Māpuna for Saturday 26 March 2022

12:13 Maori Health Authority CEO Riana Manuel 

In July this year, Te Pae Ora healthy futures bill comes in to effect. This replaces the 20 District Health Boards with Health New Zealand - a new Crown organisation - to provide a national health service with a strong focus on primary health care. It also establishes an independent Māori Health Authority to work in partnership with Health New Zealand. At the end of last year  Riana Manuel was appointed to the role of CEO of the Māori Health Authority, after the roles of  Chief Executive of Hauraki Primary Health Organisation and iwi-based not-for-profit Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki. 

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12:30 Centuries of Ngāi Tahu history in 50 stories

Rugby legends, muttonbirders, marae stalwarts, lawyers, wahine toa and many more feature in Tangata Ngai Tahu, Volume Two. The book brings together the stories of some 50 people spanning the past 200 years and how they contributed to their iwi, hapu and whanau. All are descendants of Waitaha, Ngāti Mamoe and Ngāi Tahu. Helen Brown is one of the book's editors and she talks about the emphasis on mana wāhine and what it took to gather such a rich and diverse range of material. 

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12:45 Te Ahu Taiohi fuses kapa haka, dance, hip-hop & theatre

A group of rangatahi aged from 13 to 18 have taken part in Te Ahu Taiohi a five week programme featuring theatre, contemporary dance, kapa haka, hip-hop and much more. They then fused all those different forms into one performance. Sasha Gibb is the senior producer for Te Ahu Taiohi and she reveals how their performance came together and the teachers they had including veteran actor Jim Moriarty and choreographers and theatre practitioners such Jared Hemopo, Amanda Noblett, Wāhia Te Pouri, Myah Miranda, Ihaia Ropata, Luke Hanna, Dylan Vailima Faatui and John Ulu Va'a

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