Goals
The Kiwi Diary goals are:
inspire, educate and entertain, while raising awareness about things that matter
share ideas that are good for people - body, mind and spirit, and planet
HE TOI WHAKAIRO, HE MANA TANGATA
Where there is artistic excellence, there is human dignity.
~ Maori Proverb
Philosophy
The Kiwi Diary takes the standard diary concept and pimps it up with sweet original art and handy ideas, curated to inform and inspire, woven together with a socially and environmentally responsible ethos.
History - how it all began…
The idea for The Kiwi Diary came to KD Founder Annabel Wilson in 2004 at Farewell Spit, where she was inspired by the natural beauty of the place. Annabel approached friend / collaborator Freda Wells with the idea to create New Zealand's first Kiwi Diary - an annual snapshot of kiwi creativity. Late nights and weekends flew by with months of research, over-the-wine-glass musings, nervous first sponsor meetings, network hustling for contributions, and countless winter nights of the hot-water-bottle huddle at the computer culminating in the inaugural edition.
Today, The Kiwi Diary is a much anticipated annual distillation of kiwi creativity, peppered with topical social and environmental issues, from a country on the edge.
