Treibl Creative

E mua mua e hiki te vikiga kia te Atua, aua kua aumai ni mea lelei kia te au, ma te fanau. E kalaga atu au ki aku tupuna ma te puipui mai ma te alofa. Ko au he mokopuna Tokelau, te moemitiga ma te tatalo o oku tupuna.
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My ancestors hail from Tokelau, Samoa, Taiwan and Japan but I call Aotearoa home and want to acknowledge Tangata whenua of this land whom as a result my ancestors dreams of a better life would not be possible.  As a proud daughter of Porirua this place has housed me, taught me, flourished me and shaped me.
I am māmā to three beautiful tamariki without whom my need to make these stories to share whakapapa, pūrākau and mātauranga would not be there.
A nurse by trade with over a decade of experience, I am proud to say I am a co founder of Treibl Creative alongside my husband. My passion is people! So being able to utilise my creative skills to help our people to tell our stories is something that brings me joy. I believe it is time for us to flourish, for our stories to be told by us and for us and without the prejudice that colonisation and the narratives attached to those ideologies say we are. For far to long we have learnt about ourselves from the perspective that wasn't our own, despite knowing the stories of our ancestors. Its time to rewrite our stories, in our own words. To stand in our truth, our power and self determination. Our ancestors were great storytellers, our civilisations relied heavily on this skill to preserve our cultures, languages and way of life. We at Treibl Creative want to weave this ancient skill with the new ones of technology to preserve them for future generations and keep the links from tupuna to mokopuna strong.