Creative New Zealand announces delegation to attend 10th Festival of Pacific Arts
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Creative New Zealand has selected a combination of accomplished and emerging artists from within the Māori and New Zealand based Pacific communities to attend the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts in Pago Pago, American Samoa in July 2008.
The delegation of 120 artists (including Whangara-mai-Tawhiti, the 2007 winners of Te Matatini the national kapa haka competition) will represent customary and contemporary arts from Aotearoa alongside the other 26 participating Pacific nations.
The festival is recognised as the premier event for enhancing regional relations and preservation of the Pacific's cultural heritage. Artists were invited to submit expressions of interest to participate in the delegation.
Chair of Te Waka Toi, the Māori arts board of Creative New Zealand, Dr Ngahuia Te Awekotuku says the delegation is a unique opportunity for artists to showcase their work, network with Pacific artists from different countries and represesent Aotearoa.
"For the Māori artists attending the Festival of Pacific Arts, this is an opportunity to represent the uniqueness of the indigenous culture of Aotearoa. It is a wonderful forum to engage with other peoples of the Pacific and represent our country with pride".
Pele Walker, Chair of the Pacific Arts Committee of Creative New Zealand concurred, "The chance to participate in the Aotearoa delegation attending the festival comes around only once every four years, so it is a very special opportunity for artists. For the Pacific artists, both those who have immigrated to New Zealand and those born here, the festival presents a chance to reconnect with their Pacific origins while representing new perspectives that are informed by living in New Zealand."
The artists attending the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts in Pago Pago, American Samoa 20 July-2 August 2008 are:
VISUAL ARTS
1. Cynthia Kapene (Te Arawa) Ohope, Bay of Plenty
2. Natalie Couch (Ngāti Tuwharetoa) Auckland
3. Cerrisse Fiahau Palalagi
( Niue, Tuapa Te Arawa, Ngaiterangi) Auckland
4. Filipe Tohi (Tonga) Auckland
5. Graham Fletcher (Samoa) Auckland
6. Loretta Moauli Young (Samoa) Auckland
7. Stone Maka (Tonga) Christchurch
CARVING
8. Netane Wiki Singh-Lagah
(Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Uenuku Kopako) Rotorua
9. Whiu Waata ( Ngāpuhi) Kaikohe
10. Te Warihi Hetaraka (Ngāti Wai, Tainui, Ngāpuhi) Whangarei
11. James Rickard (Ngāti Koate, Ngāti Hinerupe) Rotorua
12. Johnny Penisula (Samoa) Invercargill
CERAMICS
13. Manos Nathan (Ngāpuhi) Dargaville
14. Colleen Urlich (Ngāpuhi) Dargaville
15. Carla Ruka (Ngāpuhi, Ngati Whatua) Auckland
TAONGA PUORO
16. James Webster (Ngāti Mahuta) Whitianga
17. Horomona Horo (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Taranaki) Rotorua
WEAVING
18. Henni Kerekere (Ngāti Oneone) Huntly
19. Jessica Paraone (Ngāpuhi) Rotorua
20. Troy Joshua Gardiner (Ngāti Kahungunu) Hawkes Bay
21. Misa Emma Kesha (Samoa) Dunedin
THEATRE
22. Taki Rua - Paolo Rotondo (Italian New Zealander)
23. Taki Rua - Rob Mokaraka (Ngāpuhi, Tūhoe)
24. Taki Rua - Maaka Pohatu (Ngai Tamanuhiri/ Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tuwharetoa)
25. Dianna Fuemana (American Samoa, Niue) Auckland
MULTIMEDIA
26. Julie Kipa (Ngaiterangi, Ngai Tuwhiwhia) Ohope, Bay of Plenty
27. Janet Lilo (Samoa, Niue, Ngāpuhi) Auckland
28. Tuafale Tanoai (Samoa) Auckland
FASHION
29. Suzanne Tamaki (Maniapoto, Hikairo, Tūhoe, Te Arawa) Otaki
STORYTELLING
30. Joanne Tito (Taranaki, Tūhourangi - Ngāti Wahiao, Ngāti Pikiao) Gisborne
31. Joe Harawira (Ngaiterangi, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Maniapoto) Huntly
32. Robert Ruha (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Auckland
MUSIC
33. Dam Native - Daniel Haimoana (Ngāti Kahunungu) Auckland
34. Toni Huata (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata) Wellington
35. Dr Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal
(Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Tanatera, Ngāpuhi) Wellington
36. Kura Te Ua (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Te Whakatohea, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri)
37. Pacific Underground - Pos Mavaega (Samoan) Christchurch
38. Pacific Underground - Tanya Muagututi'a (Samoan) Christchurch
39. Pacific Underground - Andrew Sione (Samoan) Christchurch
40. King Kapisi - Bill Urale (Samoa) Auckland
41. Teaukura A Upu - Chuck Upu (Cook Islands) Auckland
42. Teremoana Rapley (Cook Islands) Auckland
FILM
43. Rawiri Paratene (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi) Auckland
44. Iosefa Enari (Samoa) Auckland
MOKO
45. Turumakina Duley (Ngāti Awa, Tūhoe, Ngaiterangi) Auckland
46. Mark Kopua (Ngāti Ira, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Ngāti Porou) Tologa Bay
47. Derek Lardelli - Ngati Porou - Rongowhakaata, Ngati Kanohi (Ngai Te Riwai), Ngati Kaipoho (Ngai Te Aweawe).
KAPA HAKA
Te Whangara Mai Tawhiti - 40 artists