What does it actually mean to honour Te Tiriti? 

Join Te Waka Huia for a three-part workshop where we will unpack our nation’s constitutional founding document and explore practical ways to honour it today. 

The session begins with kōrero facilitated by tauiwi (non-Māori) guides Gaayathri Nair and Krissi Smith followed by light manaaki and time to explore He Kura Toi Tangata: 50 Years of the Waitangi Tribunal, 1975–2025. After the short break, we’ll regroup for a Q&A session and finish with a tote bag-making activity led by Paekākāriki artist Selina Tuomey. 

He Kura Toi Tangata exhibition ends Sunday 12 October. 

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About Gaayathri 

Gaayathri Nair is a double diaspora person hailing from the southwest of India via Malaysia and coming to Aotearoa through economic migration in the 1980's under Rogernomics. She grew up in Tāmaki Makaurau and now lives in Te Awakairangi and works in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She is a counsellor and facilitator, novice gardener, passionate knitter, frazzled PhD student, and shares a home with a delightfully awkward greyhound named Kevin.   

About Krissi 

Krissi Smith is of primarily Scottish (Clans McColl, Ross, Hogarth, Sutherland, Buchanan, Mactavish), Irish and English descent, but she grew up in Te Upoko o te Ika on Taranaki Whānui land. She currently lives in Te Ngaengae in Te Awakairangi, still on Taranaki Whānui land, and close to Waiwhetū. Krissi is a Tiriti educator, an accredited interpreter and translator, and a teacher of te reo Māori. She co-directs Kūwaha Ltd, with two of her besties: Tāwhana Chadwick and Raihānia Tipoki. She's also a māmā to one kid, one step kid, and Nanna to one moko. She has three dogs and five chickens. She loves growing kai and cooking it for people, singing karaoke, and sewing. She's a lover of learning and is getting pretty damn comfortable with not knowing the answers! 

About Selina 

Selina Tuomey has an Irish father and an English mother. She came to Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa for the love of this land and a man. As a child in England, her most cherished possession was an Air New Zealand green, plastic tiki sent to her by her pen friend. 

 She is a mother to three sixth-generation, beautiful, young Pākehā people. Selina has a Fine Art BA Hons and is all about art and nature, acting, painting, murals, clay play and drawing. She has a love of colour, growing trees, food and going bush. Selina is a mermaid and loves people. He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.