Kauae Raro

As a collective, Kauae Raro are dedicated to researching and sharing their mahi looking at whenua as an art material, a component of ceremony, for personal adornment and as rongoā. 

This wānanga will bring whānau together in the keen focus of learning on the retention and promotion of mātauranga Māori around this beautiful resource at our feet - a taonga to which we belong to as tangata whenua.

“We share this mātauranga to fill gaps in our collective knowledge and encourage reconnection. As Māori, we already face so much gatekeeping- systematically, academically, culturally and actual physical locked gates that keep us from our ancestral lands. Kauae Raro Research Collective do not wish to play a part in the violence of gatekeeping, our focus is to model our reciprocal, responsible practice of relating to the land in the hopes that others find their own way of enacting kaitiakitanga too.”

Image: Toroa Creative (2021)