Waimumu Trust – owners
We are trying to update our database for a proposed annual general meeting early in 2013. If you have not heard from us it means we do not have your current correct contact details on record. For those of you that we do have addresses for, we also require a current email address if you have one. Email is more cost effective and allows us to make savings on mailouts.
Your information will remain confidential and will allow us to stay in touch with you. This notice has been placed on behalf of the Trustees of The Waimumu Trust. Email: pamelamanning@xtra.co.nz Address: C/- P Manning, PO Box 1906, Christchurch Mobile: 021 232 679.
Te Waka Toi Awards
Also Rongomai Te Whaiti (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Was awarded an emerging artists award – Ngā Karahipi a Te Waka Toi, worth $4000.
From orators to painters, dancers to composers; tohunga, artists and community leaders who have made an outstanding contribution to Māori arts were honoured in Wellington in late August.
Rongomai is a painter who creates work which recalls the past, while focussing on contemporary Māori contexts. Rongomai’s paintings are inspired by stories from her home, the Wairarapa. She is currently exploring stories of taonga in museum collections.
Maruhaeremuri Stirling.
Maruhaeremuri Stirling (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāi Tahu) was honoured posthumously for her central role in revitalising te reo Māori in Canterbury over many years. A highly regarded kaikaranga, she was a ‘resident kaumātua’ during the Ngāi Tahu exhibition Mō Tātou at Te Papa and a treasured community leader.
Rongomai and proud father Haami Te Whaiti at the awards ceremony.
During her speech at the awards ceremony, Rongomai thanked Te Waka Toi, the Māori Arts Board of Creative New Zealand, Professor Bob Jahnke, her supervisor Ngatai Taepa and peers at Te Putahi-a-Toi, and her whānau. Rongomai is in her first year of a Masters of Māori Visual Arts at Te Putahi-a-Toi, Massey University Palmerston North.
Iritana receiving Maruhaeremuri’s award.
The receiving of the award was a very emotional time for the whānau made more so by the tribute given when the whole hui stood to acknowledge the mate. Iritana looking resplendent in her mother’s signature kākahu accepted the award.
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