Reo Pēpi has been fortunate to feature in media of late. Here's some of our favourite news!
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KUMA Māori Business & Entreprenuership Hui
KUMA is holding hui in Dunedin, Central Otago and Southland, aimed at Maori in business or Maori interested in establishing a business.
VENUE: Centre for Innovation, University of Otago, 87 St David Street, Dunedin
DATE: Thursday 14th July 2016
TIME: 5:30pm to 7:30 pm - Refreshments and kai provided.
RSVP: 8th July 2016 to
Rachael at info@southernamoribusiness.org.nz or 022 674 7304
Karen Burnett at burnk@tpk.govt.nz or 027 550 0768
The Dunedin hui is proudly supported by Te Puni Kōkiri and Poutama Business.
Come along to find out if you are eligible for support through these organisations. Jenna Love from Poutama will be in attendance.
Keep an eye out for further emails or check out our new website for updated details www.kuma.co.nz/
Please feel free to forward through your networks and get them to RSVP to Karen or myself.
Rachael McDowall
Te Kupeka Umaka Maori ki Araiteuru (KUMA)
Level One, 258 Stuart Street
P O Box 633
Dunedin
022 674 7304
www.southernmaoribusiness.org.nz
www.tikitourmap.com
Puaka Matariki 2 pm 2nd July 2016
8 Steps to consider when creating a social media plan
This is the website for the social media information from the Tourism Host meeting in May.
http://getsocial.nz/8-steps-social-media-crisis-plan/
It was a great presentation and might useful for KUMA members.
Many thanks
Nāku noa, nā
Sharleen
Dr Sharleen Howison EdD (Doctorate Education Griffith University),
MEdAdmin(Massey), PostGradDipEdAdmin(Massey), BEd(Massey),
Dip Tchng(Tertiary, Cert Sustainable Practice(Level 5),
MNZITT, MTIANZ,MNZACE, MKUMA.
Principal Lecturer, College of Enterprise and Development
Forth Street, Private Bag 1910, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
P +64 03 4796164 | Room D117 | www.op.ac.nz
Puaka Matariki Festival 2016
Nau Mai Haere Mai, Welcome to the 8th annual Puaka Matariki Festival.
Dunedin City Council proudly welcomes you to enjoy and participate in our annual Puaka Matariki Festival. This festival is unique to Dunedin, it’s one of the significant ways the Council celebrates their partnership with iwi and engages with te ao Maori. Dunedin City Council supports the coordination and delivery of the Festival, they also provide funding to many of the groups and projects in the programme, and they provide administrative, technical and promotional support.
In traditional times different iwi observed the rising of Puaka or the Matariki cluster of stars to denote the beginning of the Maori New Year. Likewise different cultures in different parts of the Pacific were aligned to the rising of either. The New Year starts at the first new moon following the rising of Puaka and Matariki which this year is the 5th June.
Puaka is the principal star of Ngai Tahu. The nature of its rising in mid-winter would foretell the coming weather. Puaka is also known as Rigel and is part of the Orion constellation. Different iwi have different traditions attached to Matariki. The visual appearance of the stars at their rising was a portent of weather to come and was closely associated with kumera. Matariki is also known as Pleides.
We celebrate Puaka Matariki through a programme of diverse community celebrations across the suburbs, towns and communities that make up Dunedin including the Mid-Winter Carnival in the Octagon as a citywide celebration of the Maori New Year.
We celebrate Puaka Matariki as the ‘Wananga Season’, the time when we come together to share stories, pass on knowledge and learning, plan for the year ahead and this is represented in programmes presented by our public institutions like the Museums and Art Galleries.
We celebrate Puaka Matariki as Dunedin’s Festival of Maori Art through a wide range of toi Maori, visual art, literary works, music and dance performance events.
Please enjoy the podcasts, stories and images on our website from the 2014 and 2015 Festival.
The 2016 Festival runs from Friday 3rd June – Sunday 26th June.
http://matarikidunedin.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Matariki_2016_Programme.pdf
KUMA Breakfast 10th June 2016
Kia ora
This morning we had our monthly networking breakfast at the Bacon Buttie Station.
A good turn out on what turned out to be a very balmy morning in Dunedin.
We re launched our long awaited KUMA website, more to follow on that, but please go and have a look http://www.kuma.co.nz/
Whenua Whakapapa Research
The Ngai Tahu Maori Law Centre are holding a wananga to assist whanau in their journey to reconnect with whanau and whenua. Come along find out who you and where you come from. Templates and helpful research ideas will be available.
When : 23 June 2016 at 6.30pm
Venue: Toitu Settlers Museum
All welcome
For further information please contact Joy 4770855, or email joy@ngaitahulaw.org.nz
Panui from the Peninsula
Kia ora and Good Morning
Here’s the latest from the Otago Peninsula Trust. Thanks for all your support – we appreciate it!
1. Can you help? Albatross attacked by predators. Volunteers urgently needed to build fence. See media release and photos for info.
2. April Cheat Sheet. 3 albatross chicks on view from observatory, daylight saving tour times, opening hours
3. What’s new? Royal Tiki Tour – Albatross+Penguins+Birdwatchers Tea+ Return city transport. Our ultimate tour $145 Adults, $100 children.
4. How have we done? Otago Peninsula Trust’s successes for 14/15 – release attached.
5. Want to encourage your visitors to stay longer in April? Share new Wild Dunedin Festival 22-25 April. Programme. Brochures from i-SITE or Email to order #WildDunedin
Otago Peninsula Trust is a founding partner and is pleased to present the following events:
- Wild Green Ride 23/24 April. Take a ride on the wild side on a Glenfalloch Green Bike. Spot shore birds and enter a prize draw.
- Blue Penguins Pukekura Exhibit Daily. Learn how you can get involved with Blue Penguin monitoring and research. Free.
- Pesky Pests at Glenfalloch 22 April. Find animals and plants that are threats to our wildlife. $2
- Albatross Express Tours Daily. Special 30 minute express tours to see Albatross chicks. Kids activities. SPECIAL DEAL
- Blue Penguins Pukekura Tours Daily. See world’s smallest penguin scurry home to their burrows. SPECIAL FAMILY PRICE
Media Release:
Spate of attacks on albatross has Trust calling for volunteers.
The reason for the recent disappearances of albatross and their chicks at the Royal Albatross Centre have been revealed. New webcam and staff monitoring have led to images of the attackers being caught on camera.
Royal Albatross Centre Manager of Operations, Hoani Langsbury says “This is an urgent problem that needs help. We are calling for volunteers to come and help us build a fence on the seaward site of the colony. This appears to be where the predators are getting in”.
Volunteers are asked to assemble at 9.00am at the colony. “We anticipate that the fence building will take about three hours and we will only require volunteers until noon” advises Hoani.
Staff are working to identify the predators, people are asked to look closely at the images below to see if they can help. Hoani says “It is easy to identify the Sea Lion, however we are having trouble identifying the feline predator, which we believe could have come over from South America somehow”.
Otago Peninsula Trust Chief Executive Robyn McDonald says “Dunedin people love wildlife and appreciate the work the Trust has done towards protecting albatross. We expect a huge turnout of volunteers to help fence the colony; with all the volunteers we are certain that it will be completed by noon today”
Ends: 01.04.16
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