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K -Townkid the Coromandel The K -TownKid The Coromandel feature artist A Family of Creative Characters at The Artists’ House Whenuakite The Seagull January 2021 - number 6 - Out the first Monday of every month editorial appy New Year and thank goodness the debacle design and advertising Hthat was 2020 is over! The Seagull magazine apreciates the support of all Well, maybe not for our frontline health professionals and it’sadvertisers. border staff, not to mention the epidemiologists and the If you would like to advertise with us please have your like who are working to keep us safe. artwork or ad through to us by the A huge thank you to everyone on the Coromandel who has a played a part in the Covid response, including all our 10th of the month. 2021: The Future email [email protected] doctors, nurses, supermarket staff, pharmacists and rubbish We are simply privileged to have not faced that collectors and the like, who have had to keep going as We made it to the New Year! particular problem in our life. It does not mean you are essential services. If you need an advertising designed for you 2021 baby! The future! “problem free” or your life is “easy”. Whether it’s able, We can’t drop our guard but here’s hoping there are some please call 027 506 3110 Electric bikes are everywhere, spatulas still work very straight, white, cis, male, wealth, education, or passing good news stories coming our way really soon. or well, and hash browns never tasted so good! There privilege, 2021 is time to learn a bit more about it. Speaking of keeping us safe we’ve got some timely summer email [email protected] are stingrays in Stingray Bay, Front Beach is still facing The why part is very simple: if we learn more about advice from three of our emergency organisations, Fire, forward, and Lonely Bay is lonely no longer. our privileges it’s less likely our ignorance will blindly Coastguard and surf lifeguards at Hotty…be sensible and Digital Artwork All digital greyscale and color art should be at 300 dpi. In short, let's bask in the bizarre way we measure time hurt people. To find solutions in 2021, we need to hear make their summer a boring one. They’ll be very grateful. The following digital file types are accepted: to create momentum and mark our lives. The problems from those that are facing the problems otherwise There’s a real old-style Coromandel feel to our two Acceptable file formats: All Adobe Products – Acrobat (PDF are the same as yesterday, but a New Year still brings we’ll probably get the solutions wrong. features this month; the first about Luke Reilly owner files with fonts embedded), InDesign (INDD or IDML files with zest to the most practical of us. 2020 is in the dust as One thing acknowledging my privilege looked like of Luke’s Kitchen in ‘The K-Town Kid’ and the second accompanying links and fonts included), Illustrator (EPS or AI files), we have been wishing since March, yet how will 2021 for me last year, was reaching out to a friend from about the marvellous Burns-Nevin family of artists at Photoshop (JPG, PNG, TIFF, PSD). be better? Mercury Bay Area School. After 13 years of friendship Whenuakite. We can’t just rely vaguely on the world to be better, I realised I had whitewashed her to make it easier We’re extremely grateful to the wonderful Dmitri Not accepted formats: Freehand, Corel Draw, Paint, let's grab the fallacy of New Year momentum by the for me to be her friend. I ignored her important rich Kotelevski for the beautiful cover shot of a very happy Quark most sensitive part so it knows WE are taking it for culture and pretended she was exactly the same as me. doggo running on Tairua Beach at dawn. We think it I didn’t learn how to be an ally and was ignorant to the Vector artwork should be saved in an .EPS format with fonts and a ride this time! Among many things, 2020 showed us encapsulates the joy of summer on the Coromandel extra issues and set backs she faced because she didn’t perfectly. images embedded, or all images and fonts must be supplied. that change can happen and introduced us to the now All screen and printer fonts must be provided. familiar concept of ‘bubbles’. I think one of the most have my white privilege. I had a million butterflies Wishing you, and the ones you love, a happy, healthy and reaching out to acknowledge and apologise, but am so prosperous New Year! We will substitute with similar fonts if originals are not submitted. important changes we can make to our own bubbles Text can be converted to outlines, but if proofing errors are grateful I did. Enjoy all that our beautiful Coromandel has to offer, I that will also make the biggest change in the world discovered, new art may need to be submitted. It shouldn’t be left up to the oppressed to do all the certainly will be…if only the ‘Bronzies’ at Otama didn’t around us, is examining our own privileges. If that sentence induced a frown and made you feel a hard work toward equality. I view it as my duty as keep sniffing around the shoreline every time I want a someone with a platform to bring light to this and swim! Images from the web are not suitable for bit uncomfortable, you aren’t alone! Me too. But let me printing. state very clearly that acknowledging privilege is not a open the conversation. So I am taking The Seagull’s moral judgement on your life. It just means that we are beautiful first issue of the year to kindly call you out Please call David if you have likely to underestimate how bad a problem is when we on your privilege, because I want 2021 to be better for questions or would like to haven’t personally experienced that problem. everyone. advertise with us. Graphic Designer David Bayer Graphic Designer and illustrator Editor www.davidbayerdesigns.com Deli Connell 027 506 3110 [email protected] [email protected] Reader’s contributions of letters and articles are welcome. Publication of these is at the discretion of the editorial team and may be edited. Contributions will only be considered for publication with the author’s full name, residential address and contact number. Opinions expressed in The Seagull are not necessarily those of the publishers. The Seagull is published by Oystercatcher Enterprises Ltd. Disclaimer: No responsibility is accepted for loss or damage suffered by anyone relying on the information within. No endorsement of any service or product advertised or featured is implied or assumed. 1 The Seagull The K -TownKid Polynesian food in general.” Sometime later, Luke’s Dad called to say he’d Apparently, you can take the kid out of the found a commercial kitchen on Trade Me and Coromandel but you can’t take…well…you know asked the question; “Do you want to come the rest. home?” An idea had been percolating about There’s something magical about the place and creating an eatery, a “Kiwi/Coromandel thing”. those lucky enough to have been raised here “Friends said Kuaotunu was too far away and always feel the pull to go back ‘home’. no-one would come” he laughs. Luke’s Kitchen Luke Reilly is one of those lucky ones, Kuaotunu opened in 2009 and hasn’t looked back. born (well, Thames Hospital) and raised in the Punters are happy to sit on re-purposed furniture idyllic bush and beach setting, this is where he has in a very ‘Coromandel’ setting, a backyard type of settled to raise his own family with partner Steph. vibe, heels and designer dresses mix with shorts Now better known as a successful chef and and jandals and no-one bats an eyelid. restaurateur, scratch gently and you’ll find the humble Kuaotunu kid roaming ‘free range’ on the “I’ve always been drawn back to the Coromandel, beach. it just ‘had me’”, Luke muses, “Every spot holds a special memory.” He seems unaffected by his “We actually lived at Waitaia Beach until I was 6 back in time for dinner, having lost track of time success, usually in shorts and a T-shirt, a relaxed months old and then Mum and Dad bought the with their outdoor pursuits. Dad with a wee family now of his own with his garage and we moved to Kuaotunu,” says Luke. A succession of birthday parties was held in the partner Steph. The garage is now the site of Luke’s Kitchen Kuaotunu Hall over the years, usually attended Kuaotunu is “different but the same” now and it is Restaurant and the main building houses Kua by all the same kids who bumped over the gravel Luke and Steph’s hope for their children that they Kawhe café. roads to Te Rerenga school in a dusty bus. can have the kind of childhood that he enjoyed… “It was the ultimate ‘free-range’ kids’ lifestyle, By the time Luke was 13 he was biking over to harvesting kaimoana and fresh veg, running building huts in the bush, dragging logs off the Omara’s restaurant in Matarangi to work as a around the beach and “keeping it real”. What beach…fishing,” Luke reminisces, “Dad would ‘dishie’, his first association with the hospitality more could any kid wish for? send us around the rocks to get mussels and Mum industry.
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