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summarising their thoughts about the Kia Mau Festival in 2019 articulated that the struggles and environment is the same through the work in the festival but it is different in the various works and how this creates a collective voice that was apparent from an indigenous artists' perspective.
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The Matariki festival developed over time to include presentations of plays as well as workshops with playwrights and hūi / meetings about Māori theatre. In 2010 and 2011 the Matariki Development Festival hosted First Nation writer, director and
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As Māori, we are kaitiaki and one of the ways that we look at that is to create spaces for voices and communities you don’t hear, so we’ve also had Sri Lankan Tamil works, Cambodian works, works from Laos coming through as well. (Hone Kouka
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show described by reviewer Lyne Pringle as an inspiration show with distinct Māori and Pasifika movement merging hip hop, siva and 'supersonic swirling poi' as well as Ballroom moves such as dipping.
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who asked, "Describe the last play your wrote and how it fits into Māori theatre?" In 2008 the Māori theatre discussions continued, now called Matariki Playwrights and included an address by
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As well as Māori and Pasifika led performances the festival has grown to include international artists, 'including indigenous and First Nations people from Canada, Hawai’i and Australia'.
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The festival covers Māori, Pasifika and Indigenous performing arts, including comedy, music, dance and theatre, across a variety of venues around the Wellington area.
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The first Ahi Kaa Festival featured six productions over three weeks, by six Māori companies: White Face Crew, Tawata Productions, Hāpai Productions,
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takes the audience on a journey through life, snippets of core memories that are shared within Māori wāhine’s lives. (Mārie Jones 2023)
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The 2021 festival, from 4–19 June, featured more than 100 events across three weekends. Highlights included the world premieres of
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The 2017 Kia Mau Festival ran from 2–24 June, and included a tribute to playwright Rore Hapipi, who died in 2016, called
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Annual where he talks about forming the theatre company Te Ika a Maui Players in 1976 because of his experiences in the
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The 2016 Kia Mau Festival ran from 7–25 June and included eight productions across three weeks. Performances included
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written by Mitch Tawhi Thomas about a solo mum raising teenagers in New Zealand produced by Hāpai Productions.
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with Kouka and another playwright Mīria George at the helm creating the Matariki Development Festival in 2010 at
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that go back to the 1940s. The concert featured musicians from across the 15 islands of the Cook Islands.
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The 2018 Kia Mau festival was held 1–16 June. It included an all-female production of Hone Kouka's play
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produced by Hāpai Productions (Nancy Brunning and Tanea Heke) that included theatre artists old,
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Tawhai Thomas, Mitch; Heke, Tanea (2019). "Our Stories! Our Way! Our Lens!".
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from Canada. In 2014 the festival included productions of plays and included
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was also at the Hannah Playhouse, produced by Auckland theatre companies
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O le Pepelo, Le Gaoi Ma Le Pala’ai – The Liar, the Thief and the Coward
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and Tikapa Productions. Circa Theatre was again a venue alongside
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a tribute to the women in the writing of well-known Māori author
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who died in 2019, had her last work presented which is her play
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by Aroha White being staged alongside rehearsed performances of
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Playmarket 40 : 40 years of playwriting in New Zealand
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Circa, 1996-2016 : and a celebration of forty years
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a hiphop musical by Reon Bell, Roy Iro and Sean Rivera,
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Wellington region
https://kiamaufestival.org/
Wellington
New Zealand
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Hone Kouka
Tawata
Circa Theatre
Alice Te Punga-Somerville
Rore Hapipi
Playmarket
protest land march of 1975
dramaturg
Yvette Nolan
Nancy Brunning
Moana Ete
Mitch Tawhi Thomas
Dolina Wehipeihana
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Modern Māori Quartet
Taki Rua Productions
BATS Theatre
Hannah Playhouse
Te Papa
Taki Rua Productions
BATS Theatre
Circa Theatre
Te Papa
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Jim Moriarty

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