Thousand's are expected to converge on New Plymouth for the kapa haka competition, which is projected to bring in $27 million for the region, its chief executive says.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 – 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 ...

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