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Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal is a composer, researcher and advisor.

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Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal is a composer (and performer), researcher (and teacher) and an advisor (and consultant). He is a passionate advocate for ‘indigenous creativity’, which he pursues through research and consultancy services as well as through music and storytelling.

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Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal is a researcher (and teacher) of indigenous knowledge (mātauranga Māori) and a composer (and performer) of music and story. He is a passionate advocate for ‘indigenous creativity’ and provides research and consultancy services to the public sector and to iwi organisations. He composes music and story for small and large groups and his iwi affiliations are Marutūahu, Ngāti Raukawa and Ngā Puhi.

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Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal is a researcher, composer and advisor. He is passionate about the ‘creative potential’ of indigenous knowledge and communities which he explores through research, teaching and advising, and through music and story. Charles has written/edited six books and ten reports on aspects of mātauranga Māori and iwi histories and traditions. He is also the founder and leader of whare tapere – iwi based ‘houses’ of storytelling, dance, games, music and other entertainments – which takes place in Hauraki. Previously he was a Director at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Director of Graduate Studies and Research at Te Wānanga-o-Raukawa, Ōtaki, and Professor of Indigenous Development and Director, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, University of Auckland. He is currently Director of the EcoQuest Centre for Indigeneity, Ecology and Creativity. Charles belongs to Marutūahu, Ngāti Raukawa and Ngā Puhi.

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Dr Charles Royal (Te Ahukaramū) is a composer, researcher and a cultural leader. He is deeply committed to the development of a new tangata whenuatanga (indigenous communities and life ways) particularly as this may be achieved through music, performing arts, education and research. Charles is the leader of the modern whare tapere - community based 'houses' of storytelling, dance, games, music and other entertainments – and he is the Artistic Director of Ōrotokare: Art, Story, Motion Trust which convenes whare tapere in Hauraki.

Previously, Charles was a Director at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand (2016-19), Professor of Indigenous Development, and Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, at the University of Auckland (2009-2014) and Director of Graduate Studies and Research at Te Wānanga-o-Raukawa, Ōtaki (1994-2002). Charles has received numerous awards for his ground-breaking work in mātauranga Māori and indigenous knowledge. He has been a Fulbright Scholar (2001), a Winston Churchill Fellow (2001) and a Resident at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Centre, Bellagio, Italy (2004). From 2011 to 2014, Charles was a Visiting Fellow at the University of London (programme entitled ‘Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging’ lead by Prof Helen Gilbert).

Charles has published six books and ten monographs - all on aspects of mātauranga Māori and iwi histories and traditions – the most recent being Te Ngākau (2009), a text in Māori on the nature of knowledge and knowing. Charles is a graduate of the Victoria University of Wellington School of Music and he also completed a doctorate in theatre and film studies from Victoria University in 1998.

Charles is currently Director of the EcoQuest Centre for Indigeneity, Ecology and Creativity and belongs to Marutūahu, Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāpuhi.