January 08, 2015
Taniwha come to museum
Traditional Maori puppetry, lessons in tukutuku weaving and taniwha all feature in a summer programme at Auckland Museum.
A range of activities will turn the spotlight on cultures from Aotearoa to Ethiopia.
This week Raranga Creations are demonstrating how tukutuku helps tell oral tales through design and pattern.
Image: Ruth Woodbury of Raranga Creations. Website
Visitors can learn the basic technique, then explore the museums for examples, including in the wharenui Hotunui which is being restored.
The taniwha of Tamaki are visiting the museum on Sunday to tell their stories, and there are also sessions on how maunga came to Tamaki.
On January 17 James Webster will present Karetao Puora: Puppets with a musical voice.
Little is known about karetao beyond fragments of information in manuscripts and collections in museums, but Webster has recreated puppets and put them together a programme with sound, music and audience participation.
Image: James Webster.
Also featured in the Tales of Tamaki: Stories over Auckland series are dancers from India, Ethiopia and China, South Auckland Pacific theatre group Black Friars, Celtic storyteller Tanya Batt, folk musician Chris Priestley, writer Tessa Duder and arts and crafts from Cook Islands and China.
Tales of Tamaki runs in the events centre at the top of the Auckland Museum until January 26.
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