Matariki Celebrations @ Glen Eden Community House
Friday 27th June 2025! 6pm - 8pm!
✨ Mānawatia a Matariki – Celebrate the Māori New Year with us! ✨
Join us for a night of kai, kōrero, and whanaungatanga as we honour Matariki, the Māori New Year, with activities for the whole whānau:
🔥 6:00 PM – Tunu Tihore Koreutu! Free sausage sizzle (limited to 200)
📽️ Kaupapa Mātauranga: Pre-recorded lecture by Dr Rangi Matamua exploring the stars, tikanga, and future of Matariki
🎨 Mahi toi mō ngā tamariki: Activity books, colouring, games & chances to win cool prizes!
🧠 7:00 PM – He Pātaitai Uaua mō te Matariki! Quiz night: score over 75% and win a Whole House Hire!
🎞️ Māori myth short films: Mana’s Great Fish, Pania Makes a Friend, and more!
📖 7:30 PM – Reading of the Matariki Karakia Booklet – reflect, learn, and connect through te ao Māori
🎟️ 7:50 PM – Kōura Kōhine! Gold coin raffle – winner takes all!
Bring your whānau, bring your mātauranga, bring your aroha.
Let’s celebrate our taonga beneath the stars of Te Iwa o Matariki. 🌌🌟
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Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
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