Ngakinga  is a participatory social sculpture that will host creative making spaces, workshops and performance over a one year time period. A social sculpture that the community will be invited to design, create and grow alongside us at Papa ki Awataha – Jesse Tonar Scout reserve at the end of Kākā Street, in Northcote. 

We are inviting folks to join us in building community around this land. To help us care for it softly and radically, with creativity and interconnectedness. Across four seasons. 

It will be a place to share personal stories and collective reflection with our feet in the soil and our faces in the flowers. A place to make art with natural dye plants through a lens of decolonisation and ecosystem regeneration, addressing the importance of sustainable practices and connection to the whenua while the Northcote town center is under redevelopment. 

We acknowledge Mana Whenua as the kaitaiki of this land, and their tupuna past, present, and emerging. 

Follow @hollimcentegart.studio for weekly updates and workshop information, or join the mailing list visit www.inhabitproject.com 

Ngakinga Participation Schedule 

Autumn/Winter hours:
Every Wednesday morning 9:30-12:30pm 
Drop in for a chat and help us with some mahi 

Monthly Sundays from 9:30 ish 
First Sunday of every month we will be on the land, caring for it and holding workshops. Workshop details and additional days will be announced on instagram @hollimcentegart.studio on the website and on the notice board at Ngakinga as it unfolds. 

Upcoming Sunday sessions are: 
March 23rd
April 6th
April 13th - School holiday special 😉
May 4th

Documentation and drone footage shot by Petra Leary @petraleary