Matariki Movement

Matariki Movement was a free community dance held on Sunday 16 July. Enjoy moving or listening to the playlist.

The three major principles that guide Matariki are:

• Matariki Hunga Nui remembrance — honouring those who have died since the last rising of Matariki

• We danced and rang the bells for remembrance.          

• Matariki Ahunga Nui celebrating the present — gathering together with family and friends

• We ate pumpkin soup and chocolate kumara fudge cake and talked as friends and family

• Matariki Manako Nui — looking forward to the promise of a new year

• Together we toasted marshmallows in the fire pit and sent our intentions/takune to the stars