EcoFest West: Loving our environment

EcoFest West 2020 kicked off last month and will run until April 19. The event celebrates the West Auckland environment and living sustainably in our neighbourhoods.

Events across six areas of eco-action (Foodies’ Fix, Makers’ Mayhem, Arts on Climate Change, Explore Nature, Clean Transport and Conscious Living) are taking place all over the West. Highlights include: • On April 18 ‘Forest Food Architect’ Aidan Kelly offers a one-day, fully experiential workshop: a hands-on opportunity to learn everything you need to know about growing your own oyster mushrooms. • Also on April 18 the Corban Estate Weaving Group is running tours of the Paa Harakeke. Learn about different harakeke (flax) varieties and their use and see a demonstration of how to cut and care for the plant. • Awa Stories is a two-part storytelling project including a month-long photo exhibition along Great North Road in Avondale. Eight locals share their connection to water and their awa (river), culminating in a series of videos released in collaboration with I Love Avondale. The full programme of events is at ecofest.org.nz. EcoFest West is brought to you by EcoMatters Environment Trust and funded by the Henderson-Massey, Waitākere Ranges and Whau local boards and The Trusts Community Foundation.

With current concerns over Covid-19, please check with organisers before attending any events. 21 MARCH -19 APRIL ecofest .org.nz WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN IN THE WEST...

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Richard Orjis: Cruising, Lazing, Leaning, April 18, 4.45pm

Drawing on queer histories of cruising for intimate encounters in parks, artist Richard Orjis invites you to gather by the Waters of the Eel, Te Wai Ōrea / Western Springs Park, at the Circle of Friends Memorial. Set against an ever-expanding approach to art-making, pedagogy and kinship this walk will be “a list of fluid provocations and ethical explorations, a soft testing of the notion of ‘passively active’; exploring how passive, promiscuous, temporary and transient modes may lead to meaningful alliances and intimacies between humans and the more than human.”

Richard Orjis: Cruising, Lazing, Leaning

Jeremy Leatinu’u: Mauria, May 23, 9am.

Mauria is the second walking project presented by Jeremy Leatinu’u that invites participants to traverse the urbanscape of Ōwairaka (Mount Albert). The journey will begin at the Waterview Reserve before travelling towards and arriving at the base of the mountain of Ōwairaka / Te Ahi Kaa o Rakataura. The name of the walk itself, Mauria, translates as to take or to carry. People participating in the walk are asked to bring a small packet of plant seeds or seedlings of any kind which will be carried during the journey.

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