Matariki 2025

FRI/SAT this weekend sold out

Due to high demand, we have sold out all seats this weekend, We twisted the Director's arm and he will be doing a special Directors cut on Sunday evening, This is a premium event with a recommended age of 12+, with more interraction and a longer presentation under the Planetarium dome covering Matariki, the soltices, equinoxes and all the zodiacs. https://events.humanitix.com/matariki-directors-cut

Our main Matariki programme continues every Saturday evening through to July 26.

Matariki is now celebrated across Aotearoa as it was across the Pacific by the ancestors. The planetarium allows us to move forward in time to see Matariki rising as it does in late June and July as dawn breaks and experience what those ancestors felt when they first sighted them each year.

In fact humans have observed the cluster of stars we know as Matariki since caveman times, and there are stories about this unique cluster in every culture. More recently Astronomers have also studied them with interest and discovered many facts about this nearby celestial wonder that we can use to build a bridge from our ancestors to ourselves and beyond.