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A huge big thankyou to @hafsar.t for a very powerful.presentation about the inspiring work you do with and for your Rohingyan community . Despite such heavy and overwhelming stories and statistics, you shared pragmatic actions and steps we can take together to facilitate agency for the resilient and resourceful people who remain trapped in Refugee camps in Indonesia , Bangladesh and Thailand. Watch this space for future gatherings to support Hafsar's foundation for Roots, Resilience and Hope 💛🌎💛 by @aroha_afternoons

𝗔𝗿𝗼𝗵𝗮 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘅 𝗦𝗼𝗦 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆! 🫶

Please join us on Saturday 18th July at 5pm, Trades Hall on 124 Vivian Street for a conversation with Hafsar Tameesuddin about her recent work trip, including time spent in Refugee camps in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Thai/Myanmar border.

She will be sharing some of the history/facts and figures about her Rohinga community, and zooming into some of the camps, to connect directly with their stories and reality.

An evening for raising awareness, building solidarity and taking action with @hafsar.t @aroha_afternoons and @sos.songsofsolidarity

📍 Trades Hall, Vivian Street
🗓️ 18 July (Saturday)
🕔 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

We'd love to see you there! 💛

All welcome, no RSVP needed
Light kai will be avaliable but also feel free to BYO

𝗜𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 / 𝗞𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮 ✊🏽 by @aroha_afternoons

Please join us on Sarurday 18th July at 5pm, Trades Hall on 124 Vivian Street for a conversation with Hafsar Tameesuddin about her recent work trip, including time spent in Refugee camps in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Thai/Myanmar boarder.

She will be sharing some of the history/facts and figures about her Rohinga community, and zooming into some of the camps, to connect directly with their stories and reality .

An evening for raising awareness, building solidarity and taking action with @hafsar.t and @sos.songsofsolidarity by @aroha_afternoons

Please join us on Saturday 18th July at 5pm, Trades Hall on 124 Vivian Street, for a conversation with @hafsar.t about her recent work related trip, which included time spent in various refugee camps in Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Thailand /Myanmar boarder.

She will be sharing some of the history/facts and figures about her Rohinga community and hopefully zooming into the camps to connect directly with their stories and situation.

An evening to build awareness, solidarity and action with Hafsar and @sos.songsofsolidarity 💛🌎💛 by @aroha_afternoons

A beautiful evening at @undercurrent_books, who very kindly opened up their charming , cosy space for us on Monday evening to celebrate #africaday 💛🌎💛 with cultural conversations around music and poetry. Thankyou to all the musicians and poets and to @tales_of_anne for cooking up.some delicious Kenyan treats and creating such a feast for us all to enjoy 🪘🎵🥂🪘🎵 . by @aroha_afternoons

Looking forward to trying these delicious Kenyan snacks on Monday 25th May , 5.30pm at the @undercurrent_books, 118 Tory Street. Please feel free to bring a plate too, or some music/poetry as we celebrate Africa Day with "Cultural Conversations" 🪘🎵🪘everybody welcome 💛🌎💛 it should be a lovely uplifting start to the new week and the Undercurrent is the most charming venue for those of you who might not have enjoyed it before . by @aroha_afternoons

The Undercurrent presents Africa Day Cultural Conversation 2026! 
Join us in Wellington for an intimate evening of music, storytelling, culture, and connection as we celebrate Africa Day 2026!  This year’s gathering will explore identity, community, creativity, and the global Africa Day theme around sustainability, water, and our shared future.

Hosted as part of the Cultural Conversations initiative founded by Tanya Nok, this event creates space for meaningful dialogue, belonging, and celebrating the richness of African cultures and diasporic communities in Aotearoa.  Come for the music, stay for the conversation!

Monday May 25
Doors 5pm
Start 5:30pm
$10

Tickets available online (link in bio) and on the door!

Snacks, a range of refreshing drinks, tea & coffee, and of course...books available for purchase!

We’ll see you there ☆ by @aroha_afternoons

AFRICA DAY CULTURAL CONVERSATION 2026 🌍

Join us at the cosy @undercurrent_books for an intimate evening of music, storytelling, culture, and connection as we celebrate Africa Day 2026 🪘🎵🪘

This gathering will explore identity, community, creativity, and the global Africa Day theme around sustainability, water, and our shared future.

Hosted as part of the Cultural Conversations initiative founded by Tanya Nok, this event creates space for meaningful dialogue, belonging, and celebrating the richness of African cultures and diasporic communities in Aotearoa.

📍 Undercurrent Bookshop📅 Monday 25 May 2026📍 Wellington, NZ

Come for the music 🪘🎵🪘 Stay for the conversation 💛🌎💛 by @aroha_afternoons

A few weeks ago we had special guest and multi award winning South African artist @jitsvinger perform and connect with our side hustle young people.

Alongside Jit’s musical performances he is deeply involved in the education and youth space so it was a pleasure having him at BGI as a special guest.

He used creative practices to spark strength based conversations around identity, self expression and music which left our young people feeling “seen and relaxed after a hard day”

Ngā mihi nui Jits for sharing a bit of yourself with our young people! by @aroha_afternoons

Great vibes on the stage at @theperformancearcade with @jitsvinger and Andrew Kasonde from @bgi_poneke jamming together 🥁🎵🥁 after meeting last week at our Aroha session 💛🌎💛 by @aroha_afternoons

A very big thankyou to @jitsvinger for a very special evening 🙏🙏 after spending the afternoon working with some of our youth @bgi_poneke .

Some really deep korero around culture, identity, language and the power of music to communicate and connect with others.

We are really looking forward to engaging with some of your performances over the next two weeks with @theperformancearcade 🎵🎵 and listening to your interview with @theblackhouseproject106.1 by @aroha_afternoons

Join us at the @bgi_poneke, 3 MacDonald Crescent, on Thursday 19th February from 6-8pm to welcome South African Hip Hop and spoken word practitioner @jitsvinger to Wellington 💛🌎💛

Jitsvinger arrives in Aotearoa New
Zealand this February with a new EP that deepens his language-driven exploration of identity, power, and cultural memory, released ahead of his upcoming Wellington-based residency.

Rooted in the linguistic and musical traditions of Cape Town, the EP moves between Afrikaans, Kaaps, and English, using rhythm and spoken word to interrogate whose voices are heard and
how history lives inside language

Politically alert without being prescriptive, the work is grounded in lived experience rather than abstraction, and driven by the immediacy of performance. The EP is accompanied by album artwork that functions as a form of visual therapy rather than illustration. Drawn from the lyrics, lifestyle, and lived reality that shape the music, the imagery is deliberately open-ended, designed to ease the mind, evoke emotion, and invite reflection rather than prescribe meaning.

Symbols recur throughout the artwork: a chain that may suggest captivity, hierarchy, or inherited histories of enslavement; a pair of eyes that could read as a mirror, or as an all-seeing presence; and a drum that beats to its own rhythm, perhaps a heartbeat,perhaps a vibration. References to the Cape Flats sit alongside masks and forms of armour,signalling protection, survival, and self-fashioning.

Like the music itself, the artwork carries
flow, rhythm, punchlines, and metaphor, but ultimately resists closure. Meaning is left to theviewer. The listener becomes the interpreter.

Jitsvinger’s New Zealand residency (17 February–4 March 2026), in association with The Performance Arcade, will be based in Wellington and includes performances, workshops, collaborations, and institutional engagements. The residency places a South African language practice into direct conversation with Aotearoa New Zealand’s contemporary cultural landscape, where questions of Indigenous language revitalisation, belonging, and post-colonial identity are
central to public life. by @aroha_afternoons