Reclaiming te reo Māori in design, work and life with Aroha Tamihana | Graphic Designer
- Author
- Kate Hursthouse
- Published
- Tue 19 Apr 2022
- Episode Link
- https://www.katehursthouse.com/blogs/the-creative-mother-podcast/s1-e3-aroha-tamihana
This week on The Creative Mother Podcast host Kate Hursthouse talks to creative mum of two Aroha Tamihana.
Aroha is a Māori creative passionate about promoting the Māori language and culture through unique designs, products and resources. Her creative business, Maimoa Creative is a design studio based in Tauranga. Aroha’s aim is to help normalise the use of te reo Māori throughout Aotearoa using her background in graphic design and brush-lettering calligraphy.
Aroha has two free te reo Māori prints you can download from her website. One is a beautiful bedtime karakia written by Scotty Morrison and the other is a duo print; one in te reo Māori and the English translation so you can display them side by side to help with learning.
https://maimoa.nz/collections/free-downloads
https://www.instagram.com/maimoa.creative/
https://www.facebook.com/maimoa.creative
Links from todays episode:
Matariki - In Māori culture, Matariki is both the name of the Pleiades star cluster and of the celebration of its first rising in late June or early July.
Waiata = song
Tamariki = children
Mahi = work
Te Aka Māori Dictionary - website and also available as an app
Paraoa parai / fry bread tea towel
Aroha is listening to:
About your host:
Kate Hursthouse is an artist, creative business owner and single mother to one awesome kid. She has run her own creative business since 2014 and has been involved in a whole range of projects over the years - from commercial illustrations and design projects to contemporary art, children’s book illustrations and hand-painted murals.
She started this podcast to try and answer the question: how do we continue to be creative and produce creative work, while raising children? Her goal is to create a little corner of the internet where creative mothers share their stories and gain a feeling of community, understanding, and inspiration.
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