Life + Style - 31 August 2018

31 August, 2018

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THE WEEKEND

Suicide memorial

Zumba with Tina Neville

Steam-tember

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Making a living from the land is often considered the domain of farmers but the same could be said of Forest Furniture, specialists in furniture created from Pacific kauri, Pacific rimu and American white oak.

Timber has long been the cornerstone for beautiful furniture pieces, ranging from bedroom and dining suites through to all manner of occasional pieces such as coffee tables, dresser units, bookcases, desks, and more.

While other materials are now widely available, there is still nothing quite like beautifully-crafted wood with its differing grains and colours to add warmth, quality and elegance to a home.

Of course, wooden furniture offers many benefits. It is natural, eco-friendly, easy to clean and maintain, strong, resilient and can be sustainably grown.

At Forest Furniture, the timber for each piece of furniture is carefully selected to match grain and colour as closely as possible.

Panels and components are machined precisely to the correct size and shape, and the use of traditional construction methods which have stood the test of time, such as dovetail joints for drawers, mortise and tenon joints, multi-grooved dowels and high-quality furniture glue, ensure a quality product.

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“We have more than 600 standard, traditional and contemporary designs, but we can make-to-measure to fit your requirements,” says Forest Furniture’s Mark Irwin.

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World Suicide Prevention Day Memorial Service While chatting with Harley Couper about a Royal Enfield Classic 350 motorcycle he’d owned before purchasing his current Triumph Bonnerville, he told me he’d lost family and a friend to mental illness.

To be more specific, suicide.

“My best mate Russel Manuel, when he was 14, my uncle Ross when I was 16, and my brother Matthew 10 years ago,” says Harley.

Harley works in the research collections section at Tauranga Library. He grew up in Hamilton, wrote educational material for a training establishment, and spent 10 years overseas, returning to NZ in 2009.

As his revelation sunk in, I couldn’t help but ask how he dealt with it.

“How does anyone deal with it?” he replied.

“Shock, horror, grief.

“I was adopted. My adopted mum died when I was 21, and in my late 20s I met my birth family.

“My birth mum had three kids. They grew up in Edgecumbe and Whakatane and I grew up in Hamilton. My younger brother Matthew, who was about seven years younger than me was just starting to have some mental health problems.

“About 10 years later he suicide-d.

“I never really got to know him that well.

“I remember at his funeral thinking, ‘people here are grieving the loss of somebody and I’m grieving the relationship I could have had with this guy, which I never got to have’.”

Remembering loved ones lost to suicide is commemorated each year in Tauranga with a

memorial service, held to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day. This year it’s being held at 10.30am on Sunday, September 9 at Daniel’s in the Park and the theme is ‘working together to prevent suicide’. “The service is for family and friends to come in to a space with others who ‘get it’, to remember and acknowledge their loved ones who have been lost to suicide,” says Janet Baird from Grief Support Services.

“We plan to have tea light candles lit around the candle we use in our group meetings for people bereaved by suicide.

“The service will be officiated by Mike Savage, with the Mauao Community Choir singing.”

“Suicide’s something that has to change in our culture,” says Harley. “Guys are happy to break a leg or bust an Achilles, but we fail to remember that most of us are going to go through a chapter in our lives where our mental health isn’t great.

Twice in Harley’s life he’s been called by wives of friends who have said ‘I just need you to be here with my husband. He’s not great.’

“It’s just what we ought to do. I reckon women do it better – they talk to each other more about what’s going on. It’s a healthy trajectory for New Zealand men and women to talk about their mental health and support each other.

“People need to feel like they belong to a group.

“We need to help people recognise that they’re needed and valued.”

Co-ordinated by Grief Support Services with the support of Legacy Funerals and TECT, the memorial service on September 9 is open to all.

Rosalie Liddle Crawford

“Suicide’s something that has to change in our culture”

Photo: Bruce Barnard

Remembering loved ones

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Zumba with Tina Neville Fun, friendship, and the feel-good factor You can tell when your Zumba Fitness instructor has been hanging out with thousands of other Zumba instructors.

The enthusiasm is high, the tempo goes up, and your butt and thighs hurt more than they usually do.

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That’s the case with my Zumba instructor, Tina Neville, who has just returned from her second international Zumba Fitness convention in Orlando, Florida, which attracts about 7000 instructors from all over the world.

Tina has taught a variety of fitness classes over the past 30 years, and says there is something special about Zumba. She distinctly remembers her first class in Papamoa in October 2009.

“I’ve taught most popular fitness formats – step, highlow, aerobics, and circuit – but I’d never taught a class where people cheered and clapped after every

song. I remember standing there and thinking ‘this is really cool’.

“Zumba has a totally different atmosphere.

Teaching in community halls attracts people who would never step into a gym.”

Tina has also found the people who attend Zumba are usually in it for the long haul.

“I have people who have been regulars for nine years and I’ve never encountered that before in any other programme I’ve taught. People come along and think they’re going to get fit or lose weight, but they stay because of how it makes them feel.

“They stay because the music is different, it’s fun and there’s no pressure to do it perfectly.

“In Zumba if you make a mistake, people think you went that way on purpose!”

Tina offers four Zumba Fitness classes and two Zumba Gold classes in community halls around Tauranga each week. She will soon be offering Strong by Zumba, a high intensity tempo training set specifically to the beat of the music.

Zumba Gold is aimed at ‘active retirees’ and after just a year, Tina has seen a huge improvement in the balance and coordination of the elderly attendees.

“And that’s just from dancing for 45 minutes. We don’t do anything on the floor, or any turning and jumping. It really improves quality of life and helps to prevent things like Alzheimer’s because you’re connecting the brain with the body.”

Tina says the older generation love the Zumba music. “I don’t use typical ‘older people’s’ music.

“I use Zumba music and modern pop music and they absolutely love it because they can tell the

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“People come to class after a bad day, and half way through their facial

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Zumba convention in Florida

expressions will change. It’s like ‘yes, I’m in my happy place’.”

grandkids nana dances to Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake.”

Tina is buzzing after returning from the international convention, which she describes as, “like being in a giant flash mob for five days”.

“Many of us don’t speak the same language, but when the music comes on everyone is dancing.”

Among some of Tina’s success stories have been students who have enjoyed substantial weight loss, or those who have used Zumba to cope with trauma, illness, or loss.

“It’s great to know you’ve helped make someone’s day a little bit better or brighter; to see them walk out with a smile and a spring in their step.”

One of those people is Susan Skinner, who has been attending Tina’s classes for seven years.

Tina has supported Susan through her breast cancer treatment, and last year dedicated her fundraising Zumbathon for breast cancer support services to her.

“I love the fun and friendship of Zumba,” says Susan. “It gives me so much confidence, and it really kept me going.”

The exercise has also given her a lot more movement in her upper body after her surgeries.

At 78, Valerie Taylor is one of Tina’s oldest students. Zumba is so ‘enlivening’, she says.

“We have a responsibility to stay well as we get older,” says the septuagenarian, who also does another fitness class, line dancing, and leisure marching.

Tina says Zumba is not only great for your physical health, but your mental health too.

“I’ve struggled a little bit with depression over the years and I’ve had others come to my classes with similar issues, and it’s made a huge difference.

“I think because you have to focus on the music and think about the steps you forget about everything else.

“People come to class after a bad day, and half way through their facial expressions will change.

“It’s like ‘yes, I’m in my happy place’.”

Zumba has also helped improve the occasional sex life here and there too, says Tina.

“In everyday life we don’t tend to move our hip area very much, but there is a lot of hip rotation in Zumba, so it encourages you to loosen up and let go.”

Tina has invited international Zumba jammer Marlex Pagalunan to put on a Zumba party class in Tauranga at the Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre on Sunday, September 2.

The 90-minute class costs $20 and gets underway from 4-5.30pm. For more information visit Zumba Fitness with Tina Neville on Facebook.

Zumba Fitness class at Welcome Bay Hall.

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Steam-Tember Tauranga is turning steampunk!

Steampunk is coming to Tauranga in September with ‘Steam-Tember’.

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The idea to steer Tauranga into the world of steampunk came to Lindsey Morgan and her husband Mick after attending the ‘Steampunk the Thames’ event.

“We came home from that and I thought a city as big as Tauranga, which has a large cosplay community, Armageddon and a medieval event, could also do steampunk,” says Lindsey.

She typed ‘steampunk Tauranga’ into Facebook, found a page, joined up as a member and soon began meeting up with others.

“Quite a lot of the early members were from all around the country and interested in hearing about and meeting up with the community in Tauranga,” says Lindsey.

“We decided to meet up with two other keen locals, to discuss running an event or having something going on in this city.”

They met David Hamilton and Ann Dugmore for the first time at The Barrel Room – all arriving in full steampunk clothing.

“We wondered where we could meet that’s appropriate, and the Barrel Room has lots of pipes so we went there and looked around for others wearing unusual hats,” she says.

“We threw around some ideas. We didn’t want to rival Thames or do something at the same time of the year as them, and we didn’t want something at the same time as the Oamaru event.

“Tauranga has a lot of things going on, so we decided to start by attending some of those events, like the Lions market at the Historic Village.

“We went down in costume, sat at the café and invited people to join us on Facebook.

“One thing we did talk about doing early on was something with teapots.

“We’d looked for a symbol for our group and learned that one of Tauranga’s meaning is anchorage.

“We used a boat image with an airship attached and added a teapot as a masthead. It is an idea that we are still playing with.”

“Wendy Pedersen, who works at the Incubator, suggested we run a teapot workshop.

“I cobbled together a bit of a ‘show and tell’ and the group all made a couple of cars each to show off at the Historic Village.”

The small group discovered there were others interested in their idea of steampunk teapot racing who were asking when it would be happening again.

As a result, they decided to create the September event, which has been dubbed ‘Steam-Tember’.

To be held on September 8, it will celebrate all things steampunk.

Wendy suggested an art exhibition, and the group called for submissions with the theme of ‘The Steampunk Empire Strikes Back’.

The event will also feature water pistols at high noon, and, of course, tea pot racing.

“Water pistols at high noon will showcase steampunk-inspired non-firing weapons, but with the opportunity to compete in a back-to-back duel where you walk twenty paces and shoot,” explains Lindsey.

“There’ll be a limit to how much water that’s in your gun.

“There will also be an event which we haven’t named

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“Imagine if we’d never had the industrial revolution, nor discovered plastics, and stayed with using steampowered machines. What would the world now look like? How would we reimagine technology?”

yet. In Oamaru they call it ‘kiwi corralling’. Essentially it’s stuffed toys that the steampunk teapot cars muster into a pen.

“The teapot racing will be against the clock, over some weird and wonderful obstacles.”

The group has been running tea pot trials at the Historic Village, so people can come along with their teapots and have a go over the ramps or with the muster.

“About 30 people dressed fully in steampunk clothes came for the trials, travelling from Papamoa, Athenree, Rotorua, Te Awamutu and Whakatane,” she adds.

“When it comes to the Steam-Tember event, the little niggles they have about their car should be ironed out.”

They also plan to have a People’s Pit Award, so that even if a car isn’t able to compete in the races, the public can still select which car they think looks the best.

What is Steampunk? Imagine if we’d never had the industrial revolution, nor discovered plastics, and stayed with using steam-powered machines.

What would the world now look like? How would we reimagine technology?

Steampunk is a step into an alternate world – a futuristic version of 19th century Victorian England with steam powered devices, similar to the machines seen in the writing of Jules Verne and H.G Wells.

It’s quirky, fun and a safe escape into science fiction featuring retro-futuristic art, props, costumes and machines.

Steampunk HQ, based in Oamaru, was founded in 2011, and promotes recycling. Oamaru’s Victorian

precinct is a perfect setting for steampunk, with the surrounding buildings providing a 19th century backdrop.

‘Steampunk the Thames’, which has run for three years, is in November and includes exhibitions, markets, dinner, duelling, a ball, performances and plenty of social occasions with local Steampunkers on hand.

“Word is getting out there that there’s this group of people in Tauranga that are loving life, being creative and not taking themselves too seriously,” laughs Lindsey.

“Steampunk is all about being an individual.

“We were all created to be creative, and if you have nothing else in your job that requires you to do that, then doing what we do is an outlet for people.”

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