{"id":57126,"date":"2025-10-02T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57126\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:26:08","slug":"new-reo-maori-kuki-airani-series-tamariki-katu-kanga-launches-at-te-maeva-nui-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57126\/","title":{"rendered":"New Reo M\u0101ori K\u016bki \u2018\u0100irani Series Tamariki Katu Kanga Launches at Te Maeva Nui NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/w=1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70726\"  \/>The cast and creative team of Tamariki Katu Kanga bring reo M\u0101ori K\u016bki \u2018\u0100irani to life at Te Maeva Nui Aotearoa. Photo: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>A new reo M\u0101ori K\u016bki \u2018\u0100irani animated series, Tamariki Katu Kanga, will be unveiled at Te Maeva Nui this weekend, the world\u2019s largest Cook Islands cultural festival. This is a new extension of T\u0101karo Tribe, created by a proud Kuki \u2018\u0100irani cast and creative team.<\/p>\n<p>With over 2,000 performers, Te Maeva Nui Aotearoa is set to be the biggest celebration of Cook Islands culture outside of the homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Born from the universe of the beloved preschool series T\u0101karo Tribe, Tamariki Katu Kanga is a joyful, reo-first show designed to nurture early language learning through music, play, and cultural connection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Pacific Media Network and Cinco Cine Film Productions, the series centres Cook Islands M\u0101ori language and worldview, with local creatives driving voice work, translation, and cultural guidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never imagined I would be getting paid to do work like this! A win for reo M\u0101ori K\u016bki \u2018\u0100irani and tamariki,\u201d says director Susnation Seta.<\/p>\n<p>Language consultant Tauraki Rongo ensured dialect diversity was carefully considered, with Rarotongan chosen as the primary language to make the series accessible for the widest audience of tamariki and their wh\u0101nau. The first release includes three reo M\u0101ori K\u016bki \u2018\u0100irani episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Following the success of T\u0101karo Tribe, Tamaiti Satalo (Samoa), and Tamaiki Va\u2019inga (Tonga), this new project reflects an ongoing commitment to creating culturally grounded content for Moana Pacific tamariki across Aotearoa and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Tamariki Katu Kanga will be available after the premiere at pmn.co.nz and youtube.com\/@takarotribe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cast and creative team of Tamariki Katu Kanga bring reo M\u0101ori K\u016bki \u2018\u0100irani to life at Te&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33240,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-57126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-main-slider","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}