The award-winning TE KAAHU honours the craft and skill of Māori songwriting and storytelling and is the brainchild of celebrated singer and songwriter Theia (Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Tīpa).

Photograph by Jazmin Tainui Mihi

Artists Bryan Phillips and Fayen d’Evie present a live quadraphonic-sound performance.

Helpers: Changing Homes is an expansive multimedia project developed through sculpture, performance, film, and jewellery works. During a three month residency at Te Whare Hēra artist Yuka Oyama has sought out project participants whose lives have been shaped by living in multiple countries, interviewing them about the objects they own which maintain a sense of ‘home’. Realising that as a person matures the person becomes their home, Oyama then recreated these objects as large-scale sculptures constructed from cardboard supplied by Allied Pickford Movers.

Claire and Sean held a D-I-S-C-O in the Te Whare Hēra Gallery -BYO favourite dance tunes - and all of your best moves.

Matiu/Somes Island is a fascinating place, even more so when one understands the many intricate historical layers that give shape to the island - as it is today. After decades of isolation as a quarantine island, this island of secrets has been returned to the tangata whenua Te Atiawa, and opened to the public as a predator free reserve.