Pūtahi Festival

29/04/2022

E te whānau - here's a valuable paid opportunity for Māori to intern with arts organisations around Aotearoa.

20/10/2021

TOI WHAKAARI POP UP COVID VACCINATION CENTRE

Everyone is welcome. Please click on the link and answer YES if you intend to come- it is that easy! No other information is needed.

https://forms.gle/N2cw772QE7Pg8XGm9

Saturday 30 October
12noon- 4pm
Te Whaea: National Dance and Drama Centre
11 Hutchison Road
Newtown
Wellington 6021

14/05/2021

Happy Friday! Here's a beautiful waiata from one of our Pūtahi Festival 2021 artists, Taylor-Rose Terekia!

Taylor has been translating well known K-Pop songs into te reo Māori, and we were lucky to have her perform some for the final night of the festival.

Check her out! 🖤

Kia ora beautiful people! I'm back to share one of the covers from a show I developed and performed back in March called 'Mā Pango Māwhero'. If you can guess...

30/04/2021

Very excited to see our artists moving up to the big stages!

Congratulations to Samoana Nokise and Shanaia Boutsady who are showcasing their work at Kia Mau Festival at BATS Theatre 🧡🌸

Kia Mau Festival | 04 - 19 June 2021

DROP #3 of the KMF 2021 Programme.

🔸 Peter Paka Paratene by Te Rēhia Theatre Company
🔸 The Māori Sidesteps by The Māori Sidesteps (on sale 7th May)
🔸 Brown Crown by Sarai Perenise Ropeti
🔸 Maetu by Shanaia Boutsady
🔸 Eat These Words by Miss Leading
🔸 O Le Pa'a Ma Ona Vae by Samoana Nokise
🔸 Te Rongomaiwhiti by Mahi Mahi Productions Limited

Tickets on sale now for our third drop of 2021 Kia Mau Festival productions.

Mauri ora! 🧡

https://bit.ly/3acz4YP

28/03/2021

Our Pūtahi Festival artists for 2021.

Thank you for sharing your ideas, creativity, passion, vulnerability, playfulness and visions with us over the nine days of Pūtahi Festival.

Remember these faces and names. Follow them with interest. They are going to re-shape our industry 💙

22/03/2021

E te iwi...we have some award winners to celebrate!

Last night our Pūtahi Festival whānau attended the New Zealand Fringe Festival awards as two of our rangatahi were up for nominations. We've got some exciting news to share!

💙 Flames by Roy Iro & Reon Bell were awarded the Parkin Development Award with BATS Theatre
💙 Waitahi Aniwaniwa was jointly awarded the Most Promising Emerging Artist Award sponsored by Hnry - New Zealand
💙 Pūtahi Festival received a surprise award called the Social Impact Award for holding space for Māori & Pasifika practitioners across our nine day festival through idea development, workshops and wānanga.

Ngā mihi ki a koutou katoa for all of your support and generosity to our artists as they presented works in progress. We can wait to see where these works go next!

Mauri ora!

20/03/2021

It's our last day of Pūtahi Festival for 2021!

COMING UP TODAY...

10am-12pm: Producing 101 with Dolina Wehipeihana
2-4pm: Rangatahi Wānanga
4:30pm: The Wall play-reading by Joe Dekkers Reihana
6:30pm: Whadda Yah Reckon?
8:30pm: Mā Pango Māwhero

See you all there 💙

Three naughty kids develop a tight bond after being repeatedly sentenced to lunchtime on the wall, in the middle of a global pandemic.

19/03/2021

PŪTAHI FESTIVAL ARTIST PROFILE - JOE DEKKERS REIHANA

"I’ve worked professionally as an actor since I was 15. First with kids TV and short films in Wellington.

I left school early and started working as a facilitator at Te Rakau with Jim Moriarty, kind of by chance; I wanted him to write me a character reference for Toi Whakaari and he said he needed to work closer with me to get one. The job was cool and I learnt a lot about myself and other troubled rangatahi.

From there I went on to Long Cloud with Willem Wassenaar who truly built me up as an actor. His death hit me hard and I think of him daily.

I’ve worked up and down the country in film and theatre as an actor and storyteller. My whanau are my core. I was raised, alongside my three siblings, by my mother Carolyn Dekkers. She is an artist of the finest quality. My goal in life is to make work with my whanau."

Joe has written The Wall across 2020 and is excited to share it at the play-reading tomorrow afternoon.

Join us tomorrow at 4:30pm at Te Whaea to hear The Wall!

18/03/2021

Over the weekend we ran several workshops to upskill Māori & Pasifika creatives in money management, grant writing and arts marketing.

Coming up this weekend...
- Producing 101 with Dolina Wehipeihana
- Rangatahi Wānanga with Janaye Alexandra and Kasiano Joseph Mita

You can still sign up to the last two sessions at the link below!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKeDbwIWk74bTXJ56VnXBGK0sbZ9pvH6TySz13BhqSm5mhyA/viewform

📸 by Roc+ Photography

17/03/2021

Pūtahi Festival had a HUGE Saturday!

Check out some photos from the Mīraka play-reading by Te Aorewa Rolleston.

📸 by Roc+ Photography