29 SEP - 1 OCT 2023
25 TAIAHO PLACE, MOUNT MAUNGANUI
TOI KIRI 2023
TOI KIRI 2023
WORLD
INDIGENOUS
TATTOO
CULTURE
FESTIVAL
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"
NGĀ
URI O
MUTURANGI
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).
TOI KIRI 2023: ARTISTS COMPONENT
26 SEP - 5 OCT 2023
“So incredibly culturally grounded! And (I) felt a cultural connection with all the indigenous people that attended!”
– Wānanga Indigenous, 2019