TE PAEPAE “Te Pae Pae acts as a place of welcome to artists and WOMAD patrons; a place to come and experience the culture, and to meet some of the local people” says WOMAD Iwi Liaison; Wharehoka Wano. There are plenty of opportunities for Ma-ori culture and artistry to be experienced at Te Paepae via hands on activities, international music and dance workshops. This year an onsite art installation piece will be devised with pièce de résistance created from harakeke & muka (flax) and kohatu (stone).
Image: Dominika Zielinska
WALKING IN CIRCLES Ko Rangi Ko Papa Ka Puta Ko Rongo is an interactive art installation originally created from kohatu (stone) and harakeke (flax) as a creative way of bringing ceremony back into our lives. Like our ancestors who sat around a fire to share conversation, it is a space for sharing stories, to see another perspective and a way forward to peaceful change. Join Ma-ori artist Jo Tito and her ongoing project Earth - Water - Light - Stone a collaboration with nature and Inuit artist, filmmaker, director & writer Stacey Aglok in the Te Pae Pae
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space - listen to other’s stories while creating with stone to weave your own story into the installation. For the past two years, Stacey and Jo have been collaborating on Walking in Circles from their poles apart landscapes and will come together in Taranaki for WOMAD 2017.
Fri, 7.15pm Sat, 3pm, 6pm & 8.45pm Sun, 1pm
