This year is a milestone celebration of 80 years for Blind Citizens NZ. The theme ‘Ka mua, ka muri | Walking backwards into the future’ is a whakatauki | Māori proverb that promotes the idea that we should look to the past to inform the future.

Dates and venue for the AGM and Conference have been set. We will be at the Brentwood Hotel in Kilbirnie, Wellington. Key points are that we start at 9am Friday 3 October and go through to Saturday 4 October when we end with our Conference Dinner that evening and presentation of organisational awards. On Thursday 2 October there will be the usual face-to-face side-events, the timing for which is yet to be finalised. These include our Te Tiriti o Waitangi Advisory Group, and the Braille, and Guide Dog Handlers’ Special Interest Networks.

We will be publicising registration costs no later than the end of April. In the meantime, we hope you will save the dates in your diary | calendar.