Mahara Gallery are offering six Friday lunchtime forums with a great range of panelists on topics of broad socialand political interest to Kāpiti communities and beyond.
All forums run from 12 noon – 1pm, all welcome, entry free. For more information contact the gallery on 04 902 6242.
MAKING A SUSTAINABLE KAPITI – Friday 15 March
Moderator: Dan Ormond, Ideasshop. Panelists include Dr Mike Joy, Lecturer in Environmental Science and Ecology, Massey University; Jack MacDonald, Alliance for a Sustainable Kāpiti,Green Party Candidate; Hugh Tennent, Tennent + Brown Architects and Sophie Jerram, Co-curator
‘Letting Space’.
TRAVELLING THE COAST – Friday 22 March
Moderator: Jan Nimmo, Co-ordinator, Friends of Mahara. Panelists include Ani Parata, Te Ati Awa ki Waikanae; Bianca Begovich, Sustainability Adviser, Save Kāpiti; Dr Phil Battley, Avian ecologist,
Massey University; Anthony Dreaver, Writer, local historian, chair of Paekākāariki Station Museum Trust and Derek Schulz, Conservationist and writer.