General Public Admission
TOI KIRI 2023: 29 SEP - 1 OCT
World Indigenous Arts Festival
$10.00 ENTRY | UNDER 12 FREE**
Door sales Also available
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.
Bringing the best of indigenous traditions together, immerse yourself in cultural identity at Toi Kiri 2023
Gathers together Tā Tatau, Tā Moko and Skin Marking Artists, alongside Cultural Artists, Musicians, Performers and Kai. Together as one unique expression of the world at Toi Kiri 2023, Whareroa Reserve, Taiaho Place, Mount Maunganui.
He oko ngarahu
Holding Knowledge
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PUBLIC EVENT
29 SEP - 1 OCT
TOI KIRI 2023: WORLD INDIGENOUS ARTS FESTIVAL
Whareroa Reserve
TaiaHO Place
Mount Maunganui
Presenting over 200 artists, together for one unique public cultural event, Toi Kiri's three-day public festival returns bigger than ever at Whareroa Reservation, Mount Maunganui.
Gathering Tā Tatau, Tā Moko and Skin Marking Artists, alongside Cultural Artists, Musicians, Performers and Kai. Celebrate together and enjoy unique expressions of the world at Toi Kiri 2023.
Want to pre-book some time with an artist before September, check out who's coming along right here at the home of Toi Kiri 2023.
$10.00 Entry | Under 12 FREE**
Door sales also available
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26 SEP - 5 OCT
Toi Kiri 2023 WĀnanga
Whareroa Marae
Taiaho Place
Mount Maunganui
Ngā Uri o Muturangi represents the strengthening of the bonds that Māori have with indigenous peoples throughout history and the world. We present Toi Kiri Wānanga, the Māori way of doing things, a 10 day Ngā Uri o Muturangi event all inclusive indigenous experience of sharing space together hosted by tangata whenua of Tauranga Moana.
This tradition, since 2019, has provided indigenous body marking and cultural tattoo practitioners the opportunity to reflect, learn, collaborate and strategise in the development of their cultural arts through the strengthening of our indigenous relationships.
Toi Kiri Wānanga provides indigenous artists with the opportunity to celebrate their cultural customs, as well as educate, debate and contest the mainstream spaces that our arts present in.
Are you an indigenous practitioner of skin marking ready to be amongst other indigenous tā tatau, tā moko practitioners from around the globe? Spaces are limited, 10 day and 3 day options available. Practitioners are invited to register your interests to info@tetuhimareikura.org with your name, iwi or nation representing, and a brief paragraph summary of what you feel you offer to the gathering. Registrations are by invitation only, and successful interests will be invited to apply. *Fee for participants in the wananga includes 3 day festival space, food and accommodation.
SPACES LIMITED | ALL ARTISTS MUST BE REGISTERED
PUBLIC EVENT
28 SEP - 4 OCT
TE KAHU O TOI KIRI
Indigenous ART EXHIBITION
Toi Tauranga POP UP
& KŪWAO SPACE
TAURANGA
Spread across two Tauranga CBD locations with Tauranga’s very own Tauranga Art Gallery POP UP, and Kūwao Space, Te Kahu o Toi Kiri showcases the art of our artist participants of Toi Kiri 2023: World Indigenous Arts Festival.
Exploring the dialogue between the exercise of skin marking and a range of cultural art practices, customary and contemporary, Te Kahu o Toi Kiri presents the ‘cloak’ of indigenous body marking traditions.
Open daily. Exhibition opening 5.30pm Thursday 28 September, and closing evening of Wednesday 4 October.
More announcements to come. Follow on Facebook and Instagram or check in here regularly to stay up-to-date.
Toi Tauranga POP UP
42 Devonport Road, Tauranga MOANA
KŪWAO SPACE
35 DEVONPORT ROAD, TAURANGA MOANA
FREE **or Donations on Entry
Exhibition Entry Free*
Public EVENT
2 Oct - 4 OCT
Te Kahu o Toi Kiri
3 Day Public Symposium
Toi Tauranga POP UP
& KŪWAO SPACE
TAURANGA
Alongside Te Kahu o Toi Kiri Indigenous - Art Exhibition, our artists are presenting three days of workshops, forum and discussions including:
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Peata Larkin and Alexis Neal talking to Julie Paama-Pengelly about their exhibition Whaka-aho
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Dion Kaszas presenting on Nlaka’pamux Blackwork traditions (Canada)
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Artist panel discussions with Mā’ohi from Tahiti Islands
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Kauae Raro
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Tapa Making
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Printmaking
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and more to be announced soon ...
Follow on Facebook and Instagram for updates or check in here regularly to stay up-to-date on workshop release dates.
Toi Tauranga POP UP
42 Devonport Road, TAURANGA MOANA
KŪWAO SPACE
35 DEVONPORT ROAD, TAURANGA MOANA
$10.00 ALL DAY ACCESS**
“The focus on indigenous artist time spent together.”
– Wānanga Indigenous, 2019
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 Toi Kiri (and its past events) hosted by TMT and its partners in Tauranga Moana.
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).