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Some of the crew from Tangaroa Ara Rau attended the Waves Rec Aotearoa conference at the end of August. Our Kauora lead teamed up with Ōtaki Pools and Kāpiti Coast District Council to deliver a keynote on the importance of partnership in aquatics through the lense of the Kauora programme. Rob Hewitt also delivered a keynote talking about the Nation wide Manu comp and normalising Māori activity in and around the wai.

Here’s an awesome write up from our Healthy Families East Cape whānau who did a meke as kōrero on their Taurikura kaupapa!

WAVES Conference For more than twelve months, Healthy Families East Cape have been working collaboratively with local swimming club Comet Swimming, and Māori Womens' Welfare League Ngati Uepohatu to explore a Te Ao...

Check out this awesome kaupapa based in Te Tairāwhiti. The Taurikura crew will be sharing this kaupapa at the Waves Recreation Aotearoa conference āpōpō and super excited for their kōrero 🤙🏾🌊

Taurikura: Actualising hauora through a return to Waiora Ko te wai te oranga o ngā mea katoa | Water is the life giver of all things.

Wohooo kua ea! Shout out to our newest Dr Hanara who graduated with his PhD at the University of Otago this weekend alongside his whānau, friends and Te Koronga whānau.

His kaupapa is about the benefits of Ruku Kai for reclaiming mātauranga Māori and hauora. He completed this with the support of Rob Hewitt, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson and our ruku communities across Aotearoa. You can read his PhD here: https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/9926542780301891

This PhD will also sit on our website in the rangahau tab alongside some of the other awesome kaupapa wai research that tauira have completed over the years.

Nei rā te mihi ki a koe Dr Hanara koutou ko tō whānau i tēnei wā mīharo, whakanuia!

Tēnā koutou e te iwi! I tēnei rā heading into the start of our Tangaroa moons we share this month’s blog post. In partnership with wakaama this month we share kōrero presented by Lara Collins (CEO) on behalf of Waka Ama New Zealand at the recent Safer Boating NZ forum hui. The core focus being - building a culture of safety

“We want our Waka Ama whānau to be safe on and off the water, we want them to be safe when they paddle but also to apply the same tikanga any time they are in, on or around Tangaroa. Whether that be swimming, boating, gathering kai or just hanging out around their waterways“

Click the link to read the full blog:

https://www.tangaroaararau.org/kaupapa-korero/creating-a-culture-of-safety-waka-ama-new-zealand

Kia ora rā e te iwi! This month’s blog post is now live, i tēnei marama Ngahuia writes about the recent Te Hau Kōmaru national waka hourua festival that took place in Kaiteretere. Inā te mīharo

“The breaking of dawn on the 6th of April 2024 signalled the beginning of Te Hau Kōmaru with the arrival of 4 waka moana in Kaiteretere. The fleet were led in by the kuia waka Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti, followed by the pōtiki (youngest) of the fleet Tairāwhiti Waka, Te Matau a Māui and Hinemoana. It was a beautiful scene to behold with more than 10 kaikaranga lining the shore and a rōpū of kaiwero, enveloped in the symphony of pūmoana and pūtātara“

Full blog post: https://www.tangaroaararau.org/kaupapa-korero/te-hau-kmaru-2024

📸 credit: 1. Oliver Webber, 2. Chris Porteners.

Tēnā tātou e te iwi, this months blog post is about the session our Kauora team ran with Te Wānanga o Raukawa Pulse netball team at Ōtaki awa and is now live on our page tukutuku.

“So, for a group of wāhine who spend a lot of their days on the court and training on land, this was a great opportunity to get them out of their usual environment and into the realm of ngā atua Māori, a space where we are ultimately not in charge”

Follow the link below to our pae tukutuku and if you have any pātai or enquiries about these types of sessions, send us a DM.

https://www.tangaroaararau.org/kaupapa-korero

Also tune in to Whakaata Māori this weekend 15-17 March as the Pulse take on the Tactix, Stars and Firebirds for their pre-season tournament here in Ōtaki 🌊🌊

Toi Tangata Hui-ā-Tau 2024 blog post is now live on our pae tukutuku e te iwi 🌊

“Whānau didn’t know who Tangaroa and Hinemoana were but now we get to talk about Atua and mātauranga Māori with our next generation”

Tēnei tātou, Tangaroa Ara Rau e tuku mihi ana ki ngā haukāinga o Araiteuru rāua ko Puketeraki mō tō manaaki mai ki a mātou i ngā wā katoa. Ki a Toi Tangata, nā koutou tēnei hui i whakarite i a tau, nā mātou te māringanui ki te ako i te maha o ngā kaupapa hauora ki roto I ngā iwi Māori. Otira, kia koutou i whai wā ki te whakarongo ki ngā mahi o tō tātou kaupapa o Tangaroa Ara Rau, nei rā te mihi aroha kia koutou. Ko te hauora o ngā iwi Māori te take!

Check it out via the link in our bio or by following the kaupapa kōrero tab on tangaroaararau.org. If you have any pātai about our kaupapa you can DM us or e-mail us at [email protected].

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