learn, affirm & celebrate
Shaping our future together.
Waitangi Day reminds us that the future of Aotearoa New Zealand is something we all shape together – with unity and a shared purpose.
Since 2024, our Waitangi Day events in the Raglan Town Hall have been a place for our community and visitors to reflect, kōrero, create, eat, plan and dream.
Collective hope and pride
Sparking deep contemplation and conversation.
We are deliberate in our intention that those who attend our Waitangi Day events will go away not only more informed, but with a collective sense of hope and pride that they have come together to affirm and celebrate our national day.
Sparking deep contemplation and conversation, our simple but effective brown paper walking timeline of Te Tiriti o Waitangi breaches and Māori resistance line the walls of the Raglan Town Hall.
There are workshops run by local practitioners – taonga puoro, raranga, mau rākau, and waiata; street art activations and creative spaces; resource tables; and bean bags, couches and mats where whānau just hang out. And kai – plenty of kai!
Each year more and more people affirm their commitment by signing our giant Toitū te Tiriti Whāingaroa canvas. And our very own ‘Whāingaroa Forum Tent’ provides opportunities to learn about how Te Tiriti o Waitangi impacts the lives of community members.
Our valued partnership with Raglan Community Media has meant our Waitangi Day messages have been spread far and wide across our community!
Funding support for our Waitangi Day Whāingaroa events have come from the Department of Internal Affairs and Manatū Taonga | Ministry for Culture & Heritage.
“Waitangi Day as it's supposed to be - a day of sharing and caring, and an opportunity to enjoy learning and a wonderful sense of community.”
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Waitangi Day Whāingaroa 2026
Waitangi Day Whāingaroa 2026 included an insightful community panel discussion . Facilitated by Aaron Mooar from Raglan Community Media, the panel intentionally centered a diverse range of Tangata Tiriti perspectives, emphasising how Te Tiriti o Waitangi both belongs to, and holds a place for us all.
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Waitangi Day Whāingaroa 2024.
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Toitū te Tiriti – Waitangi Day 2025.
For event organisers of ‘Raglan Naturally Toitū Te Tiriti – Waitangi Day Whāingaroa 2025’, it was particularly important that the community had an opportunity to come together and mark our national day in ways which were both meaningful and hopeful.
With the aim of educating, creating, and activating, organisers wanted to provide a space where people could learn, acknowledge, affirm, celebrate and kōrero about the foundations and relationships that Te Tiriti o Waitangi established in Aotearoa. Being able to explore how the community can continue to uphold their collective commitment to those foundations was also an aim of the day.
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Waitangi Day 2026: Celebrating Kotahitanga
A day filled with manaakitanga (hospitality) and mō tātou, mā tātou (by all of us, for all of us). Manaakitanga reflects the importance of caring for others, extending warmth, respect and generosity to all. Mō tātou, mā tātou reminds us that the future of Aotearoa is something we shape together – unity and shared purpose for all those who call this place home. As we celebrate Waitangi Day in Whāingaroa 2026, we invite you to honour these values.
And what an amazing Waitangi Day 2026 we had Whāingaroa – overflowing with kotahitanga, manaakitanga and aroha.
Around 500 people came to spend part of their Waitangi Day with us. Once again our kaupapa was about educating, creating and activating our community. Our simple but effective brown paper timeline of Te Tiriti o Waitangi breaches and Māori resistance lined the walls for people to read as they walked in. As happens every time we put this timeline up, conversations were sparked – what stood out, what was already known, what was surprising.
