
What’s your vision for 2017, Waiheke?
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Francisco Blaha
Francisco Blaha has been living in the pacific for over half his life and in Waiheke for a quarter of that. He has been involved in the fisheries sector since he was a teenager, starting as a deckhand he worked his way through the field of fisheries to his present as a specialist adviser a dozen international organisations and governments in more than fifty countries, including a period as a Senior Fishery Officer with UN. Most of his work focuses on supporting the integration of Monitoring, Control and Surveillance of Fisheries, with Catch Documentation Schemes and Fisheries Information Management Systems to fight IUU fishing in the Central and Western Pacific, but then he also ventures into doing colouring books for the kids of subsistence fishers in SE Asia, Fishing Apps for artisanal fishers in Latin America or whatever some people seems to be happy to pay for him to do. Otherwise, he is near Palm Beach swimming, paddling outriggers, waiting for waves to surf, running, tending his veggie garden, playing music and cooking for his wife and 2 kids.

Dr. Zara Stanhope
Dr Stanhope is Principal Curator and Head of Programmes at Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tāmaki, where she leads the exhibition and visitor engagement programmes, learning, outreach, volunteer guides and a public research library.
She is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Art and Design at AUT University, Auckland and at RMIT University, Melbourne, and holds a PhD from the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, which focused on the international development of socially engaged art practice.
Her institutional roles have included Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia (2002−08); inaugural Director of the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1999–2002), and Assistant Director, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (1993–1999), all institutions where she was instrumental in commissioning artworks for public and outdoor sites. Current Board roles include headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Auckland;
Art Monthly Australia and St Paul Street Gallery, AUT University, Auckland.
Zara is a curator, writer and researcher concerned to activate public engagement with, and opportunities for, creative practices in the global South.
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