Precinct celebrates Auckland Pride 2022

25 January 2022

Precinct are proud to be working with local LGBTQI+ artist, curator, and activist Shannon Novak, to celebrate, and show support for the LGBTQI+ community during Pride 2022 and beyond.

We celebrate Pride all year round at Precinct.

Pride 2022 is the month of February and it is a big one for the LGBTQI+ community in Tāmaki Makaurau and wider Aotearoa. This year we celebrate 50 years since the start of the Gay Liberation movement in Aotearoa in 1972, a movement led by lesbian and Māori rights activist Ngahuia Te Awekotuku.

In collaboration with local LGBTQI+ artist, curator, and activist Shannon Novak, Precinct Properties acknowledge, celebrate, and show support for the LGBTQI+ community during Pride 2022 and beyond. This takes the form of a multi-site art project developed by Novak which includes bright, bold, colourful interventions in public space with input from the local LGBTQI+ community.

Despite changing restrictions around COVID-19, Pride 2022 continues and adjusts accordingly. Now more than ever we must show our support for the LGBTQI+ community as they face new and growing challenges in light of the pandemic.

The project is titled Bridge Between Worlds, aiming to positively connect different communities in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.

If you need LGBTQI+ support you can contact:

Commercial Bay Air Bridge

Waharua Kōpito

Waharua Kōpito refers to the points people or events cross and the change that often happens at those meeting points. In this work, Kopeke-Te Aho and Novak focus on bridging BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) rainbow communities with non-BIPOC rainbow communities to create positive, meaningful, and sustained change. This idea then extends to bridging other communities together such as the rainbow with the non-rainbow community, all with a view to creating a better world to live in. • Artists: Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho and Shannon Novak.

PwC Tower

With Love I

With Love I acknowledges and celebrates diversity in the rainbow community. Different versions of the original six-stripe rainbow flag have emerged in recent times, one of the most recent and popular being the Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar. With Love I continues this work, presenting another take on the rainbow flag, highlighting those most in need within the rainbow community including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), trans, and intersex communities. With Love I also includes colours from other flags in the rainbow community including the bisexual, non-binary, and genderfluid flags. Artist: Shannon Novak

HSBC Tower

With love II

With Love II acknowledges and celebrates diversity in the rainbow community. Different versions of the original six-stripe rainbow flag have emerged in recent times, one of the most recent and popular being the Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar. With Love II continues this work, presenting another take on the rainbow flag, highlighting those most in need within the rainbow community including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), trans, and intersex communities. With Love II also includes colours from other flags in the rainbow community including the bisexual, non-binary, and genderfluid flags.

Aon Centre

With Love III

With Love III acknowledges and celebrates diversity in the rainbow community. Different versions of the original six-stripe rainbow flag have emerged in recent times, one of the most recent and popular being the Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar. With Love III continues this work, presenting another take on the rainbow flag, highlighting those most in need within the rainbow community including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), trans, and intersex communities. With Love III also includes colours from other flags in the rainbow community including the bisexual, non-binary, and genderfluid flags. Artist: Shannon Novak

Jarden House

With Love IV

With Love IV acknowledges and celebrates diversity in the rainbow community. Different versions of the original six-stripe rainbow flag have emerged in recent times, one of the most recent and popular being the Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar. With Love IV continues this work, presenting another take on the rainbow flag, highlighting those most in need within the rainbow community including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), trans, and intersex communities. With Love IV also includes colours from other flags in the rainbow community including the bisexual, non-binary, and genderfluid flags. Artist: Shannon Novak.

Meet the artists

Shannon Novak

Shannon Novak is an activist, artist, and curator based in Tāmaki Makaurau. His work aims to reduce anxiety, depression, and suicide rates for the LGBTQI+ community worldwide. He also seeks to dismantle heteronormative structures and systems and build spaces that acknowledge, celebrate, and support diversity and inclusion in sexual orientation, romantic orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics. Novak founded the Safe Space Alliance, a global LGBTQI+ led nonprofit organisation that aims to help people identify, navigate, and create safe spaces for the LGBTQI+ community.

Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho

Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho (Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou, Rongowhaata, Te āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Kahungunu, Fale’ula, and Kai Tahu) is an activist and artist in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Their work is primarily influenced by their Māori whakapapa, takatāpui identity, and political beliefs.

Hariata Herekore

Hariata Herekore (Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Porou, Kai Tahu, Ngāti Raukawa) is a youth worker, activist, and artist living in Whakatū. Their mahi is informed by their whakapapa and their perspective of living as an indigenous person in a colonial world.