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• Need for visibility and inclusion fuels Pacific artist

  05 April 2022
  Artist and Pacific LGBTQI+ advocate Tanu Gaga’s (pictured) motivation to put his community’s needs ahead of his own, stems largely from his values upheld by his upbringing and experiences as a Pacific person, part of the diaspora in Aotearoa. 
  Tanu’s extensive work over the years was recognised in t…
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• Working to level the playing field for Pacific

  04 April 2022
  Initially there was surprise, some embarrassment and a sense of not being worthy enough.
  However, once Mele Wendt (pictured) digested the news she was on the New Year’s Honours list and would receive a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to governance, the Pacific community and wom…
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• A rich tapestry of culture

  02 April 2022
  A tapa cloth, tartan blend is how Pauline Smith describes her Samoan, Tuvaluan, Scottish and Irish ancestry. 
  At the start of this year, the Director of Mīharo Murihiku Trust (previously the Murihiku Māori and Pasifika Trust Cultural Trust), Author and arts advocate received a New Zealand Order of M…
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• Pacific perspective on queer indigeneity

  01 April 2022
  Whenever Artist and Curator Yuki Kihara came across reading material or artwork about Queer Indigeneity in the Pacific, it was always from a Western perspective. 
  “It has been typically from Western documentary film makers, anthropologists and travel writers in search of fa’afafine with a ‘primitive…
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• Review offers insight into Pacific language revitalisation

  01 April 2022
  Literature on Pacific language revitalisation and maintenance in New Zealand is limited, however a recent review will help us to better understand ways to nurture languages in Aotearoa. 
  The recently published, Global to local: Understanding models of community language revitalisation for Pacific la…
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• Pacific Rainbow+ collective proudly visible and flourishing in Canterbury

  10 April 2023
  (Picture caption: Coordinator Lana Shields and founder/chairman Vui Suli Tuitaupe celebrate the first anniversary of Moana Vā.)   Growing up in Christchurch, Vui Suli Tuitaupe struggled to access role models or the right supports to help navigate his identity as a gay Samoan individual. The trauma…
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