Maori Culture

Māori performance artists Manaia will help animate New Zealand's giant Rugby Ball during its London season with their music and culture, including haka workshops for British school children.

Visitors to Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, can now get a rare glimpse of the city’s early history with the unveiling of remnants of an ancient Māori pa in the heart of the central business area.

Washington DC is in for a living experience of Māori culture when a New Zealand exhibition on whales opens on Wednesday (15 October) at the National Geographic Museum.

Māori artists will be under the spotlight this weekend at San Francisco’s de Young museum in a living exhibition of traditional and contemporary Māori art and culture.

A spectacular multimedia experience opening on September 27 crowns the 10th birthday celebrations of Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand’s national museum.

New Zealand author Patricia Grace has won the 2008 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

New Zealand’s natural beauty, Māori cultural experiences, small towns and main tourist centres have earned high praise in The Lonely Planet’s new guidebook released today.

New Zealand’s national Māori language week – te wiki o te reo Māori - will get a major boost next week with the launch of Google Māori.

A moving film that became a personal journey for award winning New Zealand director Vincent Ward has had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.

New Zealand's own thanksgiving festival is in full swing as the country celebrates Matariki or Maori New Year.