Papatohu

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.’

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.

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

Contemporary Māori Art representing a journey of reconnection

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.

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.