Kia ora, please find attached information about Maori Television’s programme highlights for Maori Language Week (Monday
24 – Sunday 30 July 2006).
KORERO MAI
Mondays to Fridays at 10.30 AM
Looking to improve your Maori language skills? Want to hear the language in everyday action with correct pronunciations
and meanings? If so, tune in on weekday mornings to Maori Television for the award winning Maori language education
series KORERO MAI.
HE WHARE KORERO
Wednesday July 26 at 8.30 PM
A three-part documentary looking at the renaissance of the Maori language presented by eminent Tuhoe academic, Dr Timoti
Karetu.
MISS SPIDER’S SUNNY PATCH FRIENDS
Thursday July 27 at 4.30 PM
Miss Spider is the nicest biggie in Sunny Patch. The woodsy wonderland where she lives with her husband Holly is filled
with an incredible assortment of hoppers, flyers and crawlers. The coolest new tamariki show reversioned into the Maori
language.
AHMAD SHAMLOU – MASTER POET OF LIBERTY
Friday July 28 at 10.00 PM
This documentary about one of the most important Iranian poets and cultural icons, AHMAD SHAMLOU, is conveyed through
commentary with acclaimed Iranian filmmakers, intellectuals, artists, writers, poets and literary historians.
TOI WHAKAARI: TAMAKI
Weekdays Friday July 21 to Friday August 11 at 5.30 PM
TOI WHAKAARI: TAMAKI captures the drama and action of live kapa haka at the Tamaki Makaurau regional kapa haka
competition in Auckland.
FLIGHT OF THE ALBATROSS
Saturday July 29 at 9.00 PM
Taungaroa Emile stars as a young Maori delinquent who discovers love on an idyllic Hauraki island. Reversioned into the
Maori language.
THE LAND HAS EYES
Sunday July 30 at 9.00 PM
A young woman, Viki (Sapeta Taito), exposes the secrets of powerful people in her search for justice and to restore her
family's name. Shamed by her Rotuman village for being poor and the daughter of a falsely convicted thief, Viki is
inspired and haunted by the Warrior Woman (Rena Owen) from her island's mythology.
ENDS
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