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A three-month public space at 115 Taranaki Street, Wellington, Aotearoa NZ for learning, imagining, and practising how sovereignty, resilience and collective care will shape our futures in times of rapid change. criticalsignals.nz

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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 21h
Critical Signals has come so far in only a few months. We still have so much more to do even though we don't have much time left! A huge thank you to our sponsors, The Goethe Institut NZ and EUNIC, for enabling space for our community to form. criticalsignals.nz
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 08/10/2026
Critical Signals is teaming up with @wellingtonzinefest so you can create MORE ZINES! Come along to process, express, or prep for Zinefest in October. Never made a zine before? This is the perfect place to start! 🕑 2.00-6.00PM 📅 17th October 📍 115 Taranaki St 🔗 buytickets.at/criticalsign...
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 08/10/2026
Come see us in person! Our kiekie koha coffee hours are from 1o-2, Tuesday to Friday. Come our from behind the screen, and come have a koha coffee, read books, enjoy art, and kōrero about what you want for the future. 📍115 Taranaki Street
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 01/10/2026
Join Sound Designer & Field Recordist Emma Bernard for a workshop on the basics of field recording, exploring how it can be used to document and deepen our understanding of the environments we inhabit. 📅 10th October, 10.00AM 📍 113 Taranaki & Central Park 🔗 app.tickettailor.com/event/ev_902...
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 01/10/2026
By 2034, one-fifth of the New Zealand population will be over 65. What are the implications for this coming change for democracy, and collective resilience? 📅 Thursday 1 October ⏰ 5.30pm -7.00pm 📍 115 Taranaki Street 🔗 RSVP HERE: buytickets.at/criticalsign...
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 22/09/2026
We're thrilled to be hosting a kōrero with expert in grassroots community resilience, Justin Corbett, this week! Come along on Thursday evening to discuss community-led responses, why top-down philanthropy has missed the point, and what we can be doing instead. 🎫 criticalsignals.nz/programme/we...
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 07/09/2026
Professor Julia Steinberger, a world leading researcher in post-growth living, has a plan to halve our energy use globally, while still live fulfilling, comfortable lives. 🗓 Wednesday, 9th September ⏰ 6.00PM - 8.00PM 📍 113 Taranaki Street ⭐ criticalsignals.nz/programme/li...
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 04/09/2026
How much energy do we actually need to meet our needs as a society? Prof. Steinberger's zoom talk will explore new ideas, and connect you with people who want to make change happen. 🗓 9th September ⏰ 6.00PM - 8.00PM 📍 113 Taranaki Street 💫 RSVP at tinyurl.com/3w53u28y
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 03/09/2026
❤️ Deliberative Democracy Workshop An intro workshop to deliberative democracy, a consensus based system for making healthier collective decisions. criticalsignals.nz/programme/de... 🗓️ Today, at 5.30PM 📍 113 Taranaki Street
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 31/08/2026
Why are arts, culture, and mātauranga Māori such important ingredients for community climate action? And who is showing up to make change in Pōneke, and how can we build on that energy? 🕢 September 2nd, 6.00pm 📍 113 Taranaki Street www.tickettailor.com/events/criti...
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 25/08/2026
From creating fairer economies, community climate action, consensus decision making, to sculpting Pōneke out of clay, we have something for everyone next week! ✨ View our programme here: lnkd.in/eV6f7HY2
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 25/08/2026
Screening "Narrative tomorrow 6pm at @criticalsignals.nz followed by a Q+A with the director! Set 15 years after the 2010 military massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Bangkok, Anocha Suwichakornpong’s film blurs the boundaries between filmmaking, political reflection and legal investigation.
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Film Screening of "Narrative" with Arsenal Filminstitut
Arsenal – Insitute for Film and Video Art will be screening “Narrative” at Critical Signals. Screening will be followed by Q+A and discussion with the Director, Anocha Suwichakornpong. Set 15 years …
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 11/08/2026
Our 2026 programme is off to an incredible start! Tonight we're calling in 📣 our wāhine & non-binary whānau to workshop alternatives to increasingly unsafe tech giants. What's the Bluesky for Youtube? For Slack? Let's share what we know! Tickets and info here: criticalsignals.nz/programme/de...
Event poster with workshop title "Detangling Yourself from Big Tech: A workshop for wāhine and non-binary whānau, with Bianca Grizhar", and event details: 11 August, 5.30pm - 7.00pm, 113 Taranaki St. Logo at bottom connects to Critical Signals at the website criticalsignals.nz
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 29/04/2026
Pōneke people, would you care to share your insights? If you'd like to shape Critical Signals' thematics for 2026, you've got another day to weigh in on this survey. Let's hear it!
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 20/04/2026
(6/6) Present your work, workshop or talk! Interested in showcasing your mahi to our Pōneke community? Check out our proposed themes for 2026 & start thinking about ways you might want to feature. Subscribe to our mailing list to find out when proposals open. criticalsignals.nz#signup
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 20/04/2026
(5/6) We'd also love to hear from people keen to offer help with comms, social media, finance, fundraising, and tech. Send us a message here or email contact@criticalsignals.nz if you're interested in skill-sharing, genuine collaboration, and the satisfaction of building something that matters.
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 20/04/2026
(4/6) The programme is being co-designed as a team, and with you, our community of supporters & collaborators. We'd love to hear your thoughts, to guide us as we adapt Critical Signals to our ever-changing world and to the needs of the community it serves. Proposed themes survey: tally.so/r/pb7N7q
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 20/04/2026
(3/6) This year, following support from our original funders Goethe Institut New Zealand, we have seed funding from the European Union’s National Institute of Culture to make a space in Wellington’s CBD. Today we invite you to be part of shaping what comes next — in three possible ways 👇
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 20/04/2026
(2/6) In 2025, we created a space in Pōneke to test a different kind of readiness. It was built from collective knowledge, experimental ideas and artistic practice, providing a platform for honest conversations about vulnerabilities - structural, societal, cultural and inter-personal.
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 20/04/2026
(1/6) Critical Signals is a lab for collective and creative resilience - a gathering place for people who believe communities can build their own futures. Here's some exciting news! We are kicking off again in August 2026 and want to hear your voices in the shaping of this year's programme ✨
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 22/08/2025
This will be followed by an action-focused discussion led by chef and grower Mara Masarotti on how to connect urban growers with spaces to grow kai at scale. Hosted at 115 Taranaki Street, 2pm to 5pm.
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 22/08/2025
If you’re looking for something good to do in Wellington this fine Saturday afternoon, please check out this talk at 2pm Climate and Community Activist Tuhi-ao Bailey shares Parihaka’s steps towards kai sovereignty, their māra kai and large scale Papakāinga plans in the face of Climate Change.
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Kai Sovereignty - Parihaka's Maara Kai and Growing for Communities
Kai Sovereignty and Growing for Communities.
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 22/08/2025
Kia ora! 👋 Critical Signals is a three-month long pop-up public space at 115 Taranaki Street, Wellington, Aotearoa NZ for learning, imagining, and practising how sovereignty, resilience and collective care will shape our futures in times of rapid change.
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