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Tuning in to Māori TelevisionViewers can tune in to Māori Television in five ways: Via the UHF frequencyTo receive Māori Television via the UHF frequency, viewers need to have a UHF aerial and be within the coverage area. Via Satellite If viewers are not within our UHF coverage area, they can access Māori Television via satellite by purchasing a satellite dish and receiver from their local television aerial installation service. As a SKY Digital subscriberSKY Digital subscribers will find Māori Television on Channel 33 of their SKY remotes. They can tune in to Channel 33 now to catch highlights of programmes on Māori Television. As a SKY UHF subscriberSKY UHF subscribers will find Māori Television on button 6 of their SKY remotes. Via Saturn TV For More InformationCheck our website www.maoritelevision.com or for guidance on how to tune-in call 0800 MA TATOU ( 0800 62 82868 )
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Issue 80, 19 September 2005
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES – A MĀORI VIOLINIST The story of a modern Māori virtuoso who transcended barriers to find her own unique talent comes to light on ELENA: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES, tonight, Monday September 19 at 8.30 PM. Elena (Ngāti Kahungunu) is an itinerant musician, composer, teacher and member of the Wellington Sinfonia. She released her debut CD in 2003 to great acclaim at a special launch held at Parliament and has performed at an eclectic range of events and venues – from the Banquet Dinner for Queen Elizabeth II to hanging from a wire in the Westpac St James Theatre. Elena spent her first years with her grandparents, for whom a session around the piano wasn’t an uncommon occurrence. Later, she lived with her mother who attempted to deny her Maori heritage and her step father, who forced her to learn violin. When Elena was 16 her mother died tragically of a stroke and she was shipped off to live with an aunt. Throughout the stress and trauma, Elena excelled at the violin and successfully auditioned for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s (now defunct) trainee scheme, becoming the first Māori to do so. At 20, Elena underwent training at the prestigious Trinity College in London and for the first time in her life began to understand and realise her outstanding musical potential. “It was heavenly and spiritually uplifting, I was able to forget the earthly things that were happening to me and be transported to another plane,” she says. ELENA: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES tells Elena’s moving life story and her quest to combine kapa haka and classical music with the aim to rejuvenate concert audiences. In the documentary, Elena is planning a concert at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, featuring the Wellington Sinfonia performing a fascinating combination of evocative waiata, stirring European and sensual Latin American music. ELENA: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES – the spiritual journey of a Māori violinist – screens on Māori Television tonight, Monday September 19 at 8.30 PM. |
They have warbled and sashayed across Māori Television screens for the past eleven weeks. Now, the eleven finalists vying for the top spot as Māoridom’s best singer are getting ready for glory as the final episode of MĀORIOKE screens this Sunday September 25 at 8.00 PM!
The first final that screened last week featured performances from Kerri-Anne Marumaru (Massey, Auckland), Shem Martin (Otara, Auckland), Mihi Martin (Whangarei), Kereopa Reweti (Marton), Abigail Kaiawe (Titahi Bay, Wellington) and Kemara Fuimaono (Lyall Bay, Wellington). The second final continues this Sunday September 25 with performances from Karen Edwards (Whangarei), Issac Beach (Gisborne), Toni Baird (Upper Hutt), Victor Sulfa (Papatoetoe, Auckland) and Shelley Karaitiana (Whakatane), before the grand winner is named.
A documentary exploring the clash between indigenous cultures and western medicine, when women in outback Australia and arctic Canada give birth in centralised hospitals. 
This week, on the second episode of the new series, we are back with the Asquith Magpies. We followed their progress last year, as they playing an outstanding season, missing a grand final win by just a few points. This year Asquith have moved up a grade to compete in the Jim Beam Cup. But Asquith’s new coach and NRL veteran Mark Horo is battling to lead his team to the top of the table! 
A gripping drama based on the brutal 1971 murder of a Cree Indian teenager screens in two suspenseful parts on Māori Television, starting Sunday September 25 at 9.00 PM and ending on Sunday October 2 at 9.00 PM. The CBC Production feature CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE is based on the true story of 19-year-old Helen Betty Osborne, who was abducted, beaten and stabbed to death by four white men in the small Canadian settlement of The Pas, Manitoba in 1971. It took more than 16 years for her killer to be apprehended, despite the fact that the perpetrators boasted of their experience continuously in the town. 
