SUPPORT OUR FESTIVAL

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POU TANGATA

BECOME A PATRON

If you’re passionate and committed to protecting and enhancing the arts in our community, we’d love to recognise you as a patron of our one-of-a-kind festival.

Your support ensures we can make a positive impact for local creatives and engage with and expose our community to diverse and distinguished artists.

FESTIVAL MERCHANDISE

Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival have a range of shirts, hoodies, keep cups, and more in our Festival Shop. Support the Festival and represent the Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival in style! The merchandise stall will be open at Te Ara i Whiti and online at tetairawhitiartsfestivalmerch.nz

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www.tetairawhitiartsfestival.nz

If ever we needed proof of the powerful role the arts play in connecting our cultures, communities and backgrounds, Te Tairāwhiti Festival is it.

In recognition of the contribution made by the Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival Trust to the region’s thriving arts sector, the Government has appointed them to play a key role in the Cultural Activators Pilot — aimed at getting even more people participating in cultural activities. This truly is a festival like no other. By connecting us to art, to our culture and ultimately our identity, festivals such as this help sustain and nurture us.

HON CARMEL SEPULONI

MINISTER FOR ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE

In just a few years Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival has grown to become the undisputed jewel in the crown of our region’s cultural calendar.

This year’s festival takes on new meaning and relevancy in a world that has been impacted by COVID-19, with our arts and tourism sectors among the hardest hit. Many of our creative workers have faced continued uncertainty. I want to commend the Trust for bringing together an incredible event that puts our people and our place up in lights.

HON KIRI ALLAN

MP FOR EAST COAST

With the exciting hybrid festival programme, Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival offers us the opportunity to share and showcase the abundant talent which springs from this place and abroad. The festival continues to champion visions, artists, ambitious ideas, creative flair and vivacious talent that unlocks our hearts, minds and souls.

I acknowledge the array of Māori and indigenous talent who will transform us into a world like no other and thank the festival team, with the ongoing support of Trust Tairāwhiti and Creative NZ, for their tireless efforts in bringing this festival to the fore once again for Tairāwhiti.

HON MEKA WHAITIRI

MP FOR IKAROA RĀWHITI