Maori Culture

Te Ana Ngāi Tahu Rock Art Centre – an important new cultural tourism attraction housing a significant Māori art collection – will open in Timaru, New Zealand next week.

Scientists plan to search a lake in New Zealand’s volcanic region for traces of the long lost Pink and White Terraces - famed as the eighth wonder of the world before being buried a volcanic eruption.

The New Zealand film industry has been given another major boost with news that two sequels to the world's biggest movie, 'Avatar', are set to be made in Wellington.

Rowing champions will take more than memories home from the 2010 World Rowing Championships in New Zealand – each gold medallist will receive a treasured pounamu taonga / treasure as a gift from local Māori.

Traditional and contemporary Maori kai and ‘outside the square’ wildfood are the focus of Kai in the Bay, a new indigenous food festival set in the Hawke’s Bay region of the North Island.

Certain parts of New Zealand were a little noisy over the weekend, as New Zealanders got together – in a uniquely Kiwi fashion – to mark the one-year-to-go date for Rugby World Cup 2011.

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

Historic culture-rich Gisborne - on New Zealand's remote North Island East Coast - is preparing to host the world’s biggest kapa haka performing arts festival Te Matatini, in early 2011.

Japanese and New Zealand art works based on ancient traditions share the limelight in the latest exhibition at Dunedin’s award-winning Otago Museum.

SpongeBob - the world’s most famous sea sponge - is also a fluent te reo Māori speaker. Or at least he will be for five episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants – screening during Māori Language Week 2010.