Tag: Te Ao Māori
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Martial Arts of Aotearoa on the World Stage
It is an exciting time for me. Hours of research and writing, of interviews and survey analysis, revisions, revisions and more revisions, has finally culminated in a report. published as part of an international research study commissioned by UNESCO International Centre for Martial Arts (ICM) in South Korea. This has felt like a master’s thesis,…
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Celebration and Explanation
22 March, Pipitea Marae. A Saturday, a little windy, a little cloudy, a little quiet at the Parliament end of the city. People started wandering towards the marae atea, expecting to stand and wait to be told their next move, expecting someone would call them forward toward the wharenui in the form of a karanga…
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Here comes a proof
‘Look’ I tell my daughter ‘Here is the press proof of book two’ and pull out a loose copy of the precious document. ‘Oh I want to see it!’ she looks up eagerly and then looks at the proof confused ‘But Mama the pages are not stuck together’ I smile. It’s a phenomenon I was…
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Celebrating our community
Yesterday was a big day for the community of Waiwhetū and for me. It was a shared time of celebration for the many years of work has quietly been happening in the background for the people here, keeping mau rākau and mau taiaha knowledge alive by my teacher. People have been part of the TUMA…
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Creation is a wonderful thing
I can’t quite describe the joy and suspense as I stepped into my car on a cold drizzly Friday, and I wondered what would be waiting for me at my destination. I had just heard word from the printers that our first print run of 250 copies of the guidebook were ready. THEY WERE FINALLY…
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Cultural Consultation – Sharing different ideas
Working for government clients for many years, I was always confused that they made it appear difficult to make strong connections with iwi, to get timely input and answers to questions. It led me to wonder – why? What is going on that projects keep on going and a red flag of iwi consultation sometimes…