgetting of indigenous women.
To counter that forgetting and, in the spirit of Maramataka, for every month of the year, Dr Simone Bull will identify women whose feats tell a story about the impact wāhine Māori have had on our country and the world over the past 180 years. She’ll even wear ‘rational clothing’ while doing so – to help etch the memory of these women into our collective consciousness.
45-60 minutes, including 15 minutes for Q&A.
Minimum of 10 people. No upper limit (check your venue capacity).
Your place or at an external venue that you hire.
Projector and Screen. I will either need to be able to plug a memory stick into a computer at the venue OR connect my laptop to the AV set up at the venue (my laptop has a standard HDMI port).
None. But there is audience participation. Everything the audience needs to participate will be supplied on the day.
$1,000+GST and any travel-related costs to get the facilitator from Wellington to your venue.
On Saturday 14th October 2023, hundreds of thousands of us headed to polling booths and cast our votes in the general election. Some of us might even have done so in the belief that our votes carry the same weight as everyone else’s. You know how the saying goes, ‘one man, one vote’. Despite a recent law change, Māori voter turnout was still relatively low. Partly that’s because Māori do not believe their votes are worth as much as non-Māori votes. For most of the past 170 years they haven’t been. If you had no idea, you’re not alone. Dr Simone Bull will expose this ‘blind spot’ in our collective memory and some of the characters who have occupied the Māori seats along the way. Long live democracy!
