Community Building
April 9, 2022
INNER CITY EAST CYCLES
Inner City East Cycles was a collaborative project started just prior to the first covid look down, with lives interrupted we stopped filming until things returned to normal, but that of course hasn't happened. Looking back at this first iteration of the story I can't wait for another opportunity to catch-up with all the wonderful people making a difference to those living on the margins. People Like Jono have since moved on, but they're still making a difference and so the story continues.
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:
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.