Welcome to Ngā Pātaka Kōrero Auckland Libraries podcast page! Catch up on author talks, events and concerts, and hear more in-depth commentary from the curatorial team behind our taonga treasured collections and exhibitions.
In this episode we chat with associate curator heritage collections Melanie Kung about a recent project related to the United Nations Publications collections here at Auckland Libraries.
Melanie talks us through the historical value of this collection, the mana associated with Auckland Libraries having been an early repository for the UN Collection in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the changing nature of print collections in content and design.
You can read more about the collection in her Heritage et AL Blog here:
20 Oct 2026
The Public Stand 2: An Ode to Avondale Racecourse,
Explore the stories of Avondale Racecourse through a self-guided audio walk around the racetrack. Or, listen in your own space and experience the sounds and voices of this important community space in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
If you want to listen to the audio while walking at the Avondale Racecourse, you need to start standing on the track, facing West, next to the Wingate Reserve Entrance, 43 Wingate Street, Avondale. When you are there you can press play on your audio device. We suggest you listen through headphones.
This sound work was originally created for The Public Stand 2: An Ode to Avondale Racecourse, presented as part of the 2025 Whau Arts Festival.
For more about the Avondale Racecourse and the live performance for which the original sound was created, go to:
https://www.avondaleracecoursealliance.co.nz/
https://artswhau.org.nz/project/the-public-stand-2/
Credits for the audio:
Co-creators: Becca Wood & Molly Mullen
Sound design: Peter Hobbs
Voices (in order):
Pita Turei
Jan Skinner
Lisa Truttman
Marlene Milverton
Trina Smith
Mandy Siitia
Jo Smith
Lance Blair
Franca Wood
Mrs Valda Braithwaite, Mrs Foster, Vera Fowler, Mr McKellow, Mr Mays, Merv Raymond, and Mrs Thomas, from the Avondale Oral History Project, 1990, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/2360/rec/1
21 Sept 2026
Akinki Manukau
Akinki Manukau describes why growing food is her passion. She talks about alternative moon calendar, organic growing, how she wants to grow food that will nurture people. Akink also highlights the indigenous communal aspect of growing your own food.
OH_1104_018_4_018_03 Akinki Manukau, oral history, 2013
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