Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess Sinaitakala Tukuʻaho to launch Mai Pasifika

Please join us for an evening of Pacific films at Mai Pasifika Film Festival 

launched by Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Sinaitakala Tukuʻaho

Australia Pacific Arts Network proudly presents Mai Pasifika Film Festival Saturday 14 March, 2015 at Pollard Gardens, Hampshire Rd, Sunshine.

Launch at 6:00pm by Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Sinaitakala Tukuʻaho of Tonga.

This event is brought to you by the Australia Pacific Arts Network and Brimbank City Council and has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Performances by Pacific Gods of the Underworld, Tama Tatau, Tamaliki O Oceania and Soundz-of Polynesia .

1 O Tamaiti (15min)
2 Rising Dust (14.30min)
3 In Search of Bigfoot (7min)
4 Mou Piri: A Rarotongan Love Song (11.43min)
Run Time 48.13

Intermission

5 Va Tapuia (15.41min)
6 Ma (15.37min)
7 Broken Silence (7.36min)
8 The Six Dollar Fifty Man (15.11min)
Run Time 54.05

Event Link: http://www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/E…/Mai_Pasifika_Film_Festival

King George Tupou V

I join with so many others in offering my deepest condolences to the Royal Family and Tonga, for the unfortunate and untimely death of King Siaosi (George) Tāufa'āhau Manumataongo Tuku'aho Tupou V

A Tongan King remembered: The Honorary Consul to Australia, Louise Raedler-Waterhouse

Photographs by Peter Halmagy (c)

Photographs by Peter Halmagy (c)

King George Tupou V and HRH Crown Prince Tupouto'a Lavaka

The Melbourne Tapa (fabricating the tapa)

The Melbourne Tapaexplores the migration journey of 4 Pacific Communities in Melbourne told through 20 metres of beaten bark cloth. It is a vibrant contemporary representation undertaken by 13 women from the Samoan, Fijian, Maori and Tongan communities living in the Western suburbs of Melbourne. 


This project is a Community collaboration curated by Loketi Niua Latu, supported by the Brimbank Council, Craft Victoria, Fefine Polinisia and the Australia Pacific Arts Network.


In order for the barkcloth to be ready, it takes months of work to prepare it.  Below are photos of the weekly preparation done by the women in order for the barkcloth to be ready for the project to begin.


 SBS Radio Interview:
1. Interview in the Tongan language with Lavinia Latu Taipaleti-Valu  & Loketi Niua Latu
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/tongan/highlight/page/id/196361/t/Museum-Program

2. Interview in the Tongan language with Lady Fielakepa.
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/tongan/highlight/page/id/196363/t/Ms-Tuna-Fielakepa-Interview/

             Hunt Club Community Arts Centre

                                              Craft Victoria Visit           

Design Phase

Cutting Phase

Glueing Phase

Lunch & sharing of the prepared barkcloth, 

with discussions about the proposed project 

@ The Hunt Club Community Arts Centre

Wednesday 22 February 2012

Curators

Sana Balai (NGV), Loketi Niua Latu (APAN), Jo Ely (Hunt Club), Judith Ryan (NGV), Joe Pascoe (Craft VIC), Debbie Pryor (Craft VIC)

Loketi & Rose 

Emeretta Cross (Footscray Community Arts Centre)

Dean Michaels (Hunt Club Community Arts Centre)

Leanne Clayton (APAN) & Laura Williams (Australian Museum)