A Wintec music student is working with traditional Māori music specialist Horomona Horo to create compositions where contemporary expression of taonga puoro (traditional Māori music) will become part of an app for the Matariki Interactive Waka Sculpture Project.
This year a Wintec student exhibition will celebrate Matariki from Wednesday 13 - 20 June. The students have created video, graphic design and garments inspired by the cultural traditions of Matariki.
Tokoroa’s young people came together last week to share their ideas on how to solve some of their town’s social problems with help from Wintec, local councils and South Waikato YMCA.
Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) has released its 2017 Annual Report, posting a group surplus of $2.2million.
Students and staff are working together on the development and design of Student Voice 24/7, a new feedback reporting system where students are responded to within a day.
Two local Hamilton bands will perform live for the seventh year in the popular River City Sound Sessions.
Hidden away in a former dairy factory in Matangi, a group of passionate film-makers, are working on Blink, a short film by writer-director Paige Larianova and producer Chris Williams. They are part of Hamilton’s vibrant film community and many of the crew, including the producer and director are Wintec staff, alumni and students.
Last September four Wintec business students embarked on a learning experience of a lifetime in China. Chanatip Chatchawalit, Jack Hawker, Andy Murray and Hanjun Nakauchi are now back in New Zealand to finish their studies.
Maari Moke cut a striking figure at Wintec’s marae graduation in March, standing proud in her korowai and surrounded by her whānau who had supported her education journey.
Wintec will be the first New Zealand education provider in the North Island to develop a graduate entry programme in nursing which responds to the growing need for culturally responsive care in the health sector.
Waikato business leader Kiri Goulter has been appointed to the Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) Council.
The group exhibition No Holiday at Weasel Gallery pushes the boundaries of traditional painting. The three artists; Chelsea Pascoe, Nicholas Megchelse and Rachel Hope Peary are all past and present students of Wintec’s School of Media Arts.
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