Rangatahi Stories

Ngā Rangatahi supporters celebrated Matariki at the opening of an exhibition created by our rangatahi at Toi Tū in Ponsonby. The exhibition was based on documentation of the process of creating a new haka. Hikohiko te Uira - the name of the exhibition and the...

25 June, 2021

Our executive director, Huia O'Sullivan, was on stage recently at Basement Theatre for the Re: News panel on the awkward relationship between art and money. The other panellists were Auckland Central MP Chloe Swarbrick, FAGSWAG's Tim Swann and moderator Nisha Madhan. “For us, the conversation...

25 June, 2021

Kia ora and thank you to Liam and the team at Re: News for all the time they spent with our rangatahi as they prepared for last year's Manawa Ora series of performances at Basement Theatre. The Re: News team were incredibly generous with their...

11 August, 2020

Nikita’s family is everything, she’s kept busy over this time by helping her sister care for her little brother so her mum, an essential worker is able to continue working during lockdown. Nikita has been with Ngā Rangatahi Toa since the beginning of 2019. Her whānau...

13 May, 2020

Trying to fit in with Lee’s busy schedule during the COVID-19 crisis isn’t easy. He’s working six days during Alert Level 4. And on Alert Level 3, he’s continuing to be one of the essential supermarket workers who keeps the country in food supplies, and...

11 May, 2020

Covid-19 Level 4 means our rangatahi aren't able to gather for our regular hui, so that's meant catching up with them all virtually or a series of online catchups and connections. In this chat, one of our tuakana, Jazzy, talks about what life in lockdown...

21 April, 2020

As I watched my father lay there in what I thought it was, this massive refrigerator, the feeling of his skin was so cold, very pale and hard. I could barely even breathe. I couldn’t think straight from the days and nights awake hoping for...

10 July, 2016