Mama Pou's Kahoas'Workshop Latai, Lavinia and Diana Foliaki
Faleloa, Ha'apai & Lapaha, Tonga
Treehouse Seminar Room, Botanic Garden ki Paekākā
Saturday, 12 September 2026 1:00 pmFREE
Mama Pou’s Kahoas welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds, creating inclusive and accessible environments where culture can be experienced, celebrated, and shared.
This workshop will foster intergenerational learning, allowing elders, parents, and tamariki to come together to exchange stories, laughter, and knowledge. By bringing communities together, we aim to strengthen cultural understanding and inspire pride in our Pacific identities.
Mama Pou’s Kahoas is proud to offer authentic cultural experiences that celebrate Pacific traditions, nurture creativity, and build lasting connections within our communities. We invite you to join us as we honour the past, embrace the present, and weave a future enriched by culture, storytelling, and collective making.
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Mama Pou’s Kahoas is a Wellington-based Pacific collective founded by sisters Diana, Latai and Lavinia in honour of their late mother, Mama Pou. What began as a way of keeping her memory and teachings alive has grown into a practice centred on cultural preservation, storytelling and community connection.
Grounded in aroha, service, inclusivity and collective care, the collective uses the art of kahoa-making to create opportunities for people to connect, create and share. Their kahoa are more than adornments —they carry stories of identity, love, remembrance and belonging.
Drawing on lived experience and intergenerational knowledge, Mama Pou’s Kahoas facilitates hands-on workshops and community activations that bring people of all ages and backgrounds together through making and storytelling. Their practice creates space for cultural knowledge to be shared across generations while celebrating the richness and diversity of Pacific arts and traditions.
Through their work, Mama Pou’s Kahoas continues their mother’s legacy, weaving together memory, culture and connection —one flower, one story and one kahoa at a time.
