It's one of biggest events on the calendar for te ao Māori and Te Matatini is back in 2025 bringing the best of haka and waiata from around Aotearoa and Australia. New Plymouth/Ngāmotu and the people ...

Te Matatini chairman Ta [Sir] Selwyn Parata and chief executive Carl Ross have welcomed reassurance from the new Government that it will honour its commitment to fostering the love of kapa haka within ...

Te Matatini, Aotearoa’s premier kapa haka festival, will not go ahead in Te Tauihu o te Waka-a-Māui in 2027, as planned. Tā Herewini Parata, Heamana of Te Matatini Society Incorporated, said the ...

$32 million was given to Te Matatini in this year’s Budget. Photo / Te Ao Labour MP Kelvin Davis says seeing nieces and nephews from his old school Kawakawa Primary competing at Te Mana Kuratahi ...

Kapa haka groups will get the opportunity to qualify for Te Matatini, which will be held in Taranaki in 2025, in the coming months. Photo: The Press Taranaki’s kapa haka groups will get a chance to ...

For many of those who attended the pōwhiri marking the beginning of Te Matatini last month, my speech in reply to the young kaikorero of Ngaati Whaatua was perhaps regarded as “entertaining”, maybe ...

When Te Matatini decided to transition to an entirely digital judging system for its esteemed national kapa haka competition, it had no idea that Cyclone Gabrielle would hit just days before it was ...