Papatohu

Kei ngā rerereke o Tū-Ao-Wharepapa me Pukeone ki te moutere o Motueka e tū ana, ko ‘Ngahere Magic’, he mea hāpai ki ngā tikanga me ngā kaupapa e hono ai tātou ki te Taiao me Te Ao Māori, ā, mā reira puta ake ai ngā Rongoā Māori, he māmā te utu, he ātaahua.

He Ringa Toi Matarau ahau e noho ana ki Motueka. Ahakoa haere ki hea, ko reira ahau mahi ai.

Ko Native Arts Aotearoa tētahi pakihi i waihangahia nei e te mātanga whakairo nō Ngāti Paoa, ko Ronald Petley. E kaingākaunui ana a ia ki te mahi whakairo me te hāpai o ngā mātauranga tuku iho. Kei ia whakairo āna kōrero - pēnei i ngā kōrero e pā ana ki ngā tūpuna, ko te whenua, ko te wairua, ā, he mea whaowhao e te ringa o te mātanga me ōna tikanga.

He mea waihanga ēnei rākau rongoā i te hiringa tūpuna hei whakaora tangata ki tōna taiao. Ā, ko te pakihi nei nō tētahi whānau Māori e poho kererū ana me te mea, kei te ū ki te tikanga me te aroha.

Kei Kaiteriteri tō-mātou pakihi e tū ana, arā, ko te whakatere waka ki te moana o Te Tai o Aorere, tae atu ki te toka rongonui o ‘Toko Ngāwha.’

Kei te ngākau o Motueka tō mātou pakihi e tū ana. Ehara i te mea, he waahi kai anake tō mātou wharekai iti engari, he hononga ki tō mātou ake kāinga. Kei te horahia te tepu i te kai me te kawhe, he mea waihanga nā te aroha, ā, ka whangaia te kai parakuihi i te roanga o te rā, ko ngā momo paraoa, ngā inu hauora, ngā kai o te rānui, ngā kawhe tino pai me ngā kai tino reka kei te kapata e whakaaturia ana.

Ko te pakihi o Mai Kreationz, tētahi whakakitenga nā Toya Maikuku, he wahine e kaingākaunui ana ki ōna kāwai heke o Waikato me Tainui, ā, i ēnei rā, kei Motueka e noho ana. I te timatatanga o tana hīkoi i te ao o te Mahi Toi, nāna i waihanga i ngā taonga hei tākoha ki tōna whānau. Nāwai rā, kei te puawai ōna pūkenga hei mahi pakihi me te whakanui i te tūākiritanga Māori me te auahatanga.

Ko te pakihi o Ahurei Visual, he taupuni auahatanga mō te hopu whakaahua, te waitohu me te kōrero matihiko. He mea whakatīnana i ngā moemoea-o-tāngata nā runga i te kounga o ngā ataata hei kawe i te ia o te tohu, huihuinga, kaupapa rānei.

Mahi Toi: ko te tā pikitia me te tuhituhi e hāngai atu ana ki te waihanga o ngā pukapuka mā ngā tamariki.

Kei te pito taone o Motueka e tū ana te toa hoko o Taonga Tuku Iho, he Whare Whakairi Toi e tū motuhake ana ki te taone, ā, he mea whakaatu i te Ahurea Māori me te wairua auahatanga ki Te Tau Ihu o te Waka-ā-Māui. Ko te whakamāramatanga a tōna ingoa, ko “Ngā taonga i tuku iho” hei whakamana i te whakapapa, ngā tikanga tuku iho me te auahatanga toi.

Ka mahi-tahi a HKKAR me ngā whānau, ā, ko tētahi o ngā whāinga matua kia pakari ai te tū mō te hunga rangatahi, kia pai ai te tiaki i a rātou anō, kia whai whakaaro ki ō-rātou ake whānau me ō-rātou hapori, kia hono atu ai ki te taiao me ōna hua, kia pakari ai te aumangea ki roto i ngā taimahatanga o te ao hurihuri, ā, kia puta atu ai te hāneanea o te kāinga.

He mea hononga taku mahi ki taku Māoritanga me te mea kia hikohiko taku wairua ki te Mahi Toi.

Kei Motueka te pakihi o ‘Tūpuna Remedies’ e tū ana, ā, he mea rehita tēnei mahi rongoā ki raro i a ACC me te mea, tūturu tonu, ko te tūāpapa, ko te reo Māori me ōna tikanga, haunga anō, ko te mātauranga Māori.

Contemporary Māori Art representing a journey of reconnection