A workshop with Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe)
This toolkit module looks at how we build the whakapapa of our imagined and re-imagined worlds within our writing as Māori writers.
We will look at different exercises and experiments to help us bring out this whakapapa, to highlight it within our work.
Join us to explore the worlds of our kaituhi, and to craft spaces of our own to explore.
A module suitable for all genres, we look at ahua, aesthetics, lore, whakapapa, and more in a module designed to value play, creativity, and our potential as creators of our own worlds that descend from us as Māori.
What is the whakapapa of your writing module content
By the end of this module, you will have:
- explored the whakapapa of our imaginged and re-imaginged worlds within our writing as Māori writers.
- practiced different exercises and experiments to help bring out this whakapapa and highlight it within our work
- explored different elements of writing and the process of worldbuilding including ahua, aesthetics, lore, whakapapa and more.
- fed the world that feeds your stories, characters, and words.
Learning Level
This module is part of our Te Kaituhi Māori series and designed for kaituhi Māori who are wanting to play, create, and our potential as creators of our own worlds that descend from us as Māori.
Filming and editing by Aylmer Kenny.
Ruby Solly
Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) is a writer, taonga pūoro practitioner, and doctor of public health. She has had poetry published in Aotearoa, Australia, America and Antarctica, and has had two books of poetry long listed for the Ockham book awards; ‘Tōku Pāpā’ (2020) and ‘The Artist’ (2023). As a taonga pūoro practitioner, musician and composer, she has worked with artists such as Tararua, Trinity Roots, the Auckland Philharmonia, and Yo-yo Ma. Within all her work, world building and story telling are the waka and winds that drive her forward.
What is the whakapapa of your writing overview
We anticipate the core module will take up to one hour to complete. You will need internet access and writing materials ready (pen/paper or document open).