An exciting group of Māori poets – several of the country’s leading poets and some emerging writers - will come together to celebrate Matariki ... as well as poetry, and has collaborated ...

What lies over the horizon for you with the rising of Matariki? How are you feeling about the upcoming release of your debut poetry collection Āria? Nervous but excited for this next phase in my ...

The four days of workshops and displays, organised by Te Puna Rangiriri Trust, which celebrated the Maori New Year and the arrival of Matariki, saw more than 1000 children across 25 Western Bay of ...

In New Zealand this month people are celebrating Matariki - the Maori New Year, which is a time to reconnect with the past and plan for the future. For the Maori people it is also a chance to ...

Director Kath Akuhata-Brown says it's time for a story that heals, not harms and shows the beauty of being Māori.

As Maori across the country celebrate Matariki – or Maori New Year – this June, so too are Maori Television’s news, current affairs and sports departments upholding the annual event.

A Maori Business Professor says commercial ventures surrounding Matariki should be in line with its themes and history. It comes as an advisory document shows MBIE have concerns about the ...

Cultural advisors have expressed some concern over the commercialisation of the sacred Maori New Year celebrations. New Zealand is celebrating its first-ever Indigenous public holiday, Matariki ...

Across the country, New Zealanders celebrated Matariki, the Maori New Year, an occasion that does not ask people to make resolutions or to party hard, but rather to think of the people they have ...

There's growing support for a long weekend around the indigenous occasion, an annual time of reflection and planning among Maori whanau, or families. Matariki is named after the bright stars of ...