Community Cooking

October 12, 2023

Sharing Kai and Korero

Share Kai is an opportunity sit down and chat with different people from different cultures, people you may not normally have the opportunity to meet in your own community. As part of Unity Week, Riverside Market became the latest venue for a share kai and korero event, described as a 'diversity mix and mingle'. A chance to relax in the company of strangers with hospitality and food becoming the conduit for connection. We are a diverse society, but unless we find reasons to come together, we're missing out on a culinary and culture smorgasbord. Mahia te Aroha and

In common have combined to encourage people to see their differences as something celebrate rather than fear. Both organisations hold regular community meals and also offer cooking lessons provided by our migrant community.



 

Farid Ahmed tours Nelson to speak to schools and community groups about compassion and forgiveness.

Wheelchair tour of Nelson

By John Sellwood • October 8, 2026
Farid makes a whistle stop tour of Nelson to speak with schools and community groups about Compassion and forgiveness. A survivor of the massacres at two Christchurch mosques in 2019, Farid is campaigning for March the 15th to be recognised as a day of compassion. He wants those who died to remembered for their love and not the hate visited upon their community by a lone gunman. In this video Farid speaks to: 

Māori Rock Art

By John Sellwood • June 7, 2026
For generations, the ancestral rock art of the Arowhenua people has been owned by others, with the land and limestone caves held in private ownership as part of a Gould family farm. Now after more than 170 years, Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua has purchased back the land and full access and ownership of their ancient taonga.