Event Date: Nov 05, 2010
Event Location: Cook Islands USP Centre, Rarotonga
TE WHARE PURAKAU LECTURE SERIES is a workshop on storytelling and writing with an indigenous flavour designed to inspire and encourage Maori and Pacific peoples to write and tell their stories in a number of genres and modern formats.
This series of stimulating sessions delivered by Brad Haami will enable you to develop insight into your own creative process and give you confidence to achieve your writing goals.
Profile of Brad Haami
Brad (Ngati Awa, Ngati Kahungunu, Tuwharetoa, Ngai Tahu) brings to Tauihu Media expertise in Māori culture and a passion for traditional and modern stories.
A trained journalist with a long history in television production with one of New Zealand’s main national broadcasters and independently, Brad has worked as a writer, director and or producer of numerous highly rating and critically acclaimed documentaries and television series. Brad’s passion in drama began as a writer and producer of the seminal ‘Mataku’ television series. He has gone on to consult on numerous domestic and international TV dramas and feature films. Brad is also a published author with a string of books and articles to his credit. In 2010, Brad was chosen as the Michael King Māori Writer in Residence, writing a book on Whale Traditions of the Māori.
More information here.
Event Location: Cook Islands USP Centre, Rarotonga
TE WHARE PURAKAU LECTURE SERIES is a workshop on storytelling and writing with an indigenous flavour designed to inspire and encourage Maori and Pacific peoples to write and tell their stories in a number of genres and modern formats.
This series of stimulating sessions delivered by Brad Haami will enable you to develop insight into your own creative process and give you confidence to achieve your writing goals.
Profile of Brad Haami
Brad (Ngati Awa, Ngati Kahungunu, Tuwharetoa, Ngai Tahu) brings to Tauihu Media expertise in Māori culture and a passion for traditional and modern stories.
A trained journalist with a long history in television production with one of New Zealand’s main national broadcasters and independently, Brad has worked as a writer, director and or producer of numerous highly rating and critically acclaimed documentaries and television series. Brad’s passion in drama began as a writer and producer of the seminal ‘Mataku’ television series. He has gone on to consult on numerous domestic and international TV dramas and feature films. Brad is also a published author with a string of books and articles to his credit. In 2010, Brad was chosen as the Michael King Māori Writer in Residence, writing a book on Whale Traditions of the Māori.
More information here.
