TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE
GLOBAL COMMUNITY
AOTEAROA WHANAU WHANUI KI TE AONUI
"I have always
been caught by a sense of being part of the cutting edge, the edge which
guarantees change." Whale Rider writer Witi Ihimaera.
Welcome to the hundreds
of new New Zealand Edge registrees from around the globe; your messages
are appreciated and acknowledged. Such energy and love for Aotearoa.
JUNE'S EDGE
LIST
New Zealand achievers around the globe as tracked by the world's
online media are found at
http://www.nzedge.com/media/index.html
Edmund Hillary, John
Hood, Karen Walker, Black Grace, Harry M Miller, Auckland Blues, Whale
Rider, Chris Kelly, John Kent (RIP), Theresa Gattung, Len Lye, Rawiti
Paratene, Bill Manhire, Niki Caro, Stan Lay, Tim Radford, David J
Stevenson, Bruce Simpson, Wendy Dawn Thompson, Georgina Beyer, Reg
Mombassa, C K Stead, Chad Taylor, Bruce Ellis, Colin Wilson, Stephen
Fleming, Kate Sylvester, Whirimako Black, Keri Hulme, Noel Turner, D4, The
Datsuns, Sacred Hill, Henry Hargreaves, Anna Pacquin, Pippa Sanderson,
Zambesi, Peter Blake, Peter Jackson, Peter Hillary, Kim Crawford, Katrina
Alexander, Simon Jansen, Bebe Eversfield, Daniel Beddingfield, Christine
Jeffs, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Tarun Mohaubhai, Boyd Webb, Rina Owen, Cameron
Brown, Richard Stephens, Malcolm Burns, Greg Henderson, Martine Hardaker,
and sometime-Kiwi Tom Cruise. Find out who they are and what they've been
doing at:
http://www.nzedge.com/media/index.html
POSTCARDS FROM THE
EDGE
Today we publish 130-plus messages received about the experiences of
New Zealanders here and living overseas; emotionally connective
correspondence about coming home, leaving home, staying away, being
homesick, being frustrated about being here! A full range of affirmations,
disclosures, celebrations, commitments, ideas. If you want to feel good today, read this mail.
http://www.nzedge.com/mailbox/25_jan03.html
So many people have
written over the past week as a result of a collaboration with
http://www.oldfriends.co.nz (an amazingly effective service for finding
people/being found!) that we will have another mailbox up in a couple of
weeks.
DESIGN OF CULTURAL
IDENTITY
I was invited a few weeks back to give a nzedge perspective on
"the design of cultural identity" at a Victoria University
School of Architecture/Dowse Art Museum symposium on design, in
conjunction with a Finnish design exhibition touring New Zealand. See http://www.nzedge.nz/com/speeches/design
A reference point for
my talk was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, distressing about the
revelation that one million Australians are living overseas. A federal
government survey has revealed that five percent of the population are
expatriates, half earning more than $100,000 a year. It's an $87 billion
opportunity to tap.
New Zealand ALSO has
about a million people living offshore - about 20% of our population. This
is a multi-billion dollar opportunity (and loss). It would be interesting
for a number-cruncher to assess the embedded investment in people
(especially education) that we have lost to other nations over the past 30
years; and it is a challenge for everyone to increase the creative and
capital flows in the space we call "Greater New Zealand".
nzedge.com has
primarily been about creating emotional connections with the five
million nzers on the planet - the analysis shows there are massive
opportunities for economic ones too. Multiply that!
MATARIKI
Matariki is the Maori New Year that has just been celebrated.
"During the weeks of Matariki, all activities to do with providing
for daily living take on spiritual significance, based on giving respect
to the source of life. Crops are planted, and Rongo-ma-tane, the god of
cultivated food, is appeased for a productive return. It's a good time to
gather pikopiko (fern fronds) and a host of native berries. It's also the
right time to cast fishing nets and lines into the deep waters of Tangaroa
- god of the sea - to make the most of bountiful supplies of migrating
fish. The natural world regenerates, another seasonal round begins."
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/whats_on/se_Matariki.html
_______________________________________________________
Brian Sweeney
Publisher, Producer
THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE
http://www.nzedge.com
mailto: brian@nzedge.com
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