Nelson Arts Festival PukaPuka Talks - Our People, Our Cultures, Our Languages
Multicultural Nelson Tasman together with Multicultural Youth Nelson Tasman were proud to co-host the PukaPuka talk 'Our People, Our Cultures, Our Languages' with the Nelson Arts Festival. The talk which was held on Saturday, October 24 2020, included Behrouz Boochani (Kurdish refugee and author of No Friend But the Mountains), Olivia Hall (Head of Department at Te Toki Pakohe, NMIT), Chinese NZ writer Rose Lu (author of All Who Live on Islands), and MYNT-leader Resika Sapkota (a former Bhutanese/Nepali refugee) in conversation with Dana Wensley (NZSA PEN representative).
Panel members explored what ethnic diversity looks like in Aotearoa, how we can find common ground, how social policy can support race unity and counter racism, how we can unpack the legacy of colonisation, what we can learn from tangata whenua—and what this all means for us on a personal, practical level.
