Karapu Lit: Te Kaiora Ahurea
Cascais, Potukara (tata ki Lisbon)
HEI AO WHĀNUI te rahi o ngā mema, ā, he whānui hoki te whānuitanga, he nui te hiahia o tēnei rōpū nō Potukara ki ngā pukapuka pai, ki ngā kōrero pai, me kai reka. Tūtaki ki te Kaiora Ahurea!
Ko ēhea iwi e māngai ana koutou katoa?
He ranunga whakamiharo tō mātou rōpū: te reo o Venezuelan/Scottish, te reo o Āwherika ki te Tonga, te reo Ingarihi, te reo o Brazil, te reo o Wīwī, te reo o Albanian, te reo o Pōtikī/Scottish, me te reo o Pōtikī.
He aha koe i noho ai ki Potukara?
He rerekē ngā take e noho nei tātou katoa i konei: te mahi, te whānau, te aroha rānei. Ko ētahi o tātou kei konei hei noho, ko ētahi he manene noa iho.
Kua moe tāne Pōtikī ētahi o ō mātou mema, ā, he whānau ā rātou kei konei inaianei. I haere mai tētahi mema ki Pōtikī i muri i tana haerenga ki te whare wānanga i runga i tētahi haerenga "huri noa i Ūropi" i tana tūtakitanga ki tana tāne o muri mai i tētahi pāti... ā, i noho noa ia! Nō reira, kua tino whai pūtake te aroha ki ētahi o mātou ki Pōtikī.
I pēhea kōrua i kitea ai tetahi i tetahi?
I te tau 2013 mātou i huihui ai i runga i te hihiri a tētahi o ō mātou mema. I tīmata ia me ētahi māmā i te kura o tana tama, ā, kāore i roa ka horapa te kōrero.
E hia koutou inaianei?
He rōpū ataahua mātou, e waru (i ētahi wā e iwa)—he ranunga o ngā māmā mahi me ngā māmā noho kāinga, e rapu ana i te whakaohooho me te ngahau hei wehe i te mahi me te whānau.
He aha tāu i pānui ai?
Anei tā mātou rārangi mai i te tau 2013:
Ahuwhenua kararehe ♦ Ko te Waru Purhera
Nga Mohoao mohoao ♦ He Tangata Ake Ake (Francesco Pessoa) ♦ Kāore ngā tamariki Wīwī e maka kai ♦ Tereina Po ki Lisbon ♦ Te Hekenga o te Wahine ♦ Te Hoe Mo Te Tauhokohoko ♦ Murihiku ♦ Rātū me Morrie ♦ Ko te Pikitia o Dorian Gray ♦ Gabriela Korowha me te Hinamona ♦ Te Mea i To Kiwi ♦ Oscar me te Wahine i roto i te Pink ♦ Siddhartha ♦ Ko te Kino Pai ♦ Tess o te D'Urbervilles.
He aha ngā mea tino pai ki a koe?
I tino pārekareka ngā mema o te rōpū ki ngā mahi a Mitch Albom Rātū me Morrie i te mea i tino pono te kōrero a te pukapuka mō te ora me te mate. Kua ngaro te whānau o ētahi mema i ngā tau tata nei, ā, ko te pānui i ngā kōrero whakahihiri a Morrie me tana tauira o mua a Mitch i tino whakaaro ai mātou me pēhea te ora i te ora ki te tino pai, me pēhea hoki te whakatata atu ki te kore e taea te karo i te mate i roto i te huarahi atawhai me te pono.
Kua maha ngā wā kua pānuihia e te kaihautū te pukapuka (kua mate ōna mātua e rua, ā, he tino whakamarie te pānui) ā, he maha ngā mema i kī mai ka pānui anō rātou i a Morrie i ngā wā maha i roto i ō rātou oranga. He kōrero pono tēnei mā te katoa, taitamariki/pakeke, hauora/mate, harikoa/pouri, ā, i whakaaro mātou katoa "me pānui".
Waihoki, i pai ki ngā mema te kōrero Oscar me te Wahine i roto i te Pink, i pā ki ēnei take uaua mai i te tirohanga a te tamaiti, ā, he pukapuka tino whakakorikori i te ngākau.
Ko ētahi atu tino pai ko Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ko te Waru Purhera me āna pūrākau poto anō hoki, Te Mea i To KiwiAhakoa he horopaki Āwherika (Nīgeria) āna kōrero, te āhua nei ka pā mai tana mahi ki te ngākau tangata i roto i a tātou katoa. Whai muri i te pānui i tana pukapuka hou Amerika (he mea i arohaina e te tini o tātou!), Te Mea i To Kiwi i rite ki te whakataki mō te kiriata Americanah me ngā kiripuaki me ngā pūrākau tino ōrite. Engari i pai tonu ki a mātou.
He tino ataahua te tuhituhi o ngā pukapuka a Chimamanda, ā, e rere ana ngā kupu i te whārangi. E tino pārekareka ana mātou katoa ki tana pānga wahine engari he pānga ā-whakaaro, ā, he tino tautoko mātou i ana tuhituhi. Nā reira, he tino pai ia hei kaikōrero manuhiri i tētahi o ā mātou hui - mēnā ka puta he wā!
I pai hoki ki ngā mema te pānui i ngā tuhinga a Jeffrey Eugenides Murihiku, i ara ake ai tētahi kōrero whakahihiri mō te taatai, te ira tangata, te tuakiri me te whānau. He maha ngā kaupapa whakahihiri o tēnei pukapuka, ā, ka tīmata he kōrero oraora mō tētahi rōpū kaipānui. E tino taunaki ana mātou i tēnei pukapuka ki ō mātou tuahine pānui katoa o te ao!
He aha ngā mea e pouri ana koe?
Tereina Po ki Lisbon nā Pascal Mercier i kore i tino maumaharatia e ētahi, i te mea Te Hekenga o te Wahine nā Elaine Morgan i tino kīkī rawa mō ētahi atu (mai i te tirohanga pūtaiao). Kāore i tino pārekareka ētahi ki te kohinga rotarota a Fernando Pessoa, He Tangata Ake AkeI karangatia i Potukara hei kaitito matua o te ao hou (me te tohu o te rohe), kāore i kitea e mātou katoa he tino whakahihiri, he tino auaha rānei ngā whakaahuatanga me ngā kaupapa a Pessoa. Heoi anō, he mea whakamere te uru atu (me te iti noa iho) ki te mahi a tēnei kaituhi rongonui o te rohe, me te ako atu anō mō te ahurea Potukara.
Ā, me pēhea ngā kōrerorero pai?
Murihiku i ara ake ai tētahi kōrero nui i runga i te whai kiko o ngā kaupapa (ina koa ko te tuakiri ira tangata!) e whatua ana ki roto i tēnei pukapuka ataahua kua tuhia.
Ahakoa he ngāwari ki te pānui, he tino māmā hoki, Kāore ngā tamariki Wīwī e maka kai i whakaputa mai i te āhua o te whaea i roto i a mātou katoa, ā, he tino whakamere tā mātou kōrero mō te mātua me ngā whakatipuranga rerekē puta noa i ngā ahurea.
Nā te mea i roto i tā mātou rōpū tētahi tangata whenua o Āwherika ki te Tonga, i taea ai e mātou te ako atu mō te hītori o Nelson Mandela. Te Hoe Mo Te TauhokohokoI pai katoa mātou ki te whakarongo ki ngā āhuatanga tūturu o te noho ki Āwherika ki te Tonga i te wā o te Apartheid, me te ako atu anō mō ngā pakanga a te iwi o Āwherika ki te Tonga.
Me te pukapuka a Jorge Amado anō hoki Gabriela Korowha me te Hinamona I tīmata te kōrero oraora. Nā te mea he maha ngā kiripuaki whakamere me te rerekē i roto i te pukapuka, i whakamahia e tā mātou kaihautū he papa ma hei tuhi i ngā kōrero mō ia kiripuaki, hei hono i ā rātou kōrero. I tino pai mātou ki tēnei kōrero aroha whai rawa, whakahihiri hoki i whakatakotoria ki Brazil i ngā tau 1920, ā, i uru atu hoki tētahi mema mā Skype kāore i tae atu ki te aroaro.
Kōrero mai ki a mātou mō āu hui.
Ka tūtaki mātou ki ngā kāinga o tētahi ki tētahi. I te mea kei te kura ngā tamariki, ka tū ngā hui i ngā ata, ko te tikanga he karapu parakuihi anō hoki tā mātou karapu pukapuka—he kai katoa mātou. Ka whakatakotoria e mātou he tini o ngā kai tunutunu, he taro mahana, he mea reka, he mea reka, he tī me te kawhe, ā, ko te mea nui, he hoa whakamiharo! E rua hāora te roa o ngā hui.
Ā, te whiriwhiri pukapuka?
Mā te tangata e manaaki te hui e whiriwhiri te pukapuka. I te mutunga o ia hui, ka kī mai te kaihautū o te marama e whai ake nei ko tēhea te pukapuka e hiahia ana ia ki te pānui. Tērā pea ka kawea mai e ia ētahi kōwhiringa hei whiriwhiri mā te iwi. Ka ngana mātou ki te pānui i tētahi mea HOU mā te katoa kia mau tonu ai te hiahia o ngā mema katoa.
Ā, me pēhea te urunga atu ki ngā pukapuka i Potukara?
I te noho ki tētahi whenua kāore e kōrero Ingarihi ana, me tono pukapuka mātou mai i Amazon. I ētahi wā, ki te haere tētahi o mātou ki te UK, ka whakahokia mai e ia ētahi kape ki a mātou. Engari he tino uaua te tiki pukapuka nō tāwāhi—hei tauira, ko Oscar and the Lady in Pink, he pukapuka Wīwī, kāore i te ngāwari te kimi i Potukara. He mema anō hoki ā mātou e pai ana ki te pānui i roto i tō rātou reo taketake, nō reira, āe, he raruraru pea te urunga atu ki reira.
He ture āu?
Kāore he ture motuhake. Ko te mea pai, me whakaoti katoa e tātou te pānui i mua i te hui; heoi, e mihi ana ki te hunga kāore anō kia oti. E mōhiotia ana hoki mātou ka whakaroa i te rā kati mō te wiki pea mēnā kāore te nuinga o mātou i taea te whakaoti.
Ka ngana mātou kia tino tika te kōrero hei te ngako (me te kaupapa) o te hui, nō reira, ki te nui rawa te tahuritanga o te kōrero ki ētahi atu wāhanga, kāore he raru ki te whakahoki anō ki te pukapuka.
He mahi motuhake?
He maha ā mātou kai kaupapa. Anei ētahi tauira...
♦ Murihiku—i kai mātou i tētahi parakuihi kaupapa Kariki
♦ Ko te Waru Purhera—i kai mātou i tētahi keke o Ngāiria, ā, i inu i te wai māngo mā te whakamahi i tētahi ngongo e ai ki te whakaahuatanga o te pukapuka
♦ Kāore ngā tamariki Wīwī e maka kai—i whakatūria te whare hei French Bistro mō te parakuihi me te puoro, te baguette hou, me ētahi atu.
♦ Ko te Pikitia o Dorian Gray—i tāia e te kaihautū ngā kīanga a Oscar Wilde, ā, i whakapaipaihia te tēpu kai ki aua kīanga.
Ā, me pēhea ngā mahi o waho?
I ētahi wā ka haere rōpū mātou ki te toro atu ki tētahi whakaaturanga whare taonga, ki tētahi whakaari rānei.
I te marama o Tīhema, i kai mātou i tā mātou tina Kirihimete, he tino pai! Me ngā pihikete Kirihimete, ngā pōtae pāti, me ngā mahi whakaari, i whakatakotoria katoatia ki tētahi wharekai kai moana ataahua e anga atu ana ki te Moana Ataratiki. I mua i te tina, i inu mātou i ngā kokotere i te pae, he rerekētanga nui mai i ā mātou huihuinga parakuihi o te ata. Kotahi te ture: KĀORE mātou e whakaaetia kia kōrero mō ngā pukapuka i te tina! He wā tēnei hei kōrero mō ētahi atu āhuatanga o ō mātou oranga, ā, he tino ngahau!
I te nuinga o te wā, me pēhea e whakaahua ai koe i tō karapu?
Koinei ētahi o ngā kupu āhua i whakamahia e ō mātou mema hei whakaahua i tō mātou karapu pukapuka: he ngākau nui, he hihiri, he hoa, he ahurea maha, he hiahia ki te mōhio, ā, he hunga whakarongo pai rawa atu.
E whakanuia ana, e whakaaetia ana hoki e mātou ngā whakaaro me ngā whakamārama a tētahi ki tētahi, ā, kua waihangahia he taiao mahana, tuwhera hoki hei kōrero mō ngā tuhinga, te ahurea, me te oranga whānui. He ngāwari te rere o ngā kōrero, ā, te āhua nei ka wehe atu mātou me te hiahia tonu ki ētahi atu mea—e tumanako tonu ana mātou ki te huihuinga whakahihiri e whai ake nei!