Between May 4th & 5th, 2011 a series of workshops were held at Ngata Memorial College. Workshops were held for kaiako & tauira and covered: film-making, animation, photography, robotics and radio jingles/documentaries.
2010 Nati Award Workshops
To help prepare schools to create your Nati Award themed entries E Tipu E Rea have put together a series of great workshops.
Read about this years line up of tutors who delivered a series of workshops at Ngata Memorial College from May 12th to 13th below.
Workshops Prep Rangatahi for 2010 Te Rangitawaea Festival.
As the Ngoi Pewhairangi hit “Poi E” climbs the charts again twenty six
years after its release, and with Matatini 2011 just around the corner,
the
kaupapa for this years Te Rangitawaea Festival is hitting all the right
notes. “Nga Haka me nga Waiata o Ngati Porou” is the theme for the
Ngati Porou
East School’s digital media event which will be held in Ruatoria on September
15th. The festival has been organized annually since 2004
by E Tipu E Rea
(ETER), the Te Runanga o Ngati Porou/Ministry of Education Partnership for
schooling improvement.
Ngati Porou East Coast schools from Potaka to Waikirikiri are eligible to
submit entries to the festival, and to help upskill students to create their
projects multiple workshops were held by E Tipu E Rea at Ngata Memorial
College over a two day period in May. The workshops were delivered
by a range
of professional tutors, who shared both their passion and expertise for their
respective digital media industries with the students.
American
film-maker Polly Green took students through the process of telling a story
visually, while Nga Aho Whakaari representatives
Kath Akuhata-Brown and Pita
Turei helped their tauira to deconstruct the components of a movie script.
Tania Short and her partner Martin D. Page
from National Treasures Design gave students tips about improving their graphic
design skills
and encouraged them to think about the meaning behind their
creative concepts. The wet weather during the digital photography session did
not deter tutor
Walton Walker and his students. Rain was the kaupapa for their
photographs, which they visually interpreted using a range of composition and
framing techniques.
Musician Lawrence Rangi brought along his full set of
band and production equipment to his workshop, and assisted students to compose
and then
perform a song during his session with them. The final workshop
was delivered by multi-media professional Jimi Hills who provided a
hands on
animation workshop, incorporating modeling and computer graphics.
Te Rangitawaea Festival spokesperson Nori Parata says “Ngati Porou has a proud
and prolific history of composers.
In fact I would say that our waiata
and haka are the most performed not just in Ngati Porou or Tairawhiti but
around the country.
Many of our items are considered ‘classics’ and
clearly have stood the test of time - a testament to the quality of
composition.
This year is the 100th anniversary of Tuini Ngawai’s birthday, one
of our greatest composers, her song ‘Arohaina mai’ is sung
all over the country
at many national gatherings. So this year’s theme is asking our children
to explore our rich waiata and haka history
while applying their developing
technical skills learnt in these workshops. Equally we want to encourage
and nurture budding composers
and provide a platform for them to showcase their
early works.”
