Te Matatini – the “Olympics of kapa haka” – is the biennial Māori performing arts competition. Te Matatini began life in 1972 as the Polynesian Festival. At the inaugural festival in ...

The national kapa haka competition returns on 25 February, hosted this year in Ngāmotu/New Plymouth.

A Christian fundamentalist group has clashed with police after it protested a rainbow Pride parade while performing a haka. Members of Brian Tamaki's Destiny Church held up the parade in central ...

Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga will not only bring thousands of people to the rohe but also their wallets. Te Matatini, the ...

Te Matatini began life in 1972 as the Polynesian Festival, at the inaugural festival in Rotorua seventeen kapa haka performed alongside six Polynesian groups representing Samoa, the Cook Islands and ...

Iwi Māori radio will assist Te Matatini in providing live translations throughout the National Kapa Haka Festival in Ngāmotu. Ngāti Hine FM station manager Erana Fenton, the lead producer for Haka ...

National Rugby League respects and honours the Traditional Custodians of the land and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future. We acknowledge the stories, traditions and living ...

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There wasn't much I could draw on due to the fact I never really paid attention in school and so the hilarious result of my "cultural education class" was seeing around 25 tiny thirteen year old ...

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