Alongside the festival activities, the audience is invited to visit the exhibition Kotahitanga: Ō Wairoa Marae in the Tainui Garden of Memories, hosted by the Malcom Smith Gallery at UXBRIDGE.

Director Tainui Tukiwaho's latest play Astroman is set in the 80s.Supplied / Not-For-Syndication Life is busy for Tainui Tukiwaho. The writer, actor and director is currently birthing one of his ...

Jazmin Tainui Mihi Paget-Knebel from Ōpōtiki has been announced the winner of the 2025 Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award and a $20,000 cash prize. Jazmin’s work Taniwha Chasers was chosen from ...

Jazmin Tainui Mihi Paget-Knebel’s work, Taniwha Chasers, was chosen from 41 finalists, with the awards being announced in the presence of the Māori Queen Kuini Nga wai hono i te po at Pipitea ...

Festival director Pitsch Leiser described this year’s theme as having been inspired by the Māori whakatauki (proverb) – Whiria te tāngata – meaning to weave people together.

Photographer Jazmin Tainui Mihi Paget-Knebel said the winning piece was a “symbol of hope”. She felt it was “timely” amid the Toitū te Tiriti movement and the actions of the current ...

Tainui lost in the first round by split decision, but Sullivan said it was the best she’d ever seen him fight. “ It was literally like two punches that made the difference of the whole fight, Hamz ...

Alongside the festival activities, the audience is invited to visit the exhibition Kotahitanga: Ō Wairoa Marae in the Tainui Garden of Memories, hosted by the Malcom Smith Gallery at UXBRIDGE.

When 22-year-old photographer Jazmin Tainui Mihi Paget-Knebel got the call to say she had won the 2025 Kīngi Tuheitia Portraiture Award, she was on campus, preparing her assignments for submission.

Photographer Jazmin Tainui Mihi Paget-Knebel is showing her community of Ōpōtiki in a positive light by using her camera to document the mana of rangatahi. The 22-year-old of Te Whānau a Apanui, ...

Meanwhile, construction has begun on one and a-half greens of new artificial turf and support facilities next to the Dunedin Lawn Bowls Stadium, in Tainui. The $1.9 million development is being funded ...

Kelly Tarlton is widely known as the visionary behind Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World. What's less known is that Tarlton was also a highly successful treasure hunter of shipwrecks across the globe.