Puaka Matariki Festival 2013 WEEK 1 Saturday 8 June – FRIDay 14 June ISLAND SUMMER – PACIFIC UNDERGROUND TE WHAKANUI O MATARIKI Saturday 8 June, 7pm CELEBRATING MATARIKI Sunday 9 June, 12.30pm – 3.30pm Island Summer – Pacific Undergroundcelebrates the music of Samoa beautifully arranged for guitar Matariki is a time to prepare, learn, share ideas, and by Pos Mavaega and featuring Hiliako Iaheto and to celebrate the future. Join the wh–anau to celebrate Rangitakau Tekii. Pacific culture and music with a Matariki with a huge range of activities including contemporary spin make this Matariki celebration as taiaha, weaving kites to connect to Ranginui, planting fresh as frangipani! a tree to connect to Papatu––anuku and acknowledging whakapapa and t–akoha to k–aumatua. Venue: Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street Venue: Arai te Uru Marae Tickets: Fortune Theatre / (03) 477 8323 24 Shetland Street, Wakari www.fortunetheatre.co.nz Cost: Free Contact: Vicky Totoro / 027 2549328 I AM HERE; HERE I AM [email protected] Monday 10 June – Friday 5 July, 9am to 4pm Weekdays sites.google.com/site/araiteuru/
An exhibition to celebrate the diversity of life. Artists reflect on their place in the world as marginalized and disabled artists and their personal relationship with Papatu––anuku and her people.
Venue: The Margaret Freeman Gallery 83 Moray Place Cost: Free Contact: Marnie Walters, Connections Education and Development Trust (03) 474 5949 / [email protected] _ _ WARRINGTON OKAHAU PUAKA MATARIKI WEEK Monday 10 June, 6.30pm (weather dependent) _ Join the Warrington Ok–ahau community for a lantern parade, kapa haka, waiata, individual student performances and kai.
Venue: Warrington School Cost: Koha Contact: Wendy Russell / (03) 4822605 [email protected] DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY MATARIKI PROGRAMME WAITATI SCHOOL COMMUNITY 10am – 5pm Daily MATARIKI CELEBRATION Thursday 13 June, 5pm – 7pm Especially for Matariki, Te Po– brings together artworks from a number of Aotearoa’s leading artists, including; A popular community event featuring a lantern Ralph Hotere, Michael Parekowhai, Shona Rapira Davies – – and Shane Cotton. See the website for the Gallery’s full parade, storytelling and hangi. All welcome – nau mai Matariki programme. haere mai!
Venue: Dunedin Public Art Gallery Venue: Waitati School 30 The Octagon Mt Cargill Road, Waitati – – Cost: Free Cost: Free (optional hangi for sale) Contact: Dunedin Public Art Gallery Contact: Heidi Hayward / (03) 4822888 (03) 474 3240 [email protected] www.dunedin.art.museum www.waitati.school.nz
ST LEONARDS PLAYCENTRE MATARIKI_ BREAKFAST MATARIKI CELEBRATION WITH TA TIPENE O’REGAN Friday 14th June, 5.30pm Friday 14 June, 7.30am – 8.30am
Join the St Leonards Playcentre and community for Matariki: New Beginnings – Constitution Conversation song, korero,– a shared h–ang–i and lantern parade. with T–a Tipene. Please arrive promptly at 7.15am for a 7.30am start. Venue: St Leonards Playcentre 1 Pukeko Street, St Leonards Venue: Toitu– | Otago Early Settlers Museum 31 Queens Gardens Cost: Free (please bring a contribution of kai) Cost: $25 from Toitu– (03) 477 5052 Contact: Kelly Wilkinson / (03) 4712353 Contact: Hinerangi Nielson / (03) 479 8081 [email protected] [email protected]
DUNEDIN PUBLIC LIBRARIES MATARIKI PROGRAMME OTAGO MUSEUM MATARIKI PROGRAMME
Get down to your local Whare Pukapuka for a range Join Otago Museum for storytelling, stargazing and of events and activities including a talk by Te Tumu workshops throughout June. Especially popular will be lecturer Suzanne Duncan about how M–aori myths ‘Southern Stargazing’ on Sunday 30 June at 11am, 1pm and legends provide wisdom and insight in a modern and 3pm (bookings are essential). See website for full world. See website for full details. programme. – Venue: Various libraries around Otepoti Venue: Otago Museum 419 Great King Street Cost: Free Cost: Free Contact: Dunedin Public Libraries (03) 474 3690 Contact: (03) 4747474 www.dunedinlibraries.govt.nz www.otagomuseum.govt.nz
WEEK 2 SATURday 15 June – Friday 21 June BATHGATE PARK SCHOOL OROKONUI SOUNDSCAPE 2: PUAKA MATARIKI EVENT RICHARD NUNNS & PADDY FREE Saturday 15 June, 7pm – 8.30pm Saturday 15 June & Sunday 16 June, 7pm
Join Bathgate Park School for a free community Following the success of last year’s performance, concert featuring kapa haka and Pacific groups in Taonga Puoro specialist Richard Nunns once again celebration of Puaka Matariki. Acknowledging the collaborates with Paddy Free in concert at Orokonui. passing year and the New Year ahead. Supported by Tahu and the Takahes.
Venue: Bathgate Park School Hall Venue: Orokonui Ecosanctuary 213 Macandrew Road 600 Blueskin Road, Waitati South Dunedin Cost: $35 Adults $15 children Cost: Free (pre-sold h–ang–i tickets from (bookings essential, tickets limited) school office (03) 455 3421) Contact: Tania Turei, Orokonui Ecosanctuary Contact: Jamie Gordon / Whetu Cormick (03) 482 1755 [email protected] [email protected] www.bathgatepark.school.nz www.orokonui.org.nz
PIONEER HALL MATARIKI CELEBRATION PUAKA MATARIKI PLANTING DAY Saturday 15 June, 5pm – 8pm Sunday 16 June, 10am – 12pm (Noon)
Now in it’s 4th successful year, the Pioneer Bring your family and friends to celebrate Puaka Opportunities and Resources Trust presents a Matariki by planting in the back dunes at Tomahawk community evening of kapa haka, story-telling and a Beach. Bring warm clothes, a spade and gloves. Some shared meal in the heart of Port Chalmers. spare spades will be available. We will end the morning with a BBQ, soup and baking. Venue: Pioneer Hall, George St, Port Chalmers Venue: Western Carpark, Tomahawk Beach, Cost: $10 adult, $5 child access from Tomahawk Road $2 for kapa haka only $30 family (2 adults plus children) Cost: Free (bring some kai for a shared lunch) Contact: Francisca Griffin (03) 472 8483 Licia Mihaka (03) 472 8384 Contact: Gaileen Ross [email protected] 021 0550396 / [email protected]
PUAKA MATARIKI STORIES BROCKVILLE BEGG OBSERVATORY 17-28 June, Various times VISIT & BREAKFAST Monday 17 June, 6am – 8.30am Story teller extraordinaire Kaitrin McMullan tells stories of Puaka and Matariki. If you have tamariki Join the Brockville Community Support Trust for an who’d like to attend one of these story sessions, early morning visit to the Beverly Begg Observatory please contact the Dunedin Kindergarten Association to learn about Puaka and Matariki followed by a “Big as below: Brockville Breakfast”. Fresh winter air, bright stars and delicious kai – what could be better! Venue: A– variety of kindergartens throughout Otepoti Venues: Beverly Begg Observatory Cost: Free Robin Hood Park Belleknowes Contact: Lee Blackie Dunedin Kindergarten Association Brockville School Community Hall 027 224 8543 163 Brockville Rd [email protected] Brockville Bookings: $3 per person (booking essential) _ _ Manea Te Kii RARANGA AND HANGI 021 1742213 [email protected] Raranga: Wednesday 19 June, 10.00am www.brockville.co.nz Hang– –i: Friday 21 June, 12.30pm
Learn the art of harakeke weaving at Approach Community Learning including the weaving of putiputi CONCORD KINDERGARTEN to signal the New Year. Two days later at ‘The Hub’ Thursday 20 June, 9.30am – 11.30am enjoy a h–ang–i presented by the Approach Community Learning youth students. Wh–anau from the local area and schools are all welcome to come and share waiata me kanikani and other Venue: Raranga: activities to celebrate Puaka Matariki. Produce from the Approach Community Learning gardens will also be cooked and shared. 177 Mornington Road Lookout Point Venue: Concord Kindergarten H–ang–i: 93 Mulford Street The Hub Concord 158 Oxford Street Cost: Free South Dunedin Contact: (03) 487 6704 Cost: Free [email protected] Contact: Charles Pearce Dunedin Methodist Mission (03) 466 3028 MARAE IDOL [email protected] www.dmm.org.nz Thursday 20 June, 6pm – 10pm
A highlight of the Puaka Matariki calendar and now in ELMGROVE SCHOOL it’s 11th year, Marae Idol acknowledges Matariki moving into the night skies through celebration and waiata. MATARIKI CELEBRATION This year members from Te Waka Huia (national kapa Thursday 20 June, 5.30pm – 7.30pm haka champions) will also be in the whare to help celebrate! Mosgiel’s own Matariki celebration! Join the Elmgrove School community for a mid-winter evening of Venue: Arai te Uru Marae performance, kapa haka, a lantern parade and 24 Shetland St homemade hot soup and potato bread. Wakari Cost: Free Venue: Elmgrove School Hall Contact: Ranui Maxwell 74 Argyle Street, Mosgiel – Te Roopu Tautoko Ki Te Tonga Inc. Cost: Free (03) 4774 681 [email protected] Contact: Denise Hannagan (03) 489 6252 [email protected] OROKONUI: FLEUR SULLIVAN SUSTAINABLE HARVEST Friday 21 June, 6.30pm
World famous chef Fleur Sullivan gives a kai demonstration featuring locally harvested sustainable foods. Included in your ticket is a glass of wine and special food tastings.
Venue: Orokonui Ecosanctuary 600 Blueskin Road Waitati Cost: $45 (bookings essential, tickets limited) Contact/ Tania Turei tickets: Orokonui Ecosanctuary (03) 482 1755 [email protected] www.orokonui.org.nz
TOI ORA - CELEBRATING MOVEMENT OPOHO SCHOOL PUPPET-ARIKI Friday 21 June, 7pm Friday 21 June, 5.30pm – 7.30pm A collaboration between K–ai Tahu sisters, Katrina and Opoho School community celebrates Matariki with Louise Potiki Bryant with a performance bringing together storytelling, puppetery and lantern making. Celebrations dance, aerial work and video projection to tell stories about wrap up with a parade and h–ang–i evening – contact the Puaka and Matariki from a K–ai Tahu perspective. school for full details. Venue: The Atrium Venue: Opoho School and Opoho Church Hall Otago Museum 419 Great King Street Cost: Free (h–ang–i : $4 adult; $2 child) Cost: Koha (suggested koha $10, kids free) Contact: Tania Scarf (03) 4738 019 Contact: Otago Museum [email protected] (03) 4747474 WEEK 3 SATURday 22 June – Friday 28 June TE WAKA HUIA AND MATARIKI HUNGA NUI TAWAROA KAWANA Saturday 22 June, from 3pm Saturday 22 June, 2pm Matariki hunga nui is a whakatauk–i (proverb) meaning See the National Te Matatini Kapa Haka Champions “The Pleiades have many people”. This event brings 2013, Te Waka Huia, and NZ’s Got Talents’s Tawaroa many people together to recognise the strengths Kawana live at Toitu.– within the community. Come along to North East Valley for shared kai, conversation and celebration. Venue: Toitu– |Otago Early Settlers Museum 31 Queens Gardens Venue: Dunedin North Intermediate School North Road, North East Valley Cost: Free Cost: Free Contact: Ranui Maxwell (pre-ordered h–ang–i tickets required) Te Roopu– Tautoko Ki Te Tonga Inc (03) 4774 681 Roopu: NEV Community Development Project [email protected] Ha–ng–i Paia Taani / (03) 473 1655 tickets: [email protected] DUNEDIN MIDWINTER CARNIVAL _ Saturday 22 June, 5.30pm NGA MIHIZ Saturday 22 June, 8pm A spectacular celebration of the shortest day and longest night of the year featuring kapa haka, stilt walkers, drummers and dancers combined with Golden Retriever Records presents a performance stunning giant lanterns and fireworks to create a art evening featuring three visionary new works by beautiful procession in the city centre. dance artist Cat Ruka, musician Dudley Benson and performance artist Piupiu-Maya Turei, inspired by Venue: The Octagon pregnancy, death, and the digital age. Cost: Koha Venue: Dunedin Public Art Gallery Contact: Paul Smith 30 the Octagon Dunedin Midwinter Celebrations Trust Cost: $10/$5 (cash door sales only) (03) 477-3350 www.midwintercarnival.co.nz Contact: [email protected]
BROCKVILLE COMMUNITY K’RD STRIP – A PLACE TO STAND CLEAN-UP & DINNER Friday 28 June & Saturday 29 June, 8pm Saturday 22 June Clean-Up 2–5pm, Dinner 6–9pm The Puaka Matariki Festival is proud to host Okareka Dance Company, featuring one of Aotearoa’s most Participate in a Brockville community clean-up and in acclaimed dance-duos, Taiaroa Royal and Taane exchange for your labour, they will feed you! Otherwise Mete. K’ Rd Strip is a response to a landmark that contact Marie for dinner bookings and details on the has anchored its deep roots into the veins of New guest speaker. Zealand history and the result is a work that is unlike anything Okareka have created before – pole Venue: Brockville School Hall dancing, drag queens, haka, contemporary dance 263 Brockville Road, Brockville and dramatic scenes entwined with live vocals of an all New Zealand music score. R16 – contains strong Cost: $15 for dinner language. (family bookings negotiable) Contact: Clean-Up: Venue: Regent Theatre, Octagon Sue Morey Cost: $35 full price [email protected] $30 DANZ member, groups of 6+ $20 Student Dinner: Marie Laufiso Bookings: www.ticketdirect.co.nz [email protected] Contact: Regent Theatre / (03) 477 8597 _ KAUMATUA LUNCH Sunday 23 June, 12.30pm – 3.30pm
Te Roopu– Tautoko Ki Te Tonga Inc. have been hosting a K–aumatua meal for the past 9 years to celebrate our kuia and koroua and the contribution they make to our community. It is also a time to reflect on those who have passed on.
Venue: Arai te Uru Marae 24 Shetland Street Wakari Cost: Free (invitation only) Contact: Ranui Maxwell Te Roopu– Tautoko Ki Te Tonga Inc. (03) 4774 681 [email protected]
WEEK 4 SATURday 29 June – Saturday 6 July OROKONUI STAR TOUR WITH KANE HOLMES PECHA KUCHA NIGHT – MATARIKI SPECIAL Saturday 29 June & Saturday 6 July, 4.30pm Saturday 29 June, 6pm
Call in the New Year with Kane Holmes and a twilight A fast-paced event showcasing imagery and unique stroll among Orokonui’s wild kaka, then after dark, stories relating to M–aori and Pacific art and culture. Kane will intrigue and fascinate with a southern Twelve presenters each show 20 slides for just 20 interpretation of the night sky. seconds each – once started there is no stopping!
Venue: Orokonui Ecosanctuary Venue: Orokonui Ecosanctuary 600 Blueskin Road, Waitati 600 Blueskin Road, Waitati Cost: $20 adults, $10 kids Cost: $8/Children free (bookings essential) Contact: Paul Smith / (03) 477-3350 Contact/ Tania Turei, Orokonui Ecosanctuary [email protected] tickets: (03) 482 1755 Facebook: PechaKuchaDunedin [email protected] www.orokonui.org.nz BEATBOXING WORKSHOP WITH HOPEY ONE Sunday 30 June, 11am – 12pm (noon) DUDLEY BENSON & HOPEY ONE LIVE Saturday 29 June, 9pm & Sunday 30 June, 2pm Dynamic, world exponent at the art of vocal percussion or beatboxing, Hopey One is ranked in the top 3 wahine Pioneers in their respected forms, Dunedin-based beatboxers– worldwide and will do a series of workshops performer Dudley Benson and Brisbane-based at Otepoti High Schools and one public workshop. beatboxer Hopey One have re-configured the bird Limited capacity so book early! waiata of renowned composer Hirini Melbourne into an innovative genre-crossing performance not to Venue: Dunedin Community Gallery be missed. With support from Murderbike & Trick 20 Princes Street (next to the iSITE) Mammoth. Cost: $5 per person (under 12 free) Bookings essential. Venue: Saturday: Queens, 1 Queens Garden Sunday: Dunedin Community Gallery, Contact: Marcia Cassidy, WhaiAIO 20 Princes Street (next to the iSITE) 022 350 6220 / [email protected] Cost: Saturday: $10 (cash door sales only) Sunday: Koha entry Contact: [email protected] KOKIRI TRAINING CENTRE www.dudleybenson.com 30TH ANNIVERSARY Sunday 30 June, 11am – 4pm
The Kokiri Training Centre was established in 1983 as an initiative of the Arai te Uru Marae Council and it is fitting that the 30th Anniversary for this organisation should be held at the place it began and during the time of Puaka Matariki. Nau mai, haere mai.
Venue: Arai te Uru Marae 24 Shetland Street, Wakari Cost: Please RSVP Contact: Lynette Collins-Watson (03) 455 5725 [email protected] www.kokiricentre.co.nz
OROKONUI PLANT A STAR & STORY TIME FOLLOW THE PARTY OF THE WHALE Sunday 30 June & Sunday 7 July, 11am July 2 – 7, 10am – 5pm Daily
Enjoy stories and discover the wonder of nature with a long-term project especially for children. Collect Artists Iain Frengley and Shannon Te Ao present a new video installation work that retraces and reinterprets a the seeds of native plants and plant them in special – named pot. Orokonui will look after the seedling and commemorative hikoi held in 1985 by local iwi. The h–ikoi was in remembrance of the numbers of 19th kids can return next year to plant in a special place – inside the sanctuary. Century Maori prisoners brought to Dunedin during the conflicts between early settlers and followers of – Venue: Orokonui Ecosanctuary Parihaka leaders Te Whiti O Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi. 600 Blueskin Road, Waitati Venue: Dunedin Community Gallery Cost: $7 (bookings essential) 20 Princes Street (next to the iSITE) Contact/ Tania Turei, Orokonui Ecosanctuary Cost: Free tickets: (03) 482 1755 / [email protected] www.orokonui.org.nz Contact: Jamie Hanton Blue Oyster Art Project Space (03) 479 0197/[email protected] www.blueoyster.org.nz MATARIKI AT THE MARAE Friday 5 July & Saturday 6 July, 7pm WATERLINES II A spectacular Dunedin mid-winter event showcasing Saturday 6 July, 4.30 – 7pm the creativity of the wider community. Puketeraki Marae warmly invites you to be a part of this celebration and A community art event to celebrate Puaka Matariki. enter into the creative journey known as Matariki at the Walk together from the Gallery at 4.30pm to Port Marae. This legendary wearable arts event only happens Chalmers Back Beach. Watch the stars come out and every second year and is always a sell-out so get in discover work from 12 artists situated on and around the early! harbour. Afterwards return to the Gallery to finish the evening with a warming supper. Venue: Puketeraki Marae, Apes Road, Karitane Cost: Adults $15, Children $5 Venue: The Anteroom Project Space 29 Wickliffe Terrace, Port Chalmers Tickets: Design Withdrawals, 7 Moray Place & Back Beach, Peninsula Beach Road Karitane Store, Scarp St Port Chalmers
Contact: Suzi Flack / 021 2576048 Cost: Free [email protected] Facebook: Matariki at the Marae Contact: [email protected] matarikidunedin.co.nz