Words Between Us - He Kōrero

Written sounds and spoken language - a discussion on the earliest Māori engagement with writing by Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins

Discourse, Season 1Going West Festival1 October 2020Te Ao Māori, Te Reo Māori, Māori and 19th Century Writing, Maori first contact with Europeans, Tāngata Whenua and Pākehā first contact, Ruatara, Samuel Marsden, Hongi Hika, Rose Yukich, Kuni Kaa Jenkins, Alison Jones

Worlds Coming Together in Aotearoa

Dame Anne Salmond and Moana Maniapoto take to the Going West stage for a kōrero on Salmond’s landmark publication Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds.

Discourse, Season 1Going West Festival28 July 2020Te Ao Māori, Biculturalism, Hongi Hika, Thomas Kendall, Anne Salmond, Moana Maniapoto

Breathing Words

Robert Sullivan, Bernard Makoare and Ngāhuia Te Awekotuku discuss and perform taonga pūoro, oral and written Maori literature at the very first session of the Going West in 1996.