Soozee is the vivacious woman with two green thumbs to whom everyone is mailing their finished tapestry sections for final sewing...

I was so nervous to be speaking to an all Maori school.  I wanted to use some of the words I was trying to learn… such a beautiful...

I learned so much from Kim and was amazed at her knowledge about NZ freshwater ecosystems and her ability to calmly and enthusiastically...

We cannot wait to see your tapestry sections… please send photos of them when you’re done!  It was a fun day.

These kids have been planting along the streambank in their care, raising money for folks in Christchurch, and are now joining the cause...

These little elvers can run AND draw their tapestry designs!

Helen’s kids are leading the school at rural Peria!  In addition to the tapestry, these guys took me to the nearby stream where we found...

We can’t wait to see their creative tapestry section when it’s done!  Yeah KIDS! Thanks for teaching me to slow down and spend a whole...

The Raurimu kids are active kaitaikitanga!  The whole school is helping with the tuna tapestry! And what a warm whole school welcome at...

The youngsters at Portland prove even little ones can sew to save eels! These Portland kids have a lot of heart...they want to help the...

The kids at Otaika are super excited about creating parts of the Travelling Tuna Tapestry. It was a fun day and the eels are super lucky...

The longfin eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii), the world’s largest and longest-lived freshwater eel, and a creature of great cultural and...

Me, Velvet the sock puppet, the Kiwi kids, and the head of the tapestry! “Velvet’s Travelling Tuna Tapestry” is flying to New Zealand to...