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Indigenous Gathering 27 Sep - 6 Oct 2022
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TĀ TATAU

TATTOO

TĀ MOKO

NGĀ URI O MUTURANGI
TĀ MOKO TĀ TATAU WORLD INDIGENOUS FESTIVAL 2022
 

19 SEP - 29 SEP 2022

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TĀ TATAU 2022 - NGĀ URI O MUTURANGI

Kupe the great Maori explorer was led to navigate the regions of Aotearoa through his pursuit and battles of the great octopus - Te Wheke o Muturangi through which our ancestors were led to new land from Raiatea, Tahiti, the body of the octopus whose tentacles reach out around the Polynesian triangle.

 

Ngā Uri o Muturangi affirms ancient ancestral connections through Muturangi centred around customary Māori skin marking, tattoo-tatau and art practices. It does this hrough online membership and public content as well as a major annual public event hosted by TMT and its partners in Tauranga Moana, called Tā Moko Tā Tatau World Indigenous Festival.

 

Through Ngā uri o Muturangi we encourage and support excellence in the visual arts and cultural practices amongst visual artists of Aotearoa by reaching out to international opportunities and growing the standard of our engagement with international expertise and standards.

WĀNANGA INDIGENOUS

Enveloped in our stories, tā tatau and tā moko hold a deep history throughout the worlds indigenous and first nations peoples. Ancestral hands bring to life ageless ingenuity in ancient and new ways, to strengthen and enrich our identity.

Ngā Uri o Muturangi indigenous week provided a unique forum for indigenous groups to reflect, probe, and collaborate – to enjoy an exclusively indigenous context to consider tattoo heritage, values and beliefs. The week culminated in an indigenous space or ‘atea’ showcasing our tattoo and art practitioners to educate and contest mainstream audience misrepresentation of our customs.

Ko taku toi taku ohooho! My origin is my awakening!

Ngā Uri o Muturangi: Wānanga Indigenous has been running for three years now, starting in 2019, and is organized by Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust.

Wānanga Indigenous (2019)

Sunday 7 April - Monday 15 April 2019

Whareroa Marae

Taiaho Place, Mount Maunganui

Tā Atea (2020)

Saturday 7 March - Monday 16 March 2020

Whareroa Marae

Taiaho Place, Mount Maunganui

Tā Moko Tā Tatau World Indigenous Festival (2022)

Monday 19 September - Thursday 29 September 2022

Whareroa Marae

Taiaho Place, Mount Maunganui

“So incredibly culturally grounded! And (I) felt a cultural connection with all the indigenous people that attended!”

– Wānanga Indigenous, 2019