Mai i te Kaihautū

Ngarue ana te whenua, ngaoko ana te moana i te hinganga o ngā tōtara o te wao, ā, mō wai ana tērā i te maunga o ngā kākā haetara. Waiho rātou kia tiraha mai, ko tātou ki konei takatū ai ki ngā mahi. Me pēnei noa ake te kōrero, ko rātou ki a rātou ko tātou ki a tātou. Kāti rā, e te hunga pāpāho Māori, tēnā anō rā tātou. E rere kau ana ngā mihi ki a koutou me te hunga e arohaina ana i tō tātou reo hoki. Kāre e kore, kua hihikotia katoatia tātou e te whakapau kaha kua whakaatuhia ki te reo Māori i roto i a Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, ā, i a Māhuru Māori hoki. Mauriora!

The rapidly growing affection and commitment of the wider community to support our aspirations for te reo Māori are made abundantly clear each September. What started out some 50 years ago as  Māori Language Day, has morphed and grown to Te Wiki o te Reo Māori and Mahuru Māori. Now, each year more and more people embrace the kaupapa and participate in celebrating te reo Māori. 

About three years ago Dame Hinewehi Mohi came up with the notion of Waiata Anthems, we are so fortunate that we said ‘yes’ to that idea. We need to acknowledge the genius of that idea, just as we need to thank all of those musicians who welcomed that idea and made it soar. More importantly we need to thank the whole Aotearoa Music industry who not only embraced and supported the original whakaaro but have embraced the notion of a bilingual music industry.

Take a look at the NZ Albums Chart for this week. Look at the impact of te reo Māori music in those charts. Te Māngai Pāho is pleased to have been a small part of some of that success. It is so encouraging to see Artists and the Aotearoa Music Industry get behind this kaupapa to create and support waiata Māori.  Kei runga kē koutou!

We need to continue to support te reo Māori in our communities, so that we don't just celebrate te reo Māori for one week, but that every week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.  But just take a look at the charts, we're on the right track and Aotearoa loves what you are doing. Mauriora! 

Larry Parr
Kaihautū o Te Māngai Pāho

Ko ngā kaupapa o te wā

Ko te raro tēnei o Mahuru Māori, ā, e tūmanako ana e kaha tonu ana te rere o te reo i waenganui i a tātou. Kia kaha tonu te reo Māori, e hoa mā.

Music Awards

Te Māngai Pāho is pleased to again be supporting the events celebrating our top talent in the Aotearoa music industry. 

• 9 October 2021 | Waiata Māori Music Awards - online
• 10 November 2021 | APRA Silver Scroll Awards - Tāmaki Makaurau
• 19 November 2021 | Aotearoa Music Awards - Tāmaki Makaurau

Toi Reo Māori 2021/22 wānanga

Kua puta i a Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori tā rātou pānui mō te Toi Reo Māori. Mēnā e tino matatau ana koe ki te reo Māori me te reo Pākehā, e hiahia ana rānei koe ki te whakawhānui ake i ō pūkenga kia piki ai ki tētahi taumata kē, ki te ako hoki i te toi o te whakawhiti reo, anei te kaupapa māu.

Women in Film & Television (WIFT) New Zealand Awards 2022

Nominations are open for the biennial WIFT awards, held on 7 April 2022. Anyone can nominate, you can nominate yourself, but nominees must be women in the NZ screen industry - though they do not have to be WIFT members. 

Nominations close 5pm, Monday 22 November. Let's celebrate and profile the work of wāhine in the screen industry!

NZ Albums Chart

The NZ Waiata Albums Chart identifies the 20 best-selling and most-streamed New Zealand albums. It's pleasing to see the number of te reo Māori and bilingual albums at the top of the charts. See the list here.  

Māori music

BYLLIE-JEAN & AJA 'Te Iho'

Using te reo Māori, modern hip-hop production, powerful 808bass and hard-hitting drums, Byllie-jean and AJA share their collaborative work 'Te Iho'.

Byllie-jean (Ngāti Kere, Ngāti Rangikoianake) is a street soul artist, writer and producer. She weaves stories of people and their earthly elements together with potent basslines, glittery synth and raw vocals. 

Indigenous soul singer AJA (Ngāti Raukawa, Āti Awa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, me Ngāti Porou) speaks to the many. Debut album coming soon, produced by Mara TK.

ANNA CODDINGTON 'Mana-Wā-Hine'

Released yesterday,'Mana-Wā-Hine' is a waiata co-written with Ria Hall. The title itself brings a play on the words ‘Manawa Hine’ - heart of a girl - and ‘Mana Wāhine’ - mana of a woman. 

'Mana-Wā-Hine' represents a step in Coddington’s ongoing journey with te reo Māori, and follows on from her release as part of Waiata Anthems Week in September. The release of 'Mana-Wā-Hine' comes as Mahuru Māori draws to a close, but arrives with a similar goal - of helping to normalise reo Māori in Aotearoa. 

Listen to 'Mana-Wā-Hine' now. 

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Re: Mānawa Maiea te Atawhai

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, so we're showcasing a new mindfulness series by Re:. 

Mānawa Maiea te Atawhai is a 10-part instructional and documentary-style series of mindfulness tools taught by rangatahi from The Kindness Institute, through a te ao Māori lens.