A Lion and a Cow Sat on a Hill (Part 2) — LLEAH SMITH

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We’re moving 💼 🛻 ~~~~ a special little house on a hill. Maunga from the kitchen window 🏔️ expansive ocean in abundance from the back door 🌊
//// cows on rotation🐮 and sauna in our Google searches 🔥 //// Mish has some big news (watch this

These smiles are real ~~~~ the brilliant @clarenceslockee jumped across the Moana 🌊 to share his kōrero as part of our ‘Indigenising Place’ panel alongside #WharehokaSmith @elisapeta__ and @kayemareedunn ❤️&zwj;🔥❤️&zwj;🔥❤️&zwj;🔥
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✏️ STORY WORLDS 🌍
Starts today 📌
22 participants (local national international) ✊🏼
4 days 🪻
21 sessions 🌊
3 sites 🪨
400+ tickets sold 🎟️
Almost 50% First Nations Led 🚩

This was the first project I worked on a year ago when I landed in Ngā

The many faces of PhD interviews!
20 interviews ~ 80 mins long
Across 8 weeks
Across the Asia-Pacific
Across disciplines
Across time zones
Across planes of thinking, experience, context.
Across
Across
Across
I can not wait to enter the next

The Para-Pedagogical: Liberating Pedagogy to Transform Cultural Institutions 🪨

Conference paper for #inclusivemuseum #EighteenthInternationalConferenceEnginesofInnovationandSocialParticipation

A selection of slides in a non-linear order ⭕️

So,

🌊 One whole year in Ngāmotu 🏔️ from the mountain to the sea ~~~~~ friends and fragments ❤️&zwj;🔥

Excited to be presenting at the 18th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum in Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸, 15–17 Sept 2025.

Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums ~ Enginee of Innovation & Social Participation 🌀

Honoured to be

🚀 Landed!
Our beautiful STORY WORLDS brochure is out in the wild 🌊🌳

Pick up a copy at @dawn.oakura or at the front desks of @puke_ariki museum, libraries and @govettbrewster — with branding thoughtfully crafted by @e__sutherland ✨

📖 Story

Fragments 🪨 & ferments 🌾🌶️
~~~~ grateful for time spent on Darug, Gadigal and Bidjigal country at the generous invitation of @bankstownartscentre #RachaelKiang @vanessabartlett with #GutWaters 🌊
~~~~~ also warmed by my buddies turning up and

Everyone carries a history of contamination; purity is not an option ~ Anna Tsing

Tomorrow’s fermencise @bankstownartscentre ✨ sold out ✨ 🎫
Part of #GutWaters 🚿

Fizzy slippery fingers 🫧
Contamimated thoughts 🦠
Digesting encounters 💚

Fizzy fizzy friends 🫙 🫧 🥬
~~~~~ my upcoming session at @bankstownartscentre exploring 🦠 CONTAMINATION through SALTY JARS 🦠 is almost sold out!!! 🎫

Part ferment lesson~ part philosophical enquiry ~ part collective knowledge sharing ~~~~ the e

Listen deeply, speak honestly, and imagine boldly with Story Worlds | 11 - 14 September @govettbrewster @puke_ariki ~~~~

a lively program curated by our working group including @fermentingknowledges @sleepy_creatures @rebeccabeyerart #erinmaessen #

Little Mish & Little Llee 8 years married (if you count from round one) 💨 ~~~~~ a life full of love 🧡

Two fires 🔥 🔥
One winter swim
& a feast 🥗
All in one week
Big hero energy 🦸🏻&zwj;♀️ 🦭
~~~~ @mish.mash.radio.ensemble @anna_briers @passtheamyl 🌭 🐼

Igniting the fizz 🫧.
First day of my PhD practice-led project today 🍶
Quite surreal — and a real honour to be in relation and conversation with those I admire 💫

People doing vibrant, lively, and necessary work across the Asia-Pacific 🌏
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Goodbye Thailand ~ via Sydney (Bondi) ~ thru to Aotearoa 🌴 🥥
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Two weeks of soaking up and soaking in knowledges, waters, sunshine, stories, art and culture with my leading lady @mish.mash.radio.ensemble ~~~ post holiday blues have already kicke

In September 2024 I moved to Ngāmotu to take on a new role overseeing programming and learning across @govettbrewster and #PukeAriki museum and libraries. It’s quite a unique opportunity to work across an ecologically entangled set of instituti

On Thursday 3 July I will present at #APARN2025 in Bangkok at @chulalongkorn.university ~~~ In advance of sharing my paper ‘Agitating towards Flourishing: Fermentation Intelligences in Para-Pedagogical Practice’
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@ge.raldine8736 encou

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