E Oho! Awakening Te Ao te Aroā Mobilising for Action at Ohaki Pā

"Te Ao Te Aroā" is a contemporary play with terms and concepts simply to encourage thought and conversation. Many are familiar with Te Ao Māori and Te Ao Mārama (the world of light in which we all exist). Another term increasingly used is Te Ao Hurihuri (the everchanging world). This newly coined term Te Ao Te Aroā (or the world according to Aotearoa New Zealand) is imagining the world awakened; a 'woke' Aotearoa. The world we are realising together with urgency for holistic and collective ethics of care that equitably empower and enable Tāngata Whenua and Tāngata Tiriti to use and manage our 'resources' (environmental taonga) sensibly, not according to ego-based systems or even eco-based systems. Rather, an Aotearoa with an established ngā-taonga-tuku-iho based system founded on Tiriti-centric, equitable, holistic, and localised ways to overcome the socio-ecological and economic crises we are currently faced with. Indicative of a maturing society, that is changing the trajectory from crisis and collapse to regeneration and hope. Ka ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tāngata, ka ora te Aotearoa.