One Saturday each month | December 2025 - May 2026

Please bring a poem, a short passage or your own writing in progress along the theme of the dawning of the day and sun-rise.

The May session will focus on preparations for Reveil (a french word, meaning “waking up”). This is the 13th year of the planetary radio project Reveil, listening in place and streaming the sounds of the dawn chorus over the first weekend of May: https://soundtent.org/reveil.html


Towards May 2026, we have been meeting at the lodge and adding to the Reveil project’s invitation to rise before dawn and listen, an additional invitation to share tiny textual poems or observations of place across the local mesh network.

A mesh network is an off-grid messaging system that uses radio for text messages to travel from device to device when there’s no phone coverage or internet connectivity. In Pōneke, there is a well established network of mesh nodes across the city, thanks to the efforts of many (you can connect to the city’s mesh community groups on Facebook or Signal).

If you have a mesh device (like the T1000-E) please feel welcome to bring it along. If not, please don’t be deterred by not knowing anything about the mesh. The session will still focus on reading poems along the theme (in May, that theme is ata hāpara/dawn). We hope creative experiments like these can gradually grow interest and learning in the community around low-power LoRa radio comms for community-held resilient communication over time.

May's experiment with the world-wide Reveil project invites folk to experiment with listening, writing or texting on the mesh, taking up whichever element they feel drawn to. The session remains light and informal, and focused on place and the human and more-than-human creatures of Te Raekaihau. 

If you can’t make it, but would like to tune in to hear the world-wide Reveil broadcast, listen via the participating local radio station Mouthfull Radio | 4pm May 2nd—5pm May 3rd, 2026

DETAILS

Date:
May 2nd, 2026

Time:
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Phone +64 27 512 3338

 

VENUE

Alice Krebs Lodge, Te Raekaihau Reserve

113 View Rd. 6023

Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington

Open street map: 
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April’s session connects a theme of fresh water and river networks with different streams of communication and translation. As always, please bring a poem, a short passage, something in progress along the theme of water, streams, catchments, braided rivers, wetlands and water sheds, or simply come to listen and be in company on the headland.

These meet-ups invite creative responses to place: poetry, stories, and environmental writing, with space for diverse creative practices. Past sessions have included music, image-making, co-design and community-technology experiments. Each meeting responds to those who come along and what they bring with them.

Please feel welcome to visit the Lodge in your own creative mode. Bring a poem, a short written passage, an artwork, a creative technology experiment, by you or a creator you appreciate, or simply some living questions around supporting water networks, resilience, and renewal in connection to place and living in Te Whanganui a Tara.

Anyone interested in making and learning in company in relation to the diverse ecologies, whakapapa connections, and the histories held by the headland and coastline welcome to attend. There are rich stories of Te Raekaihau and the creek that used to run through Haewai/Houghton Valley, and many creatures and guardians who have called this coastline home.

The Reveil 24+1 hour broadcast involves getting up early to listen to the dawn, and live streaming the dawn chorus with others around the planet. The weekend is timed with International Dawn Chorus day, which has been celebrated on the first Sunday of May since 1984.

Building on Haewai’s participation in Reveil 2025, Reveil 2026 grows participation connecting audio streaming with shared poetry across mesthastic networks in Aotearoa and Vanuatu: Meshes of the Ata Hāpara

A reminder that the Haewai Community Bookshare is growing here.

The Meshes Saturday sessions can serve as a time for people to make their book swaps in person.

Inventaire is an open source book-sharing platform that turns personal book collections into an interconnected local distributed library. The Bookshare group welcomes anyone in the vicinity to share books (and remember who borrowed what!)

Joining is fairly simple: create an account on Inventaire, and you can add your own books by searching for them, or using your webcam to scan a book's barcode, or entering the ISBN number. Then join the Haewai Community Bookshare Group. We can help if you are having trouble.

The Haewai community book share includes a selection on environmental themes, and more wide-ranging topics. Each book added enriches the collective pool, and keeps stories, poems, and knowledge circulating, rather than gathering dust on the bookshelf.

The Inventaire project is underpinned by Wikidata and has a strong ethical foundation. The platform has a firm commitment to never sell personal data. More info: wiki.inventaire.io

The Meshes sessions are free, but the Haewai community group in our area is fantastic. Please direct any donations to the work of this team and the Haewai community group’s wider work on Lifting the Creek: