PACIFIC SUPERHEROES

Our New Zealand Delegation for the 10th Pacific Arts Festival departed our shores for Pago Pago, America Samoa on Saturday, we know their gonna have a wicked time and spread our PACIFIC SUPERHERO luv to our extended pacific families. Take part superheroes and share the love. A list of whose creative talents that are representing Aotearoa can be found at creative new zealand.

‘Aotearoa has participated in every Festival of Pacific Arts since its inception in 1972. Creative New Zealand, the Arts Council of New Zealand toi Aotearoa has supported an Aotearoa New Zealand delegation at the Festival of Pacific Arts since 1994. And likewise the organization is supporting their delegation of 120 artists including Whangara-mai-Tawhiti, the 2007 winners of Te Matatini the national kapa haka competition.‘ Chur! Go check out their travel blog and pics here. Mauriora! Here’s a little snip-it from America Samoa News.

‘Now as the peoples of the Pacific gather in prayer on Sunday, July 20 at 10 a.m., to set the tone for the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts, our ula is complete. Groups are converging on the small island of Tutuila in American Samoa in preparation for Monday’s opening ceremony, bringing with them their art, literature, musical instruments, costumes, indigenous knowledge and the reflections of the many faceted cultures that make up the Pacific community.

While it was announced late last week that Vanuatu will not be on hand for this year’s arts fest because of a lack of funding, and Tuvalu pulled out this week citing the same reason, 25 countries will still be attending. American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga and Wallis and Futuna.’

much alofas