Press Releases

Put a bunch of rugby-loving Kiwis together for a while, and you’re bound to witness a rousing Māori haka at some stage.

Celebrated Kiwi chef Peter Gordon will be digging deep for Māori New Year this month by combining his Māori roots and fancy kai / food cooking skills at a gourmet hangi to celebrate Matariki.

A pre-dawn gathering on a New Zealand East Coast beach will be first to witness Matariki rising and the dawning of Māori New Year - at the same location that’s famously first in the world to see the sun.

Attention-seeking celebrity dolphin Moko is basking in a fresh round of stardom in his new home waters at Whakatane, on New Zealand’s North Island east coast.

New Zealand is winning over the Indian film industry with another big budget Bollywood movie scheduled to shoot on Kiwi soil.

Moa bones and a Māori adze head discovered on an historic building site in Auckland are being heralded as highly significant archaeological finds for New Zealand.

Two multi-talented New Zealand Māori artists are about to make their mark in the US – by becoming artists-in-residence at a prestigious Washington university.

History has been created with one of the largest pieces of Māori art being gifted to China by New Zealand Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, John Key.

New Zealand’s input into the latest Hollywood blockbuster 'Avatar' is well documented but few people know that the alien language spoken in the movie is based on Māori.

A New Zealand Māori tour company specialising in unique Kiwi experiences has won a prestigious global award.