'DEAR DIARY' Creative Native Residency

A huge mihi to all those who have kindly donated to our kaupapa "Dear Diary..." it means alot to us to know that people believe in the mahi we do because of those who've supported us, we are at 12%.

Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu. However small, it is a treasure. For that we are truly grateful!

For every donation we receive over $500.00 we want to frame the names and faces of our donors who will become honorary "Lifesavers" who help push our kaupapa. These faces will be displayed in our Hood School Board Room to remind us of the people who help us keep our whare standing.

For every match donor who wishes to match donations $1000.00 or over, will also become honorary Lifesavers on our wall and will also receive a complentart mural art piece (Auckland only) as a reciprocation of our aroha. The more putea matched, the bigger the wall we can paint.

Every dollar counts and enables us to flip this dream into a reality.

We're thankful for our collective creativity to shape our resilience through these times and are excited to put it all into use for this campaign because it means so much to us in a time where we felt quitting would be much easier. But quitting isn't our style! This ones for our future leaders.

Our director and co-founder Amiria Puia-Taylor speaks on "Dear Diary..." a little more in this next video...

To donate please click here:

https://boosted.org.nz/projects/dear-diary

Ngā Manaakitanga!

Last Sunday we honoured an event with a bunch of amazing young creative natives who needed space with their own kaupapa called THE CREATORS PLUG! The Whare bursting at the seams with fresh local talent from local dessert hustles, to social entrepreneurs selling their own merchandise and threads. Then if it couldn't get any better - they had all this delicious food, tattooing and fresh printing, live music serenading our lane and a DJ laying down beats for a whole bunch of dancers who just lit the place on fire. Jasmine and her team ended up putting on a little charge at the door to help our #BoostedXMoana Campaign out and have kindly donated $600.00 towards our kaupapa!

We are so speechless! Arohamutungakore koutou!!

It's because of these kaupapa that we're pushing to make DEAR DIARY happen!

This is it whānau! the final push!

Who better than one of our original OG rangatahi to come through with this testimony, than Ronnie Tua, our Accessibility Lead. This young fulla and his mama Antonia Tua have been with us from the jump and even through the hard times, he comes through to keep us all humble

Now we have less than 24 hours to smash out our crowdfunding campaign #DEARDIARY across the finish line and what a ride its been!

A huge mihi to all those who've shared, liked, commented, donated and supported us. We're honoured to invested in like this and be among 15 of these incredible #BoostedXMoana projects to receive match funding. What a great time for #Pacificarts

We need $6293 to get us across the finish line to make #DearDiary happen! Every little dollar, share, like and repost goes a long way for us. We appreciate all the tautoko!

Ngā manaakitanga, meitaki atupaka, faafetai tele lava, vinaka vaka levu and much alofaaga to you all!

Here is a testimony by Ronnie in support of #DearDiary #BoostedXMoana Crowdfunding Campaign. Voice over by Mural Lead Articulate UV and Sound provided by Sound Lead Tayste Maker with support by our Operations Lead Sabrina Puia.

We need your help to make ‘DEAR DIARY...’ more than a dream.

Now is the time to amplify the importance between well-being and creativity but we can’t do this alone. Your generous donation will help in bringing this project to life so we can help our young, talented, aspiring creatives thrive.

Thank you for backing and supporting this project,

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If you can support our kaupapa, please do!

We have until 5pm tomorrow to push this across the finish line and we really need your help to make this dream project a reality.

See the link in our comments to donate and spread the world.