Rawiri Paratene

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With or without you, we will sail in both worlds: 50 years on from Māori ...

RNZ 14 Sep 2022

Not just our kids, I see many New Zealand kids, Pākehā kids also connecting with the language," Pouwhare said ... Rawiri Paratene, who stood with his daughter and Greens Co-Leader Marama Davidson, was touched by the event. "I'm proud to be part of it and great to see heaps of my mates and see them on the stage and they're all fluent," Paratene said ... ....

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Remembering the Māori Language Petition and the revival of te reo Māori

RNZ 13 Sep 2022

Whaimutu Dewes remembers the morning of 14 September 1972 well. It was raining, the weather was miserable, but there was an energy ... Another member of Ngā Tamatoa who led a haka as the petition was handed over was Rawiri Paratene, pictured in a sleek jacket with a towering afro, he gave a whaikorero as the petition was handed over ... ....

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Waihoroi Shortland Joins The Cast Of Award-winning Play To Honour The Centenary Of Bruce Mason’s Birth

Scoop 17 Jun 2021

Stepping into the role played by George Henare and ...

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Kia Mau festival to feature work from Rawiri Paratene

RNZ 03 Jun 2021

... show, 'Witi's Waahine', 'All of the above" written and directed by Moana Ete, 'Maetu' by Shanaia Boutsady and a special addition to this year's Kia Mau festival is the inclusion of the swan song solo performance 'Peter, Paka, Paratane' starring Rawiri Paratene and his friends.

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Curtain call for legendary actor Rawiri Paratene

RNZ 16 Apr 2021

It is curtain call for legendary actor Rawiri Paratene ... Paratene has become a household name as an actor, a producer, director, and writer ... After the strokes, Paratene said he is a lucky man ... "[Paratene's brother] said ... Peter Paka Paratene opens at Te Pou Tokomanawa theatre on Friday. It's a story about Rawiri's life.

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Morning Briefing April 15: Concerns border worker tests slipping through cracks

TVNZ 14 Apr 2021

Rawiri Paratene ... From hosting Play School to starring in award-winning films like Whale Rider, Rawiri Paratene has been on our screens in one form or another for nearly half a century. Now he’s back with a swan song season of Peter Paka Paratene, a cheeky look back at his extraordinary life and career.

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The Belcourt Theatre Brings Back Strong Leads, a Free Virtual After-school Film Seminar for High ...

The Tennessee Tribune 16 Mar 2021

NASHVILLE, TENN. (TN Tribune) — This spring, the Belcourt brings back Strong Leads. A Film Seminar for High School Girls, its free after-school program spotlighting films by and about women ... Mon, Mar 29 ... USA ... stand up to her ultra-traditional grandfather (Rawiri Paratene) and convince him that she has what it takes to be named the next tribal chief ... .

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Marama Davidson: parliament is a little, insulated bubble of disconnection

The Observer 26 Apr 2020

“Camping is my deal,” Davidson, 46, says. So are the arts; her father is the actor Rawiri Paratene and her mother an activist; she was raised at the heart of a kind of Māori cultural renaissance – political, linguistic, creative – with some of New Zealand’s most towering Indigenous writers, artists and agitators as her doting babysitters ... Read more ... .

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Actor Rawiri Paratene reflects on how the industry has changed for Māori over his almost ...

TVNZ 26 Aug 2018

Acting great Rawiri Paratene has reflected how the landscape has changed for Māori and Pacific actors over his long career as he prepares to front a bi-lingual kids’ stage show that will tell Māori myths as well as fairy tales like The Ugly Duckling. Mr Paratene said when he started in the industry almost 50 years ago there was four Māori actors.

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Rawiri Paratene Champions Māori Storytelling on the Shore

Scoop 31 Jul 2018

To celebrate the end of a year-long endeavour to provide a showcase of Maori theatre on the North Shore, The PumpHouse is delighted to confirm that they will once again be joining forces with the inimitable Rawiri Paratene for Kōrero Pūrākau from ... .

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The Questionnaire: Anoushka Shankar

Stuff 09 Mar 2018

The daughter of legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar (and half-sister to Norah Jones), has not just dared to follow in her father's footsteps but has championed his compositions ... What are you plugging right now? ... What's your idea of perfect happiness? ... Which living person do you most admire? ... READ MORE.. * The Questionnaire ... Rawiri Paratene ... 1 ... 2 ... 3.

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The Questionnaire: Zoe Coombs Marr

Stuff 22 Feb 2018

Australian comedian Zoe Coombs Marr is bringing her award-winning show Trigger Warning to the NZ Festival, playing her alter ego Dave, an offensively bad and misogynistic classic Aussie bloke. She this year took the show to Edinburgh Festival and London's Soho Theatre and has been garnering some excellent reviews and media attention ... Rawiri Paratene.

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The Questionnaire: Michael Parmenter

Stuff 09 Feb 2018

Michael Parmenter is one of New Zealand's most acclaimed dancers and choreographers. He returns to the Auckland Arts Festival and New Zealand Festival with the world premiere season of OrphEus – a dance opera, a bold new work with The New Zealand Dance Company. What are you plugging right now? ... What's your idea of perfect happiness? ... Rawiri Paratene.

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The Questionnaire: Dai Henwood

Stuff 03 Feb 2018

TV host and comedian Dai Henwood takes The Questionnaire. He might be one of the shortest men on New Zealand TV but Dai Henwood gets some of the biggest laughs as host of game show Family Feud and a core member of comedy show 7 Days, which began another season on Friday. What are you plugging right now?. Always plugging something ... Rawiri Paratene.

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The Questionnaire: Matt Smith

Stuff 20 Jan 2018

Musician and producer Matt Smith takes The Questionnaire. When Universal Studios unveiled its latest theme park, Volcano Bay in Orlando, Florida, last year it rumbled into life with a soundtrack overseen by Auckland musician and producer Matt Smith. He's had a busy start to 2018 with new releases on his record label AAA Records ... Rawiri Paratene ... ..