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Emma Giesen – creative capital champion

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Emma Giesen, hasn’t seen much of the daylight saving hours as she spends most of her summer championing our cities creative culture. She is one of the backbones behind Wellington’s most coveted  festivals, the  and , which run back to back.

In this interview she talks about why she works so hard to keep Welly at the top of our creative game and the exciting addition of up cycling art zones, Junk Monsters, bike powered dance acts, Bicycle Valet parking, which is all just the tip of the ice burg of all the fun stuff about to happen at Cuba Dupa next weekend.

http://cubadupa.co.nz/

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To use the Valet Bike Parking http://cubadupa.co.nz/?s=LEISURE

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Lauren Tennent – peoples in prison

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Lauren Tennent goes to work at and she also goes regularly to prison, as it is part of her job to teach women inmates at Arohata how to make good coffee. In this interview  find out why this young lady loves this part of her job and the reason  why Peoples Coffee want to be aligned with a prison.

http://peoplescoffee.co.nz/

Cenna Lloyd – welly’s bee buzz

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Does it feel like every second person you know is now keeping a hive?  Cenna Lloyd is beekeeper for her own business  and also helps everyone else to keep their bees too. So why is Wellington becoming a mecca for bees, and why would urban honey be better?

http://www.localflavour.co.nz/

Celia Painter and Abbie Krieble, authors of “When Life Gives you Lemons”

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Celia Painter and Abbie Krieble are teenagers who have written an illustrated book titled “When Life Gives you Lemons” that aims to help young people suffering from depression. Their idea was to offer a book with advice for young people, that was created by young people. To see their book visit: http://createbooks.co.nz/product/when-life-gives-you-lemons/

Celia and Abbie spoke with Ali on 2 Feb 2016 about creating the book and overcoming their own struggles with depression.

 

Mel Beirne, Tim Packer, Linnea Lindstroem – can gardening save the world?

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We are always told that planting a food garden could save us money, But now I am hearing that gardening could save our world? Really?

So in this interview we talk to three of Welly’s most well known gardeners,Linnea Lindstroem of and , Mel Beirne from Brooklyn Orchard and Garden trainer for , and Tim Packer of the  who discuss how gardening just might do that.

 

http://www.innermostgardens.org.nz/

http://edibleoasis.net/

Kate Wilson & Geoff Simmons- the F word

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the F Word liveGeoff Simmons, is an economist working for the Morgan Foundation and he is also a big hitter in our conservation world for his involvement in the infamous Cats to Go campaign and . So what is he doing acting in a comedy about to show at called the – that delves into modern feminism in New Zealand?

In this interview Geoff along with improviser and drama teacher Kate Wilson talk about  the F-word and why feminism still remains high on the list of difficult stuff we need to address.

 

 

Erin Leigh – the workerBe

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Founder of , Erin Leigh would describe her business as a wellness revolution, but not only is she taking our office workers health by storm, she has now paired up with permaculture activist Linnea Lindstroem to connect with the growing “edible city” movement! They are starting a series of urban farm sites throughout Wellington, with the first one right here in Newtown called .

“…if we can have a fast food restaurant on every corner then we can have urban farms in every city.” Nice vision.

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http://workerbe.co/

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/tfn-workerbe