Get involved in Pasifika Festival
Calling all secondary school art teachers!
Pasifika Festival 2010 is calling for expressions of interest from art teachers and art departments in secondary schools in the Auckland region.
Pasifika Festival 2010 is running a competition for Pacific Islands and Maori secondary school art students to produce a piece of artwork that incorporates the icons for 2010
- the Centipede and Frangipani. These elements must feature in the work or depict a Pacific/Maori story that has these elements.
The winner's work will be incorporated in the festival, and all entries will be exhibited for the week prior to the 2010 festival (13 March).
We will accept up to four works per school, the pieces must be finished by 31 October 2009 and there will be an option for students to sell their work through the exhibition.
The competition will be judged by an independent panel of invited artists and the artist will be remunerated for the use of their work.
If you would like to know more or to participate, please email Pasifika Festival Director.
Stallholders
Applications for stalls at Pasifika Festival 2010 close 5pm, Friday 25 September
2009.
Email us with your name, address and contact phone number if you would like an application pack sent to you.
Information sessions for first-time applicants or anyone wanting assistance filling out their forms will be held at:
- Wednesday 9 September 2009
6pm
Ellerslie War Memorial Hall (138 Main Highway, Ellerslie)
- Thursday 10 September 2009
6pm
Western Springs Community Hall (956 Great North Road).
Please feel free to come to these to get an application pack, to submit your application or if you have any questions.
Volunteers
Be part of this unique and special celebration in 2010.
If you love Pacific cultures, meeting different people, and enjoy working as part of a team,
we would love to hear from you.
Email us
Performers/auditions
There is a variety of performance stages at the festival, which showcase the talent of our Pasifika communities.
Auditions for individuals or groups interested in performing in 2010 are planned for 19, 21 and 23 January
2010.
If you would like to register your interest or find out more, please
email us.
Artists and community groups
We are looking for people from each of our participating cultural groups/villages to take part in some of the arts projects that we have planned for the festival.
We would love to hear from any artists that are bilingual and well connected to their community.
We are also looking for older folk who have a great grasp of their home island lore and who are interested in passing on some traditional chants, stories, dance or other performances around this year's theme.
Get in touch
Meaning of the logo
The design combines icons and symbols used throughout the Pacific region, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, so that all peoples involved in the Festival are represented.
The design represents the family and it's central linking through our ancestors down to our own lives.
It suggests the journey of Pacific peoples from the early migrations to the present day and movement back and forth which has been ongoing for hundreds of years.
The symbols are significant to all islands' groups and have been used in myths and legends of the Pacific and in tapa and pottery.
The icons
The human figures
(with linked hands) are a Samoan element, used to represent the family. The
figures are a link through the design as we are linked through the design as
we are linked through our families to our heritage, tradition and history.
The sun symbol
is a universal icon which represents the life giving force to all it shines
on. It was a navigational aid used by Pacific peoples.
Female and male elements. The trochus shell
and the frangipani represent the male and female sides of mankind and suggest
the balance and the respect of each for the other. The elements are depicted
in central Polynesian siapo and lapita motifs (tapa cloth and pre-Polynesian
pottery).
The frigate bird represents the journey taken by the people of the Pacific to Aotearoa
and acknowledges their spiritual ancestors.
The stylised cross
represents and acknowledges the spiritual beliefs and ceremonies of both
traditional and modern day Pacific peoples.
The vaka form
and wave pattern carried the families and seafaring Pacific peoples to
Aotearoa.
