Alexis MurtiIn early 2010 I came along to one of Mindi Clews (a New Zealand Cheese Master), cheese making workshops to learn how to make Brie. The workshop was present from my husband, and the next step in our family's journey to live the good life. After completing this course there was no turning back for me!
Our family made the move to rural Otaki in order to live as sustainably as we could. With two young kids, it is great to give them room to run around and also a real gift to be able to grow, produce and make most of our own food. We also enjoy that there is a greater opportunity to obtain food and other local produce directly from the source which often means it is fresher and in turn helps to reduce our carbon footprint.
I regularly make batches of brie, halloumi, feta and ricotta with fresh milk from a friendly local farmer, and I love finding new ways to incorporate my home dairy into our family meals. I also love the idea of getting back to basics and found that making cheese could be incorporated easily into my weekly life.
Teaching others how to do this seemed a natural progression for me; I know what it means to me to be able to provide my family with wholesome produce and I want to make it easier for you to do the same.
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Alison BaylyAlison trained in Horticulture and Landscape design 15 years ago at Wellington Polytechnic. Since then she has operated her business, Oasis Garden Design, throughout the Wellington region. Three years ago she studied Organic Horticulture which has resulted in new understanding of soil and plant processes. She has been involved in setting up Tawa Community garden at Coronation Park.
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Andrea LynchI first saw bobbin lace being made as a 12-year-old at the Canterbury Museum, I knew from that moment I had to find out how make those bobbins and thread move to form lace. I enrolled in a Community Education class at Hagley High School when I was twenty and haven’t stopped making lace since, for over 25 years. I have attended classes with local and overseas tutors to increase my technical skills and knowledge of various styles of lace. I am an active member of the Wellington lacemaking group, Faultline Lacemakers, and have tutored individuals through that group. Lace making can be as traditional or colourful and abstract as you would like to be, don’t think you are restricted to white doilies! I am excited to have this opportunity to teach others that with a few movements you too can make bobbin lace.
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Anne GlennieAnne has always thought playing with clay might be fun and I now finds herself 25 years later still enjoying the creative process and being inspired by what can result from the changing techniques and materials that are always being developed. She also gets a great deal of satisfaction from introducing others to this art form and has taught classes herself now for about seven years with a number of students going on to join local pottery clubs.
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Barbara WefersBarbara has been teaching Pilates for around 10 years now and is passionate about Fitness and Health.
Seeing people enjoy the benefits of Pilates is hugely rewarding.
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Camilla WatsonPrincipal CORLIGHT™ Programmes.
Counselling, Stress Management, Life Coach, Behavioural Specialist. With a background as a Business Analyst and a Corporate Trainer, and with a Diploma in Social Services - Counselling, Camilla now has twenty-five years experience as a counsellor, trainer and life coach. She specialises in stress management and relationships, and provides life-changing healing strategies for anxiety and depression and other challenges. As a professional speaker and contributor to several publications she is able to reach people all over New Zealand with her life changing strategies.
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Carolyn BatesFor many years Carolyn has enjoyed teaching community education classes to a
variety of adult students during evenings and weekends. The majority of courses
have mainly focused on software up-skilling and expertise. She has also
conducted a diverse range of non-PC courses such as accounting, administration
skills, family budgeting, event management, genealogy and meeting preparation.
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Clare Smith
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Di Barnden
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Dianne BarndenI am passionate about quilting and all things quilting. My quilting journey began 20 years ago when I signed up for a community education class “Beginners Sampler Quilt”, little did I know just what an impact that class would have in my future. I am thrilled to be able to introduce quilting into the life of another like minded people and to see their journey unfold. Through quilting I have met the most amazing people and found a creative outlet which at times pulls us through those little humps in the road.
I am a trained Montessori Teacher and currently am the head Teacher at Tawa Montessori Preschool. I am married to the most supportive husband. We have a grown up son who now insists he has enough quilts!
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Don FranksDon Franks is a professional musician who has taught music at schools, adult and children's classes, in prison and to private students.
He’s performed at restaurants, dance halls, race meetings, hotels, concerts, weddings, funerals, supermarkets, festivals and protest rallies.
He currently produces the weekly Access radio programme, Don Franks' Music. As a music teacher, Don specialises in building students' confidence and enjoyment.
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Gabriel Molina
Before he became an IKMF instructor, Gabriel also trained in Krav Maga, Taekwondo (ITF), Shorinji-kan Jujitsu (NZJJF), and Arnis de mano (Filipino martial art). Gabriel currently works full-time as a subject matter expert/clinical educator for two district health boards within the Wellington region. He is a NZ registered nurse with a masters degree in clinical nursing.
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Gary Beecroft
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Geoff MarshallGeoff is a serious amateur / semi-professional photographer who has been teaching Community Education photography classes for about 25 years. Geoff’s interest in photography goes back to his childhood and while he has a broad knowledge of many different aspects of photography, his main interests are landscapes and candid photographs of people.
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Ha NguyenHa Nguyen, who came to New Zealand early 2011 to pursue her post graduate studies in
economics and statistics after over 15 years as a university lecturer in Vietnam. She is a mother
of 2 kids who loves cooking authentic Vietnamese cuisine every day. She has great passion to
preserve Vietnamese culture for Vietnamese kids in New Zealand. She founded VietKidsNZ, a
program to preserve Vietnamese language and culture, in 2014 and has been the leader so far.
(https://www.facebook.com/VietKidsNZ).
She used to be a chef for a restaurant in Wellington who responsible for creating the menus,
ordering ingredients and cooking Vietnamese food, a head chef for huge lunar new year parties
for over 300 Vietnamese participants organized by Vietnamese embassy in Wellington, a chef
for the Vietnamese Food Stall in ASEAN festival in Wellington.
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Ian HulstonSince an early age Ian has had a keen interest in Art. He started his career as a Graphic Artist attending the Wellington Polytech School of Design.
There he trained under various well known Artists and Illustrators.He has worked for various Printers and Advertising Agencies, plus the Dominion Post as a Designer and Illustrator.
Currently he works freelance as an illustrator and also runs his own small Picture Framing business, plus teaches night classes in Acrylic painting and drawing to Adults.
His Artwork has been displayed in various exhibitions on at local galleries also The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and Watercolour NZ. and collected by overseas visitors.
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Jackie Thomas-Teague
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Jan PowellJan is a genealogist and a qualified teacher. She is interested in running courses for people who like to learn to research their family tree/family history. She has been doing genealogy for over 40 years.
Jan is currently Convenor at NZSG Porirua branch. This involves running the committee and branch. She runs "How To…" beginning genealogy sessions, gives slide show talks in greater Wellington and Wairarapa on Genealogy in the Digital Age. Researching and publishing online
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Janet Barnes
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Jean HollierJean has been teaching piano / keyboard in Tawa for 30 years. Initially, only children at the Tawa
Music Centre but since 1999 a range of ages at a number of different schools, privately and through Community Education. Jean is also the producer of Tawa Goes To Town, our schools and community biennial music festival.
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Joyce TamJoyce loves sewing and loves teaching sewing and other fashion design topics. She has been teaching at the Fashion Design department of Massey University for over 20 years. She will teach you how to select a pattern, how to read pattern information, selecting appropriate fabric and methods that are simple quick and provide a professional finish to garments. She looks forward to seeing you in a sewing class soon.
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Kristelle Plimmer
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Linda Savell and Jackie HaddowLinda has been playing with clay for over 35years. firstly as a teenager in her mother’s studio then on and off as a young adult at night classes and as a member of a the pottery club. For the last 20 years she has been far more dedicated to potting and have a love of both hand building and wheel thrown work. She has found herself informally tutoring both Adults and children for over 10 years and find sharing her love of pottery very rewarding. She now hopes that she can share her experience and knowledge with new potters.
Jackie has always been creative and enjoyed various arts and crafts since her teen years, and has experience teaching pre-school and school-aged children. Her clay journey started after completing a couple of wheel-work courses with Anne Glennie, and her current passion is hand-building exploring the variety of textures and forms that can be achieved. She joined the Gear Homestead Pottery Club 5 years ago and has been a committee member for the last 3 years. This has involved planning and running activity nights for club members which she has really enjoyed. And now she would like to share her knowledge and skills with other would-be potters.
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Luz DomenellaHola! My name is Luz Domenella I am a PE teacher from Argentina.
I have been a Spanish tutor at the Adult Community Education since 2005.
I really enjoy the opportunity to teach my language and share my culture.
Come and join the Spanish world!
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Manjula PatelManjula Patel has been cooking for 25 years.
She was born in Nairobi, East Africa and moved to England at the age of nine.
Although she was raised in an Indian community, she developed a passion for cooking through being expose to many different cultures.
Being an outgoing person, she loves entertaining friends and family, and brings a positive attitude to all her classes.
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Mercedes GodinezI started training in 2006 with well respected teachers in New Zealand and overseas. I competed in the national competitions within the first year of training. Since then, I competed internationally and nationally for 5 years representing New Zealand at the Oceania Wushu Competitions and the Australian Wushu competitions. I have won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in a number of different events. Currently, still training and researching in the arts at its higher levels. I have been teaching Tai Chi since 2011.
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Monique LubberinkWe happily moved to NZ three years ago from the Netherlands, where I used to work as a psychologist.
Now I run my family of three teens, three cats & a dog, and my own small business Easy Now Mindfulness.
Having had a lifelong love of crochet, I greatly enjoy teaching this relaxing craft to people!
Find more about me on the website www.easynowmindfulness.com or here www.facebook.com/easynowmindfulness
where I post free weekly mindfulness workouts every Monday morning.
I also facilitate the colouring Sunday's at the Tawa Community Centre and I'm a qualified facilitator for the mindfulness in schools programme Pause Breathe Smile
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Nina PaakaKia Ora, Ko Nina Paaka ahau. Ko Ngati Porou me Tuhoe oku iwi. I am currently studying for my diploma in Raranga level 5 at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. I also teach adult educational classes in basic Raranga skills on Tuesday evenings at Tawa College. My husband and I are a collaboration of Raranga and Aerosol art, we and our two children reside in Titahi Bay. Nau mai, haere mai ki te ako Raranga.
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Noha IbrahimNoha runs a monthly food stall selling Egyptian street food and desseerts.
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Pat Hammond
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Peter SheppardPeter Sheppard is one of NZ’s leading fleet safety and driver education specialist. Peter’s work has included (with Waikato University), ground breaking research into adolescent driver’s frontal lobe development and advice to Government and the transport industry on fuel efficient driving and fleet safety management.
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Phil SalesPhil has been actively involved in a range of industries, including business services, communications, tertiary education, distribution, apparel, sport and social services sectors.
Phil is a former tertiary-level lecturer, at one of New Zealand's leading tertiary education institutions. He has taught Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Problem Solving / Decision Making, and post-graduate Leadership, Management, and Social Responsibility papers.
As a business advisor, Phil has provided assistance to more than 4,500 small and medium size businesses during his time with The Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s biz Information service, and in private practice. Phil is a mentor with Business Mentors New Zealand, and a business coach with New Zealand’s premier business growth specialists, The Icehouse. He has also assessed business plans for MSD's Flexi-wage applicants.
Phil has been a licensed business broker with New Zealand’s premier business brokering firm and he has inside knowledge on getting businesses into shape, drafting Information Memoranda, advising on sales strategies, etc.
In other roles, Phil was responsible for delivering the Wellington pilot of NZTE's Connect New Zealand program, which connected high-growth companies with the people and resources needed to springboard into international markets. He has also run business incubators at various locations around Wellington and he has been actively involved in delivery of the New Zealand Institute of Management’s Small Business Entrepreneurs Program.
At senior management level Phil has been chief executive at WelCAB (where he managed six Citizens Advice Bureau and two budgeting service branches) and deputy managing director at the New Zealand Institute of Sport (where he taught marketing and promotion, event management, sponsorship, administration and financial systems).
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Rhoda FeaseyRhoda started teaching cooking in late 1990s at Taranaki Polytechnic and worked for the best Chinese restaurant in New Plymouth at the time.
She has run cooking class from her home in Dubai from 2000 to 2006 and has taught at Tawa College Community Education since 2011. She enjoys teaching students about seasonal economic Chinese Food.
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Ripeka Bird
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Rolla Farah
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Samuel Berkahn
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Stacey DonnStacey started sewing when she was 11 years old but didn't discover her passion for patternmaking until she was 16. She had an amazing teacher who taught her the basic principles of patternmaking and from there she went on to complete a Bachelor of Design (Fashion) and a Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Primary). She has previously taught Soft Materials at a Middle School, worked as a patternmaker, and been a patternmaking/CAD lecturer at AUT University. For a number of years, she has been a stay-at-home mum, while raising her 3 children, and during that time has maintained her skills by working on patterns and sewing from her home studio.
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