Announcements

Pasifika Festival presents Fakakaukau Debate Series
Topic: Only Pacific Artists have the right to use Pacific motifs
March 9, 2010, 4:30-7:00pm
Council Chambers, Auckland Town Hall

Debating team includes:
Dr Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (TBC) – Professor & Art Historian, Waikato University
Ron Brownson – Curator of New Zealand & Pacific Art, Auckland Art Gallery
Sean Mallon – Curator of Pacific Art, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum New Zealand
Ema Tavola – Pacific arts coordinator, Fresh Gallery Otara, Manuaku City Council
Siliga Setoga – Multimedia artist
Shigeyuki Kihara - Multimedia & Performance artist  read more »

My name is Oliver Lueb and I do work at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum – Cultures of the world in Cologne, Germany. I am currently preparing a basic survey trip for my PhD thesis about aesthetics, art and material culture in Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands. In the hope for exchanging information and contacts in this specific area, I am looking for scholars, who are working in the Solomon Islands, too.

I would be very grateful for any contacts.

Best regards,
Oliver Lueb, M.A.
Email: olueb@web.de

Research Associate Needed for Artefacts of Encounter Project
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
MAA  Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
University of Cambridge
3 year fixed-term position to commence on 1 April 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter

'Artefacts of Encounter' is a three-year research project based at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Through historic artefact collections, it will study encounters between European explorers and Polynesian islanders on more than thirty Pacific voyages from 1765 to 1840, and their contemporary legacies. The project is co-directed by Professor Nicholas Thomas and Dr Amiria Salmond.
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Tarisi Vunidilo appointed new Secretary General for the Pacific Islands Museums Association (PIMA)
English
French  read more »

Loreen Taurerewa, Sleight of Hand
Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, New Zealand
November 21, 2009 - February 7, 2010

Finding inspiration in the stories of her Samoan, Chinese and European ancestors, Lorene Taurerewa weaves her personal and historical family narrative into her large-scale drawings.

In this new series of figurative, charcoal works, Sleight of Hand, begun during her recent residencies in New York and Seoul, Taurerewa focuses on stories from her mother's childhood.  read more »

Celebrating Connections: 60 Years of Pacific Islands Studies at Manoa
The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs, An Exhibition of Cover Art
The University of Hawaii, Manoa  read more »

Masters, PhD research, Scholarships, in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Sainsbury Research Unit, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia

Candidates in anthropology, archaeology, art history, museology and related disciplines wishing to apply for entry in September 2010 should contact:
Web: www.sru.uea.ac.uk
Email: l.snell@uea.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 592498
Academic Secretary, Sainsbury Research Unit, Sainsbury Centre
for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ - UK

2009 International symposium of Austronesian Studies

In October, Sean Mallon (Senior Curator of Pacific Cultures) was invited to present a paper at the 2009 International Symposium of Austronesian Studies, held at the Museum of Prehistory, in Taitung, Taiwan. His paper – 'Too much history? Exhibiting the big stories of the Pacific past.' – discussed approaches to exhibiting the history of early exploration and settlement of Oceania in museums. Sean drew on his recent experiences working on Voyagers: exploring the Pacific (2002) and Tangata o le Moana: the story of Pacific People in New Zealand (2007).
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The International Dance Council is producing a Who's Who in Dance directory. If you would like to be included, free of charge, please contact the International Dance Council.

This is a strictly non-commercial project, a service to the world dance community. 150,000 addresses from 200 countries have been gathered so far, making it by far the largest dance directory ever compiled.  The dance ensembles, schools or persons listed will have much higher chances to be invited to international festivals, conferences and other meetings.  read more »

5th Pacific Thought Symposium
Seymour Centre,Cnr City Road and Cleveland Street, Chippendale
January 10, 3-6pm  read more »