Actor Tony Rahme, who comes from an Australian Lebanese family, is our guide to the South Auckland suburb known as The Gardens, on Neighbourhood this week.
Chartwell and its newer neighbour Rototuna lie North East of Hamilton. When actor Ido Drent and his family moved here from South Africa, Rototuna was farmland. Not anymore.
In this episode of Neighbourhood, a Sydenham man rallies the community for Pride Week, and a local foodie blends all the best of her cultural heritage in her cuisine.
Today, we visit the diverse community that calls Papatoetoe home. Less than a quarter of the population identify as European and, after English, the next most common language spoken is Hindi.
We're in Mt Eden where a resident puts her culture centre stage, a local street gets its own multicultural musical, and a young man shares some of the tough decisions he's made to be true to himself.
In this episode of Neighbourhood, former asylum seeker Abraham Naim, also known as the drag queen Medulla Oblongata, is our guide to the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie.
Actor Cristina Ionda who was born in Romania is our guide to increasingly diverse and colourful community that calls the North Shore suburb of Birkdale home.
Musician and broadcaster Erika Takacs is our guide to the Auckland suburb of Remuera - still seen by some as a bastion of old money and conservative values but becoming more diverse by the day.
Actor Shimpal Lelisi, who was born in Niue, is our guide to the Auckland suburb of Avondale, a multi-cultural neighbourhood where over half the residents were born overseas.
Actor and founder of the National Refugee Youth Council, Daniel Gamboa, introduces us to the diverse community that lives in Lower Hutt, where almost a quarter of the population was born overseas.
Human Rights lawyer Golriz Ghahraman is our guide to Kelston, the West Auckland suburb that welcomed her family when they arrived in New Zealand as refugees from Iran.
Artist Reuben Paterson wasn't sure he'd like New Plymouth but instead he fell in love with the glittering black sands, dark, star-studded skies and glimmering seas.
Fiji-born actor Marisiale Tunoka grew up in Dunedin when it was one of the most Pakeha-inhabited places in New Zealand, but today he takes us north of The Octagon to find out how multicultural his hometown has become.
Blogger and writer Jess Molina, who was born in the Philippines, takes us on a tour of her neighbourhood: the diverse and colourful suburb of Hamilton East.
Singer Nikki Lee Carlson is our guide to Masterton: the place Nikki spent her boyhood before being named runner-up in NZ Idol as Nik Carlson, and then transitioning into a woman.
Naz Khanjani, who left Iran when she was a child, is our guide to Albany, one of Auckland's newest hubs. Albany is a magnet for new migrants with almost half of its residents born overseas.
Former refugee Deana Lado who is of Egyptian, Turkish and Sudanese descent is our guide to the neighbourhood that lies to the east of Auckland's Queen Street.
Opera singer and entertainer, Luke Bird, is our guide to the increasingly diverse community that calls New Zealand's northernmost city, Whangarei, home.
This week, actor Jaci Gwaliasi is our guide to the West Coast town of Hokitika where we meet a local woman determined to keep her Filipino culture burning brightly.
We meet a woman who's helping Pasifika kids get a culturally appropriate education, and a local artist reflects on the influences in her work in the neighbourhood that surrounds Lincoln University.
Actor Wolfgang Schmidt, whose parents are Canadian/German and Maori/French is our guide to the isolated community that lives on Great Barrier in the Hauraki Gulf in this episode of Neighbourhood.