Activity 2: After visiting Shag Point, you hop back in the van and drive all the way up the east coast of the south island until you reach the town of Picton. You get out of the van and onto the Interislander ferry. It travels back across the Cook Strait to Wellington. Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand and every winter the city hosts a huge Matariki festival to celebrate the Maori New Year. This year part of the festival is being held at Te Papa, a big museum in Wellington.
Read about the Matariki festival at Te Papa. There are so many different things to see and do at the festival this year. On your blog, tell us about three of the events. You can choose any three events that you wish.
Matariki Fireworks - It lights up the sky with it stunning amazement, brings joyful to children/people's eyes. This stands for what Matariki stands for which is the celebration of people, Maori New year, language and history.
Mana Whenua, Mana Tiriti o Te Whanganau-a-Tara - Peeling back slivers of history through purakau, publications and public art.
Timo Timo - Matariki, traditional and modern storytelling. They explore new worlds with movement, songs, taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments). Sounds like great fun to hear our history of Maoris.
1 comments:
Kia ora Linda Kiki,
I love the sound of all three events that you have chosen. Matariki is a really special time for our family as it is the Maori new year and it is also that start of a brand new year for our son, Aronui. His birthday is in July and we often have an extra special celebration to honour him alongside the Maori new year.
Do you and your family do anything special to celebrate Matariki?
Cheers,
Rachel :)
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