Mairangatia te Angitu: Highlights Video

📍Ōtautahi | March 2025

💥 Over 150 rangatahi Māori gathered at Mairangatia te Angitu to celebrate Māori success as Māori — and left inspired, connected, and empowered.

🗣️ “Success looks different for everyone.” — Halle Pitama
🎤 A powerful kōrero from a young journalist, māmā, lash tech & fearless storyteller
💫 Real talk about beauty, broadcasting, and believing in yourself

📰 Brie Harding kept it 💯
✊ From softball dreams to a journalism career that centres whānau & truth
💡 “Work hard now for a better future”

🎙️ Isobel Prasad lit up the room
🔥 A proud Māori-Fijian-Indian wahine leading from the heart
💖 “You’re not your achievements—you’re your values, your whakapapa”

🎵 Twin Harmony (Tāne Māhuta & Teakaraupo Pākehā-Heke) brought waiata that made us FEEL
🎶 "Believe in Yourself" a waiata against whānau violence
👊 Healing, hope, harmony — through music

🎬 Vinnie Bennett took us to Hollywood and back
🚀 From New Brighton to Fast & Furious 9
🏆 “Stick close to people who believe in you”

🔥 Hana Amaia Tamati-Paratene set the mic on fire
🗣️ “We aren’t just students — we are raukura. We are Māori”
💥 Power. Politics. Purpose

🌿 Grace O’Shaughnessy-Katene grounded us in whenua and legacy
🌱 Kaitiakitanga in action — planning a better future for te taiao and our people

🎓 Manuhaea Mamaru-O’Regan stood tall
💬 A Kāi Tahu wahine raised in te reo, now training to teach in kura auraki
🌱 “Te reo isn’t just something to learn — it’s something to live”
🔥 Her words hit deep — reminding us that our Māoritanga is our superpower

✨ Mairangatia te Angitu = proof that Māori success wears many faces, speaks many tongues, and walks many paths.