New Zealanders gather across Aotearoa each year to celebrate Matariki, the Māori New Year. Matariki refers to the cluster of stars that rise in the middle of winter, known in other cultures as the ...

The appearance of star cluster Matariki amid our mid-winter sky means it's soon time to celebrate the start of the Māori new year. Since its revival at the turn of the millennium, Matariki has brought ...

The winter solstice brings with it the rise of Matariki and a new nationwide celebration of food. A Matariki feast is prepared to celebrate the harvest and look forward to the year ahead. Credit: ...

Te Hāmua Nikora recalls first learning about Matariki when he was 15, through a waiata at his high school’s kapa haka (or ‘Māori Club’ as it was called in 1990).Supplied / Stuff When I was a kid there ...

This year the Matariki public holiday falls on June 20. Photo / Supplied Matariki marks the Māori New Year, honouring the dead, celebrating the present, and looking to the future. Matariki was ...

Aotearoa’s newest public holiday will not have a fixed date every year, but shift around in the same manner as Easter, most likely shifting between June and July every year, Stuff can reveal. It is ...

Snow Rameka will be a part of Taupō's Matariki celebrations at Te Atea on the lakefront at 10am on July 15. / Andy Taylor/Taupō District Council Snow Rameka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Tainui) is ...

Rugby league fan, Chief Advisor Mātauranga Matariki, Professor Rangi Mātāmua says he’s “stoked” to see the Broncos embracing Matariki this year. “When the Brisbane Broncos clash with the NZ Warriors ...

Matariki is a significant occasion for all people of Aotearoa and marks the beginning of a new year in te ao Māori. It is an opportunity for whānau and communities to come together to reflect on the ...

This year Aotearoa New Zealand is celebrating what may be the world’s first reintroduced indigenous holiday anywhere in the world, according to Dr. Rangi Matamua, an indigenous studies and Māori ...

For the first time, New Zealanders are enjoying an official public holiday this June 24 to celebrate Matariki – also known as Māori New Year. Matariki is the Māori name for a cluster of stars, also ...