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One of Creative New Zealand's guiding principles is to "recognise in the arts the role of Maori as Tangata Whenua" (Arts Council of New Zealand Act 1994). Creative New Zealand has a Māori Arts Services team and a Māori arts board, Te Waka Toi. Staff from Māori Arts Services support Te Waka Toi, and develop policies and strategies to help develop and preserve Māori arts.
- If you are a post-secondary Māori student studying in the arts then Te Waka Toi want to hear from you by the end of March 2008.
- Taki Rua Productions performance of Strange Resting Places will be on tour from 6 March as part of Taki Rua’s 25th anniversary celebrations. Proudly supported by Transpower New Zealand, the rural tour will allow those in smaller towns throughout the country to experience this gem of New Zealand theatre.
- If you are a post-secondary Mäori student studying in the arts then Te Waka Toi want to hear from you by the end of March 2008
- Rotorua artist, June Grant (Te Arawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Tuhourangi, Ngati Whaio) has been selected to undertake a two and a half month artist’s residency at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
- Lower Hutt sculptor/carver Barry Te Whatu (Taranaki) was one of two international and six Japanese artists invited to participate in the 11th Nasunogahara International Sculpture Symposium 2007, held every year in the Japanese city of Ohtawara.
- The wharenui of Puketeraki Marae, just out of Dunedin, was opened in 2001 after it was rebuilt with the assistance of special pūtea given to all runaka to mark the settlement of the Ngai Tahu Waitangi claim.
- Kapiti Island will host New Zealand's first Māori writer's residency during Matariki in 2008, enabling the selected writer to live and work on the northern end of Kapiti island for eight weeks. The closing date for applications is 6 February 2008.
- The past year has been a whirlwind for artist Rangi Kipa (Taranaki, Te Atiawa Nui Tonu, Ngāti Maniapoto). An invitation to be one of seven emerging and established artists from seven countries to exhibit at the new Museum of Contemporary Art Denver set the wheels in motion.
