ORIGIN Tāmaki Makaurau | Aotearoa

Sunday 18 October 2026

Doors open: 6.30am
Event: 7.00am to 10.00am
Synchronised global moment: 8.00am NZDT

Akarana, Ōkahu Bay
8 to 10 Tāmaki Drive, Ōrākei, Auckland

Join us at Ōkahu Bay as Tāmaki Makaurau becomes part of ORIGIN, a worldwide gathering connecting communities across the planet through ceremony, music, prayer, movement and regenerative action.

Here in Aotearoa, our expression of ORIGIN begins with this whenua.

We will gather with the rising day at Akarana, beside the wai of Ōkahu Bay, for a morning grounded in whakapapa, whenua, wai, mātauranga, community and our relationship with te taiao.

We are deeply honoured to have tohunga Awhitia Mihaere and Manu Suganuma join us for the morning.

Awhitia and Manu will open our gathering with karakia, acknowledging and honouring our tīpuna, grounding us in whakapapa, whenua and the kaupapa that brings us together here at Ōkahu Bay.

Awhitia is a tohunga ruahine, traditional healer and teacher of rongoā Māori whose mātauranga was first nurtured alongside her grandmother. Her mahi is deeply woven through whakapapa, rongoā, whenua, wairua and the remembering and revitalisation of ancestral knowledge.

Awhitia is also part of the World Tribal Alliance and has gathered internationally alongside Indigenous Elders, including in South Africa.

Manu brings Indigenous knowledge from Hawaiʻi and Aotearoa, with foundations in Hawaiian martial and healing traditions, plant medicine, ancestral knowledge and rongoā Māori.

Together, their presence connects our gathering here in Aotearoa with a much wider movement of Indigenous peoples, Elders and communities coming together across the world in kotahitanga.

Throughout the morning we will weave together karakia, movement, sound, kōrero, mātauranga, rongoā and connection before joining the global ORIGIN gathering for the synchronised moment, Universal Prayer and Anthem for Unity.

There will also be a space for koha, allowing what we gather together to flow back into our whenua and our communities through local regenerative action.

At the heart of this gathering is something Indigenous peoples have always known.

We are not separate from nature, we are a divine expression of her.

Our wellbeing is woven into the wellbeing of our whenua, our wai, our communities, our ancestors and the generations yet to come.

ORIGIN is an invitation to remember this together.

To honour Papatūānuku.

To honour our tīpuna.

To gather in community.

And to turn our remembering into regenerative action.

From our place here in Tāmaki Makaurau, we will join communities gathering across the Earth with the same intention.

Come as you are. Gather with us. Be part of something moving across the Earth.

This is a free community gathering. Registration is essential as places are limited.

If you can’t be with us in person, you can still be part of ORIGIN from wherever you are. Gather at home, with your whānau or your community, and tune into the global live broadcast as people across the Earth come together in the same moment.

Watch the ORIGIN Global Online Broadcast here:

https://ourorigin.earth/origin-global-broadcast/

Hosted by Bridget Clare | The Remembering and Mārama Mai

With the generous support of Source Water and The Remembering.

Source Water will be sharing some of their water with our community to enjoy on the morning.

The Remembering will also be present within the gathering, with more to be shared as the morning continues to be woven together.

ORIGIN gatherings take place around the world on 17 October. Because of our place on the Earth and our timezone, we gather here with the new day on the morning of 18 October, connecting Aotearoa into the global live broadcast and synchronised moment.

There are still parts of our morning being woven together, with more practitioners, rongoā, offerings and programme details to be shared as they are confirmed.