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o Ngā Taonga
Welcome to our newsletterIn this edition the team behind the Utaina mass digitisation project are nominated for an award. We also share an upcoming film screening to mark the 50th anniversary of the Māori Land March and look forward to koroneihana. Ngā Taonga are very proud to have been nominated, alongside our partners National Library of New Zealand and Archives New Zealand, as finalists for an Innovation Award for the mass digitisation project Utaina at this year's Te Hāpai Hapori | Spirit of Service Awards.
Over four years, Utaina has digitised 400,000 audiovisual items – an achievement that would have taken centuries at a normal scale. It is currently the largest project of its kind globally and was made possible through collaboration across organisations.
Without digitisation, much of the material would have been lost forever.
Next week, Ngā Taonga will present a screening of the documentary Hīkoi - The Land March (2015) at the National Library in Wellington. We are pleased to announce that Larry Parr (Ngāti Raukawa, Muaūpoko), Chief Executive of Te Māngai Pāho, will be guest speaker and introduce the film.
In partnership with National Library of New Zealand and Manatū Taonga | Ministry for Culture and Heritage, the event is part of a series of screenings in September that commemorate Mana Māori Motuhake – Māori rights and representation.
The screening will take place on Thursday September 11 in the National Library Auditorium, at 6 PM.
Hoea te ia koiora ki te huinga o ngā wai, ki nga wai kopiko o ngā mauri taniwha. Ki te marae o te motu, ki Tūrangawaewae mō te Kiingitanga mō te ao katoa.
I a tātou e kotahi atu ana ki te rohe o Waikato, ki Te Koroneihana Tuatahi o Te Arikinui Kuini Ngawai hono i te po, e tika ana kia toia mai te waka o maumahara ki konei hei whakaū, hei whakanui anō hoki i te mana me te tapu o te kaupapa o te Kiingitanga.
As the nation prepares to converge upon Tūrangawaewae Marae, for the first Coronation of Te Arikinui Kuini Ngawai hono i te po, it is timely to unearth this collection of taonga to recollect and celebrate the deep heritage and the sacred bind of the Kiingitanga movement.
Ka waiho ake i konei ngā kupu akiaki o te Kiingitanga hei tāwharau, hei ārahi i a tātou e takatū ana te haere ki Te Koroneihana o tō tātou Kuini "haere i runga i te aroha me too taatou Māoritanga kia whatu ngaatahi tonu taatou i te kahu o te kotahitanga".
Paimaarire.
Our latest story published in The Post looks at a century-old newsreel of the funeral of former Prime Minister William Massey, which has recently been restored by our film preservationists.
The image above depicts the item before and after digital preservation.
News briefs - Historian
and author Annabel Cooper is
giving a talk about the life and legacy of director Rudall Hayward on 3
September.
- RNZ100 – A
Century of Stories is a podcast series celebrating 100 years of RNZ’s
public broadcasting. The series uses archival material from the RNZ Collection
cared for by Ngā Taonga.
- Sound history researcher Sarah Johnston spoke
to RNZ about the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.
IMAGE CREDITS
1) Members of the Utaina team. Credit: Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission.
2) Hīkoi – The Land March film screening promotional image.
3) Photograph taken by Leo White, 1938. Tūrangawaewae marae, Ngāruawāhia, Waikato. Ref: WA-12568-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
4) Still from a film depicting the state funeral procession of Prime Minister William Ferguson Massey on May 14, 1925, before and after digital preservation. Ngā Taonga collection ref. F3307. |
