July 08, 2021
Calendar marked for Multicultural Day
Multicultural New Zealand is launching what it’s calling a tiriti-based Multicultural Day to be held annually on the last Friday of August.
President Pancha Narayanan says it’s a chance for people all over New Zealand to bring their cultural heritage into their work and family life.
This includes wearing traditional attire, sharing traditional food and music, speaking in their native language, sharing stories from their home or kāinga tipu (ancestral homeland).
The day will belong to everyone in New Zealand, not only recent migrant and former refugee communities.
He says it has the support of rangatira from around the country, as his group tries to reframe the multicultural paradigm in New Zealand and push for the embodiment of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in every aspect of community and policy.
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