The Acorn Blog
Where legacies take shape: insights, inspiration, and local voices that matter.
Toi Whakaari student receives the 2024 Emerging Practitioner Award recipients
Actor Puka Moeau is this year’s recipient from Toi Whakaari. Unlike students at other universities who receive this award, students at Toi Whakaari are nominated by their peers, to best reward those…
Ara Institute of Canterbury student has been selected as one of the 2024 Emerging Practitioner Award recipients
Singer, dancer, and actor Deanna Young is this year’s recipient from the Ara Institute of Canterbury. Deanna is a multi-talented future star in the performing arts, who has been destined for a future…
University of Auckland student has been selected as one of the 2024 Emerging Practitioner Award recipients
Dancer Amy Griffin is this year’s recipient from the University of Auckland. Amy is a talented, passionate, and driven dancer, educator, and researcher.
Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington student receives 2024 Emerging Practitioner Award
Singer, actor, dancer, and writer Lizzie Bysouth is this year’s recipient from Victoria University of Wellington. Lizzie is a remarkably multi-talented performer, with an abiding passion for the world…
NZ School of Dance student selected as one of the 2024 Emerging Practitioner Award recipients
Dancer and educator Aylish Marshall is this year’s recipient from the New Zealand School of Dance.
2024 Emerging Practitioner Award recipient at the University of Otago
Viola performer, composer, and musicologist Grace Shaw is this year’s recipient from the University of Otago.
Will-fully Supporting Women’s Welfare
Noeline’s giving has created an invested community interest. She encourages those who haven’t updated their wills to consider leaving gifts to support the areas they care most about.
Acorn Foundation Inaugurates New Memorial Grove
The grove has been established to honour the legacy of donors to the foundation who have passed on and has begun with the planting of six young native saplings: three Kahikatea and three Pūriri trees.
Te Puke advocates who want to see the town thrive
We are sure that the names Michael and Ann Jones will be familiar to the people of Te Puke, as you may have seen and heard Michael as the town’s crier over the last 30 years.