The Art of Climate Conversation

Workshop: He Kaula No Ke Ao Hou – Weaving Futures at Fibre Gallery

Join Tiana Malina Te Rongopatahi Mo’iha (2025 Pacific Artist in Residence, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury) for an open, hands-on workshop exploring traditional Hawaiian measurement systems and knot technologies through the lens of climate adaptation. 

This interactive session will include:

  • Introduction to Indigenous Hawaiian measurement systems related to land, ocean, and weather
  • Aho (cordage) making and knot-tying techniques used in hale construction
  • Building a collective rope-based structure using traditional methods
  • Story-sharing and kōrero about the intersections of culture, climate, and community resilience

All ages and experience levels are welcome. Materials provided.

This free workshop runs daily from 14 - 16 October, 11:00am – 4:00pm at Fibre Gallery, Level 1, 285 Cashel Street. DROP IN FOR 30 MINUTES OR STAY ALL DAY

Hale courtesy of Tiana Malina Te Rongopatahi Mo’iha

Tiana Malina Te Rongopatahi Mo’iha is a Kanaka Maoli and Tongan cultural practitioner of multi-ethnic ancestry, originally from Hāna, Maui. She currently divides her time between Hawai‘i and Aotearoa, where she lives with her wife and keiki.

Tiana is the CEO of Indi-geniUS mind(s), a Cultural Educator with Purple Maia, and an Indigenous Engineer and Architect trained through Halau Hale Kuhikuhi under renowned hale builder Kumu Francis Sinenci. Her practice weaves together ancestral technologies and creative expression – from hale building, aho braiding, and lei making, to ukulele, mele, and mo‘olelo (storytelling).

Tiana is guided by a commitment to relational knowledge-sharing, healing, and Indigenous innovation. Her work builds connection – to each other, to place, and to the futures we are collectively shaping.

 

 

 

 

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