Are you looking for some ideas for how you can celebrate Matariki with your team?

Matariki is both a star cluster (also known as the Pleiades) and a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. For many Māori, it marks the beginning of the new year.

In 2024, Aotearoa New Zealand celebrates Matariki on Friday, 28th June with its third public holiday.

Nga mihi o te Tau Hou / Happy New Year!

Try our activities in your workplace

We’ve created five tiles to help you share some knowledge about Matariki and ideas for celebrating it in your workplace. To enlarge each image just click on it and save as a .pdf or print.

If you follow our tips for Matariki workplace activities, we’d love to see your photos. Please post them on our Facebook page!

Learn more

• About cultivating a bi-cultural workplace for Aotearoa New Zealand
• About the Te Puni Kōkiri Cadetships programme that aims to support Māori to achieve their full potential in the workplace
• About how to strengthen te Reo Māori in the workplace. Download a super useful greeting sheet with phrases for greeting and signing off your emails at work.