As the final chords of I Feel Love echo into the night, the celebration doesn’t stop – it shifts. Join us for the official Kia Mau Festival 2025 After Party, soundtracked by none other than Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s own DJ collective, 6IXHAND.
Artist Robin Slow’s luminous paintings begin to stir and take breath, beautifully brought to life in this moving image artwork. Te Ara Tōrino is an ara, or pathway of spirals, exploring duality and the interconnected nature of te Ao Māori.
Me he toroa e tau ana ki te au / Like the toroa resting on the current, five Kāi Tahu poets will land at Te Whanganui-a-Tara, bringing kupu from many places and gathering together.
In this contemplative performance work, Grace O’Brien weaves together identity, ancestry, and migration through ritual and embodiment. Three Strand Braid is an act of connection — a quiet offering to the lands that have shaped her, and the waters that both divide and unite them.
Bronze/Birthright is a live performance that confronts the weight of lineage and identity through the ritualised shaping of the female body.
A bold and beautiful night of cabaret-style performance, where poetry meets music, dance, and song. Curated by poet, composer & classical singer Cadence Chung.
Written and performed by a powerful ensemble of fa’afafine and queer Pacific voices, this is an insight into the life of a fa’afafine and trans woman who competed in the Miss Teine Samoa pageant.
A powerful performance embodying ancestral dreams, memories, creating new worlds through movement, sound, and storytelling. Honouring past and future generations.
Shifting Centre return to Kia Mau with a new work exploring themes of support, celebration and what true liberation can look like for oneself and as a collective.
A choral performance work that threads together the beauty of Samoan communal life with the weight of diaspora, displacement, and the danger of silence.
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