Step+1

  Before you can promote a tradition or festival, you need to know something about it.

Using the Seven Servants, generate questions that will help you focus on what it is you need to find out. The questions below are a guide as to the type of questions you should be asking yourself: · Which festival/tradition have you chosen? · What is important about the festival/tradition? · How is the festival/tradition celebrated or passed on? · When is festival/tradition celebrated? · Who celebrates the festival or tradition? · Where is the festival/tradition celebrated? · Why is the festival/tradition celebrated?

As you find the answers to the questions above, or your own questions, consider some of the following questions: If the tradition or festival is celebrated differently to where it originated from, why is this? What led to your chosen group changing how they celebrate now that they are living in New Zealand? If they did need to make changes, what did they change? Where there problems or issues in New Zealand?

Is the tradition or festival celebrated by everyone in from your chosen group or limited to just female or males or maybe only children? Why is this?

When you find out when a celebration takes place, question why it is at this time. Does it celebrate a harvest or follow a lunar cycle?

When you have recorded all of the information you need, move on to Step 2.

[|Some ideas on this page have been taken in part fro TKI - Why Celebrate] 