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29 SEP - 1 OCT 2023
25 TAIAHO PLACE, MOUNT MAUNGANUI

TOI KIRI 2023

World Indigenous Festival
Tatau 2022

TOI KIRI 2023
WORLD
INDIGENOUS
TATTOO
CULTURE

FESTIVAL

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World Indigenous Tattoo Culture Festival

29 September - 1 October 2023

Taiaho Place, Mount Maunganui 

The worlds’ best tā tatau and tā moko indigenous practitioners for one unique cultural event Toi Kiri 2023

Public festival held over three days from 29 September - 1 October, TMT presents Toi Kiri: World Indigenous Tattoo Culture Festival; a gathering of indigenous practitioners of Tā Tatau, Tā Moko (Māori) and cultural arts exponents in Mount Maunganui.

"Unique experiences, enriched culturally authentic  interactions and exposure to new knowledge"

Full Event Programme
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NGĀ
URI O

MUTURANGI

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According to many Māori narratives 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 through online membership and public content as well as a major annual public event hosted by TMT and its partners in Tauranga Moana, called Toi Kiri 2023: World Indigenous Tattoo Culture Festival.

For those experts of ancestral ocean navigation, Te Wheke o Muturangi metaphorically describes the navigation paths or currents from Raiatea (Tahiti) resembling the tentacles reaching out across the Pacific at least as far as the edges of the Polynesian Triangle (Tetahiotupa 2009).

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

– Wānanga Indigenous, 2019    

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