This is your chance to experience Harikoa in person. At this year’s art fair, our Harikoa Blankets will be available to see, touch, and feel, an extension of Wharenui Harikoa you can truly connect with. Each piece is a limited edition textile artwork, crafted from 100% New Zealand merino wool and designed to be lived with, held, shared, and passed on. Released as a strictly limited edition. Once this release is complete, it will not be reproduced. To feel its warmth. To carry its story. To bring Harikoa into your home. Available at the art fair and via the link in our bio. Limited works. 📸 @hollysarahburgess @sam.bailey_ @nigelborell @aotearoaartfair @tetaumatatoiaiwi

Happy Pride & a happy birthday to me. Give the gift of giving this Hamiora Bailey birthday and be a the proud purchaser of a Pride X Splore patron ticket. A cheaper day ticket to the queerest day of THE LAST SPLORE EVER. And you get to fund the experience for a member of the Takatāpui, MVPFAFF+ and Rainbow community to attend via Auckland Pride. Thank you for everyone who continues to support us in this ongoing movement. And thank you to everyone who will be celebrating me, at mine and @incorrect_pin official joint birthday party ANITO at Q Theatre. Before the sun sets on this glorious day id just like to say: Is the bus still running?! 🛼🪼📍

Harikoa lives here. ✨ This blanket is more than a blanket. It carries the wairua of Wharenui Harikoa – a whare woven from light, colour, and the enduring love of our Tūpuna. 🌈 And now, for the first time, you are invited to bring that feeling into your own whare. 🏡 Introducing our very special Harikoa Blanket – crafted from 100% pure New Zealand merino wool 🐑 and proudly woven here in Aotearoa. Luxurious, generous, and made with intention, this blanket is designed to last a lifetime. ♾️ Infused with the energy of our kaupapa, each blanket holds the quiet power of aroha – a warmth that recalls the embrace of a beloved nanny. 💛 It’s a feeling of being seen, held, and deeply connected. This is a strictly limited release, and presales are now open. 🧶 The official launch takes place on Saturday 5 July at the opening of Wharenui Harikoa at the Civic Theatre, Tāmaki Makaurau. 🎭 We’ll be present throughout opening weekend, and those who have purchased a blanket will be exclusively welcomed into the whare for a portrait with us and their Harikoa Blanket – a moment to honour this shared journey. 📸 As a heartfelt gesture, the first 50 blankets purchased will also receive a Loop of Aroha – a small crochet keepsake made by our hands, carrying the same intention that lives within the wharenui: joy, connection, and love. 🧵💫 Strictly limited in number, this first release invites you to wrap yourself in the spirit of Harikoa. Preorders are now open – follow the link in our bio to reserve yours. We can’t wait to wrap you in Harikoa. 🌟 🎥 @Olivercrawford.nz 📸 @hollysarahburgess ✨ @Colenso_bbdo 🌺 @sam.bailey_ 🏠 @grandmotherarapata 🌻 @Katene.Whanau #HarikoaBlanket #wharenuiharikoa #wharenuiharikoajourney

Ahakoa ka whati te manawa, ka mau tonu te aroha. He aroha nuku, he aroha rangi. He aroha kore he paunga. Mai i te tihi o Te Motutere, ki te awa o Te Pungapunga, ki te tai o Whangapoua; ki a koe e Kui, hoki mai ki te pae o te Ariki, ki ngā korowai oneone, ki ngā wai haumiri. I noho matou ki te paeahu o te wahine te mātāwai o te puna kōrero. Haumi e, hui e, tāiki e! 🖤🌅🐚🪶

🌅🖤🎉 28 laps around the sun! Thank you to everyone who has supported me and our team at Auckland Pride this year, it’s been a big week of aroha, manaaki & harikoa. To my 🐙 @israelkatene for putting up with me and to my whānau for raising me right and reminding me what’s really important. Happy Aquarius season lovers, my gift to you is this cute outtake from our @nzhviva shoot with @danahwa @matt.hurley @look.bomb @kattymayo @brady_cakes88 @jonjon.tt @xin_with_ji see you at Pride Elevates in Q Theatre Loft (link in bio)

future ANCESTORS is a three-night showcase of ideas, poetry and dance, from queer Māori and Pasifika creatives in Tāmaki Makaurau. In this space, Indigenous people at the forefront and asked us to interrogate our relationships with our ancestors in consideration of our descendants. We are the future ANCESTORS—how will our mokopuna look upon us? Each creative has been asked the question, “What kind of ancestor do you want to be?” and will interpret this provocation through their performance. Join us on Thursday night for a panel discussion exploring the provocation, Friday night for readings from local poets, or Saturday for a night of dance performances. Come along and take a glimpse into our Indigenous futures. Honoured to be called into this space with @badapple.gay Come along next Thursday the 4th of July, where we’ll be discussing whakapapa & tuakiritanga alongside dreamy drippy buzzy baddie kairotarota @liamjacobson As always an honour to be raised on the arero of my koko, aunties, whaea Robyn, @hmmpaua & @rosannaraymond #onamataanamata #callingforthourpastscitingourfutures #cruisingutopia #abodyofvart #activation

How it started vs how its going 💎😭🥹🥰 @israelkatene

@pacificsisters , ko Whaea Roro, ko Whaea Ema, ko Whaea Nephi, ko Whaea Suzanne, ko Whaea Ani, ko Whaea Feeonaa, ko Salvador tēnā rā hoki koutou i aro ki te tangi kaha mai a tētehi o ā koutou tauira. Mīharo ana ahau ki ō koutou momo i tupu matomato mai i roto i ngā tohunga o te Moana Nui A Kiwa o mua rā. Koirā ngā āhuatanga kāore anō kia kitea, kia rangona rānei e mātou o Auckland Pride, mō e whia nei te roa. Ua Fa’afetai, Meitaki, Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. Just wanted to thank our incredible Aunties & brother for their support and genoristy of our toi whakaaturanga Nā Te Ārai, Ko Mahu within Auckland Pride 2024, Ki Tua | Beyond Paradise. Connecting us and our wider kāhui takatāpui to an ocean of knowledge affirming us in what we know to be true and what identities we have inhereted through whakapapa. Moana based knowledge systems, and your pakiwaitara on Kroad, intedigitate, the Hero Parties & Pacifica was shared so genorously and its impact has long been felt at Auckland Pride. Thank you for grounding us within fervent duty and hononga to the pacific, and to each other intergenerationally. Special thanks to our kaiwhakamiha, kaitoi @isaacteawa @sacredclowns @pounamu.rurawhe @jwaititi.art for celebrating the legacy through their own mahi toi alongside our community within this kaupapa. It was an honour to contemplate peace, healing, rest, identity and mahutanga within @tautai_ for our Aunties, our whanaunga & our mokopuna. Mauri ora xx

“In centring whakapapa, we conceptualise citations as extensions of our relational world and as a way we can acknowledge and nurture the intergenerational relationships that constitute who we are, and how we come to know. Citation is an expression of whanaungatanga.” Burgess, Cormack & Reid, 2021. In reflection, following our Pacific Sisters ‘N da Fale wānanga, I want to recognise being in the thick of our @aucklandpride 2024 Festival: Ki Tua | Beyond Paradise. Wading through administration, expectation, visibility & my own sense of tauiratanga (active learning) it is important to maintain — as Tāngata Whenua — our relations as the centre. This ambitious festival has been made possible by our incredible team who each have given so much of their exponential potentially and affirmed kōrero from our Whaea Roro through their hard work. Each demonstrating the power of the body as a tool to create de-colonial works of VA’rt. At this midway point it’s so important to acknowledge @mandascu @patii.af @yellowperilproductions @hinewaka @juliamariacroft for all their hard work on the entire festival and of course our navigator @izzy_adora for holding it down and keeping us on track. Me mihi ka tika ki a koutou katoa mō ngā mahi wahanga mahere, tae noa atu ki te hanga I ngā momo e tika. From its inception 3 years ago, Te Tīmatanga set out to create a series of resources — video works, poems, essays, podcast episodes, “visual” art & mahi ngā toi — that young Māori could access to better understand the role of their own Tuakiritanga within wider hāpori to affirm whakapapa as an investiture Throughout this years residency @rosannaraymond @pounamu.rurawhe @keziawhakamoe @arianatikao @kirianasheree @ravenfaasu @robynppryor investigated Muri-Ranga-Whenua and unfurled a new citation offering inquiry and collaboration with the source. Thank you to @pumpsy100 & @ngatiwhatuaorakei for holding us as Ahi Kaa, to @aucklandlive for making this possible, to @cuetonemedia for capturing, to our community who received us and to our Auckland Pride board who continue to supports us in our growth. Thank you all again for your incredible support, nōkū te honore - Mauri ora xx

I noho au ki te paeahu o te wāhine te mātāwai o te puna kōrero Tēnei he whakaataata, he whakamiha hoki ki a @keziawhakamoe @robynppryor @arianatikao @rosannaraymond @kauae_raro @pounamu.rurawhe @shark_father @tangatahara_ Me mihi ka tika ngā Rangatira mā, ko Linda Tuhiwai Smith, ko Leonie Pihama, ko Annette Sykes, ko Ani Mikaere, ko Paparangi Reid, ko Donna Cormack, ko Tina Ngata tae noa atu ki a kōrua Hana Burgess, Haylee Koroi. Tō koutou rangahau te poutokomanawa o ōku mahi ngā toi I ngā wā katoa. E ki ana rā “whāngaia ki te arero o te kōkō,” nā reira e ki nei au ānei tō koutou kukari. Mana Māori, Mana Wāhine e Toi Tū Te Tiriti Tākiri Tū Te Mana Motuhake

Today we launch our annual Pride Lecture at Toi O Tāmaki with Auckland Pride 2024: Ki Tua, Senior Artist — Rosanna Raymond from 2-3pm. Rosanna’s open studio was a resource that shifted my understanding of Futurity and motivated me in my pursuits of Te Kete Aronui. Her practice has informed a generation of Pacifc makers and working with her over the past 5 months has cemented our remembering of Moana Nui A Kiwa as a connecting ocean of knowledge and identity. It is an honour to share space with her, especially today as we re-member the Eyelands Archive. Sistar S’pacific aka Rosanna Raymond MNZM is an innovator in the contemporary Pasifika art scene. As a long-standing member of artist collective, the Pacific Sisters, and the founding member of the SaVĀge K’lub, Raymond’s mahi as a writer, poet, artist and performer has helped shape the landscape of and influenced commentary on contemporary Pacific Island culture in Aotearoa and internationally. We are thrilled to have Raymond give the inaugural Pride lecture. It is particularly significant that this first Pride lecture is in memory of Ron Brownson (1952–2023) as Raymond attributes her entry into the art world to the encouragement she received from Brownson. ‘I would not have been an artist if it hadn’t been for Ron’s nurturing and mentorship.’ From Raymond’s first group exhibition Open Skies/ Divided Horizons (1997) to Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera | Fashion Activists (2019), Raymond and Brownson’s professional relationship and friendship spanned two decades. Join us to hear about Raymond’s work, including performing and exhibiting in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and Australia, and the journey that has informed her contribution. This lecture includes images from The Eyeland Archives, a collection of over 1000 photos now in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. There will be time for Q & A with Raymond during the lecture event and an informal cup of tea and light refreshments afterwards. The Pride lecture has been produced in partnership with Auckland Pride and is part of the 2024 Auckland Pride Festival. See the full programme at  aucklandpride.org.nz

Its my birthday!! To celebrate Im releasing the closing solo from a work I was lucky enough to collaborate on with @jgrayjnr , @taane_mete , @te_ira_uha , @biancahyslop & @lissyandrudi co-produced by @cuetonemedia @theerealjcole_ . It is part of a 25 minute moving image series I am deeply proud of, now showing alongside Wharenui Harikoa at @waikatomuseum . We have been learning how to “lead” a festival @aucklandpride , open a show at The Civic & work in deep relationship with our Rangatira @rosannaraymond , @emaraiona & @pacificsisters . So needless to say this reanga was filled with some hard ako ahaha. It is now officially Pride month so I will celebrate all the incredible mahi that everyone has contributed to soon 🪼🌅🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ But today, for now, I want to ground again as the proud mokopuna, nephew & cousin I am and share something for my nanny’s & aunties because at 27 they are still my guiding force and deepest inspiration. Thank you to Grayson, Whaea Robyn & Matua T for being my guardians, to @liberty_rules @juliamariacroft & @izzy_adora for allowing me time to step away from mahi when I needed. To my darling @israelkatene for always keeping me fed, our house clean & for being a solid punga as I navigated such huge oceans this year — I love you. Nui te aroha Nui te whakaute Nui te rangimārie x