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Vodafone Pacific Music Awards 2015
Check out some of the highlights from this year's Vodafone Pacific Music Awards held last weekend at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau.…more
American Samoa Flag Day 2015
Check out some of the highlights from last weekend's Flag Day in American Samoa!
Each April 17, the people of American Samoa celebrate the day the first United States flag was raised above their territory in 1900. Homes and offices proudly fly both the Stars and Stripes and American Samoa’s own flag during this lively two-day celebration filled with feasts, parades, cricket matches, and traditional fautasi longboat races.
Here's some of the highlights from the boys of the Technical School of Don Bosco who were invited to perform and compete in this year's festivities.
Siapo Cinema
Siapo Cinema is an annual moving image festival celebrating the vibrant and innovative contributions to film by, for and about Pacific peoples.
Held by Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision in Wellington, the festival showcases Pasifika moving images, presenting a range of documentaries, feature films, short films, and multimedia. They also have performances and live music, Kava Club hosts, and talks with well known Pacific Arts practitioners from around the Pacific.
Check out some of the highlights from the Opening last night, featuring a showing of Lisa Taouma's Taualuga piece. Check it out here!
The festival is presented by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, in association with Tautai Guiding Pacific Arts, Kava Club, Pollywood - Pasifika Films, with generous support from Wellington City Creative Communities.
For more info on the festival, check out their programme here.
Tahiti breaks Ukulele Record!
Tahiti has made it into the Guiness Book of Records with the biggest band of Ukulele players in the world!
4750 participants gathered in Papeete at the weekend for the International Festival 'ukulele.
The participants played the song 'Bora Bora e' together in harmony for at least five minutes in order to meet Guinness record standards. And with almost 6,000 people from across the territory turning up, they beat the previous record of 2370 participants set in Britain last July.
Girl on a Corner
After their sell-out season as part of the Auckland Arts Festival and Pride Festival, Girl on a Corner is back for a return season!
Early one morning in 1997 Eddie Murphy picked up Shalimar Seiuli, a Samoan fa'afafine, on Santa Monica Boulevard. Their encounter sparked an epic Hollywood media scandal. The next year Shalimar was dead. In Victor Rodger's Girl on a Corner, Shalimar gets to tell her brief life story and offer some variations on what may or may not have happened.
Girl on a Corner is the bold new work from the award-winning writer of Sons, My Name is Gary Cooper, Black Faggot and At The Wake.
Directed by Arts Laureates Anapela Polataivao and Vela Manusaute of the legendary Kila Kokonut Krew and stars Hope Lelei Prescott-Faletau as Shalimar, with Aleni Kilakokonutkrew Tufuga , Mika-Toloa Joanna Taufa Fisiinaua, Gabriel Halatoa, Sandy Fakaua and Hans Masoe.
Sol3 Mio Proposal
Check out one third of the Sol3 Mio boys Pene and his proposal to his girlfriend (now fiance) Amina at their Christmas in the Vines concert last week!
Raggamuffin 2014
Check out a few snaps at the 2014 Raggmuffin featuring a line-up of local & international artists
Aaradhna
Etana The Strong One
Malcolm Lakatani
Che Fu
Lapi Mariner
Sammy J
P-Money
Cypress Hill
Fiji
Ice Cube
UB40
Snaps by: Penina Joy
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Pacific Vaka Voyagers land in Aotearoa - Marumaru Atua
Check out the highlights from the historical landing of the Pacific vaka in Okahu Bay on Sunday 7th December!
Following the traditional navigating systems of our ancestors, six voyaging waka from around the Pacific made their way onto Auckland's Ōkahu Bay in a celebration of Pacific unity and environmental issues. A day full of yummy food and sharing our Pacific heritage with family and friends, these vaka warriors deserve a well-earned rest after spending 3 months on the sea!
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Check out more on our vaka voyaging heritage!
See more of the history of our ancestors and their voyaging feats on our interactive timeline!
Red Carpet Interviews @ VNZMA
Celebritiy Stylist Sammy Salsa has a chat to some of our Poly Musicians on the red carpet of the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.
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Cult Couture: AITU by Lindah Lepou
Check out amazing snaps from Cult Couture: AITU by Lindah Lepou
Held over three days, the Māngere Arts Centre erupted with an exclusive feature Pacific couture multi-media show by international designer Lindah Lepou, a fashion competition, and a textile and adornment exhibition.
Pacific Couture Designer
Lineage Art + Natural Fiber
For over two decades, Lindah has been the only fashion designer we know of to have developed a consistent body of work made from a variety of natural fibres using traditional materials in contemporary ways, as far as Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) is concerned.
Her lineage approach to fashion and art inspires people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and industries the value in drawing inspiration from ones own unique lineage, and encouraging them to celebrate whatever it is that makes them special as an individual artist, company or community.
Photo Cred: Penina Joy Photography