Seaweed - A Love Story
12 June 2025 - 12 June 2025
6–7 pm
Region(s): Wellington
Type(s): exhibitions
Seaweed – A Love Story uses art and innovative technology to reveal the hidden beauty and alarming decline of the Wellington region’s seaweed forests.
Diver Nicole Miller shares her love of Wellington’s south coast and harbour, documenting stunning kelp forests and kina barrens.
Nicole wants to help inform local decision makers and will be joined on a panel for Q+A with Rongotai MP, ocean swimmer and surfer Julie Anne Genter and regional councillor Quentin Duthie. Nicole’s visual art will also be for sale.
Nicole founded Explore Your Coast, with a mission to raise awareness of underwater ecosystems and empower communities to take stewardship.
The bar and restaurant will be open from 3pm until 10pm.
Book now here: https://events.humanitix.com/seaweed-a-love-story and save - $20 door sales.
See the trailer on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ttFA7ToOQ.
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Love Rimurimu – an ocean of potential for seaweed is a year-long inquiry supported by Mountains to Sea – with exploration in the classroom and in the field. You can also dip into resources covering biodiversity, human impacts and restoration for short-term studies. Several resources are in te reo Māori, courtesy of Te Aho Tū Roa.
The citizen science project Floating Forests needs the help of citizen scientists to identify kelp forests from satellite images.
Discover the mātauranga that underpins pōhā – bags made from rimurapa, a species of bull kelp, that preserve tītī (muttonbirds) for up to 2 years.
See our Seaweed and algae Pinterest board for more resource ideas.
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