Toi Kiri 2026
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Tā tatau and tā moko are a living connection to our stories, carrying the deep history of Indigenous and First Nations peoples across the globe. Ancient and contemporary come together in tradition and innovation, strengthening and celebrating our identity.
Toi Kiri 2026 is an all inclusive series of indigenous arts events including wānanga, festival, symposium and exhibition of Tā Tatau, Tā Moko, and Skin Marking Artists, alongside Cultural Arts, Musicians, Performers, Ceremony, Rongoā, Markets and Food.
Bringing the best of indigenous traditions together, immerse yourself in cultural identity at Toi Kiri
More info for 2026 coming soon!
He oko ngarahu
Holding knowledge
Toi Kiri
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INDIGENOUS ARTS FESTIVAL
WHAREROA RESERVE
TAIAHO PLACE
MOUNT MAUNGANUI
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 2026.
2026 Coming Soon
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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 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, full event and 3 day festival only options will be available.
*Fee for participants in the wānanga includes 3 day festival space, food and accommodation.
2026 Coming Soon
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TE KAHU O TOI KIRI SYMPOSIUM
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2026 COMING SOON
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TE KAHU O TOI KIRI EXHIBITION
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2026 COMING SOON
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!
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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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