The Haka Party Incident

“Their plan was simply to show up at the students’ common room and ask them to take off the grass skirts. But the meeting became a confrontation and quickly blew up.” — Katie Wolfe, on the haka party incident. #Māori #Indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #NativeMastodon #ManaMoves

https://e-tangata.co.nz/arts/the-haka-party-incident/

The Haka Party Incident - E-Tangata

“Their plan was simply to show up at the students’ common room and ask them to take off the grass skirts. But the meeting became a confrontation and quickly blew up.” — Katie Wolfe, on the haka party incident.

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A link to the play The Haka Party Incident by Katie Wolfe starting in June. #Māori #TheHakaPartyIncident #KatieWolfe

https://www.tepoutheatre.nz/the-haka-party-incident/

Tasman Ray presents The Haka Party Incident

The last New Zealand war took place in Auckland in 1979. It lasted three minutes. The Haka Party Incident resurrects the eventful day when a group of University of Auckland engineering students rehearsing their annual tradition of a mock haka are confronted by the activist group, He Taua. The incident sent ripples through the nation and changed race relations in New Zealand forever. Crafted by film-maker and theatre director Katie Wolfe (The Mooncake and the Kumara, Waru, He Māngai Wāhine, Artefact), The Haka Party Incident is verbatim theatre that innovatively combines documentary and kapa haka to thrilling effect. Provocative, resonant and unforgettable, The Haka Party Incident is a not-to-be-missed theatre event.

Te Pou Theatre
@mementomaori i worked with a bunch of those 70s graduates, and they weren't any less racist later in the 90s
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What a great ending to that story. It could have gone several different ways.