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Waitangi Day 2011 – on Maori Television

Friday January 28 2011

New Zealand’s national indigenous broadcaster, Maori Television, will devote its broadcast schedule to New Zealand’s national day, Waitangi Day, on Sunday February 6 2011. Viewers will be taken on a journey through our history, the creation of a living billboard and a musical take on nationhood.

The WAITANGI DAY 2011 broadcast begins at 12 NOON with TREATY THIS IS YOUR LIFE, narrated by Tainui Stephens, looks at the Treaty were it a person. Treaty, this is your life and what a life it’s been!

TAKAHINGA TAWHITO, a mini-series looking at New Zealand history; the people and places that helped shape our nation runs through the afternoon. TE TIRITI KI TE WAI POUNAMU follows the history of Ngai Tahu and their relationship to the Treaty, up to and including the settlement in 1998. GIFT TO THE NATION revisits the creation, and journey, of a living billboard created by master carvers Blaine Te Rito and Englishman Mike Davies at Maori Television in 2008.

Programming moves on to a musical note with SOUNDS LIKE US where every day New Zealanders offer their personal views on nationhood with a special focus on music. HE KOHA MA BOB MARLEY follows Ruia Aperahama as he takes the music back to Jamaica, to the Marley estate - a koha from te iwi Maori to the legend of Bob Marley.

The evening’s Waitangi Day programming concludes with UTU, a New Zealand classic film directed by acclaimed New Zealander Geoff Murphy.

Join Maori Television for WAITANGI DAY 2011, on Sunday February 6 from 12 NOON.

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