Ranui Ellison-Collins, of Queen's High School, and Matheson
Tane, of King's High School (both 17) representing the
four-member group Moemoea Records that won national awards
from Te Puni Kokiri. Photo by Linda Robertson.
A group of Kings and Queens High School pupils has won a
brace of national Maori enterprise awards.
Ranui Ellison-Collins, Matheson Tane, Vladimir Manza (all 17)
and Taikawa Tamati-Ellisse (16) formed Maemoea Records at the
start of this year to produce an album, Dreams and
Aspirations, featuring seven original songs by pupils of
the two high schools.
Moemoea Records, under the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES)
co-ordinated by the Otago Chamber of Commerce, a month ago
received the Otago regional Lion Foundation excellence in
business award for the YES competition.
The pupils also held a launch concert for the album at the
Kings and Queens Performing Arts Centre in August.
The quartet last week became only the second South Island
winners of the Te Puni Kokiri excellence in Maori business
award in its 30 year history and won the "Play It Strange"
award for enterprise in Maori music.
"They had to set up their own company, put together a
business plan, make an oral presentation and an annual
report," Queens economics and enterprise teacher Joanna
Bishop said yesterday.
The album title, Dreams and Aspirations, translated as
Maemoea in Maori, she said.
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