Views of Waihi township and Martha Mine
Waihi is a wonderful place to visit for a couple of days. Immerse yourself in the gold mining history including a visit to the Gold Discovery Centre and Waihi Museum. Always popular is a trip on the Goldfields Railway to Waikino and from there you can walk through great tracks to the Victoria Battery towards Karangahake Gorge. Small cafes, award winning restaurants and boutique shops complete a picture of relaxation and enjoyment.
Rotorua Gardens & Museum building
Just a quick flight after work to test the 2nd zyx - gs unit that infinity hobbies sent me as the first unit died after a few flights. This unit does not lock into the roll as well as the first unit and i am chasing the gains trying to find a good set up. Tilt is awesome and locks in great.
Ceremony to mark handover of Maori heads to New Zealand
(23 Jan 2012)
1. Maori warrior performing traditional dance on stage
2. Pan from French delegates to Maori women performing grieving ceremony
3. Close of performer
4. Wide of Maori ceremony to thank to France's government for return of tattooed heads
5. Various of Maori offering symbolic gifts to French government
6. Cutaway of Maoris
7. Various of French delegates accepting gifts
8. Close-up of portrait of Maori warrior
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Hippolite, Co-director of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum:
The wherewithal of the French government to enable us to return our 'tipuna' (Maori for ancestors) ancestors from the old world and take them to the new world of Aotearoa (Maori for Land of the Long White Cloud) New Zealand.
10. Close-up of portrait of Maori warrior
11. Mid of delegates
12. Various of signing ceremony between France and New Zealand's delegates
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Hippolite, Co-director of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum,
We believe that the Toi Moko have much to tell us. And while they may have passed on to the other side, we know that the print on their faces have a lot to enable us to understand more about what that means, the people of old, and how we can learn from them in today's time.
14. Wide of Hippolite speaking to journalists
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Frederic Mitterrand, France's Minister of Culture:
More than anything, it's a tribute to Maori community, and to its history. And, in fact, we close a terrible chapter of colonial history and we open a new chapter of friendship and mutual respect.
16. Wide of representatives from New Zealand, France and Maori community at end of ceremony
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France has handed over to New Zealand authorities 20 tattooed heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a cultural curiosity.
French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand presided over a handover ceremony on Monday at the Quai Branly museum in Paris.
We close a terrible chapter of colonial history and we open a new chapter of friendship and mutual respect, he said.
New Zealand's embassy said it involved the single largest group of Maori heads to be repatriated.
Michelle Hippolite, the co-director of New Zealand's Te Papa Tongarewa Museum, a national art gallery in Wellington, said the heads would enable the museum to learn and understand more about Maori culture.
Since 2003, New Zealand has led an ambitious programme of collecting Maori heads and skeletal remains from museums around the world so they could be properly mourned and buried according to tradition.
France long resisted handing over such cultural artifacts, but a law passed in 2010 eventually paved the way for the return of the heads.
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Maori New Year kicks off in Auckland
Matariki is dawning upon New Zealand this month and the Auckland City Council hopes to spread the season's meaning far and wide. Last night it kicked off their month long Matariki Festival with a showcase featuring Annie Crummer, Betty-Anne Monga, Ria Hall and Maisey Rika.
Katikati ‘New Zealand’s Mural Town' - Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
The rural town of Katikati was founded by settlers from Ulster in Ireland, but the district was populated by Maori long before Europeans arrived.
In recent years, Katikati has called itself the ‘mural town’. More than 35 works of art in and around the main street - murals, sculptures and carvings - pay homage to the town's early Maori and pioneer residents, and its timber milling and farming heritage. There is also a magnificent tribute to the men and women who left the district to fight in overseas wars. You can pick up a mural guide map from the information centre.
Katikati is also home to a 'Haiku Pathway', boasting the largest collection of Haiku’s outside of Japan.
The local museum documents the growth of the town with photographs and displays of artefacts. Boutique arts and crafts galleries and, in harvest time, roadside stalls overflowing with fresh produce, are a delightful distraction.
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Haka at Auckland Museum
Maori Haka at the Auckland museum New Zealand.
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Seven Sisters perform 'Maranga ake ai' at Te Papa
On Thursday 10 June 2010, the Seven Sisters concert kicked off the Matariki Festival at Te Papa, to celebrate Māori New Year.
The Seven Sisters include Lisa Tomlins, Ria Hall, Puawai Cairns, Bella Kalolo, Kali Kopae, Riria Hotere and Ramon Tewake.
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Maori performance at the Dream Community
Students of Auckland University of Technology present traditional Maori song and dance as part of the Tap Root Cultural Exchange program sponsored by the Austronesian Cultural and Economic Cooperation Association (ACECA) (南島民族文化與經濟合作協會), in Taiwan.
Napier Art Deco City February 2015
Napier City Centre February 2015
Maori Dance
Well i tried some bellydancing, now its time to try something more manly
Split Enz
Split Enz were a New Zealand rock band, formed in 1972 and featuring Phil Judd and Tim Finn and later Neil Finn. One of the most successful New Zealand musical acts of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the band would go on to achieve chart success in New Zealand, Australia and Canada – most notably with their 1980 single I Got You – and built a cult following elsewhere. Their musical style was eclectic, incorporating influences from art rock, vaudeville, swing, punk, rock, new wave, and pop. Split Enz established a reputation for a distinctive visual style, thanks partly to their colourful, offbeat costumes and hairstyles.
The group's career falls into two phases. They began as an acoustic folk band in the early 1970s and by the time they recorded their first album they had changed to electric instruments and took on a progressive rock sound. From 1977 onwards, with the departure of songwriter/guitarist Phil Judd and the arrival of Neil Finn, Split Enz' sound began to move from progressive rock towards new wave and pop. The early 1980s proved the group's most commercially successful period, with a string of popular albums. The videos for some of the songs from this period were among the first played on MTV. Since the band's break-up in 1984, the group has reunited several times, and its members have gone on to create varied musical groups with one another, including Neil Finn's band Crowded House, Schnell Fenster, Citizen Band and the Finn Brothers.
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Te Puna REO O Puhi Kaiti - Turanganui Schools Kapa Haka Festival
Thousands of students are taking part in the 34th Turanganui Schools Maori Cultural Festival at the Farmers Air Event Centre this week.The festival is an opportunity for all local schools and pre-schools to participate, celebrate and enjoy kapa haka, like Awapuni Preschool, E Tipu Kohanga Reo, Sticky Finger Childcare and Education Centre and Manaaki Tamariki Childcare and Education Centre.
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Maori Ministry's Feature - Rhythm & Culture (Live Video at Congress 2016)
Recorded live at The Michael Fowler Centre, September 29th, 2016. Rhythm and Culture was a night of performances dedicated to celebrating the culture and diversity of The Salvation Army in New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.
Here, our Maori Ministry group open the evening with a selection of traditional and well known Maori performances, including the impressive Te Haka A Te Pōti (I'll Fight haka), which encapsulates General William Booth's Vision of the Lost.
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The Māori (; Māori pronunciation: [ˈmaːɔɾi] (listen)) are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from eastern Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages some time between 1250 and 1300. Over several centuries in isolation, the Polynesian settlers developed a unique culture, with their own language, a rich mythology, and distinctive crafts and performing arts. Early Māori formed tribal groups based on eastern Polynesian social customs and organisation. Horticulture flourished using plants they introduced; later, a prominent warrior culture emerged.The arrival of Europeans to New Zealand, starting in the 17th century, brought enormous changes to the Māori way of life. Māori people gradually adopted many aspects of Western society and culture. Initial relations between Māori and Europeans were largely amicable, and with the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted as part of a new British colony. Rising tensions over disputed land sales led to conflict in the 1860s. Social upheaval, decades of conflict and epidemics of introduced disease took a devastating toll on the Māori population, which fell dramatically. By the start of the 20th century, the Māori population had begun to recover, and efforts have been made to increase their standing in wider New Zealand society and achieve social justice. Traditional Māori culture has thereby enjoyed a significant revival, which was further bolstered by a Māori protest movement that emerged in the 1960s.
In the 2013 census, there were approximately 600,000 people in New Zealand identifying as Māori, making up roughly 15 percent of the national population. They are the second-largest ethnic group in New Zealand, after European New Zealanders (Pākehā). In addition, more than 140,000 Māori live in Australia. The Māori language is spoken to some extent by about a fifth of all Māori, representing 3 per cent of the total population. Māori are active in all spheres of New Zealand culture and society, with independent representation in areas such as media, politics and sport.
Disproportionate numbers of Māori face significant economic and social obstacles, and generally have lower life expectancies and incomes compared with other New Zealand ethnic groups. They suffer higher levels of crime, health problems, and educational under-achievement. A number of socioeconomic initiatives have been instigated with the aim of closing the gap between Māori and other New Zealanders. Political and economic redress for historical grievances is also ongoing (see Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements).
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A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie first found popularity in San Francisco with Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain. By the 1940s, both had become part of African American jive slang and meant sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date. The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and many used drugs such as marijuana, LSD, peyote and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.
In 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom in 1970, many gathered at the gigantic Isle of Wight Festival with a crowd of around 400,000 people. In later years, mobile peace convoys of New Age travelers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge and elsewhere. In Australia, hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. Piedra Roja Festival, a major hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970. Hippie and psychedelic culture influenced 1960s and early 1970s young culture in Iron Curtain countries in Eastern Europe (see Mánička).Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, mainstream society has assimilated many aspects of hippie culture. The religious and cultural diversity the hippies espoused has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a larger audience.