Puanga Celebrations in the Ruapehu region.
🌟After the many Puanga/Matariki celebrations across the motu, we now understand how important it is to embrace our taiao with seasonal change.
🌟Here is our very first attempt to make a difference with our 'Kono Kai Programme' to support five whanau in Raetihi.
Kia Ora Koutou 🌟
Our team has been busy behind the scenes and is really excited about this kaupapa for our tamariki mokopuna, showcasing their culinary skills.
There are three principal kai during Te Tau o Puanga (the Puanga Period): Kererū – wood pigeon, Piharau – lamprey (blind eel) and Wānanga – kai for the mind.
It is said by elders that Te Tau o Puanga was from the fruiting of the miro tree (as a primary food source for kererū) to the end of the run of the piharau.
The categories:
Nga Manu: Birds
Nga Ika a Water species
Nga kai o te ora—Kai for the mind
We know just how important it is to encourage our local tamariki to get in the kitchen and be creative. Fancy yourself a bit of a creative cook or baker. Then get creative in the kitchen and bring your favourite Puanga-inspired dish along to this event. Be in with a chance to WIN a number of spot prizes.
Best Puanga Sweet dish
Best Puanga Savoury dish
Best Puanga-Inspired dish
Best Presentation
Best Purakau Story
Other activities on event day:
Ki o Rahi: outdoor game for tamariki TBC (grass area of venue space)
Biscuit decorations
Colouring competition
Offer of hot soup and bread, including sausage sizzle
✨️Puanga night Market 24" ✨️
Even though our night market was a little bit ago, we still have people raving about the delicious kai and awesome stalls there were!!
Check out some of the awesomeness that was there ❄️
A huge mihi to all of our stall holders for this year's night market;
Mangaeturoa School Catie Robb
Pariha ki Raetihi
Shannon Richards
Ebony Wood - Ebz Kai Kitchen
Puanga ki Ruapehu/Maaki
Neihana Pari from Whanganui -Floaters
Dionne/Tania
Raetihi School Glow sticks products
Kushla Simons -JustWhatEver clothing
Waimarino Rural Fire Brigade Educational stall
Del Taylor wooden products
Debbie Clunie Rotary Raffle
Paula Volcano Vibe
2 Much Charm - Manaaki with his Jibbitz
Synoma/Cody - Whakapiiwari
🤩OUR BEAUTIFUL TAMARIKI🤩
Check out these amazingly talented tamariki from Ohakune Primary School. It was a show of talent, hard work, pride and determination by these tamariki. Stepping out of their comfort zone and onto the whenua of Raetihi Primary School showing off their skills and talents! Rawe!
A big huge mihi to the teacher Robyn Wilson for supporting all these tamariki with their hopes and dreams of being creative!!
🎤 Ngā mihi nui ki Kayz, CJ Ruka and Rodney, Brotha Rodz for your beautiful voices at our Puanga Night Market 24'🎸
✨️ Mātai ki te Rangi, tērā ko Puanga, te tohu mō te tau hou ✨️
Gazing towards the heavens, there is Puanga, heralding the new year ✨️
✨️ WOW.. our Puanga ki Ruapehu Night Market 24' was awesome and we would like to thank every single one of you for making this a reality ✨️
The amazing photos are in from the talented Valley Road Creative 🤍
Hang tight....
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✨️ Korero on how to find Puanga ✨️
❄️🌟 Come chill our with local entertainers Kayz Lucas and Brotha Rodz ❄️🌟
😍 Come see our adorable tamariki displaying their amazing creative wearable art costumes 😍
✨️ Don't need to worry about cooking Thursday night, so come for hot food - venison, seafood, hāngi, rewena bread, mutton bird, fried bread just to name a few. Come satisfy your tastebuds with family or friends and even make new friends ✨️
🌟 Puanga Pakihi Māori showcase 🌟
This showcase is full of innovative, creative and amazing entrepreneurs from Ruapehu, Whanganui and Manawatu.
Puanga ki Ruapehu supported our Ruapehu Pakihi Māori to come to this event today and showcase their many talents. What an amazing day with all these talented humans. Its been awesome sharing and networking. Our pakihi Māori are inspired and will keep working hard to inspire our communities 🤍
Wow ☺️
Today we were able to witness the absolute talent that is of Leah Stuckey's Art Reveal .
We want to thank every single person that made the effort to come along and view the beautiful art work Leah has created of some of our lovely locals.
You can still head down to Angel Louise and check out these amazing peices.
Keep your eyes peeled for some more exciting creations.
He mihi nui ki a Angel Louise for your manaakitanga ☺️
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Across different regions, iwi may acknowledge different stars to signify the Māori New Year. For some regions Matariki marks the new year. For others, Puanga is that star.
While Puanga and Matariki are both associated with the Māori New Year, they are not the same. It’s important to understand that accepting one cluster to mark the new year doesn’t disregard the other, as both Matariki and Puanga are important. Some iwi acknowledge and read both Matariki and Puanga for signs of what lies ahead in the new year.
Learn more about Matariki and Puanga here: https://brnw.ch/21wKD9i?utm_campaign=ho-matariki-2024&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=matariki-puanga&utm_content=post
Karanga ki te tau hou
Tūrama mai ra nga whetu hauhake i te rangi ki te nuku e
We are proud to announce Puanga ki Ruapehu 2024 community celebrations events for June 2024 🌟
🌟 DATES TO SAVE 🌟
🎨Friday 21st June🎨
Local talent artist - Leah Stuckey will reveal self portraits of our local community personalities at Angel and Louise Cafe.
🤍 Saturday 22nd June 🤍
Puanga Pakihi Māori Showcase at The Backhouse, Taupo Quay, Whanganui.
🌟Thursday 27th June 🌟
Our Third Puanga Night Market at Raetihi Primary School from 5pm.
Other community events will be added soon so keep checking in. These will be for the months of July and August 2024.
😊 If you are interested in a stall for the Puanga night market, please contact us and we will send you an application
- Maaki Tuatini OR
- Kay Henare
Raetihi
4625
| Monday | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 - 17:00 |
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Puanga Tamariki Cook Off 2024 On behalf of Ebony Wood: First of all I'd like to say a massive thank you to the team at Puanga ki Ruapehu for believing in my vision. Special mention to Maaki Tuatini, Kay Henare, Nani's Debbie & Helen for your support. Te Puni Kokiri for sponsoring this event. Miriama Lucas from Sports Whanganui. Thank you so much for all your hard mahi, I appreciate you and everything you do. Uenuku Charitable Trust for allowing us to use your venue. This space was perfect for our little event. To our JUDGES Nadia Sullivan & Neihana Pari, without you both this event wouldn't have been able to go ahead. Thank you both for taking the time to be there to support this kaupapa. To my Orautoha Kura whanau thank you for supporting me and our tamariki in this event. It was great to see so many of our kids enter and come away with some great wins. It was great to see a number of Tamariki from all our local schools including Orautoha Kura, Ohakune Primary School, Raetihi school & Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Ngati Rangi. A massive CONGRATULATION to all our WINNERS with a special mention to our TWO BIG WINNERS Lucy Cadman who took out Best Presentation Best Puanga Sweet Dish Best Puanga Inspired Dish And Empress Sullivan who took out Best Purakau Best Puanga Savoury Dish Empress & Lucy have both been invited to attend the Puanga ki Whanganui Celebration Dinner in a couple of weeks as part of there prizes. Once again I would like to thank everyone who was involved and I'm hoping that this is the beginning of something amazing in the future for our community & our tamariki.
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