If you’re looking for funding for a project, check out our list of known funding opportunities. Many organisations NZ-wide are looking to support innovative and future-focussed projects. Sources are categorised by provider and project type.

Where to eat? Here are our go-to spots to grab lunch.

Our list includes ambient lunch date locations, nooks to recharge your business battery and fancy establishments for formal business meetings.

Jessica Chiang, Chief Scientific Officer at Biofab, is a creative and inventive PhD candidate at University of Auckland. Her work experience centres on the theme of building connections, both social and conceptual.

Starting at the end of April 2022 we will start hosting yoga classes at Manzana each Tuesday from 5:15 pm led by Sarah Ferguson of Yoga Online. As a fan of Valka Yoga’s sustainable cork yoga mats, we reached out to Danny Garg, the founder, to acquire some mats for our upcoming classes at Manzana.

An interview with Manzana kaitiaki Dil Khosa who tells her story, shares career highlights, and future plans.

Manzana is happy to announce our first event: the launch of Waste Archive's first print publication, a magazine by Tardigrade World, the creator of Mugly.

Progressive International is a global organisation aiming to unite progressive activists. To counter the difficult nature of trying to make change alone, Progressive International organises and mobilises people around the world to achieve their common goals.

Auckland-based artist and architect Ian Mac Gabhann’s work Kua Fu is currently exhibited at Manzana HQ.

Kua Fu tells the story of a giant in Chinese mythology who wanted to capture the sun.

This article is an attempt at a comprehensive list of support services available to those in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland and Aotearoa New Zealand provided by Kaitlin Henderson, the Centre Manager of Programmes at Auckland Women’s Centre in Tāmaki Makaurau’s Grey Lynn.

We are looking for emerging artists who want to showcase their work at Manzana. We are a creative community for art and underestimated entrepreneurs who challenge the status quo, are driven by purpose, and have ideas that’ll change the world.

Ché is a creative strategist and community-builder. Her work focuses on creating connections that foster a stronger approach to our world’s most pressing issues. Her experience is in creative collaboration and communication, as the founder of The Composing Rooms and Mañana Today.

Paris Kirby conveys the fundamental forms of our arboreal environment in her art. Past the crackling static of urban foliage, forgoing interaction mediated through a screen, each of Kirby’s works serves as a remedy for the isolation of the digital age.

Florence Hinder is the CEO of Thought Saver and one of our residents here at Manzana. Thought Saver is a smart flashcard app to help people to integrate ideas and behaviours into their everyday life.

Mongoose Chen is the founder of Tardigrade World which is described as an “art and sustainability research group and a project initiator” exploring “social and environmental contexts in Auckland, New Zealand”.

Manzana is happy to welcome Antonia Grant to the team be working on Wednesday’s and Thursday’s from 2-5 pm, and on Friday’s from 10-1 pm to accommodate her university schedule. Here is a brief interview with Antonia to introduce her to Manzana residents, artists, creatives and supporters.

Hannah Lee Jade explores the fringes of installation art, textile design, and sustainable fashion. Her works allude to the importance of rethinking the way we consume and her designs repurporse what’s already there. We managed to track her down between the tip and her sewing studio and asked her a few questions.