Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Podcast

Our first HNZPT Matariki podcast episode features interviews with five Māori Heritage New Zealand staff who share their wide-ranging thoughts and experiences about Matariki. 

Kaitohutohu Whanake Niki Partsch interviews:

• Tharron Bloomfield - growing, harvesting and eating taputini; a variety of kumara that were originally cultivated by Māori.
• Millie Harris - Matariki representing a way of life that she grew up with.
• Kellee-Rei Harris - Matariki as way to reconnect with her culture and her whakapapa roots in Te Tai Tokerau after an urban upbringing.
• Nigel Harris – kai gathering and cooking preparations for a magnificent Matariki feast at Te Whare Waiututu Kate Sheppard House.
• Matene Simon - the revival of the ancient Matariki ceremony, Te Hautapu Umukohukohu Whetū, at Taurua Marae Rotoiti in 2021.

This week we talk to Dr Glen Hazelton, Director Organisational Development about Saving the Town, a toolkit that highlights successful experiences and case studies from around Aotearoa, New Zealand that illustrate proactive, contemporary approaches to heritage. 

 

Glen provides insight into the toolkit, the case studies behind it and why it is an invaluable resource on how to facilitate and encourage heritage retention, preservation and reuse in areas, towns and cities of all sizes.

While in lockdown we have recorded our first episode of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Podcast to take you behind the scenes of the heritage we care for throughout Aotearoa, New Zealand. 

In our first episode we ask some of our staff members from different backgrounds the question, ‘What does heritage mean to you?’ Their answers to this question shows the breadth of what we do as an organisation and the role that each New Zealander plays in our shared and individual heritage.

This episode features Caroline Toplis, Program Manager of Tohu Whenua, bringing together significant heritage places across the country; Dean Whiting, Director Kaiwhakahaere Tautiaki Taonga and Kaupapa Maori in the Maori Heritage Team, supporting kaitiaki across the country to benefit their communities and taonga, and Michelle Horwood Manager Heritage Listing, working with two programs our New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero and National Historic Landmarks, highlighting Aotearoa, New Zealand’s most significant cultural heritage that have shaped us as New Zealanders.

Take a listen to hear from our staff members during lockdown.