(sacred offering ceremony) – the offering of food and steam to the stars of Matariki from the umu or hāngī, along with ...

New Zealand's Māori lunar new year celebrations commenced on Thursday with a dawn ceremony beneath Mount Ruapehu in the North ...

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

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 ...

I remember the heat. A dry, suffocating torrent. The blazing, burning sun baking the tarmac. No clouds, no trees, just a furnace of hate. I feel the hate. I remember the heat. I remember the dust.

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

As Matariki is celebrated in New Zealand, Christians navigate a return to the festival’s pagan roots. The appearance of the Matariki star cluster (also known as Pleiades) in the New Zealand sky ...

music and poetry workshops and political workshops. There’s also a celebration of mana wahine, “The whole point of our festival was about people being able to experience Toi Maori and Matariki itself ...

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 ...