Raumati/Summer Green Drinks - Ka mua, ka muri/Looking back to look forward

Join us to celebrate the Summer been and reflect on how a better understanding of the past can inspire our future thinking.

As we look to what a future for our city and communities might look like we welcome two fantastic speakers to inspire, challenge and provoke thought.

Tim Park (Kaiwhakahaere / Manager at Otari-Wilton's Bush)

Tim will draw on his extensive experience and enthusiasm to provide a vision of how our once forest cloaked hills and valley’s have been so radically transformed since human arrival. Once defined by towering podocarps and a chorus of unique endemic critters we no find the town belt and regenerating scrub (outside of pockets of remnant bush). This understanding is vital to both appreciate what is lost and what could be if we truly adopted long term regenerative thinking

Robin Skinner (Architectural Historian / Te Herenga Waka VUW

Anyone who has been fortunate enough to hear Robin talk will immediately understand the importance that our freshwater streams once provided to the city and how they secretly persist beneath our feet still. With his passion for unearthing the human history of place he himself has been captivated by the allure of our ‘lost’ urban awa and motivated by the knowledge that peoples understanding of these is the first step to working towards a future where water may again flow through the city.

In 2024 we will be hosting seasonal Green Drinks with four gatherings spread across the changing seasons to engage likeminded people in conversation, story telling and challenge.