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In this edition we mark the formal opening of Te Kahu, the new heritage campus in Wellington, and give away tickets to Hunt for the Wilderpeople. We also share a classic reo Māori series that is newly available in the online collection and report back from the Joint Technical Symposium for audiovisual archivists in Canberra.

Official opening of Te Kahu

On Wednesday 25 March, the shared national heritage campus Te Kahu was officially opened in Wellington by Hon. Brooke van Velden. In attendance were Hon. Paul Goldsmith, our Leadership Team and other sector colleagues and partners. The heritage campus brings together Ngā Taonga, the National Library of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library, and Archives New Zealand in one modern, purpose‑built space, fostering collaboration and access to the collections.

We’re honoured to work in the new campus alongside our heritage partners.

GIVEAWAY – win tickets to see Hunt for the Wilderpeople

We have two double passes to the 10th anniversary screenings of Hunt for the Wilderpeople up for grabs! To enter, comment on our Facebook post with your favourite character from the movie. Winners will be drawn at random at 5pm on April 8, 2026, full terms and conditions on our website.

IMPORTANT: these screenings are on different dates in different cities, with the last screening anywhere on 18 April. Check the Madman website to make sure it's still showing near you.

Te Reo – the language series

E koropupū ana te hari o te ngākau i te kitenga atu kua whakarauora anō ēnei taonga hirahira hei whakamahinga mā tātou.

Ngā Taonga is happy to announce that Te Reo, a Māori language learning programme featuring tautōhito o te ao reo Māori (key figure in the revival of the Māori language), Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira, has been made available online.

Te Reo is a beginner-friendly language series, made up of 20 episodes, which teach the audience te reo Māori using the Cuisenaire rods method. This method has been taught to the multitudes throughout the nation, over nearly six decades, under the language revitalisation movement known as Te Ataarangi.

E kui, Kāterina, inā te nui o āu taonga i māturu iho ki ngā uri, tō aroha, tō ngākaunui, tō oha nui ki te reo Māori kua titia ki ngā ngākau o ngā whakareanga i ēnei rā nei, ā haere nei te wā. E kore e mōnenehu te kura o tēnei reo kua mahue mai nei e koe.

Joint Technical Symposium

Last month Kate Roberts, Richard Falkner and Lara Simmons from Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision presented at the Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) hosted by the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra. Also attending was Joshua Ng from Archives New Zealand. This international symposium for members of audiovisual archiving associations included presentations on new digital and analytical technologies to retrieve images and sound from legacy film and tape. Ngā Taonga kaimahi presented their work on the 1970s Tangata Whenua television series, approaches to preserving large at-risk analogue and digital collections including the Utaina mass-digitisation project, and Hakune, the Archive's tool for collection prioritisation.

More information about Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's preservation work can be found on our website.

News briefs

• Read more about the new national heritage campus, Te Kahu, in The Post and RNZ.
• Te Waiwhakaata Wairarapa Film Festival kicks off on April 20 – Ngā Taonga was proud to supply Wairarapa (1968) and Tangata Whenua: Waikato (1975).

IMAGE CREDITS

1) Kaimahi photo of the new heritage campus, Te Kahu.

2) Promotional poster for Hunt for The Wilderpeople 10th anniversary screenings.

3) Thumbnail image from TE REO - TE REO - THE LANGUAGE - SERIES 1 PROGRAMME 1. Collection ref. TZP457405.

4) Kaimahi photo of Kate Roberts presenting at the Joint Technical Symposium in Canberra.