Toi Kiri 2024
14 October - 24 October
Enveloped in our stories, tā tatau and tā moko hold a deep history throughout the worlds indigenous and first nations peoples. Ancestral hands bring to life ageless ingenuity in ancient and new ways, to strengthen and enrich our identity.
Toi Kiri is an all indigenous 11 day Ngā Uri o Muturangi event hosted by the Tangata Whenua Maori Tauranga Moana comprised of Wānanga, Symposium, Exhibition, and Festival led by Tatau practitioners.
Bringing the best of indigenous traditions together, immerse yourself in cultural identity at Toi Kiri
Featuring over 200 artists, immerse yourself in cultural identity at Toi Kiri.
11 days of indigenous arts wananga, festival, exhibition and symposium - check out the line up now!
Tā Tatau, Tā Moko, and Skin Marking Artists, alongside Cultural Arts, Musicians, Performers, Ceremony and Kai - Toi Kiri brings together the best of local, national and international indigenous traditions together!
He oko ngarahu
Holding knowledge
Toi Kiri
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PUBLIC EVENT
18 OCT - 20 OCT
INDIGENOUS ARTS FESTIVAL
WHAREROA RESERVE
TAIAHO PLACE
MOUNT MAUNGANUI
Presenting over 200 artists, together for one unique cultural event, Toi Kiri's Indigenous Arts Festival returns bigger than ever at Whareroa Reserve, Mount Maunganui.
Gathering Tā Tatau, Tā Moko and Skin Marking Artists, alongside Cultural Artists, Musicians, Performers and Kai. Celebrate together and enjoy unique expressions of the world at Toi Kiri 2024.
Want to pre-book some time with an artist before October, check out who's coming along right here at the home of Toi Kiri.
$10.00 Entry | Under 12 FREE**
Door sales also available
ARTIST EVENT
14 OCT - 24 OCT
ARTISTS WĀNANGA
WHAREROA MARAE
TAIAHO PLACE
MOUNT MAUNGANUI
Ngā Uri o Muturangi represents the strengthening of the bonds that Māori have with indigenous peoples throughout history and the world. We present Toi Kiri Wānanga, the Māori way of doing things, a 11 day Ngā Uri o Muturangi event all inclusive indigenous experience of sharing space together hosted by tangata whenua of Tauranga Moana.
This tradition, since 2019, has provided indigenous body marking and cultural tattoo practitioners the opportunity to reflect, learn, collaborate and strategise in the development of their cultural arts through the strengthening of our indigenous relationships.
Toi Kiri Wānanga provides indigenous artists with the opportunity to celebrate their cultural customs, as well as educate, debate and contest the mainstream spaces that our arts present in.
Are you an indigenous practitioner of skin marking ready to be amongst other indigenous tā tatau, tā moko practitioners from around the globe? Spaces are limited, 11 day and 3 day options available.
Practitioners are invited to register your interests to info@tetuhimareikura.org with your name, iwi or nation representing, and a brief paragraph summary of what you feel you offer to the gathering.
Registrations are by invitation only, and successful interests will be invited to apply.
*Fee for participants in the wananga includes 3 day festival space, food and accommodation.
SPACES LIMITED | ALL ARTISTS MUST BE REGISTERED
PUBLIC EVENT
16 OCT - 23 OCT
TE KAHU O TOI KIRI EXHIBITION
LOCATION TBA
Te Kahu o Toi Kiri showcases the art of our artist participants of Toi Kiri's Indigenous Arts Festival.
Exploring the dialogue between the exercise of skin marking and a range of cultural art practices, customary and contemporary, Te Kahu o Toi Kiri presents the ‘cloak’ of indigenous body marking traditions.
Location and opening hours to be announced. Follow on Facebook and Instagram for updates.
LOCATION TBA
Toi Kiri is an international wānanga-a-matauranga convention of indigenous arts practices embedded in Tā Moko, Tā Tatau, and Cultural Arts. Toi Kiri celebrates the cultural ethnic diversity of our New Zealand communities, sharing tohunga knowledge from leading international indigenous practitioners through festival, wānanga, symposium and gallery exhibition.
Ko taku toi taku ohooho! My origin is my awakening!
Ngā
Uri o
Muturangi
According to many Māori narratives Kupe, the great Maori explorer, was led to navigate the regions of Aotearoa through his pursuit and battles of the great octopus - Te Wheke o Muturangi through which our ancestors were led to new land from Raiatea, Tahiti, the body of the octopus whose tentacles reach out around the Polynesian triangle.
Ngā Uri o Muturangi affirms ancient ancestral connections through Muturangi centred around customary Māori skin marking, tattoo-tatau and art practices. It does this through online membership and public content as well as a major annual public event Toi Kiri (and its past events) hosted by TMT and its partners in Tauranga Moana.
For those experts of ancestral ocean navigation, Te Wheke o Muturangi metaphorically describes the navigation paths or currents from Raiatea (Tahiti) resembling the tentacles reaching out across the Pacific at least as far as the edges of the Polynesian Triangle (Tetahiotupa 2009).
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