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takanga o te ao Māori, nō reira he mea nui whakaharahara tonu mō ngā kapa 47 e whakataetae ana me ngā hāpai ō kua oti i a rātou ngā mahi whakariterite, kua whakapeto ngoi i ngā marama kua taha ake.

TĒNĀ KOUTOU KATOA, Rā te haeata rā runga mai o Taupiri maunga, kei raro iho ko te Upoko Ariki, kia tau iho ngā tauwhirotanga a te runga ki runga ki a koe. Paimarire.

Takahia atu rā te ara ki te Tairāwhiti, Kahurānaki maunga tēnei ka tuohu, māturuturu ake ko ngā hautōmai ki ngā au o Ngaruroro awa, Kahungunu tāngata, Kahungunu whenua, ka mihia koutou mō koutou e wahawaha nei i tēnei kaupapa, e manaaki nei i te iwi Māori whānui tonu, tēnā koutou.

Kei ngā mātātoa a Tāne Rore, kei ngā raupuapua a Hine Rēhia, koutou kua whakapeto ngoi i ngā marama kua taha ake, tēnei ka whakamiha, waiho ake mā Putē, mā Whētero, mā Ihi, mā Wehi, mā Wana koutou e kawe i te papa tūwaewae, kia kaha koutou, karawhiua!!

“E tū i te tū a Tāne Rore, e haka i te haka a Tāne Rore!!”

Mō te taha ki Te Wānanga o Aotearoa he hōnore tēnei whai wāhitanga atu ki Te Kahu o Te Amorangi Te Matatini 2017.

Ka tika kia mihia te mana whenua, Ngāti Kahungunu me Te Matatini Kapa Haka Aotearoa e hora nei i te manaakitanga me te karanga ki a mātou kia tae mai ai i tēnei tau ki Heretaunga.

Kia mihia hoki ngā kapa i eke i ngā whakataetae ā-rohe kia tae mai ai ki Te Matatini, rātou ko ngā huhua kaitaunaki kua tae mai ki te tautoko i ō rātou mātātoa.

Ko Te Matatini te taumata o ngā mahi Kapa Haka, ka mutu, koinei te takahanga o ngā

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Mai, mai te papa o Te Matatini e tū ana hei waha kōrero i ngā pakiwaitara, i ngā hītori, hei papa whakanui i te angitu, hei paepae mihi me te tangi ki ngā mate, hei ātea tohe hoki i ngā take o te wā.

Kua noho anō hei wāhi mō ngā kāwai kaitito kua turaki i ngā tautikanga e auaha ake ai, e werohia ai hoki ngā whakaaro o tēnā, o tēnā.

Maringanui, mai i te wā o Te Matatini tuatahi - i taua wā ko te Whitiwara o Porinīhia i tū i te tau 1972 - i a tātou te whakakitenga i mōhio ai he tuāpapa te kapa haka hei whakaora i ngā āhuatanga Māori me te reo Māori i tūpono ka ngaro.

He hua nui tō te kapa haka, ā-ahurea, ā-hapori hoki, ka mutu, he mea whakatutuki te whakakitenga o Te Wānanga o Aotearoa - he takapau mātauranga, he whānau huarewa.

Ko Te Wānanga o Aotearoa te tuarua o ngā whare mātauranga nui o Aotearoa, ka mutu, ko tētahi o ngā whāinga he whakaū, he whakapūmau i te reo me te mātauranga Māori, nō reira e hiamo ana mātou ki te mahi tahi tonu me Te Matatini hei herenga taukaea, hei kaitaunaki matua hoki i tēnei tau.

Ko ngā mea ka hua mai i te atamira i ngā rangi e kainamu mai nei, koinā kua rua tau e tōminahia ana e te apataki kapa haka.

Anei aku kupu tōmina ki ngā kapa kua whakapau kaha i ngā marama kua taha ake nei kia pai te tū, ā, ka pērā tahi au i ērā e ārita ana ki te kite he aha ka puta i tēnei mutunga wiki.

Nāku i roto i ngā mihi, Tākuta Jim Mather Te Taiurungi Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

E kore e taea te wehe, ahau me te ao HAKA Nā Te Anga Nathan

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ē taea te wetewete e Tiare Teinakore te ao mātauranga me te ao kapa haka. Koia tētahi o ngā kaiako o te hōtaka He Korowai Ākonga (Primary Teaching), he tohu paetahi ki Te Wānanga o Aotearoa hei whakangungu tāngata hei kaiako ki ngā kura tuatahi whakaako ai, ka mutu he kaitātaki wahine hoki nō te rōpu kapahaka nō Te Iti Kahurangi. “E kore e taea te wehe, ahau me te ao haka, he kotahi,” hai tā Tiare.

atu ōna pūkenga ki te whakaako i ngā kaiako mā reira horapa ai ōna tāonga ki ngā kura tuatahi, ki ngā whaituā, ki ngā tamariki huri noa.

E mau ana tēnei tuawahine nō Ngāti Hauā me Aitutaki i tērā korowai ahakoa he aha rā āna mahi tae rawa atu ki tōna akomanga.

“Ko taku waimarie ko ngā wheakotanga, o te ao haka, ko ngā tikanga, ko te reo kei te kaha whakamarumaru i a au, ko taku whakapono kei te kaha whakamarumaru i a au e whakaako ana i āku tauira.” “He nui ngā wheakotanga ka tōia mai i te ao kapa haka, ka tōia mai i te ao mātauranga, e rua, e rua.”

Ko te tū tuawhitu tēnei a Tiare i Te Matatini e haere ake nei. I eke panuku ia hei manukura wahine o te motu i te tau 2013, kei te anga atu tōna kanohi ki te Kahu o te Amorangi ki Ngāti Kahungunu.

“Tēnei mea te whakaako he tino manawanui ki au, he tino ngākau nui ki a au, ahakoa he aha te kaupapa i runga i te mōhio kē he hononga kei roto i ēnei mahi. Ka taea e koe tētehi tangata te tino morimori, te poipoi i ēnei mahi, ka taea e au te ako mai i a rātau.”

“Ko tētehi o ngā kaupapa ko te taukaea o te whanaungatanga ki a Ngāti Kahungunu, te Kāhui Ariki, te Kīngitanga, i te mea i te mutunga o te rā ahakoa he aha te kaupapa, kei te haere hei kanohi mō te Kīngi me te whare kāhui ariki.”

Ka puea ake te whakaaro kia haere atu a Tiare ki te kura tuatahi whakaako ai i a ia e tamawahine ana, nā konā ka peke atu ki Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato ki te rapu i ōna tohu whakaako, nā wai, nā wai i kotahi atu ia ki te mura o te ahi.

I a ia e whakaako ana i te kura tuatahi i kitea e ia ētahi āhuatanga ka pai ake pea mēnā ka toro

“He nui ngā wheakotanga ka tōia mai i te ao kapa haka, ka tōia mai i te ao mātauranga, e rua, e rua.”

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Whakatau mai rā Ka

Kīngi Tūheitia leads the manuhiri on to Napier’s McLean Park.

Nā Tracey Cooper

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n 2013, when Ngāti Kahungunu won hosting rights for Te Matatini, iwi chair Ngahiwi Tomoana had a simple request of his staff. “I want you to achieve the unachievable, to make possible the impossible and the unreachable reachable.”

That those 14 staff have achieved those goals is impossible to deny and iwi events manager Te Rangi Huata says being able to do so with such a small core team is ‘simply how we operate.

Ngahiwi believes that we can spin on a dime and just go to it,” he says. “If we need help, we just ask our people for help. There’s only 14 of us in here so we need all the help we can get.”

That help includes a roster for mirimiri, which Te Rangi says is “so we can be flexible”. And although they are flexible they are also happy to bring in the experts for specific tasks. “We decided from the outset that we will not use volunteers, but we will pay our people to help us, and so we call it waka ama, we’re the waka, and they’re the ama.”

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There are plenty of good Māori organisations in the region with skills in certain areas and it makes sense to employ them rather than try and do everything themselves. “The other thing that paying people does, it allows people to actually look you in the face and say yes or no. And there’s a value in their work.”

To come to grips with what was involved in hosting “the biggest kapa haka show on earth”, Ngāti Kahungunu spent plenty of time learning from others. “I volunteered backstage in Christchurch and a number of our members went along to look at other areas. We had our local council and mayor come and have a look and talk to their counterparts in Christchurch.”

The 2015 hosts couldn’t have been more helpful, he says. “Ngāi Tahu came here with their core team to share with us their insight into Te Matatini.

They shared with us the things that happened to their members and their visitors and they also shared all the things they regretted not doing.”

The relationship between Ngāti Kahungunu and

ahungunu tāngata e!

Paora Sharples leads the Ngāti Kahungunu ope taua out to lay the taki for the visitors.

the region’s city, district and regional councils along with other funding organisations has also been crucial and one which has been nurtured by the history of community work carried out by Ngahiwi and other iwi members.

That relationship saw $1.2million pumped into the successful Marae Whakaute Programme, which saw 16 marae undergo upgrades and renovations ahead of Te Matatini. The work ranged from replacing kitchen appliances and renovating bathrooms to the installation of drinking water supplies and installing disability access. Of the 47 competing teams at Te Matatini, 26 are staying on marae and 21 in hotels, motels or camping grounds.

That demand for accommodation, Te Rangi says, ultimately led to the South Africa New Zealand One Day cricket match scheduled for this weekend to be moved to March 1. Ngāti Kahungunu had wanted to hold the haka pōhiri for Te Matatini at Napier’s McLean Park for the best viewing access and shade in the

grandstands but the venue was already booked

by New Zealand Cricket.

A request to move the game was unsuccessful “but when they went to book hotels for the teams, it was all booked out, so they graciously gave us their booking,” he says. Te Rangi says the haka pōhiri will be a once in a lifetime experience.

“None of us will ever see something like this again for many, many years. Something of this size, of this nature, it will really be a great way of us coming together.”

All those people coming together creates a major challenge when it comes to kai and the iwi is employing what Ngahiwi says is the Ngāti Kahungunu practice of Kai Hau Kai. Kai Hau Kai was a form of combat we used.

Rather than going to war with each other, we’d see who could put on the best kai. Whoever put on the best kai got the land or got the lady,” he says. “All the Kai Hau Kai is going towards the pōhiri and to marae.”

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To that end, Ngāti Kahungunu have been quietly gathering their resources for months.

“So, Mahia is providing the crayfish, here (Heretaunga) is providing all the kina, Wairarapa is providing all the pāua. We’ve got bread makers making rewena bread, 500 loaves of it baking right now to distribute to those marae.”

Iwi-owned farms are supplying mutton and beef and other Hawke’s Bay organisations have come on board too. New Zealand’s largest organic vegetable grower, John Bostock, has donated squash, onions, watermelon and sweetcorn while organic chickens and Rush Munro’s ice cream are being distributed to hosting marae.

Five tonnes of kūmara and potatoes have been donated and the largest apple exporter in New Zealand, Mr Apple, is supplying unlimited apples. Coolstores have been donated to store the kai, along with vehicles to distribute it.

As if hosting Te Matatini and accommodating and feeding thousands of visitors wasn’t enough, Ngāti Kahungunu have taken it several steps further. “We’ve created a new festival,

the Kahungunu Festival, and it’s going to become an annual event for the whole month of February,” Te Rangi says. “To welcome our visitors, 400 flags are going up all over our Kahungunu territory, in Wairoa, Napier, Hastings, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Dannevirke, Woodville and Masterton. These are our pou, our sentinels to welcome our visitors from the four points of the earth to Heretaunga.”

The festival kicked off on February 4 with an exhibition highlighting those who have passed away along with Ngāti Kahungunu leaders.

Further exhibitions are on at the Napier and Hastings Art Galleries throughout February.

Waitangi Day celebrations attracted 10,000 people while a Herenga Waka Festival on February 11 had four waka hourua and 100 crew arrive in Napier. There’s also the Kahungunu Beach Party, The Whānau Show doing a live radio broadcast, Kahungunu Vibes on Saturday night along with more bands playing on Sunday night. There’s a kaumātua ball, a showcase of Kahungunu artists, composers and performers, and the unveiling of a pou in Pacific Square in Hastings by Pa Ariki, the queen of Rarotonga.

From left, Iwi Events Manager Te Rangi Huata, Ngāti Kahungunu chairman Ngahiwi Tomoana and Communications Advisr Ruth Wong.

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Of most significance, however, is the Taniwha Dragon Economic Summit, which will bring together 250 Chinese, Māori, Hawke’s Bay and New Zealand business leaders with the aim of generating up to $100 million of investment. “The idea of doing this conference during Te Matatini is to marry culture with commerce,” Te Rangi says. “Te Matatini, the biggest kapa haka show on earth, is the ideal canvas for us to do events like this.”

Despite the huge number of visitors, the four Ngāti Kahungunu teams competing – Te Rerenga Kōtuku, Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga and Tamatea Arikinui – will be assured of plenty of local support, thanks to the iwi buying 20,000 tickets for members to buy at half price and a string of radio ads encouraging Hawke’s Bay residents to attend. “That’s the hometown advantage,” Te Rangi says. The competition has been named Te Kahu o Te Amorangi, meaning that with strong spiritual leadership, success will follow and “anything becomes achievable,” Ngahiwi says.

“It’s not just a kapa haka show, it’s a wairua phenomenon as well. Our amorangi, our leaders of the past, are our spiritual inspirers. People like Te Rangi’s dad, Wi Te Tau Huata, his brother Te Okanga (Aussie) Huata, and more recently Te Rangi’s brother Tama. We’re using them as a moral and spiritual connection.”

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Arts graduate Cody Hollis who is performing with Te Rerenga Kōtuku prepares some artwork for Te Matatini.

“For us it was simple, it’s the legacy we’ll leave for our children. That’s the key for us, how we can make them proud and how in the future they can then pass those acts of pride onto their children. For Kahungunu, this is our time. We’re hosting the biggest kapa haka show on earth and we’re ready.”

For Te Rangi, it’s all about making Kahungunu proud.“Why did we want to achieve the unachievable, to make possible the impossible?

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ei te pītau whakareia o te ao nekenekehanga Māori a Beez Ngarino Te Waati.

Ko Beez rāua ko tōna hoa rangatira a Kura Te Waati ngā upoko o te pakahi Hawaiki Tū e

whakatere ana i ngā mahi a te Rēhia ki te toi o ngā rangi.

He kaiako hoki a Beez i Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Kua riro māna ngā kaupapa e rua e whakaako, arā ko te Kāwai Raupapa me te Nekehanga Māori (Māori Movement) taumata tuatoru.

“Nō māua tahi te whakaaro rangatira kia tuitui ai ngā whakaaro e pā ana ki te haka tapere. Tuatahi mai i roto i tā māua nei kamupene a Hawaiki Tū, kātahi ka whai whakaaro māua ki tētahi huarahi mō ngā rangatahi kia whai i ngā pūkenga pēnei i te kapa haka, te mahi whakaari, te mahi kanikani, nekeneke rānei.”

Nā konā i toko ake te kaupapa Māori movement. Ko Tuki te Rangi Curtis tētehi o ngā mātātoa mau rakau i āta poipoi ai i te kaupapa. I takea mai ētahi nekehanga waewae o neherā, ngā mahi mau rākau, tāpiri atu ko ngā korikori tinana nō te ao Jiujitsu.

“Ko te nekehanga Māori he mea whakangungu mā tātou, kia whakakoikoi i te tinana, te wairua, te hinengaro, te ngākau.”

Kāore he mahi i kō atu, i kō mai i te whakaako i Te Wānanga o Aotearoa mō tēnei uri nō ngā kāwai rangatira o Tauranga Moana me Waikato. “Kua hoki mai au ki Te Wānanga o Aotearoa ki te whakamahi i aku mahi kia whāngaihia ēnei tāonga tuku iho. Ko te tino mahi kia whāia ko te pitomata o ia tauira.”

Kua kitea e ia, i roto i ngā tau, te puawaitanga o āna tauira e tōngakengake ana ki te takahi i tēnei huarahi i te tau kotahi. “Ka whakaeke mai te tauira i raro i te āhua o te matakū, kātahi ka eke panuku ki te hurihanganui, kua huri tō rātau ao.

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ura Te Waati is a choreographer, producer and director and when Te Waka Huia take to the stage this weekend, she will be performing at her seventh Te Matatini. Given all of this, it’s hard to believe that

she was once a reluctant kapa haka performer who would blush, stand with drooped shoulders and feel whakamā as a child.

She sits for an interview in front of the camera with both confidence and elegance and credits her success in the performing arts arena to kapa haka legends and founders of premiere kapa haka group Te Waka Huia – Dr Ngāpo and Pimia Wehi. “I always had a passion for kapa haka obviously through the whānau Wehi and Te Waka Huia as a child I aspired to be like some of the aunties that are still standing in the ranks these days,” Kura says.

“Anyone can do kapa haka but it was more so the tutors that I had to teach me because I was so shy, they pulled something out of me, that I couldn’t see for myself and I’m very, very grateful.”

Since 2012, Kura’s been pouring her passion for kapa haka and theatre into transforming the lives of her tauira who attend the Certificate of Māori Performing Arts - Haka Theatre based at The Auckland Performing Arts Centre in central Auckland that sits under the umbrella of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (TWOA). Haka theatre is new indigenous art form that combines the fundamentals of kapa haka, Māori movement and theatre. She’s loving teaching at TWoA and gets a kick out of seeing the difference the tertiary provider makes in the lives of its tauira during the 36-week programme.

“The biggest thing for me is that their self-esteem has gone through the roof, that and being able to make sound decisions on what they want for their own lives.”

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DAY 1 TE IHU Tāite Thursday 23 Pepuere 2017 8.40am 1. TE MANU HUIA Tāmaki Makaurau 9.17am 2. HĀTEA KAPA HAKA Te Taitokerau

Stage Arena Gate Opens 7.00am

9.54am 3. WAIOWEKA Mātaatua Karakia 8.00am

10.31am 4. TE REANGA MOREHU O RATANA Aotea

KAI O TE ATA 20 MINS

11.21am 5: NGĀTI RANGIWEWEHI KAPA HAKA Te Arawa 11.58am 6: NGĀ MANU A TĀNE Waitaha 12.35pm 7: TAUIRA MAI TAWHITI Mātaatua 8: TE PIKIKŌTUKU O 1.12pm NGĀTI RONGOMAI Te Arawa

DAY 2 TE HAUMI Paraire Friday 24 Pepuere 2017 8.40am 1. TE KAPA HAKA O WHĀNGĀRĀ MAI TAWHITI Te Tairāwhiti 9.17am 2. MŌTAI TANGATA RAU Tainui 9.54am 3. TE TAHA TŪ Tāmaki Makaurau 10.31am 4. TŪ TE MANAWA MAUREA Te Tairāwhiti

KAI O TE ATA 20 MINS

11.21am 5. NGAA POU O ROTO Tainui 11.58am 6. TE RERENGA KŌTUKU Ngāti Kahungunu 12.35pm 7. TE KAPA HAKA O RUĀTOKI Mātaatua 1.12pm 8. TE AITANGA A HAUITI KI ŪAWA Te Tairāwhiti TE WĀ TINA 45 mins

TE WĀ TINA 45 mins

2.27pm 9. TE POU-OMANGATAAWHIRI Tainui 3.04pm 10. TŪTARA KAUIKA KI RANGATAUA Mātaatua 3.41pm 11. TŪ TE MAUNGAROA Te Whanganui-ā-Tara 4.18pm 12. TE PUU AO Te Taitokerau

KAI O TE AHIAHI 20 mins

5.08pm 13: TE ITI KAHURANGI Tainui 5.45pm 14: NGĀ MANU WAIATA Te Whenua Moemoeā 6.22pm 15: TE MĀTĀRAE I ŌREHU Te Arawa

2.27pm 9. TE HIKUWAI Te Arawa 3.04pm 10. NGĀ TŪMANAKO Tāmaki Makaurau 3.41pm 11. TE KAPA HAKA O NGĀTI RANGINUI Ngāti Kahungunu 4.18pm 12. MURIWHENUA Te Taitokerau

KAI O TE AHIAHI 20 mins

5.08pm 13: TE KAPA HAKA O TE WHĀNAU-Ā-APANUI Mātaatua 5.45pm 14: NGĀ KĀWAI HEKENGA O NGĀ TAONGA MAI TAWHITI Te Whanganui-ā-Tara 6.22pm 15: TE KAPA HAKA O KAIRANGA Rangitāne 6.59pm 15: KIA NGĀWARI Te Tau Ihu

KARAKIA WHAKAKAPI 7.00pm

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KARAKIA WHAKAKAPI 7.30pm

DAY 3 TE KEI Rāhoroi Saturday 23 Pepuere 2017

DAY 4 TE MĀTANGIRUA Rātapu Sunday 24 Pepuere 2017

8.40am 1. ŌPŌTIKI MAI TAWHITI Mātaatua

8.40am 1. KAPA HAKA TUATAHI

9.17am 2. TE AHIKŌMAU A HAMOTERANGI Waitaha

9.17am 2.KAPA HAKA TUARUA

9.54am 3. NGĀTI KAHUNGUNU KI HERETAUNGA Ngāti Kahungunu 10.31am 4. HIKURANGI Te Tairāwhiti

KAI O TE ATA 20 MINS

11.21am 5. TŪHOURANGI NGĀTI WĀHIAO Te Arawa 11.58am 6. NGĀ PURAPURA O TE TAIHAUĀURU Aotea 12.35pm 7. TE MATAPIHI Aotea 1.12pm 8. TE PAO A TAHU Waitaha

TE WĀ TINA 45 MINS

2.27pm 9. WAIHĪRERE Te Tairāwhiti 3.04pm 10. TAMATEA ARIKINUI Ngāti Kahungunu

9.54am 3. KAPA HAKA TUATORU 10.31am 4. KAPA HAKA TUAWHA

KAI O TE ATA 20 MINS

11.21am 5. KAPA HAKA TUARIMA 11.58am 6. KAPA HAKA TUAONO 12.35pm 7. KAPA HAKA TUAWHITU 1.12pm 8. KAPA HAKA TUAWARU

TE WĀ TINA 45 MINS

2.27pm 9. KAPA HAKA TUAIWA

TE WĀHANGA WHAKAMUTUNGA 3.20pm TE WĀ TUKU TAONGA TE WĀ TUKU I TE MAURI 4.30pm KARAKIA WHAKAMUTUNGA

3.41pm 11. TE WAKA HUIA Tāmaki Makaurau 4.18pm 12. NGĀ TAONGA MAI TAWHITI Te Whanganui-ā-Tara

KAI O TE AHIAHI 20 MINS

5.08pm 13. TE TŪ MATAORA Rangitāne 5.45pm 14. TE POUTŪMĀRŌ Waitaha 6.22pm 15. TE ROOPŪ MANUTAKI Tāmaki Makaurau Strategic Partner and Proud Sponsor 6.59pm 16. TE KĀHERU MATARAU A HAUĀ Tāinui 8.00pm

WHAKAINGOTIA TE MĀTANGIRUA

8.05pm

KARAKIA WHAKAKAPI

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he most coveted trophy in kapa haka is named after him but who is Duncan MacIntyre?

A decorated soldier who finished his military career ranked major with the 2nd New Zea-

land Expeditionary Force in Japan, he also served in the Middle East and Italy in World War 2. The Right Honourable Duncan MacIntyre was the Minister of Māori Affairs when The Polynesian Cultural Festival was first mooted in the early 1970s. His obituary says he did his best to bridge the gap between Pākeha attitudes to Māori issues - the most important of them being Māori land alienation. He stayed on marae around the country and impressed Māori leaders by his sincere attempts to understand their grievances. Mr MacIntyre served as Deputy Prime Minister to Robert Muldoon from 1981-1984. He was held in such regard that following his death in 2001, it was requested that he lie in state for a night at Pōrangahau marae.

What is the name of the tekoteko on the Matatini stage mahau?

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Where are the next four Te Matatini festivals to be held?

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What was the name of the first festival held, what year was it, and where was it?

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At which festival did this manu first appear?

Name the finalists from the 1994 Aotearoa Traditional Māori Performing Arts Festival?

There have been many names given to the festival whakaingoatia (name them)?

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Name this trophy?

Name the top nine teams from 2015 and the name of the festival?

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What is the name of this year’s Te Matatini?

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PASSION FOR SURFING EVENTUALLY LEADS TE AHO HOME TO GISBORNE Jonas Te Aho lived a jetset lifestyle, travelling and surfing some of the best breaks around the world. But it was when he returned to his roots to help rennovate his grandmother’s home that he found his calling. This inspired the former air steward to take on a carpentry apprenticeship, and after four years he established Te Aho Construction building and renovating homes in Turanganui-a-Kiwa.

In 2015, he landed a kaiako position with Te Wānanga o Aotearoa at the Whirikokā campus in Gisborne teaching rangatahi allied trades and infrastrucutre skills that will pathway tauira on to further study or an apprenticeship.

I go the extra mile because I can relate to them and I know where they are coming from.”

On the Level 2 programme tauira get hands-on experience with power and hand tools, first aid, site safety knowledge and core fundamentals.

Jonas and Level 3 Carpentry kaiako Ngāti Donnelly now have their two courses aligned to prepare rangatahi even better for a career as a carpenter or in the infrastructure industry.

“The aim is that they get through to the Level 3 carpentry programme with Ngāti and he can just work on honing their skills and push them through to a trade.”

“I love my job, I like coming to work, I love seeing

The Level 2 Infrastructure kaiako says his first year was challenging, transitioning to working in a large company and teaching youth but hugely rewarding.

“Seeing our tauira progress from week one through whakawhānaungatanga to 36 weeks where they are confident and going down a pathway where they want to get into the industry.

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the kids, I love seeing them succeed and when the penny drops catching that moment,” Jonas of Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti descent says. “I love going on noho with them, and sharing experiences with them – it’s a pretty unique space.”

GUNNING FOR THE TITLE Nā James Ihaka

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orget the days of labouring, out of shape kapa haka performers trying to catch their breath after the haka

“I have definitely seen a big change and I think

or a full-on whakaeke. These days

thought in order to get the best performance out

Te Mātārae I Ōrehu started this a few years back and it was from then on that everyone else

bulging muscles and high levels of aerobic and

of a person you have to be fit kia tika te waiata

anaerobic fitness are playing as big a part in

me te haka,” says Tiare.

performance at Te Matatini as the hundreds of hours spent learning the intiricacies of the

“All the teams, and I mean everyone, is fit these

bracket.t.

days because all the teams bring their a-game on the day and you have to be very fit to keep up.”

Te Whānau-ā-Apanui performer Tiare Tawera, who is the the go-to man for dozens of kapa

For the bulk of Tiare’s clients, the sweat and

haka performers needing to get in shape for the

sacrifice starts at least three months from the

big competition, says fitness levels – sometimes

biennial event with weights sessions working

bordering on extreme - and nutrition are now an

different body parts five times a week and

essential part of training for all 47 teams.

cardiovascular training at least twice a week.

Whether it’s a passing trend or not, the focus on

“We get them progressively losing weight so

improved performance through fitness is some-

they will still have enough energy to get through

thing many teams are responding to and it’s not

the bracket. You don’t want to be doing a three or

uncommon for kapa practices to now include

four week plan because you will strip the body

crossfit training or a full body workout before

of fat and muscle fibre and lose energy when

performers learn their waiata, haka and poi.

it really matters.” Added to this are the strict dietary requirements – that’s protein-dense

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with some carbohydrates for you non-gym types - that performers must follow religiously for the best results. For Tiare’s more hard-core members, this entire process begins more than six months before they take the stage. It’s easy to see the difference this approach is making to teams of now to those of yesteryear.

Compare crowd favourites Te Mātārae I Ōrehu of today to that of the same team of the early 2000s and you’ll now find rows of chiselled men and women who look just as ready for battle in an episode of Spartacus as they do for an onstage performance.

Tiare says there are positive spinoffs to this single-minded approach to fitness and nutrition that’s not just performance-related. “People have different goals but it’s not just about looking muscly and having abs, it’s about positive lifestyle changes, educating our whānau and our parents and our rangatahi mō āpōpō.

Keri’s drive to succeed Nā Carly Tawhiao

The 17-year-old is learning first-hand about what it takes to shoot for the stars since enrolling into a Certificate in Performing Arts.

“It’s so rewarding and it makes you feel good really good about yourself,” she says.

“The course gives opportunities that not many other courses give to our rangatahi out there.”

For Keri, growing up in Omahu as one of 10 tamariki meant that although it’s been a struggle at times, family to her is everything.They are some of her greatest supporters. “Even though you may not have everything that every other person in the world has, you have your people that you consider your family. We’re all there for each other.” Keri says of her classmates.

A passion for singing and kapa haka is giving Keri Karena the drive to succeed at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

“If you have passion for what you want to do and you have a dream, don’t chase it,” she says. “Create it.”

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Te Matatini - by the numbers...

47

the number of qualified teams from around Aotearoa competing at the 2017 festival

32

6,197

$9

MILLION

Kaihaka that performed at regional competition from Feb to June 2016

163

500

loaves of rewena to Ngāti Kahungunu marae for competing teams

1

MILLION

the online viewing audience of Te Matatini on Māori Television at Ō-Tautahi in 2015

$1.03

the economic impact of Te Matatini 2015 in Ō-Tautahi

the number of teams who entered the 2016 regional competitions

the number of judges at Te Matatini 2017

MILLION the cost to run the regional competitions around Aotearoa

5

tonnes of kumara and potatoes donated to marae for competing teams

30%

of these viewers were watching the event in Australia

Which rōpū reigns supreme?

Te Waka Huia (5 wins)

Taniwharau (1 win)

ABOVE: This carved waka huia is the coveted Duncan MacIntyre Trophy.

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Kahungunu style on show

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ust days before Te Matatini begins, renowned artist and arts kaiako Sandy Adsett is at the Heretaunga Campus of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, busy putting the finishing touches to the art works which adorn Kahungunu Park.

that team, we’re having to represent Kahungunu.”

Sandy – who is coordinating all the arts on show at Kahungunu Park, along with the Napier and Hastings exhibitions - says there was never a question about being involved.

“Ngahiwi came and asked me if I’d organise that side of things, so you have no choice,” he says. “They just come and tell you ‘you’re going to be in charge of this’ and you say fine. We work for the wānanga but we’re Kahungunu.”

For the Matatini site itself, Sandy says the short timeframe of the event dictated what could be achieved. “Because it’s only going for a week, and we’ve only got a certain amount of money, we can’t be getting totara trees and doing carved pou. That’s too expensive and where we are going to put it after? So everything is virtually showcasing in the best way we can.”

It promises to be a stunning showcase which will leave an indelible impression on everyone who attends, which is exactly what Ngāti Kahungunu are hoping for.

Sandy set up the arts programme in Heretaunga 15 years ago and says Te Matatini provides a good reason to be involved in an arts project as a group. “Over that time, we’ve had so many graduates and of course they’re all here. Within

“So whether it’s fibre art, the performing arts, drama that type of work, what we’re wanting to say is that these are based on stories from here. We’re all thinking that same kaupapa, let’s create an image for our iwi that will have a recognised style.”

Te Matatini Pātai - Quiz Answers

6. Waihīrere, Te Waka Huia, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Te Roopū Manutaki, Ngā Pūmanawa

1. Kingi Ihaka, Timoti Karetu, Doug Hauraki, Tama Huata and Selwyn Parata

7. Polynesian Cultural Festival, Aotearoa Traditional Māori Performing Arts Festival, Te Matatini,

2. Tangaroa

and Te Matatini o te rā

3. Wellington, Auckland, Aotea/Taranaki and Te Tauihu

8. Duncan MacIntyre

4. Polynesian Cultural Festival, Rotorua, 1972

9. He Ngākau Aroha, Te Whānau-a-Apanui, Opōtiki mai Tawhiti, Te Mātārae-i-Ōrehu, Te Iti Kahurangi

5. Rotorua 1996

Te Waka Huia, Te Pou o Mangatāwhiri, Ngā Tumanako, Waihīrere, Whāngārā Mai Tawhiti

and Tū Te Maungaroa

10. Te Kahu o te Amorangi

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