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Community Engagement – Stories from the Awa
We were thrilled we were able to host two community screenings of Ko au te Awa, ko te Awa ko au – I Am The River, The River Is Me, one on 12 November in New Plymouth and one on 2 April in Stratford. This powerful documentary celebrates Te Awa Tupua/Whanganui river and the significance of the cherished taonga being granted the status of personhood. The Whanganui awa was the first in the world to be recognised as a legal person, and this urgent call to action for the rights of nature is now the fastest growing legal movement in the world.
The film highlights the global struggles of Indigenous communities to protect their sacred waterways and helps to form our understanding of the impact of how treating the awa as an identity informs how we protect and care for them.
We were honored to have local Iwi leader Ned Tapa of Te Awa Tupua open the space for us at the screening and be present for a community kōrero afterwards.
