PACIFIC SUPERHEROES

Was laughing at the ‘mountain goat’ presentation by David Tua to Shane Cameron last night, hahaaa some real sporting PACIFIC SUPERHEROES representing with classic bravado and clowning humour!!! I can’t wait for David to showcase his ‘KO’ on a step ladder  to Shane the mountain goat! Lolz, arohamai … but no matter what, we be Sth Akl loyal 100%!!! And with that PACIFIC SUPERHEROES are WOOHOO happy that finally the new Mangere Arts Centre is ready for construction to begin b4 the super city mallarcy quashes any of Manukau’s future plans. Vote LEN BROWN!!! Mauri ora famz !!!

The new Mangere Arts Centre is set Continue reading ‘Mangere Arts Centre, Mountain goats and SuperCitys.’

Wassup PACIFIC SUPERHEROES!!! Keep being all you can be and more!!! Heres a notice from Dziah Dance Academy who are holding a ‘DANCE PARTY’ fundraiser to help get their two NZ national winning teams to the World Hip Hop Dance Championships.

The Dziah 2.0 dance crew and DeJaVu junior crew need to fundraise $40,000 per team to get them to Las Vegas to represent NZ in the Worlds.

A smoke free and alcohol free event will be on this Friday 24th April at the Dziah Dance Academy in Otara, with tickets only $10 pplz!!! Come support, come dance, and if you can’t get there or you just simply have two left feet please feel welcome to call the Academy to make donations. Please support whats ALL GOOD in our hood!!! Mauri Ora!!!

For TICKETS

phone:  09 2747466 or 021 612471

email: billie@dziah.com

Arohamai PACIFIC SUPERHEROES, its been a busy start to 2009 but the wheels are still turning and its non-stop action for our top dance teams starting this weekend for the 2009 regional build up for SDNZ national dance championships on  3rd-4th of April, with the winners representing AOTEAROA at the Worlds in Las Vegas. Tickets available at TICKET DIRECT peoples, get out there and support local talent and initiatives, holla!!!

‘In 2008, New Zealand conquered the world, In 2009, the sky is the limits. For the third year, Street Dance New Zealand Presents:

THE SDNZ DANCE CHAMPS

This Autumn Street Dance New Zealand will be travelling around the country finding the best of the best to represent our nation at this year’s WORLD HIP HOP CHAMPIONSHIPS in Las Vegas.

Last year, Auckland’s own, Sweet & Sour Dance Crew took out both the Regional and National Titles, and then went all the way by capturing the World Championship. Alongside the Varsity Gold Medalists, Hamilton’s FDC Supremacy Dance Crew followed closely recieving the Varsity Bronze Medal.

Since then Street Dance has risen to another level and now the competition is Continue reading ‘Street Dance NZ’

Ia Orana from Tahiti, holla holla we got stories to tell and pass on. Check it out, Annie Goldson taking the top prize at FIFO 2009 for ‘An Island Calling’, its a tragedy of beliefs and misbeliefs. Get out and get to viewing this doco. The trailer is loaded in our video player. Much luv and big ups, time for more PACIFIC SUPERHERO celebrations. Maruru fanau.

‘New Zealand movie director Annie Goldson has won Le Grand Prix du Jury at the 6th Annual Pacific International Documentary Film Festival for her 75-minute “An Island Calling” film about the 2001 murder of a gay couple in Fiji.

Ms. Goldson’s 75-minute documentary tells the story of John Scott and his partner of 20 years Greg Scrivener, a prominent gay couple murdered in their Suva home. Scott, the Fiji Red Cross director, had become well known for his courage during the 2000 military coup in Fiji when he assisted hostages held by George Speight and his followers.

Scott and Scriverner “were killed in the name of God by Apete Kaisau, a young indigenous Fijian man who had been friends with the couple,” according to the festival’s program. The film was produced by Occasional Productions.

“When you make a film like that, you are not alone, and it’s a real trip,” Ms. Goldson said after receiving the jury’s Grand Prix award along with a cash prize of 500,000 French Pacific francs (US$5,555/€4,190). Continue reading ‘Annie Goldsons wins top FIFO award for Fiji documentary’

Aloha PACIFIC SUPERHEROES, if you’re around the way on Oahu Island please go and check out this photographic exhibition ‘Reawakening’ currently at Honolulu Hale. Its supporting and cultivating the healing process for families who are hurt with the pains of incarceration, especially the pains that our children carry. This is a programme that I hope can gain more support and recognition through out the pacific, as we all know art as therapy is a liberty of expression with emotion,spirit, being and life force where words may not have been so free to dance. Peace + Luv PACIFIC SUPERHEROES,  mahalo nui ohana!!!

‘Project Focus Hawaii was established in 2005 as a means of enriching the lives of children suffering from emotional or physical problems. Through photography, like any art which can be used as a tool for healing and self-exploration, children of incarcerated women, acting as both photographers and subjects, have presented “Reawakening”, a collaborative exhibtion with Ka Hale Ho’ala Hou no na Wahine and the Women’s Community Correctional Centre [WCCC] on O’ahu. The project lasted 12 weeks during the summer. Photographers Laurie Callies and Lisa Uesugi made portraits of the children, who, in turn, photographed their mothers at prison, using Holga cameras. The exhibition is currently displayed at the Honolulu Hale courtyard 8am – 4.30pm weekdays, through til 29 January. For more info click here’