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 ...

$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 ...

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 ...

Air New Zealand and Te Matatini Society Incorporated have signed a strategic alliance agreement to work closely together to develop and showcase the Te Matatini kapa haka (Māori performing arts) ...

The global stage is where the Te Matatini board and the Government hope to take the kapa haka event. And the $30 million funding increase given to Te Matatini in last week’s Budget will help catapult ...

Te Matatini officially got underway in New Plymouth on Monday with an emotional pōwhiri from the Taranaki hau kāinga, welcoming the more than 50 haka groups and kuini Nga wai hono i te po. The ...

Haka has been used as a tool to connect people back to their culture and today more tamariki and rangatahi are already deeply immersed and proud of it – and it is on full display at Te Matatini.

The notes of the waiata-ā-ringa 'E Te Tau o Taku Ake' echo across Eden Park. A wahine performing in the group Te Ringa Kaha holds the portrait of a beloved friend and mentor. As she and her rōpū sing, ...

More than 1.8 million Kiwis tuned in to watch Te Matatini Herenga Waka Herenga Tangata 2023, showcasing the best kapa haka Aotearoa has to offer. Almost 730,000 New Zealanders watched the live ...

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 ...