Te Tīmatanga 2022
Categories
Placemaking, Programme Design, Creative Direction, Cultural Strategy
Client
Auckland Pride
Project
Te Tīmatanga 2022
Services
Programme Design Partnership Management Sponsorship Procurement Creative Direction Curation Production
Year
2021 - 2022
The project began with a need to expand — how Te Tīmatanga 2023 could move beyond a single moment and become a sustained platform for Takatāpui storytelling, care, and connection.
Working alongside Elizabeth Kerekere, The Burnett Foundation Aotearoa, and Blaise Clotworthy, we brought the AIDS Memorial Quilts into the heart of the programme — grounding the work in remembrance, whakapapa, and collective responsibility. This was held alongside a podcast and video series produced by Vic Walsh, with artist engagement led by Elyssia Wilson-Heti, creating a layered approach to storytelling across generations and mediums.
What began as a one-day pop-up evolved into a month-long micro-festival. Through strategic development and partnership alignment, we transformed a $20,000 income line into a $137,000 programme — scaling both ambition and impact while maintaining cultural integrity.
The project began with a need to expand — how Te Tīmatanga 2023 could move beyond a single moment and become a sustained platform for Takatāpui storytelling, care, and connection.
Working alongside Elizabeth Kerekere, The Burnett Foundation Aotearoa, and Blaise Clotworthy, we brought the AIDS Memorial Quilts into the heart of the programme — grounding the work in remembrance, whakapapa, and collective responsibility. This was held alongside a podcast and video series produced by Vic Walsh, with artist engagement led by Elyssia Wilson-Heti, creating a layered approach to storytelling across generations and mediums.
What began as a one-day pop-up evolved into a month-long micro-festival. Through strategic development and partnership alignment, we transformed a $20,000 income line into a $137,000 programme — scaling both ambition and impact while maintaining cultural integrity.
The structure balanced public engagement with artist-led process, allowing the programme to operate as both gathering and archive. It created space for reflection, visibility, and exchange — positioning Takatāpui narratives as central within the cultural life of the city.
The structure balanced public engagement with artist-led process, allowing the programme to operate as both gathering and archive. It created space for reflection, visibility, and exchange — positioning Takatāpui narratives as central within the cultural life of the city.
The result is a programme that has become the beating heart of Auckland Pride. By the conclusion of the 2026 festival, Ngā Uri E!, Te Tīmatanga has
been embedded as a core way of working across the organisation —
informing membership, operations, and governance.
More than a programme, it is a living system — one that connects past,
present, and future, and continues to move toward queer futurity, mana motuhaketanga, and tino rangatiratanga for Takatāpui.
Artworks listed in order of image top to bottom, left to right.
Image 1: N/A
Image 2:
Work 1 (Left): Pēpi Hā, Matariki, Mahina, Tihema Bennett. 2022.
Work 2 (Centre): Āhuru Mōwai, Atarangi Anderson. 2022.
Work 3 (Right): Funny Games, Abigail Aroha Jensen, 2022.
Image 3: Funny Games, Abigail Aroha Jensen, 2022.
Image 4: Pēpi Hā, Matariki, Mahina, Tihema Bennett. 2022.
Image 5:
Work 1: Ko Te Pito, Grayson Goffe, 2022.
Work 2: Whakarei, Piki Toi Artist Collective, Whakamana, Hāpori mā, 2022.
The result is a programme that has become the beating heart of Auckland Pride. By the conclusion of the 2026 festival, Ngā Uri E!, Te Tīmatanga has
been embedded as a core way of working across the organisation —
informing membership, operations, and governance.
More than a programme, it is a living system — one that connects past,
present, and future, and continues to move toward queer futurity, mana motuhaketanga, and tino rangatiratanga for Takatāpui.
Artworks listed in order of image top to bottom, left to right.
Image 1: N/A
Image 2:
Work 1 (Left): Pēpi Hā, Matariki, Mahina, Tihema Bennett. 2022.
Work 2 (Centre): Āhuru Mōwai, Atarangi Anderson. 2022.
Work 3 (Right): Funny Games, Abigail Aroha Jensen, 2022.
Image 3: Funny Games, Abigail Aroha Jensen, 2022.
Image 4: Pēpi Hā, Matariki, Mahina, Tihema Bennett. 2022.
Image 5:
Work 1: Ko Te Pito, Grayson Goffe, 2022.
Work 2: Whakarei, Piki Toi Artist Collective, Whakamana, Hāpori mā, 2022.
