Kia Aroha College Otuhaka on the Tongan stage
Photo: RNZ / Mabel Muller
Students wowed the crowds with their performances and speech competitions on the different island stages: Māori, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands and the Diversity stage.
Seiuli said this year s theme of Healing the body, mind, spirit and soul with the strength of Culture was appropriate as it showed the resilience of the students and their teachers, families and friends to come together and celebrate their language and culture with the songs and speeches. Right now, our community needed this and we deserved this. We deserved having our students back out there on stage and celebrating our young people.
Press Release – Maori TV
Māori Television presents its most extensive coverage yet of the ASB Polyfest as the official television partner of the largest Polynesian festival in the world.
ASB POLYFEST 2021 will showcase the best of Auckland’s secondary school kapa haka performing on the Māori stage this today, Friday and Saturday – live on Te Reo channel (Sky 82, Freeview 15) as well as live streamed and available on demand on www.maoritelevision.com.
Each kapa haka performance will also be repackaged and featured in its own half-hour show on Māori Television and Te Reo at a later date – a total of 45 episodes.
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Polyfest starts tomorrow, and Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson says after two year’s of disruption the kids are raring to get on stage to celebrate their various cultures.
Last year the Auckland secondary schools cultural competition couldn’t go on because of the Covid-19 lockdown, and the previous year it was cut short because of the Christchurch mosque attacks.
Ms Davidson has a son performing as part of his school’s Niuean group - even though he has no Niuean whakapapa - which she says is an indication of the spirit the festival encourages.
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