Dawn Raids was written by Sāmoan playwright Oscar Kightley in 1997. Oscar was a child during the heart of the Dawn Raids era, having recently been sent to Aotearoa from Sāmoa to live with relatives in ...

I’ve always loved reading. As a child, it was a way for me to travel to places I never would have had access to in the real world. It was a way to learn about the wondrous places and ways of life I ...

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Themes in the exhibition are heavy, but Graham and curator Anna-Marie White unpack these complex narratives with clear, concise and even-handed messaging. Tainui iwi caused huge devastation here in ...

The many stages of the night, the many movements before the world of the light. And it seems we are drawn back to that monthly, that place of darkness where the moon is a black memory of itself. An ...

In this series, our editor at The Pantograph Punch ventures into the regions of Aotearoa to kōrero with some exciting creatives. Whangārei-based organisation HĀ develops education programmes that ...

Sāmoan tatau began with women. Two women. Taema and Tilafaiga, the goddess-twins who swam to Fiji to learn the art of tatau. When they returned to Sāmoa as the first tufuga ta tatau (master tattooists ...

For Koanga, spring equinox, the assembled collaborators have created a weather report from Haupapa Tasman Glacier, Aotearoa’s fastest growing body of wai, a glacier formed from a deep exhalation of ...

As a part of the Someday Stories short film series, this month a film about a takatāpui non-binary person’s experience of returning home to their marae was released online. He Takatāpui Ahau was ...

You’re right, there is so much tangibly written about Sāmoan men in our art histories, and it is something that has quite frankly pissed me off for many years. But I realised that, in spite of art ...

It matters who we think with, and which stories we choose to tell. I want to begin with the little clay feet that brace large sheets of handmade paper. Not only because every story needs an origin, ...

I should also note that the narrator has disabilities and chronic illnesses that are talked about a lot. As an able-bodied person with good health, there are descriptions of her experience with these ...