Mānawatia a Matariki Join Stacey Morrison and Mātai Smith from Kā Papa Toitoi (Treble Cone, Wānaka) for live coverage of the festivities as Aotearoa celebrates the Matariki public holiday.

More relevant to 21st century New Zealanders is the Maori celebration of Matariki, the Maori word for the Pleiades star cluster, which signalled the new year. According to the government website ...

Look towards the horizon at dawn this week and you’ll start to see the Matariki star cluster rising in the north-eastern sky (expected to be visible by June 29). As part of this year’s ...