Maori Culture

Visitors to New Zealand should listen hard next week as Māori speakers and enthusiastic novices throughout the country join in Māori Language Week.

One of the world’s greatest migrations across the Pacific Ocean is to be re-enacted using ancient seafaring skills and a fleet of traditional canoes, currently being built in New Zealand.

A traditional Māori medicine garden planted on an East Coast marae during Conservation Week could be repeated elsewhere in New Zealand, as part of a Department of Conservation campaign to raise awareness.

One of New Zealand’s best known entertainers, Sir Howard Morrison, has died at his home in the North Island city of Rotorua.

The largest collection of contemporary Maori art ever exhibited has gone on display in Porirua near Wellington at the 2009 MAORI art MARKet.

A New Zealand wildlife experience offering a close encounter with marine mammals in their natural environment has won a prestigious international award for responsible tourism.

New Zealand’s second Māori Music Awards have produced some promising and high profile winners including Maisey Rika, the female vocalist who performed in New Zealand’s Giant Rugby Ball in Tokyo recently.

The largest fleet of waka, or ceremonial Māori canoes, in recorded history will gather at Waitangi in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands in February 2010 for the national Waitangi Day celebrations.

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 Māori cultural expert who worked with Clint Eastwood on his latest movie 'Invictus' was humbled by the respect shown towards the haka and the New Zealand All Blacks.