IGNITING THE SPARK OF TECHNOLOGY FOR OUR RANGATAHI
Maoriland Charitable Trust has created M.A.T.C.H to enable and mentor our rangatahi to be leaders in the creative tech industry.
Korakora Matihiko is a two-week expo running May 17 - June 1 with Indigenous games, animation, vr & 360 and comics including rangatahi workshops and public kōrero.
Korakora Matihiko opens M.A.T.C.H which will be open weekly for rangatahi to learn and play in focused workshops, one on one training, ‘hackathons’, creative challenges, and ‘free-play’ led by industry leaders and fellow rangatahi.
These activities will build leadership capacity by encouraging rangatahi to use creative thinking and problem solving to develop and build creative solutions to given challenges.
Rangatahi who participate in M.A.T.C.H will develop creative tech literacy, mental agility and adaptability and hard technical skills. They will also develop collaboration and leadership skills through group work and tuakana-teina mentoring. M.A.T.C.H will support rangatahi to achieve in Hangarau Matihiko.
M.A.T.C.H - Maoriland's tech creative hub will put new technology in the hands of our rangatahi activating the next generation of tech sector creatives.
We want our rangatahi to be creators not consumers - to lead the way we creative technologies as Indigenous peoples to reconnect and exchange ancestral knowledge, story and language.
View the event website for more information.
You can drop into this event at any time.
Tuesday 21 May
10:00am - 4:00pm
Wednesday 22 May
10:00am - 4:00pm
Thursday 23 May
10:00am - 4:00pm
Friday 24 May
10:00am - 4:00pm
Saturday 25 May
10:00am - 3:00pm
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Email OrganiserGabo Arora (USA) is an award-winning immersive artist, filmmaker and Founder/Creative Director of LightShed. He is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he designed, leads and is the Founding Director of the new Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies (ISET) program and lab.
Writer, musician and visual artist Coco Solid is Jessica Hansell, a Māori/Sāmoan/German artist from Auckland. Working in kaupapa-driven film and television, Hansell created ‘Aroha Bridge’ due mid 2019 and is the first woman to direct and write an adult cartoon in New Zealand for network television.
Korakora Matihiko is a two week expo with Indigenous games, animation, vr & 360 and comics including rangatahi workshops and public korero.
JOIN THE WORLD’S LEADING VIRTUAL REALITY MAKER FOR A ONE-OFF TALK & WORKSHOP
Virtual Reality immerses you in an experience. Gabo Arora (USA) is an award-winning immersive artist, filmmaker and Founder/Creative Director of LightShed, a pioneering storytelling, technology and research studio focused exclusively on VR, AR and AI.
Heralded by the LA times as “game-changing” and “transcending all the typical barriers of rectangular cinema”, Gabo Arora’s widely acclaimed virtual reality documentaries have all premiered as official selections at major film festivals around the world. He is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he designed, leads and is the Founding Director of the new Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies (ISET) program and lab. Formerly, he was a Senior Economic Policy Advisor for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; a UN diplomat with extensive field experience in disaster and conflict zones; and the United Nations’ first-ever Creative Director where he founded UNVR – a division of the UN focused on virtual reality initiatives and campaigns.
This workshop is a one-off rare opportunity (only 30 spots available!) to learn from the world’s leading VR creative.
This workshop is for rangatahi aged 12 - 24. Rangatahi interested in signing up for the rangatahi workshop should email match@maorilandfilm.co.nz
JOIN THE WORLD’S LEADING VIRTUAL REALITY MAKER FOR A ONE-OFF KŌRERO
NATIVE Minds is a series of interactive discussions that examine how Indigenous thinking shapes our existence, and our view of the world. In this NATIVE Minds session, Tainui Stephens will host Gabo Arora (New York), an award-winning immersive artist, filmmaker and Founder/Creative Director of LightShed, a pioneering storytelling, technology and research studio focused exclusively on VR, AR and AI.
Heralded by the LA times as “game-changing” and “transcending all the typical barriers of rectangular cinema”, Gabo Arora’s widely acclaimed virtual reality documentaries have all premiered as official selections at major film festivals around the world. He is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he designed, leads and is the Founding Director of the new Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies (ISET) program and lab. Formerly, he was a Senior Economic Policy Advisor for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; a UN diplomat with extensive field experience in disaster and conflict zones; and the United Nations’ first-ever Creative Director where he founded UNVR – a division of the UN focused on virtual reality initiatives and campaigns.
His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, nominated for an Emmy, awarded a Cannes Lions, a Sheffield Doc/Fest award for best documentary, a Lumière Award, two Webbys, and has been featured in the New Yorker and the BBC world service.
VR film Clouds Over Sidra in partnership with UNICEF, continues to double direct to consumer fundraising contributions from 1:12 to 1:6. Sidra is distributed in 40 countries in 15 different languages and is the most widely distributed and viewed social impact VR film globally.
DECOLONISING THE WORLD THROUGH POP CULTURE
Writer, musician and visual artist Coco Solid is Jessica Hansell, a Māori/Sāmoan/German artist from Auckland.
Hansell started out making her own zines/comics and musically came up through underground punk and rap. She went on to form groups Parallel Dance Ensemble (Permanent Vacation, Germany), Badd Energy (Flying Nun, NZ) and 9-member rap collective Fanau Spa. Hansell also runs projects like Kuini Qontrol (an online hub for podcasts, music and club nights) and Equalise My Vocals (amplifying creative women, LGBTQI and decolonising voices in the Pacific).
Working in kaupapa-driven film and television, Hansell created ‘Aroha Bridge’ due mid 2019 and is the first woman to direct and write an adult cartoon in New Zealand for network television. She is part of Piki Films, a small group of Māori/Pasifika screenwriters hand-picked by film-maker Taika Waititi. Hansell also has a background in literature and journalism and recently returned from her Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Hawai’i. She is currently finishing her debut novel for publication in 2020.
Coco Solid will present a rangatahi workshop on animation and zine storytelling.
This workshop is for rangatahi aged 12 - 24 and is free to attend. Rangatahi interested in attending can sign up by emailing match@maorilandfilm.co.nz
DECOLONISING THE WORLD THROUGH POP CULTURE
Writer, musician and visual artist Coco Solid is Jessica Hansell, a Māori/Sāmoan/German artist from Auckland.
Hansell started out making her own zines/comics and musically came up through underground punk and rap. She went on to form groups Parallel Dance Ensemble (Permanent Vacation, Germany), Badd Energy (Flying Nun, NZ) and 9-member rap collective Fanau Spa. Hansell also runs projects like Kuini Qontrol (an online hub for podcasts, music and club nights) and Equalise My Vocals (amplifying creative women, LGBTQI and decolonising voices in the Pacific).
Working in kaupapa-driven film and television, Hansell created ‘Aroha Bridge’ due mid 2019 and is the first woman to direct and write an adult cartoon in New Zealand for network television. She is part of Piki Films, a small group of Māori/Pasifika screenwriters hand-picked by film-maker Taika Waititi. Hansell also has a background in literature and journalism and recently returned from her Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Hawai’i. She is currently finishing her debut novel for publication in 2020.
Coco Solid will present a kōrero exploring the importance of indigenous storytelling and creating new archetypes, and what a resource our artistic rangatahi are.
Aroha Bridge is an animated snapshot of the multicultural melting pot that is Aotearoa.
Focusing on authentic, urban Māori characters with humour and style, this webseries follows Kōwhai and Monty Hook as they navigate the complex but hilarious circumstances growing up in a bicultural, eclectic whānau.
Tickets are $6 and available from iticket.co.nz, rangatahi are free.