Maori Culture

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

Festivity is in the air this week as New Zealanders lift their eyes to the heavens for the rise of Matariki – the Pleiades star formation – in southern hemisphere skies.

New Zealand’s North and South Islands have been found to be officially nameless because of a 200-year legislation oversight - but more than 70% of Kiwis think the current titles should remain.

New Zealand’s Māori King is to lead a delegation to New York to join an official welcome for former NZ prime minister Helen Clark when she takes up her new job with the United Nations.