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The SimPa story in pictures

June 11, 2009

SimPa is our project working with Maori communities to build capacity in digital content to benefit the culture. Close to the end of the funding from the Digital Strategy, we’re awash in reports and milestones. Amidst all the words, we’ve spent time this week developing a visual comparison of where we thought the project would […]

SimPa does the festival

September 18, 2008

We’ve been SimPa-ing at the Otago Maori and Pacific Island festival today. What an amazing event, hundreds, perhaps thousands of kids performing and enjoying a wonderful celebration of diverse cultures. Kids from several of the runaka groups Tori and Amber have been working with were performing. These are from the combined Peninsula schools. […]

Footprints and longfins

September 9, 2008

Last night we went to a talk by Metiria Turei about the dramatic collapse in New Zealand’s endemic eel population, the longfin in particular. Metiria showed an outstanding film by students from the Science and Natural History filmmaking programme of the the Centre for Science Communication. Lindsay Davidson and Melissa Salpietra’s Longfin (mp4 24mins) is a […]

Simpa diaries

August 27, 2008

We’re busily working with runaka on the Simpā project. Tori and Amber are helping communities build capabilities in digital media as part of engaging in their own narratives. Tori writes up brief notes of each session, and with her permission, I thought I’d share some of them with you. These document a project of combining […]

Simpa as a model of partnership

August 18, 2008

Last month Khyla Russell presented a paper at the Oxford Round Table. The basis of the paper is an examination of the interaction of cultures, with our Simpa project as the main case study. Here’s a working version of the paper. It may eventually form a formal publication (in part or whole), so please contact […]