15 November 2013

Media Release

Record attendance at reo Awards at Gisborne tonight

Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori Gisborne is ready to host a record crowd at Ngā Tohu Reo Māori 2013 tonight.

A record number of 600 attendees are due to attend the Awards this evening.

Mana Whenua and Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori are to co-host the awards, and will welcome manuhiri from as far afield as Greymouth.

Awards are presented to celebrate local community support led by kura, schools, businesses etc. for te reo Māori.

A highest community award is presented to a group for long term language revitalisation.

An award for Māori language leadership is made to an individual.

“The awards are going from strength to strength,” says Chief Executive, Glenis Philip-Barbara.

These Award categories are being presented:

Private Sector
(Human Rights Commission)

Community
(Māori Television)

Local Government
(Gisborne Herald)

Government
(Te Puni Kōkiri)

IT and Telecommunications
(Microsoft)

Print
(ECT)

Māori Media
(Te Māngai Pāho)

Tertiary
(Chen Palmer)

Education – Māori Medium
(Ministry of Education)

Education – Open
(Ministry of Education)

Māori Language Week - Inaugural
(Gisborne District Council)

Māori Language Week
(Te Matatini)

Rangatahi
(Tūranga Ararau)

Māori Language Supreme Award
(Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori)

Māori Language Community
(Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori)

Māori Language Individual
(Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori)

15 o Whiringa-ā-rangi 2013

He Pānui ki te Hunga Pāpāho

Ka puta ngā Ingoa o te Hunga Toa mō Ngā Tohu Reo Māori ki Tūranga ā te pō nei

Kua rite mai a Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori ki te manaaki i te mātotoru o te tangata i Ngā Tohu Reo Māori ki Tūranganui-a-Kiwa.

Neke atu i te 600 tāngata ka tae ki taua kaupapa ā te pō nei.

Ka pōhiritia te motu e te Mana Whenua rāua ko Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, nō Māwhera rā anō ētahi manuhiri.

Hei whakanui ngā tohu i ngā mahi tautoko i te reo Māori a te hapori, he mea ārahi te nuinga e ngā kura, e ngā kura reo Pākehā, e ngā umanga o te rohe mō te reo Māori.

Ka hoatu he tohu tino teitei mō te hapori ki tētahi rōpū.

Ka utaina tētahi tohu mō te hautū i ngā mahi mō te reo ki tētahi tangata.

“Kei te kaha haere tonu ngā tohu nei,” e ai ki te Tumuaki ki a Glenis Philip-Barbara.

Koia nei ngā tohu ka hoaturia:

Rāngai Tūmataiti
(Te Kāhui Tika Tangata)

Hapori
(Whakaata Māori)

Kaunihera ā-Rohe
(Te Hērora o Tūranganui-a-Kiwa)

Kāwanatanga
(Te Puni Kōkiri)

Te Hangarau Mōhiohio me te Ataata Rongo
(Microsoft)

Tānga
(ECT)

Ao Pāpāho – Reo Māori
(Te Māngai Pāho)

Kura Tuatoru
(Chen Palmer)

Ao Mātauranga – Reo Māori
(Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga)

Ao Mātauranga – Tuwhera
(Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga)

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – Te Māia Hou
(Te Kaunihera ā-Rohe o Tūranganui-a-Kiwa)

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
(Te Matatini)

Rangatahi
(Tūranga Ararau)

Huia Te Reo
(Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori)

Te Tira Aumangea
(Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori)

Taku Toa Takimano
(Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori)

ENDS

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