Location: Brookfields Lawyers Gallery, Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi – Whakatāne library and Exhibition Centre
Cost: Free - no bookings required

Ngāhuia Murphy (Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana, Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungungu) has recently submitted her PhD thesis, entitled “Te Ahi Tawhito, Te Ahi Tipua, Te Ahi na Mahuika: Reigniting Native Women’s Ceremony”. 

We are thrilled to be hosting an evening with Ngāhuia, who will discuss te Awa Atua (customary Māori menstruation practice), reactivation of sacred matrilineal knowledge and relationships with the atua waahine. Her ground-breaking research challenges colonial notions of menstruation and acknowledges it as a medium of whakapapa and connection. Here, Ngāhuia offers a platform to foster self-esteem, cultural identity and encourages women and girls to celebrate their own mana and tapu. 

Please join us at Te Kōputu for this engaging korero on Friday 17 May at 5:30pm. This talk is free; no bookings are required.

Image: Rhonda Halliday, "Hine-Ahu-One" (2014), Burnished and smoke-fired uku (clay). This artwork is featured in the M/other exhibition, on show at Te Kōputu until 7 August 2019.

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