As a part of the Someday Stories short film series, this month a film about a takatāpui non-binary person’s experience of returning home to their marae was released online. He Takatāpui Ahau was ...

From there I was lucky enough to get a scholarship, which brought me to New Zealand at the tender age of 17. I went to New Plymouth Girls’ High School, which was such a culture shock! The food, the ...

Miranda Harcourt has spent a lot of time in prisons. Women’s prisons, men’s prisons, prisons in Australia, prisons in the UK, and, to the best of her knowledge, every single prison in New Zealand. It ...

Where are all the badass cool Asian girls in bands? If Bic Runga and Boh Runga are the only Kiwi-Asian musicians you can name, do better and expand your listening range. Karen Hu and Sherry Zhang chat ...

Lucinda Bennett talks to the artist about craft, storytelling and finding his clay. My interview with artist Daegan Wells begins with a confession. I hold my phone up to the laptop camera to show him ...

Water, the body, cultural survival and life itself are inherent within Māori beliefs and traditions. This ideology is reflected in the recent development of rivers being granted legal personhood in ...

My earlier attempt to read Katherine Mansfield had stalled; her patient, detailed style felt ponderous, and I had quickly moved on to contemporary fiction while promising myself that I’d eventually ...

The first meeting of our waiata group is in a quintessential Berlin bar: it’s all wooden floors and vintage velvet couches; it stinks of smoke, and it’s run by Australians. What we don’t know yet is ...

In this series, our editor at The Pantograph Punch ventures into the regions of Aotearoa to kōrero with some exciting creatives. Whangārei-based organisation HĀ develops education programmes that ...

Sinead Overbye (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou) is our Kaiwāwāhi Kaupapa Māori - Kaupapa Māori Editor. She is a Libra sun with a Cancer Moon and Aries rising. Her background is in art history, Māori ...

Every Sunday afternoon, in a Papatoetoe lounge, Graeme Revell would be surrounded by the same three sounds. His mother, a music teacher, collected opera records and played them on the radiogram. His ...

‘Whetūrangitia’ is a verb used in whaikōrero to describe the transformation of loved ones who have passed away – Ki a rātau kua whetūrangitia, haere, haere, haere – which speaks of those who have left ...