Matariki Festival Tamaki Makaurau 2005 Event Update

7 June - 6 July

Please find below upcoming events throughout Auckland as part of the Matariki Festival. Also attached is more information about what Matariki is. Please feel free to share this will your family and friends.

Matariki Festival Tamaki Makaurau 2005 Event Update

7 June - 6 July

Please find below upcoming events throughout Auckland as part of the Matariki Festival. Also attached is more information about what Matariki is. Please feel free to share this will your family and friends.

Highlights of the 2005 Matariki Festival programme include:

- Atamira Dance Collective Performance - Saturday 18 June
Choreographer Moss Patterson & the Atamira Dance Collective will present the piece 'Te Paki'
Auckland War Memorial

- Whatu Wananga - Saturday 18 and 25 June
A Harakeke and Muka Workshop that teaches the traditional Maori techniques for extracting plant fibre, harvesting and dying and producing kete muka or whatu
Lopdell House, 418 Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Waitakere City. Booking essential ph 817 8030 or email milnet@xtra.co.nz
- Overnight Dawn Observations - Saturday 18 June - Saturday 2 July
See the star constellation Matariki from these beautiful venues: Otahuhu, Motu Tapu and Rangitoto
Pita Turei ph 300 3195
- Nga Uri O Mikaara/Reflections of Mikaara's whanau - Tuesday 21 June - Saturday 9 July
Visual Arts Exhibition
Artstation Toi tu Gallery, 1 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland City. Mikaara Kirkwood ph 021 300 155
- Matariki ki Manukau - Until Tuesday 21 June
Contemporary Maori Fashion Design
Nathan Homestead, 70 Hill Rd, Manurewa, Manukau City

- Whare Tangata Exhibition- Until Sunday 26 June
Seven women artists gather to represent the seven stars that comprise the constellation of Matariki
Lopdell House, 418 Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Waitakere City. Heather Elliott ph 817 8030
For full details of the events happening all around Auckland go to www.matarikifestival.org.nz

Posters will be distributed throughout Auckland.
For copies of the Matariki Poster/Programme you can also contact a council near you.
Auckland City Council - Phone 379 2020
Manukau City Council - Phone 275 0482
North Shore City Council - Phone 486 8595
Waitakere City Council - Phone 836 8000 ext 8507

Nau mai, haere mai, tahuri mai ki Matariki

www.matarikifestival.org.nz
Matariki Festival - Te Taurima o Matariki ki Tamaki Makaurau is proudly supported by Auckland, North Shore, Waitakere and Manukau City Councils and Te Waka Toi, working through the Maori arts development Toi Whenua to collectively present this festival with Maori. Toi Whenua acknowledges the important role of iwi with the Matariki Festival.