The title of this recording is "AsiaPacific Outgames closing". It is described as: Audio from the closing of the 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames. It was recorded in Civic Square / Te Ngākau, Civic Square/Te Ngākau, Wellington on the 19th March 2011. This is a recording of an event and features the voices of David Hindley, Hamish Allardice, Karen Moses, Kevin Haunui, Peter Sagar and Virginia Parker-Bowles. Their names are spelt correctly, but may appear incorrectly spelt later in the document. The duration of the recording is 33 minutes, but this may not reflect the actual length of the event. A list of correctly spelt content keywords and tags can be found at the end of this document. A brief description of the recording is: Audio from the closing of the 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames, held in Civic Square, Wellington on 19 March 2011. The content in the recording covers the 2010s decade. A brief summary of the recording is: The recording titled "AsiaPacific Outgames closing" documents the conclusion of the 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames, an event incorporating sports, human rights, and cultural festivities, which took place in Civic Square, Wellington, on March 19, 2011. Speakers at the event included key individuals such as David Hindley, Hamish Allardice, Karen Moses, Kevin Haunui, Peter Sagar, and Virginia Parker-Bowles, who played vital roles in the event's organization and successful execution. The abstract captures the essence of the 33-minute recording, which reflects on the achievement, efforts, and collaborative spirit of the Outgames. Starting with an expression of gratitude towards the numerous volunteers, the audio highlights the all-important contribution of the volunteers, singling out Sarah Fraser for exceptional dedication to the committee and in taking up the role of volunteer coordinator. Lance is also recognized for managing the Outgames hub, alongside other unnamed but equally important participants. Speakers acknowledge the invaluable global support that contributed to raising the profile of the Outgames, the importance of ongoing international support, and they hint at the excitement for the outstanding closing party, complete with lasers and festivities. Significant emphasis is placed on the successes of the event in terms of sport, human rights discussions, cultural exhibitions, and parties – all achieved through the collective efforts of organizers and volunteers. The recording conveys an intimate atmosphere of a community celebrating shared experiences, friendship, and the promise of future meet-ups in forthcoming Outgames. Acknowledgment is also given to sponsors, partners, and families, their support deemed crucial to the event's success. The recording further extends appreciation to specific individuals who exerted a remarkable influence on the event's team, such as Barry Taylor for the human rights conference and Kevin, who was crucial in steering the organization. The audio also serves to honor those who have passed away, like Sue Dunlop, while congratulating various sports teams for their triumphs, such as the Melbourne Glamourhead Sharks swim team and the winning Brisbane volleyball team. Amidst celebratory moments, the recording doesn't shy away from touching on poignant remembrance for individuals who could not attend due to various circumstances, including those in countries where their rights are limited. In ending the event, there's a symbolic flag-lowering ceremony, which transitions the responsibility of the Outgames to the next host and presents a time for reflection on the event's significance, the sportsmanship witnessed, and the enduring importance of love and community. The organizers invite the attendees to look forward to the third Asia Pacific Outgames, encouraging cities interested in hosting future events to step forward. The overall message is one of ambitious community unity, fostering human connections, and creating lasting memories through shared commitment to sports and advocacy for human rights. The full transcription of the recording begins:  Is remembering. Of course. Um, there's a lot of volunteers putting something together like this. And, um, we just wanted to acknowledge, um, our volunteers. So if the volunteers could start coming from this side and come up around me and just stand over here and be fantastic, Yes. Yeah. Oh, and, of course, our wonderful Sarah Fraser. Not only did Sarah Fraser, um, work with us as a committee, um, try to take minutes of our very interesting conversations and, um, try to make sense of action points and everything tirelessly for for some months and months and months and months and months, as we all have. She also was, um, willing to take on the role of volunteer coordinator. So thanks very much to Sarah. We We have another volunteer special volunteer to to mention I actually gave Sarah one of these yesterday. I took it back because I needed it for something else. So So none of you would have seen what I'm giving Sarah. It's, um it's a well, it's not really made of Panama. It's a green, uh, metal. But it's, uh, in the colours of our fabulous native stone. So, like I'm wearing here another person that you may have come into contact with when you registered was, um Lance. So, Lance, um, thank you very much for all your contributions and managing the hub. Um, And then, of course, um um, there's lots more features. Um, I'm just gonna That's it. I'm just gonna pass over to It's fabulous to wear God here. Mm. Thank you. Um, I was doing so well getting through. So, um, we've got, um, David Henley and Vidia Burns. Hopkins, our co-chair. So, um, Hopkins Burns, um, our co-chair are just gonna have a few words. Thank you. Hi. Hamish has the grand title of convenor of operations and logistics. Can you imagine what? Being in charge of all the operations and logistics for an organisation like that? This is just incredible. He did an absolutely amazing job, Hamish. Aldi Just brilliant. You know, it's absolutely awesome standing up here and looking down and just seeing so many medals, uh, around the place. Um, I know Virginia and I were lucky to have the opportunity to to talk to people and to find out some of the stories that people have brought here. I want to pay particular tribute to the people in other countries who have worked so hard to raise the profile of the out games outside of New Zealand to fundraise, to get us on radio, get us in the media and onto websites and so on, get their clubs energised. Thank you so much for your support. It's been massively important to us. So thank you for all those offshore people who helped. Now this may be the closing ceremony, but of course the art games isn't over yet. We have one sensational party to go tonight at a studio in street. I've just been down there about an hour ago where they're putting in the lasers and everything. It's going to be absolutely sensational. There are door sales. It opens from 10 o'clock tonight. So it's a studio. It's about 10 minutes walk from here. Going to be just an absolute blast of an evening. Uh, just a couple of quick messages. You may have seen David Ferry, who was standing just down there. There he is, over there in the red T-shirt. David is our and And listen, as David is our, um, photographer for the games, he has taken some amazing photographs. They're all loaded to our website or to his website. So you can go online. Look at the photograph. So you can, uh, buy prints. Or you can just download them for Facebook or whatever, but go online and have a look at that. That's fantastic. I would also just like to point out there are still a few, uh, and caps, I think for sale just across here. Fantastic merchandise. Really, really beautiful. T-shirts. I can see a lot of them out here, so grab the opportunity while you can. One of the big questions is where will the third Asia Pacific Air Games be held? And I've heard some some really inspirational suggestions over the last few days. Um, if you want to talk about it in a formal capacity, the team down here in the white T shirts, the gsa a P are the people to talk to if you want to quite, uh, undercover. Um, no Obligation, uh, chat with somebody who's actually done it. Then come up and talk to any of the people here, and we'd be more more than happy to give you, um, a little, uh, unofficial discussion about, uh, about what's involved and how much fun you can have doing it. I would absolutely encourage you. If you think that your city is a great place to do it, then please go out and make a real effort. Give it a go. It's fantastic. I know. I'll hand over to Virginia. Thanks, David. If because you've become family now, have you all had a good time? Oh, the atmosphere has been electric As I've walked around my city. This is my neighbourhood. I live in the central business district and I've spotted so many people with their out games logos on and their t-shirts, their medals clinking. Some of you have collected up huge amounts of medals as well. Um, thank you all for taking a chance on us. For all of your cheerfulness and your cheekiness and your camaraderie, you've made this event so special. It's been an absolute privilege to work on this event with our wonderful team. Without their vision and their hard work, we wouldn't have been able to bring you the second Asia Pacific Out games. Please put your hands together once again for David Hamish, Kevin David, Karen Peter Barry Darryl KG, David Peter and Mark. It's It's been a very long time getting to this this point, and it's just brilliant to see all of their efforts come to fruition like this. I'd also like to thank our fabulous volunteer coordinator, Sarah and, of course, the manager of our out games hub, Lance. They've both been a joy to work with and made me feel like everything was under control. And it's a very, very welcome feeling. Thank you both. Of course, an event with 16 sports, a major human rights conference, an enormous arts and culture festival and a heap of parties couldn't be done without our legion of volunteers. To those that have given up relaxed evenings and weekends, time with family and friends and even paid work. Our sincere thanks goes to you. You have each contributed to the success of the art games, and it is very much appreciated. I would also like to thank the partners, families and friends of everyone involved in the art games. You've allowed them to participate, and I'm sure other rich are for it. I'd especially like to thank my beautiful partner Alison, because she's seen me disappearing for hours at a time and I miss you is and finally, our wonderful sponsors. And there are a heap of sponsors that came on board with the art games. Um, we love you for sharing our enthusiasm and for collaborating on the event as well. You brought lots to the table. Thank you so much. Um, our communities are very loyal as we've been telling you all along, and I'm sure that you'll see that for years to come. So thank you all for your role in the second Asia Pacific Art Games. I hope you've achieved your goals, created special memories and made lifelong friends. And I look forward to seeing you all again at the third Asia Pacific Art Games. Thank you. Yeah. Please. Yeah. Mhm. No way it in? Yeah. And killer. It's, um it's terrible to pull people out for thank you. Because you always miss people. But I did really just want to acknowledge, um, not only our co chairs for sport, David Huxford and and Karen Moses and I also wanted to thank all of the fabulous coordinators that we had who were, um, who've worked with us, partnered with us to, um, put on each of the different sports, so I can't remember all of their names even though I've met you all. So I'd just like to jointly put on a round of applause for all the coordinators. I think it'd be great if you all took something home from these games other than your memories. So I've put out the banners there. I hate I love recycling. So, um, the ones who are holding them, they're yours to take. If you don't want them, give them to someone else. These ones here, please. Um, help yourself as well. If your country's missing, it's probably over at te Papa. I just remembered that I forgot to pick up the ones that were left there. So, um, that's where it is. Another thing, of course. Down the bottom is you can see the big blocks in the front, down the bottom, that for Antwerp. So remember that the story goes on. It doesn't It doesn't all end here. So, please, um, take some of the brochures away. I've got more up here in the box holding the flag down, so, um, please take them. Take them. Take them. Um, there's also copies of the official guide. I'll pop those in recycling if they don't go as well. So if you feel inspired and you're gonna do it in your town, maybe it's good to take one of those home so that you can inspire your communities whether it be in Oh, I wonder where it's gonna be. We're not mentioning that. So, um, another person which I wanted to to acknowledge is, um, our fabulous Barry Taylor to any of you, any of you. So you had the privilege of being in the room with the conference participants. You just know how invaluable his contribution has been. And, of course, Barry Taylor's not only about Barry, it's about all of the people that surrounded him and him along as well. So, um, I'm just I just want to point the people out. So we've got Darryl Perent here as well, and we've got David Allen on the back here in the white shirt. Hopefully in the black is, um, our financial controller, Mark Berry and, um, one of the people that, um that when he came on board, I thought, Oh my God, this man was just scary. He's one of the kind of people who you do not say no to. And, um, many of the poor arts and culture community in Wellington have found that out to their to their detriment, as who worked with a few others because no one could stand working with him. He was such a bloody bulldoze. But anyway, and, um, we must also remember the fabulous Sue Dunlop who passed away last year sadly from cancer. And her contribution was also in the programme. Um, so there's, um, one other person that you've all seen his work and the team that he has looked after, and that's our our website. Love it or hate the websites. You know, it wasn't exactly, um, dude's nude or whatever it is that you're into. But it was, uh, the Wellington Out Games official website. And that's Peter. It is. Some of you may have experienced Auntie Beryl. Where is Auntie Beryl? We've lost him here. Auntie Beryl is, um is the name that one of the registration team? One of the team Peter Peter Gordon. You would have all received an email from Peter Gordon at the same stage. Peter Gordon. Where the hell are you? Hm? He's probably on the website doing another email to you all. But Peter Gordon worked tirelessly with the registration system. So, um, thanks very much to Peter Gordon. I think, um, at one stage, Shelly told me, Well, I've done over 900 emails now imagine what Sally's, um yeah, her contribution as well. It's all been invaluable. And there's one other person who's standing who's been my right hand man through all of this experience of the out games. And that's Kevin. There's two quiet, unassuming rocks that kind of have been a part of this organisation. One is Kevin and the other one is Mark, and I just really it's been a privilege, and I love the role modelling. Um, I came into this organisation and wanted to do this because I wanted to learn. And I wanted to be a part of something that, um, raised the profile of our community and gave us something to fight for. Other than, um, AIDS and human rights. So, um, you know, I, I really feel privileged to be working as a part of this organisation. But those men, I've I've I feel like I've developed mentors for life. So thank you for them now, It's not all about us. Of course, there's other people here from the glia family. So I just wanted to, um welcome out the glia glia for you. Both of you do not know Wellington 2011, this bunch and extended to that bunch and all of you. Now, um, put in a bid to host the second Asia Pacific Out games. We put in a bid document to GS, the Gay and Lesbian International Sports Association, of which, uh, Peter is the president currently serving. So, um, did he do? Did he have a glia of people want to come up in case people want to come out and talk to you about the host city operations? Uh, opportunities. Come on. Come on, Lorraine. Because none of us do this stuff alone. None of us. I mean, it was lovely here in Virginia. Thank Alison, but my main rock is Simon Virtue. In the back there, he's been looking after me through putting me back out into the world. You know, it's exhausted from the experience. So, um, now we're just gonna have the flag coming down ceremony. Ethel, can you take the flag down? Just be careful of the gaffer tape. I just got the pole at Bellings on the way. As you can see, organised for the last minute operations. So, um, we're lowering the flag. This is the international flag. It was created in Montreal. Glia Asia Pacific has got a a green thing. He wants it. And this one's got an orange one because it's the international flag and you can see at showing you. Now we've got Copenhagen, where the games have been held. Calgary, the red ribbon. We've got the green ribbon, which is Melbourne, and we've got Montreal. And now David Henley is going to attach the ribbon for Wellington. And if you want to take it off the polls, I take undo the gas and then you give it to David. I should be taking So, um, Wellington's now taking it off the pole with a bit a lot of help from Brisbane. Thanks. So and, um, Wellington is now gonna give it ceremony. I mean, ceremonially back to Lisa. Asia Pacific. Sure. And we're gonna be now giving the flag in all its entirety and all its responsibility. That's the least of the visit. Now we'll have a speech from Peter. Oh, we're gonna give it now. Right now, we're gonna have the flag giving. You wanna announce? Uh, so Michael's here from Team Vancouver. Vancouver is host of the second North American Out games that will be held later this year. I'd like to just say many, many thanks to the people of Wellington. We have those of us who have come a long way, have really You've opened your hearts. You've opened your city. You've shown you've raised the bar so high. And I encourage those of you here in Asia Pacific to make a long journey to Vancouver to our North American Out games. You may have seen this little book. Mark WWW, Vancouver 2011 out games dot com Check it out. We'd love to see you there, and we are challenged to meet the level of quality and pride that you guys have put out. We love you. Thank you very much. So now take a tiger from G, then I have a few words. I have a few words. I have a few words. Uh, korra, uh, friends. Thank you for being part of these eight days of amazing sport, culture and human rights uh, my name is Peter Saga, and I'm Karen Moses from Lisa. Asia Pacific. So, on behalf of you, uh, we congratulate Virginia and David and the entire team standing behind us, Uh, for making Wellington 2011 possible. You know, we all acknowledge it's been a huge undertaking and you've delivered us a unique, special, amazing and just fantastic games. Thank you so much. Yeah. We also thank uh, Nick from Age Pacific for his support and work. But we also have to acknowledge that our presence being here today gathering in Wellington, as we have over these last eight days, has only been possible because of the courageous people in our past, courageous people who have stood up for their rights. So we can we can be here today and we also acknowledge the previous gay Games and our previous out game City Montreal, Calgary, Melbourne, Copenhagen and now Wellington. So, obviously, after Wellington, we have the North American Out games in Vancouver, the third World out games in Antwerp in 2013 and then we'll look forward to the third Asia packs. Asia Pacific is made up of volunteers and organisations that come together to create and support events just like this. The vision is to encourage participation to strengthen individual communities and create an active rainbow community in the Asia Pacific region. How can we all participate to activate nurture, keeping this wonderful momentum alive for me as a lesbian? It is to create an Asia Pacific lesbian network to continue the wonderful conversations on from the conference to increase women's partici participation in the out brains and the wonderful legacy of a woman's space. As part of the Rainbow Community, we all have our goals for the future. So we invite you to be part of this wonderful network going forward and edging your voice. So so police Asia Pacific asks you to take away your memories, Take away the new friendships with you and let us meet again soon at the third Asia Pacific Out games. Thank you, Wellington Kia Kaha. Yeah. Now there was a in the pool. You can imagine how fiercely competitive it was. And I'm not just talking about the showers. The, um there's a team on Melbourne Melbourne glamour heads. Aren't they a legend? The, um they, um they won the swimming, so we just like to present them with, uh, the banner of some of our beautiful um, I be able swim. So from with someone like to come up from the, um, Melbourne overheads to, uh, receive the banner. Is there anyone here from Melbourne? Yeah, at some of our boys. Do you please trade it with the stage? Thank you. Thank you. There's also, um there's some other teams which stood outstandingly. Well, um, one of them was the, um, volleyball team, which my intel has failed me. Which was the volleyball team that won Brisbane. Would Brisbane like to come up and grab a banner to take home for their community? Remembering that we want to continue to to, um, build on what's been created here. If you don't want the banner, that's fine. Someone give it, take it and give it to someone else. Actually, there's a few banners. So why don't people just come up and take the banner that they want? Help yourself. This is recycling. Remember the, um the big the big, tall things that are over there. They go to the third Asia Pacific Out games. So? So we give them because they just say Asia Pacific arcas, they don't say anything about Wellington? We were strategic there. Um, lastly, um, don't forget the t-shirt sales over there. It's great to have commercial support, and, um, just, um they're cheap. Now, if you've been waiting, I think this is low as the price is gonna go. Um, don't forget revolution tickets. Um, you can buy them at the door. This one has been there, but it's all done. Brilliant. Now, can't remember now. It has got the, um Kevin. So now we're going to have, uh, my favourite part, which is, uh, yes, uh, the is our opportunity to close the the out games to take back the, um, mantle that was handed to the, uh, Wellington 2011 committee and to you the invitation while you were here, uh, in Wellington. And that started at the at Papa last Saturday. So we welcomed you, and you've enjoyed yourself, and I hope, uh, and now we would like to to say goodbye. In doing so, I'd like to, uh, explain that we'd like to have a a couple of moments Silence for reflection about what we have done this week. What we have all done this week from the time that we paraded down the walls to te papa on to the marae at te Papa, where we were welcomed where it was said that the most important thing that we should remember and retain is love. Love for the person love for other people. We also remember the sports events. I won tennis, and I remember that a lot. Actually, there are others in there, but I'll I'll just say that it won't happen. There were swimming. Yeah, houses. Yeah. There were also, um, the tours to the zoo, the tours to the the, um, tours to Zia. The many arts and crafts events around the city and the, um, surrounding cities. There were also the entertainment evenings from, and the parties began last night, and we've still got that to go. But let's remember those things. Let's also remember those people who aren't able to be here and who are unable to be here because they have no choices about some of those things. So we'll have a moment's silence. We're going to have a, uh a after this, uh, and then we'll close off with a I, uh a prayer of thanks for everything that we have shared together. Yeah, right. OK, so, mhm you do. And, boy, I me hey to Oh, thank you. Yeah. The full transcription of the recording ends. A list of keywords/tags describing the recording follow. These tags contain the correct spellings of names and places which may have been incorrectly spelt earlier in the document. 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