Te Ahi Kaa

Cross-communication can occur at all levels where ta moko is involved whether it's price negotiation at an event created to 'market" Maori art or drinking establishments who see no difference with… Read more Audio

Maraea Rakuraku is in Waiohau, eastern bay of plenty at a Healers wananga where they believe the overall wellbeing of people is connected to nature and to ones surroundings, she finds out more with… Read more Audio

How many of us immortalise our parents courtship and life together in a book? Exactly. Yet, that's what the Nathan whanau did when they approached longtime friend and writer Patricia Grace to tell the… Read more Audio

Author Ani Mikaere talks about tikanga maori and the role of wahine Maori as outlined in her book He Rukuruku Whakaaro: Colonising Myths - Maori Realities. From his studio in Rotorua Lewis Gardiner… Read more Audio

When your supermarket is the ocean and the ocean becomes poisoned, what do you do? Well, you mobilise of course - which is what happened when a grounded ship started to leak oil into the sea off the… Read more Audio

Not quite committed to getting Ta moko? How about wearing clothing with Ta moko inspired designs? Justine Murray meets Pahnia Skinner and Leilani Rickard of Iwi Creations who with Lyonel Grant design… Read more Audio

Designer David Hakaraia created each of the Man of the Match taonga that select players receive following their performance in their Rugby World Cup games. Maraea Rakuraku has a chat to the 34 year… Read more Audio

With the November election fast approaching Maori need to shake up their ideas and get to polling booths whether they are living here or in Australia. Especially given the Referendum on the New… Read more Audio

How important is the health of your feet? For a small group of Maori in Pakipaki their six weekly visits to Taraia Marae to see the podiatrist, its very important. Maraea talks to the whanau there and… Read more Audio

Maraea Rakuraku is with Dr Ngapare Hopa, the first Maori woman to graduate with a PHD from Oxford University and a Ta Kingi Ihaka award recipient at this years Nga taonga toi a Te Waka Toi. Justine… Read more Audio

Saana Murray (1925 - 2011) espouses the benefits of Kumara Hou known for its medicinal purposes at an Ethnobotany hui in Christchurch in the late 1980's, print maker Marilyn Webb recalls her artistic… Read more Audio

Maraea Rakuraku is with Academic Dr Hirini Moko Mead who traces the history of Mataatua Whare Tipuna as iwi Ngati Awa mark its return with an official opening on September 17th 2011. In an archival… Read more Audio