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We are Brown Bread –
A brand + connection agency.

Brown Bread is a reminder that the best
things in life are simple, connected
and wholesome...

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Tusiata Avia – on embracing a new year post lockdown.

Words from someone who really knows how to sum things up

On the year just been

Tusiata Avia – on embracing a new year post lockdown.

two thousand twenty one
numbers
the pictures behind your eyes

take another breath
strain the air
through your mask
and breathe out
smile

smile behind your mask
and breathe
breathe out waiata
breathe in
the moana
even though it has been far away

breathe
in every kind of weather
and from the inside of your house
again
breathe out
your moko kauae
or your mokos
or the ones you are yet to have

breathe in
ata bark, mangrove inks, pandanus seeds
breathe out the place where it hurts
and breathe
breathe in
the conservatoire on the inside
the conservatoire on the outside

breathe in the darkest corners
breathe in them
breathe in
the alofa
and the aroha
and the amore

and breathe out
beauty and burden
into the theatre
of all things
into the invention
of a new year

 

 

 

 


*Poem contains references (sometimes, rather obliquely) to some of the works by artists who were awarded in 2021

We are Brown Bread –
A brand + connection agency.

Brown Bread is a reminder that the best
things in life are simple, connected
and wholesome...

What makes us unusually effective

  1. We read the room

    We work across multiple communities and spaces – and are often navigating different generations, ethnicities and political views.
  2. We know uncertainty

    Born out of the Christchurch earthquakes, we know how to spot opportunity and keep momentum flowing in bumpy and shifting times.
  3. We work with an unprecedented talent pool

    Our long-standing contracts with Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards and the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi mean we have firm friendships with a gang of Aotearoa’s greatest thinkers.
  4. We only know partnership for growth & impact

    1+1 has always equaled 10 in our world.
  5. We bring a new definition to wholesome marketing

    We make sure brands thinking about the whole picture, not just the bottom line.
  6. We're a BCorp

    10 years ago we were the third business in NZ to meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability. We walk the walk.
  7. We’re full service

    After 10 years, we’ve started an in-house design department to work alongside brand strategy, PR and marketing, partnerships, content creation, and events and activations.

At your FULL service

Brand & Creative

  • Brand Strategy & Creative
  • Campaign Strategy & Creative
  • Design Services

Events and Activations

  • Nationwide Implementation
  • Strategic Approach

Connections

  • Leverage a hyper-now network
  • Relationship Management
  • Philanthropy & Partnership Consultation

Communication

  • Strategy
  • PR
  • Paid Digital Marketing
  • Media Partnership Negotiation
  • Content Creation
  • Stakeholder
  • Influencer
  • Nationwide Implementation
  • Wholesome MarComms Strategies

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Leadership Team

Jo Blair

Founder & Director

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Alistair Blair

Founder

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Peg Morgan

Major Projects Lead

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Carlo Gomez

Campaign & Experience Lead

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Chessie Henry

Communications & Engagement Manager

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Jessica Palalagi

The Arts Foundation Kaiwhakahaere Matua General Manager

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Keiren Nelson

Accounts Administrator

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Libby Vincent

Events Manager

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Ella Waswo

Content Creator

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Flynn Robson

Boosted Coordinator

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Ella Zarifeh

Boosted Operations Lead

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Lose Moala

Communications & Events Coordinator

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Ana Craw

Design Lead

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Brown Bread

We are Brown Bread –
A brand + connection agency.

Brown Bread is a reminder that the best
things in life are simple, connected
and wholesome...

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