Thank you Joris de Bres!

Vinaka vakalevu Tagata Pasifika!

Very happy to have some of the Pacific Arts Summit events profiled on Tagata Pasifika [TVNZ] this week. Vinaka vakalevu Marama Papau and team!

Curating Pacific Art Forum PROGRAMME

This is the official programme for the Curating Pacific Art Forum taking place THIS Saturday 21 May at the beautiful new AUT University Manukau Campus. Registrations is free and still open, contact Nicole Lim on 09 271 6019 or Nicole.Lim@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz // Limited spaces!

Curating Pacific Art Forum
PROGRAMME

9.30am	Doors open // Tea + coffee served
10am	Welcome + Opening Address Ema Tavola Pacific Arts Coordinator, Arts + Culture South, Auckland Council Lealiifano Albert Refiti Senior Lecturer in Spatial Design, School of Art and Design AUT University
10.30am	The Soul, The Image and The Voice Dionne Fonoti National University of Samoa // Ivilasi Films
11.30am	Morning Tea
11.50am	Curating Yourself: The Curator as the Point of Departure Leafa Wilson Concept Leader / Curator Visual Arts, Waikato Museum – Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
12.35pm	Open Forum: Questions for Dionne Fonoti + Leafa Wilson
1pm	Lunch
2pm	Close Encounters Bruce E. Phillips Curator, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts
2.35pm	VASU: Pacific Women of Power Luisa Tora Independent Curator
3pm	Open Forum: Questions for Bruce E. Phillips + Luisa Tora
3.20pm	Afternoon Tea
3.50pm	Open Forum: Questions + Discussion
4.30pm	Closing Remarks Ian Wedde Department of Art History, University of Auckland
5 – 7pm	Cocktail Reception

Spotted!

Lil Abner’s, Great South Road, Papatoetoe – A South Auckland institution!

Shirley Road, Old Papatoetoe
Corner of Great South Road + Tui Street

St George Street, Old Papatoetoe

The Programmes are HOT off the PRESS!!

Finally, finally FINALLY the 2011 South Auckland Pacific Arts Summit programmes are OUT! Slightly behind schedule, the programmes will be finding their way to Libraries and Art Centres across South Auckland in the coming week!

If you’d like a programme mailed to you, drop Nicole Lim an email or call 09 271 6019.

Auckland Council’s Pacific Arts Coordinator for South Auckland, Ema Tavola explains what the Pacific Arts Summit branding is all about…

How did this poster image come about?

We have a great working relationship with The Kitchen Media – Edgar Melitao has designed almost all of Fresh Gallery Otara’s printed material since about 2008. I sat with Edgar and we discussed the programme, the kaupapa, the spaces, the new Auckland Council context – South Auckland and the uniqueness of our Summit. We wanted to evolve the 2010 brand and identity to something new but recognisable. A theme that has continued from 2010 is showing the faces behind the events – in 2010, I wanted to show the real people, who have achieved great things, and take South Auckland and the Pacific with them wherever they go.

The concept of this brown back / shoulder and applying the logo to the skin references the art form of tattooing, as a widely practiced art form in the Pacific. Abstractly it references the dedication and cultural strength represented in much Pacific art, and that people and culture are inextricable from the practice and appreciation of Pacific art, within Pacific contexts.

The other influence for this year’s poster is the photographic image used to promote  Gary Lee’s solo exhibition, gorgeousness, which opens at Fresh Gallery Otara as a core event in the Summit programme. This image is called “Shannon as Billiamook” (2004).

Look out for the Pacific Arts Summit poster around South and Central Auckland in the coming weeks!

Auckland Council website UPDATED!

The official 2011 South Auckland Pacific Arts Summit programme has been uploaded to the Auckland Council website! Hooray!!

Check it out!

PECHA KUCHA BOOM BAHNG!!

The 2nd South Auckland Pacific Arts Summit will launch with a *BANG* on Wednesday 4 May with our very own special edition of Pecha Kucha Night! The speakers, the space, the energy will all be about the rich and robust culture of Pacific arts practice and appreciation in Southside Auckland City!

What is Pecha Kucha Night?

The Pacific Arts Summit Pecha Kucha Night will give audiences a taste of the people, places, inspiration and motivations behind the month long programme of Pacific art magic happening in South Auckland…  The full speaker list will be announced shortly!

Manukau City / South Auckland’s first Pecha Kucha Night was held in 2008 as part of the Manukau Festival of Arts. One of speakers, Samoan multimedia artist Siliga David Setoga blew us away with his presentation…

Come and check out Pecha Kucha Night in the Southside – it’ll be a very awesome night!

What: Pecha Kucha Night
Where: Mangere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
When: Doors open 7.30pm / start 8.20pm
Tickets: $5 cash doorsales

HOT much?!

Only 5 weeks away from the 2011 South Auckland Pacific Arts Summit launch, we’re very very very excited that the poster image is ready for release!

HOT much?!