Programme 

 

Unity Day 2025 MC's - rangatahi from Toi Matarua, the famous MokoBoys

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8:30 – 9:00am Registration

 

9:00am Karakia, mihi whakatau – Mana Whenua (Ngāti Pārau me rāua Te Taiwhenua o Te

Whanganui ā Orotū me Mana Ahuriri)

Te Wehenga Toi Matarua

 

9:30am 2025 John Robson Memorial Lecture

Dr Jessica Berentson-Shaw, Director of Narrative

Research and Strategy The Workshop “Improving lives by changing how we talk about

complex issues such as Te Tiriti”.

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11:15am Morning tea

 

11:35am Denis O’Reilly “Intentional community building by social housing tenants ...”

 

12:35pm 2025 Unity Awards

Read by Mayor of Napier Kirsten Wise presented by Jessica Berentson-Shaw, Sally Rye and Denis O’Reilly

 

1.00pm Unity Lunch in honour of the late Pat Magill founder of the Napier Pilot City Trust past Unity Award recipients and Robson Lecturers have been invited to join us.

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2.00pm Updates on Pilot City Trust Supported Initiatives

• Tangata Tiriti Aotearoa Neill Gordon

• Moving Forward 2025 Pete Findlay

• Restorative Justice Hawkes Bay

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2:15pm Piloting: Transforming Communities. 

Stories of Unity through Community Building.

Presentations from five initiatives that are creating community wellness and unity:

• Meke Foundation

• Te Hiwa a Mahaki

• Toi Matarua

• Shamrock Boxing

• Dance with me in the heart-Beginning Well

3:15pm Poroporoaki

 

3.30pm Time of our lives Rangatahi