Alex Gilbert - founder and director of charity I’m Adopted (front row, second from left) - hosted an adoptee meet-up in Hamilton in April.
Alex Gilbert - founder and director of charity I’m Adopted (front row, second from left) - hosted an adoptee meet-up in Hamilton in April.
Adoptees are invited to meet and share stories and experiences at a community event in Tauranga next month.
Alex Gilbert - founder and director of charity I’m Adopted - is bringing the event to Tauranga after successful adoptee meet-ups in Auckland and Hamilton this year.
The meet-up will beat Good Neighbour on October 19 from 1pm to 3pm.
“It’s about, really, just trying to bring people together who are adopted to talk with each other, share their stories, share their experiences, and have someone else [they] can relate to.”
Gilbert said he had received feedback from people wanting “face-to-face” interactions.
Between 20 and 30 people attended the Auckland and Hamilton events, he said.
He set up I’m Adopted in 2015 as a Facebook page. It became a registered charity in 2020.
Alex Gilbert - founder and director of charity I’m Adopted - is hosting a free, adoptee meet-up in Tauranga on October 19.
Gilbert created a documentary series called An Adoption Story - an independent project he produces and edits.
He had so far released 17 episodes on his Facebook page and YouTube channel. He planned to start filming the next episodes in October, including one in Tauranga.
The next five episodes - telling the stories of three New Zealanders, one Romanian, and one Russian - would be released later this year and next year.
Gilbert set up a Patreon and YouTube supporter membership to help fund the production.
Gilbert said he was releasing a “one-off” short documentary called My Kazakhstan Connection about his family links to Kazakhstan.
He and his partner Justene Musin did the story together in search of his biological grandmother.
