Creative New Zealand in association with Pasifika Festival presents ARTSpeak Pasifika – a two-day national fono for the Pacific arts industry. Open to Pasifika artists working in visual arts, performing arts, film and television, music, literature, music and heritage arts, the fono is an opportunity to share ideas and participate in panel discussions designed to provide inspiration and practical advice on making a successful career in the arts. Creative New Zealand’s Anton Carter says “it’s the first time in over 10 years a multi art form fono like this has been organized”. The fono takes place on Friday 25th June and Saturday 26th June 2010 at the Reception Lounge (Level 2) of the Auckland Town Hall, Queen Street, Auckland. Numbers are limited to 150 people and the cost is a flat rate of $30 which includes refreshments on both days. A limited number of travel subsidies are available to assist participants from outside the Auckland region to attend. For more details and registration, see http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/artspeak.
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Several useful resources about Pasifika art are now available from the New Zealand Film Archive, Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua. These resources look at Pacific Island people participating in a broad range of New Zealand arts including Fine Art, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film and Literature. Fatu Feu’u discusses the motifs and traditions that inspire his painting; Ani O’Neill tries to teach Nick Ward to crotchet; King Kapisi shows us his home in Piha, while his sisters show us theirs in Lyall Bay; Jonathan Lemalu discusses his rise to fame in the competitive world of opera; and Tusiata Avia talks to Finlay MacDonald about growing up Samoan in Christchurch. To access these materials from the Film Archive website, click here. Hot off their show-stealing debut in KKK (Kila Kokonut Krew) and ATC’s sellout show Strictly Brown at Telstra Clear, Pani and Pani fly back ‘from the catwalks of Milan’ to entice and seduce their audience in their first ever show, Phat Chix In The Settee. “They’re tired of looking hot, bored of their rich and handsome men. Forget Zumba and spray on abs. These girls are the new deal; they’re sexy, they’re brown and they know it! Watch out Aotearoa – these girls are PHAAAT-NOMENAL”. The show is presented by the Kila Kokonut Krew and is part of the 2010 NZ International Comedy Festival. Phat Chix In The Settee runs at 7 pm from Tuesday 11 to Saturday 15 May 2010 at the Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, Auckland. Tickets are $25 each with concessions for students, seniors, beneficiaries, and selected NZ arts guilds.
Christchurch-based actress, musician, song-writer, playwright and manager of Pacific Underground, Tanya Muagututi’a, is the 2010 Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and Creative New Zealand Pacific Artist in residence. During her residency Tanya will be researching and writing a first draft for a play called ‘Scholars’. Her preparations for the play will involve research about scholarships that were made available for Samoan students from the 1950s-1980. As part of her residency, Tanya will be conducting interviews and running workshops at the Macmillan Brown Centre at the University of Canterbury.
A new purpose-built Mangere Arts Centre is being built in South Auckland and is expected to be completed by September 2010. Once completed the centre will provide Mangere with a world-class performance and arts venue including a 300-seat flexiform performance area, state of the art acoustic design, suitable for a range of music from fine music to rock, 240m² gallery, 56m² studio, foyers, offices, change rooms, a café, and a large outdoor courtyard. Ema Tavola, the current Pacific Arts Coordinator for Manukau City Council, will take up the position of Visual Arts Manager at the new Mangere Arts Centre. Speaking of her time at Fresh Gallery Otara, Ema said that the gallery was the public platform for her work supporting the development of an already robust Pacific arts sector in Manukau City. We have hosted exhibitions, talanoa / dialogue, workshops, poetry and music. We have had so much interaction, engaged so many hearts and minds, inspired and created a fertile ground for meetings, interactions, ideas.” Her current position as Manukau City Council Pacific Arts Coordinator is to be advertised in the coming month. Manukau Arts in partnership with the Pacific Arts Committee of Creative New Zealand is proud to present the CNZ Heritage Arts Fono as part of the 2010 Manukau Pacific Arts Summit. The Fono takes place at the Otara Music Arts Centre (crn of Newbury and Bairds Road) from 10 am to 3 pm on Friday 7 May, 2010. The fono will discuss Creative New Zealand’s Heritage Arts strategy, projects and opportunities. Heritage art practices are art forms that have been brought to New Zealand from the Pacific Islands and which are presently sustained by individuals, communities, elders or experts who maintain traditional knowledge through their art practice. Heritage arts can include language, oral arts, handicrafts, weaving, carving, tivaevae, tatau, rituals, protocols and cultural specific activities. Creative New Zealand’s Senior Programmes Advisor for Pacific Arts, Anton Carter, will be available for one-on-one sessions to build awareness around the application process. For catering purposes, registration is necessary; to register or for more information please email Brett.Stirling@manukau.govt.nz or phone Nicole Lim on 09 271 6019.
Auckland-based playwright Louise Tu’u is directing Mandragora in the 2010 international “Short + Sweet” festival in Auckland. Mandragora is a stunning work by Australian playwright David Sharpe which has already won several short play awards. It stages at the Herald Theatre in Auckland from Tuesday 26th till Saturday 30th January 2010. “Short + Sweet” is the biggest festival of ten-minute theatre in the world, each year featuring over 150 of the best ten minute plays from local and international writers. Tu’u is the author and director of Le Tauvaga (2004). She was the first New Zealand and Pacific Island playwright to be selected to participate in the 2005 Royal Court International Theatre Residency in London. She has also written and directed a number of short films. Her most most recent play Providence was presented exclusively to the homeless community in central Auckland. Tickets for Mandragora are only $25 from the Edge: www.the-edge.co.nz or 0800 BUY TICKETS. In its efforts to support the development of more skilled arts practitioners, Creative New Zealand is looking to contract a suitably qualified training provider to plan and provide a short course for up to 22 arts practitioners. The course is to provide New Zealand arts practitioners with opportunities to gain knowledge and develop the skills required to successfully organise the touring of performing art works and writers within New Zealand. Creative New Zealand is also interested in hearing from suitably qualified and experienced New Zealand arts practitioners who can contribute to such a course as a tutor or mentor. After completing the course trainees will be expected to develop the skills and knowledge required for successful touring within New Zealand and take account of the cultural needs and perspectives of practitioners with a focus on touring works by Maori and New Zealand Pacific artists. Interested parties are invited to submit a written expression of interest to Creative New Zealand by no later than 5 pm on Friday 18 December 2009. For more details, contact John McDavitt by email at john.mcdavitt@creativenz.govt.nz or by phone on (04) 498 0736. Samoan composer Poulima Salima has been awarded the 2009 Emerging Pacific Artist Award by Creative New Zealand in recognition of his diverse range of music, composition, and performance for stage and screen. He has composed music to accompany theatre, animation, choreographed dance and film. Poulima is inspired by Samoan history, culture and oratory and is determined to implement these expressions through music composition to the world stage. Previous winners of the Emerging Pacific Artist include Peter Panoa (2002), Shigeyuki Kihara (2003), Lonnie Hutchinson (2004), Miria George (2005), Tusiata Avia (2006), WakaUra Dance Group (2007), and Linda Tuafale Tanoa’i (2008). Aute ma Fagaloa Theatre Production – Tufuga’s Theme: lyrics, choral & orchestral music score by Poulima Salima |
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