Hautapu
Me whakatā tātou!
The Ako Room is in deep rest & receiving,
of wānanga season.
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Nau mai
the ako room is built upon the Māori concept of ako; that teaching and learning are reciprocal, embodied relationships, interwoven across Land & Sky, time and space.
“we create journeys of learning,
Indigenous language revitalisation, culture, identity, kinship, wellness & play”
- Irihipeti, founder
By centering ako:
we centre the sacred (women, children, non-binary)
we reclaim our humanity
we acknowledge Indigenous knowledge systems inform our ways of being, knowing & doing.
teaching and learning are interconnected
we are founded upon 60,000+ years of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island resistance
we steward creative resources from our learnings and experiences.
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reStorying
to reStory is to question colonial histories*and our whakapapa to them.
To join our learning space, we start with our reStory
eg: I am a 1st generation Māori
& 5th generation French settler of Aboriginal Land.
You’re submission is an invitation for us to contact you and your reStory is added to our learning archives (without names).
Image of Djirri Djirri dancer jewellery by Tiff Garvie (Māreikura Exhibition, Immigration Museum, 2025)
*(Corntassel, Chaw-win-is & T’lakwadzi 2009)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO bOONWURRUNG || WURUNDJERI WOIWURRUNG || PALAWA || NGĀTI RAUKAWA LAND & SKY COUNTRY FROM WHICH WE LEARN UPON.
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