My utmost pleasure to have such a fine and splendid person on the show for you dear listeners...we cover our love of this whenua we reside on, the solidarity and representation, joy, creative spaces, generative spaces If you'd like to engage with Ara there are a few ways to doing so...her green and generative space https://arasimmons.com/Support the work we all are proud of experiencing : Manawaka Ao on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manawaka_ao/https://www.manawakaao.org.nz/ Flourishing Circles: https://arasimmons.com/flourishing-circlesHer writing on "Celebrating Independence while colonised": e-tangata We gush about Makanaka Tuwe: https://www.instagram.com/thewellbysesamathlo/