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

TŪ - Moana Maniapoto & Paddy Free

Musical collaborators Moana Maniapoto and Paddy Free give a soaring and powerful multimedia performance of contemporary songs in te reo Māori, with lyrics by Scotty Morrison.

Performance, Season 1Going West Festival18 June 2020Te Reo Māori, Music, Moana Maniapoto, Paddy Free, Live, Live Music

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.