Takina te kawa, he kawa heipū,

He kawa heimatua, he kawa heiroa

Takina te kawa i ahua noa mai i Te Pō, i Te Kore, i a Iomatuanui

He kahu rauhī i te ipu kāmehameha

I te kunenga mai o te tangata

Taku ipukarea e

Tīhei, mauri ora!

The desire to know our ancestors resides deep in our bones, an ancient place. A portal where the forgotten and lost wait idly preparing their return. Where dreams and things not yet realised begin to form. The desire to know ourselves takes us back to this ancient place, he ipukarea.

Heipūkarea is an offering to facilitate connection and reinstate balance in how we interpret, interact with and understand atua out in te taiao and within us. Heipūkarea is an ode to atua wāhine.

This kaupapa is not new, it has existed as long as time has existed. The exhibition is a surge of energy and mātauranga into the repository of knowledge and wisdom pertaining to these tupuna.