Niue performances from Hikurangi Primary at Northland Pasifika Fusion Festival. Pasifika will take place on March 18-19 at Western Springs in Auckland. Photo / NZME An organiser of one of Aotearoa’s ...

A new impact evaluation report on this year's Te Matatini shows that the 2025 festival was the biggest to date. The report showed that Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga held in February in Ngāmotu New ...

Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga Festival 2025 will launch officially this Friday in New Plymouth, beginning the countdown to one of the largest cultural events in te ao Māori. Friday’s launch will ...

For the first time at a National Festival, an interpretation service is being introduced to pump up the vibe for audiences. Hakarongomai is designed for those who are not fluent in Te Reo Maori and ...

Kereama Wright (Te Arawa), senior member of haka rōpū Ngāti Whakaue and Te Matatini 2025 champion, says kapa haka is a form ...

More than 1.8 million Kiwis tuned in to watch Te Matatini Herenga Waka Herenga Tangata 2023, showcasing the best kapa haka Aotearoa has to offer. Almost 730,000 New Zealanders watched the live ...

The Government has boosted funding for Te Matatini by more than $34 million for the next two years, making it the highest-funded arts service provider. The funding takes it just above that of the New ...

Day one of Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga has finished, setting a high benchmark for the week to come There were 14 kapa haka rōpū that performed on Tuesday in the first pool of the preliminary ...

Haka has been used as a tool to connect people back to their culture and today more tamariki and rangatahi are already deeply immersed and proud of it – and it is on full display at Te Matatini.

All online tickets for the final day of the Te Matatini festival have sold out and the organisers have confirmed there will be no gate sales available. Te Matatini chief executive Carl Ross said the ...

In a year that one of Aotearoa’s most important cultural institutions got the Government support it deserved, its leader got the recognition he deserved for a lifetime of service to his iwi, rohe and ...