Te Matatini, the premier celebration of Māori performing arts, will be staged at Hopuhopu, Ngāruawāhia, from 22-27 February 2027. The kapa haka festival will be co-hosted by Waikato-Tainui, Te ...

“This is Māori excellence” says Rotorua’s Trevor Maxwell of Te Matatini, the world’s biggest kapa haka festival. Kapa haka groups across Aotearoa have been training hard for the supreme title of toa ...

A new impact evaluation report on this year's Te Matatini shows that the 2025 festival was the biggest to date. The report showed that Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga held in February in Ngāmotu New ...

The curtain has come down on Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga 2025 and planning for the 2027 event starts. With the nation’s top kapa haka teams delivering a memorable experience in front of a sold-out ...

TVNZ and Whakaata Māori are partnering to bring New Zealand’s largest Māori performing arts festival, Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga 2025, to viewers across the motu. Together with Te Matatini Society ...

Nelson council staff and hospitality leaders say they remain confident the region had capacity to host the world's largest kapa haka festival, after it was dropped as the 2027 host. Te Matatini ...

All online tickets for the final day of the Te Matatini festival have sold out and the organisers have confirmed there will be no gate sales available. Te Matatini chief executive Carl Ross said the ...

When Te Matatini decided to transition to an entirely digital judging system for its esteemed national kapa haka competition, it had no idea that Cyclone Gabrielle would hit just days before it was ...