1emailprint Next week thousands of Maori from around Australia will converge on Canberra for a regional competition to select finalists to send to Te Matatini national kapa haka festival in Rotorua next year. The ACT Maori Performing Arts Corporation won the right to re-host the event which was declared the most successful Maori cultural festival [...]
Exhibition of Prisoner artwork including traditional and contemporary indigenous artworks Following the successful award-winning shows in 2010/11 and in collaboration with the Department of Corrections, Mairangi Arts Centre advises that this third annual exhibition will open on April 1 until April 21, 2012. We have developed this increasingly popular and diverse exhibition through continued engagement [...]
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The weather may have dampened the land (a good tohu!), but the wairua held strong. 1000s came out to celebrate the Tairawhiti region’s Senior Kapa Haka teams in Gisborne. The event was moved as a result of the atrocious weather and was held at the Gisborne Events Centre. The top 4 teams that won today [...]
Continue reading …(Te Karere) E kore rawa pea te hunga e haere ana ki turanga mo te whakataetae kapa haka-a-rohe e kiia nei ko nga Tamararo, e puta ma te whawharua o Waioeka inaianei, na te mea, kei te katia mo nga ra e toru e tuu mai nei.
Continue reading …Te Karere covers the Te Arawa Kapa Haka regionals 2012:
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Due to heavy rain warnings in Gisborne the venue for Senior Tamararo 2012 has changed to the Gisborne Events Centre.
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(NZHerald Online) Taika Waititi has confirmed he is to become a father for the first time. The acclaimed Kiwi director also said he was considering making a sequel to his 2010 hit Boy, the top-grossing Kiwi movie of all time, in a new interview.Answering questions on an “ask me anything” question-and-answer session on Reddit.com, Waititi said he was [...]
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In 2011, New Zealand musicians Anika Moa, Warren Maxwell, Maisey Rika and Ruia Aperahama, went into Rimutaka and Arohata correction facilities to teach songwriting to prisoners. The result is SONGS FROM THE INSIDE, a gritty and thought-provoking series premiering Sunday 18 March at 8.00pm on Maori Television. The series covers the 10 weeks that the [...]
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Western Springs College kapa haka group will open the biggest celebration of Pacific culture in Auckland on 9 March at Western Springs Park. ATEED Event Producer Ole Maiava says it will be an exciting start to the Festival. The kapa haka group won the Maori stage at last year’s ASB Polyfest. They will bring a [...]
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(Sonya Bateson – Daily Post | Photo Credit Mika Ngamoki) The Rena disaster, the Tuhoe “terror raids” and oil drilling were among issues highlighted by groups at the Mataatua Regional Kapa Haka competition. Te Whanau a Apanui won the competition which attracted about 5000 to the small East Coast settlement of Omaio on Saturday. Seventeen teams [...]
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