Te Arawa Awards 2015 winners

Te Arawa Awards - Rangatahi Wananga

Te Puawaitanga Wananga Rotorua 2015

Tu'aro Maohi Tahiti

Ia orana!

Paora, Stevie and Hana were amongst a team of six from Aotearoa who travelled over to Tahiti to compete in the Tu'aro Maohi, Traditional Ancestral Games tournament in Tahiti in July.

There were events such as javelin, copra coconut preparing, coconut tree climbing, amora'a ofai rock lifting and much more as part of the festival and celebrations.  More importantly, there were opportunities for whanaungatanga, sharing stories and establishing whakapapa connections between us and our whanaunga from the Pacific; from Tahiti, Rarotonga, Rapanui, Hawaii, New Caledonia and Marquesas to name a few.

Winners from Te Arawa Awards 2014

Five weeks to go to get your nominations in for Te Arawa Awards 2015 e te iwi!! We've received a good number of nominations so far, keep them coming!!

Head over to our website to find all the information you'll need to fill out the nomination forms at www.arawanation.com or email hana@papatakaro.org.nz

Te Arawa Awards 2015 - Nominations are open!!

T.A.I.O.H.I. end of week 5

T.A.I.O.H.I. has been going hard for five weeks now, only three left to go before our first ever taiohi training programme comes to an end!!

This week, we exposed Taiohi to various types of physical activity that increase our engagement with wai.  Today we were out on Te Rotorua-nui-a-Kahu with Kelley Korau and her crew doing Waka Ama, while on Monday we thrashed the taiohi in the pools.

For more information about the T.A.I.O.H.I. progamme and other programmes we run at Te Papa Tākaro o Te Arawa, please contact Makuini at makuini@papatakaro.org.nz // 07 3483377