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A group of cyclists swoop around Aotea Square. Watching with bated breath as they go through their paces is choreographer Susan Jordan.
SeniorsDANCE Company are performing Jordan’s original creation, Bike Ballet.
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Kiriata Matthews says you feel it as soon as you walk through the carved gates.
“It’s there, it’s always there. It never disappears,” she says.
She talks about the wairua, a tangible, loving spirit.
While thousands of people are strolling through Fieldays, checking out the latest farm technology, or waiting in line for food, eight men are covered in sweat and breaking their backs building fences.
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After working in the mental health sector for eight years, Gerard Vaughan came to a realisation: he didn’t want to fix people with depression and anxiety, he wanted to stop them feeling it in the first place.
