Team

Hāmiora Bailey (Ngāti Porou ki Harataunga, Ngāti Huarere) is an Indigenous and queer cultural architect based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Growing from Kaiwhakahaere Takatāpui to Director of Auckland Pride over 5 years he has supported the organisation’s transformation from a seasonal festival into year-round cultural infrastructure, establishing residencies, commissioning models, and development pathways that support Takatāpui, MVPFAFF+ and Rainbow artists to become transformational storytellers. This work informed Ngā Uri E!—Descendants of a Movement—reflecting a commitment to intergenerational healing and the enduring legacy of Pride as a movement.

Blaise Clotworthy has a background in the performing arts and rainbow and sexual health sectors. Following a near-decade long career in performing, Blaise began working at Burnett Foundation Aotearoa (formerly New Zealand AIDS Foundation) in community engagement and social marketing. Blaise’s time at Burnett Foundation Aotearoa culminated in them presenting at the 25th International AIDS Conference in Munich, Germany in 2024. With over a decade of involvement in Auckland Pride as a member, artist, event producer, and community organisation partner, Blaise weaves her passion for intergenerational relationality into her work at Auckland Pride.

Victoria, originally from Nova Scotia, is a creative producer and advocate working across Aotearoa’s arts and cultural sector, and currently contributes her leadership to Auckland Pride. Her work focuses on producing kaupapa-driven, community-led programmes that uplift artists, with a strong commitment to te ao Māori and mana motuhake for Indigenous practitioners. She is a board member of Arts Makers Aotearoa, advocating for fair pay and sustainable conditions for artists, and previously worked with Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi. In 2023, Vic played a pivotal role in the Stop the Cuts campaign opposing Auckland Council’s proposed $36.5 million cuts to arts funding. Her work centres on building equitable, sustainable systems for creative communities in Aotearoa.

Bunty Bou is a communications professional and image maker based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. With a focus on building an accessible community archive, their practice merges photography, research, and archival principles to storytell, community gather, and movement build. Rooted deeply in their lived experience as a queer immigrant and their interest in screen culture, they see their role as a record keeper—annotating and collecting ephemera as evidence, both of queerness and of their Khmer whakapapa. Their work has been featured in publications by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Vernacular, and MARG1N Magazine as well as on billboards around Tāmaki Makaurau.