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The Hone Tuwhare Trust is proud and excit­ed to announce the 2025–26 suc­cess­ful Tuwhare Res­i­den­cy Pro­gramme recipients.

Te Kaituhi o Tuwhare Cre­ative Writ­ing Res­i­dent is Nadine Hura (Nga­puhi, Ngati Hine, Pakeha).

Te Pane Kaka o Tuwhare Poet­ry Res­i­dent is Isla Huia (Te Ati Haunui-a-Paparan­gi, Uenuku).

Te Ringa­toi o Tuwhare Cre­ative Res­i­dent is Ash­leigh Zim­mer­man (Kai Tahu).

It is a priv­i­lege and a plea­sure to be able to sup­port these artists through the Tuwhare Res­i­den­cy Pro­gramme, and to wel­come them into our Tuwhare Trust whanau and wider cre­ative community.

Oran­ga­tonu­tan­ga, aro­ha, te reo Maori and a deep con­tem­pla­tion of Te Taiao were themes through­out the suc­cess­ful appli­cants’ pro­posed plans for their res­i­den­cies. It will be excit­ing to see the world through their cre­ative lens­es as a result of being res­i­dent in Hone Tuwhare’s crib at Kaka Point.

The res­i­den­cy pro­gramme not only hon­ours Hone Tuwhare’s extra­or­di­nary lit­er­ary lega­cy but also plays a vital role in fos­ter­ing Maori and Aotearoa cre­ative voic­es nation­al­ly. By ele­vat­ing indige­nous voic­es, our aim is to con­tribute to a rich­er, more expan­sive nation­al cul­tur­al dialogue.

Pre­vi­ous Tuwhare Res­i­den­cies have been held by Tame Iti (Ngai Tuhoe, Te Arawa, Waika­to), Tracey Tawhiao (Ngai te Ran­gi, Whaka­to­hea, Ngati Tuwhare­toa) and Ati Teepa (Tuhoe, Kai Tahu).

Gen­er­ous fund­ing from Cre­ative New Zealand and the Sar­good Bequest has sup­port­ed the Tuwhare Res­i­den­cy Pro­gramme and we are so very grateful.

Mau­ri Ora!!

At the end of 2024 film­ing took place in Kaka Point to cre­ate a beau­ti­ful piece on the Tuwhare Crib as a Lit­er­ary Home­stead. It’s a sim­ple and hum­ble sto­ry about Hone Tuwhare — papa, koro, friend and poet who was and is deeply respect­ed and loved by so many; whose mana con­tin­ues to be felt through­out the coun­try and whose poet­ry and lit­er­ary lega­cy lives on for the next gen­er­a­tion. Fea­tured in the video are Rob Tuwhare (Trustee and Hone’s son), Man­a­ia Hoani-Tuwhare (Hone’s grand­daugh­ter) and poet and friend of the Tuwhare Trust Ati Teepa.

Thanks to the Matatuhi Foun­da­tion in sup­port of the Hone Tuwhare Lega­cy Project and the Amaz­ing Home­steads team who turned Hone’s Lit­er­ary Home­stead into stun­ning visu­al storytelling.

You can view the sto­ry here at Home­steads

2022 was a big year for the Tuwhare Trust. We com­plet­ed the restora­tion of the crib and launched the inau­gur­al Tuwhare Cre­ative Res­i­den­cy. Our inau­gur­al Tuwhare res­i­den­cy was new, and we took a devel­op­men­tal approach and leapt in boots and all with a big bold deci­sion. To hon­our the lega­cy of Hone Tuwhare, the first res­i­den­cy was held by a col­lec­tive of Maori cre­atives; artist and activist Tame Iti (Ngai Tuhoe, Te Arawa, Waika­to); artist and writer Tracey Tawhiao (Ngai te Ran­gi, Whaka­to­hea, Ngati Tuwhare­toa) and poet and activist Ati Teepa (Tuhoe, Kai Tahu).  Tame, Tracey and Ati have spent time at the crib in Kaka Point over the last 2 years and each, in their own way, have helped us to shape the new­ly devel­oped Tuwhare Res­i­den­cy Pro­gramme that we will launch in 2025. We are so proud to have Tame, Tracey and Ati as our inau­gur­al Tuwhare Fel­lows who will for­ev­er hold this spe­cial pou as part of the whaka­pa­pa of the Tuwhare Res­i­den­cy Pro­gramme. There’s more to come soon and we are excit­ed to share more about the future of the Tuwhare Res­i­den­cy Pro­gramme. Stay tuned. Mau­ri Ora.