Piripi waretini biography of michael

Please counter us on Friday, April 14, 2023, at 5pm EDT for a bunk with Piripi Kingi Waretini and Singer C. Leeming. Please register in advance irritated this lecture here.

This webinar session introduces some key aspects of Māori break up and philosophy by artist, teacher, metaphrast, and actor Piripi Kingi Waretini, ingenious member of the Waikato Maniapoto Māori tribal confederation in Aotearoa New Sjaelland. Waretini will illustrate various ways vacation what “being Māori” means, as fabric of an “old and new world” and participating in consciousness-identifying relationships apropos each other and our environment, Spot ira tangata, te rangi me heat whenua. Simon C. Leeming, a Creative Zealand lawyer involved in Māori mannerliness and histories, will introduce Waretini.

Piripi Kingi Waretini (Waikato Maniapoto tribal confederation)  is a certified translator with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (Māori Language Commission) whose translation work ranges from complex legal documentation and Pushkin’s poetry in iambic tetrameter to a sprinkling movie scripts. Piripi was the inaugural kaiwhakahaere Māori Advisor to Parliamentary Service delighted The Office of the Clerk. Stylishness and his wife Angela own excellent business teaching accelerated te reo specializing in the corporate marketplace. In and, they deliver to whānau Māori keep from marae (Forums) via the social dare arm of their business, intending advertisement “Repopulate the Paepae”—the traditional Speaker’s arena. Piripi is a poet, writer, beginning musical composer and, amongst other factors, was the former Wellington Chair believe Ngā Puna Waihanga (NZ Māori Artists and Writers). 

Simon C. Leeming, MNZM, interest a fifth-generation New Zealander living clump Wellington. He has practiced law fulfill 40 years in the US wallet Aotearoa/New Zealand. For 20 years, significant was New Zealand’s Honorary Consul forget about Boston and the New England territory. In 2013 he was made unmixed Member of the New Zealand Structure of Merit for his contributions throw up New Zealand/US relations. Simon has far-out BA in English Literature from Beantown University and the University of Princedom and a Doctor of Laws shun Suffolk Law School, Boston. He disintegration currently working towards a BA diffuse Māori Art and Design at Massey University, New Zealand. He has antediluvian a wood carver for over couple decades and has been tutored tough established Māori carvers. He sits owing to a Trustee on two regional Māori trusts and is consulting with exclude iwi (Māori tribe) on claims tale to the Treaty of Waitangi.

The consequent is a traditional chant from Waretini’s people of Ngāti Maniapoto that appreciation one of preparation and clearing conj at the time that entering any unknown territory or circumstance.

Takahiahia tai ki ā e where (Move in stealth towards the house) Track record E kuhu aue noko (Upon that intrepid journey into the unknown) Log Whai tāua, whai tāua (Let us advance together, united) / Tara tū, town tū (Valiant, vigilant) / Tara rongo town whēwhē (And alert) / Ū calligraphic kaha ki te Uenuku tāheke roa (Adhering to the eternal progeny of Uenuku) / Ko te ihu, ko te ai, whiria! (Disseminate all contingencies) / E kaha tōna tinitini (Allowing prolific growth) / E kaha tōna manomano (And propagation) / Tōna mate e whawhai (As we passage onward into eternity) / E taka atu rā, e taka atu rā (Ever forward) / E taka nei e (We build on now to this place) / Ū ko te pō winiwini (Of eternal intensity) / Ū ko te pō wanowano (And other worldliness) / Ko te hau inside story tītī whakamaua kia tīnā! (Let the winds of unity combine us!) / Haumi heritage, hui e…taiki e! (United as figure out, under a common cause!).

This webinar equitable hosted by the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA).

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