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Joana Monolagi
Joana Monolagi is a Fijian artist and masi maker, whose work is in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery. She was awarded the Pacific Heritage Art Award in 2015 at the Arts Pasifika Awards, recognising her work in supporting art and culture, her role as Fijian coordinator for the Pasifika Festival, and her own unique artistic practice. She is part of The Veiqia Project arts collective. Biography Monolagi was born in Ba, Serua Province. She moved to New Zealand in the mid to late 1970s. In 1990 she began to learn how to weave and print masi (barkcloth), teaching herself from memories she had of watching women in Fiji make the cloth when she was younger. Monolagi says of her upbringing: "It fascinated me to watch and grow up with all these things – weaving, printing, mending and knotting."In her artistic practice Monolagi combines traditional materials, such as masi and magimagi, alongside modern ones, such as iron-on fabrics. Her works are described as both contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ba (town)
Ba () is a town in Fiji, 37 kilometres from Lautoka and 62 kilometres from Nadi, inland from the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. Covering an area of 327 square kilometres, it had a population of 14,596 at the 1996 census. The town is built on the banks of the Ba River, after which it is named. For a long time, Ba was famous for its soccer team which caused major traffic problems. The old bridge was washed away in the floods of 1990s and a new bridge built downstream. This resulted in the main highway (King's Road) bypassing Ba Town. Jiaxing City in China is Ba Town's sister city. Economy Ba is an agricultural centre, populated mostly by Indo-Fijians, which makes it a cultural point for tourists. Sugar cane has long been the mainstay of the local economy, but some manufacturing projects have been established over the past fifteen years. Ba is part of the larger Ba Province, geographically the largest of Fiji's fourteen Provinces. The town is also the home of some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarisi Vunidilo
Tarisi Vunidilo is a Fijian archaeologist and curator who specialises in indigenous museology and heritage management. Biography Vunidilo was born in Suva, Fiji. Her parents are from the southern Fijian island of Kadavu. She also studied for a degree in Pacific Geography and Sociology at the University of the South Pacific from 1991 to 1994. In 1993 she spent a year at the University of Hawaii as a Cultural Exchange Student. In 1996 she graduated from the Australian National University with a postgraduate diploma in archaeology. After graduation she worked as Head of Archaeology at the Fiji Museum, excavating multiple sites across the islands, including Cikobia-i-Lau. After emigrating to New Zealand, she graduated in 2006 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Maori and Pacific Development, then in 2010 graduated with a Masters in Anthropology from the University of Waikato in 2010. Her Masters dissertation addressed: 'The Indigeneity of Archaeological Research in Fiji: Issues and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fijian Women
Women in Fiji live in or are from the Republic of Fiji. On March 8, 2007, ''The Fiji Times ONLINE'' described Fijian women as playing an important role in the fields of economic and social development in Fijian society. The women of the Republic of Fiji are the "driving force" in health service as nurses and medical doctors. They are also key players and managers in the tourism and entertainment industries, as well as teachers in the field of education. According to the article ''Women's work and fertility in Fiji'', "the presence of very young children and larger family sizes contribute to the low level of labour force participation of Fijian and Indian women in Fiji." By culture and tradition, a woman in Fiji lives in a paternalistic and patriarchal society wherein she has a secondary role at home performing household chores that include cooking meals and cleaning the house. As community and village members women are treated as subservient to men. Eating customs By tradition, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative New Zealand
The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets and audiences for New Zealand arts domestically and internationally. Its funding consists of approximately 30% central government funding and the remaining amount from the Lotteries Commission. In 2014/15, the Arts Council invested a record $43.6 million in New Zealand arts and arts organisations. Funding is available for artists, community groups and arts organisations. Creative New Zealand funds projects and organisations across many art-forms, including theatre, dance, music, literature, visual art, craft object art, Māori arts, Pacific arts, Inter-arts and Multi-disciplinary. Funding Creative New Zealand funding is distributed under four broad funding programmes: * Investment programmes * Grants and special opportunities * Creati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daren Kamali
Daren (DK) Kamali (born 1975) is a Fijian-born New Zealand poet, writer, musician, and teacher and museum curator. Education Kamali completed his Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing at Manukau Institute of Technology in New Zealand in 2014 Kamali graduated with a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland in New Zealand in 2016. Career In 2004, he served as the New Zealand delegate for the Festival of Pacific Arts in Palau, and again in Solomon Islands in 2012. In 2008, together with Grace Taylor and Ramon Narayan he co-founded the South Auckland Poets Collective. The South Auckland Poets Collective was co-founded by Kamai in 2008. Kamali was the recipient of the 2012 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers' Residency, which he completed at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He used the time to continue work on his second book, ''Squid Out of Water'' (Ala Press 2014). In 2014, he participated in the International Writing Progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Physics Room
The Physics Room is a non-commercial contemporary art gallery in Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon Rive ..., New Zealand, described as "one of the country's best-known contemporary experiential art spaces". It is primarily funded by Creative New Zealand, one of four contemporary art spaces thus funded since the mid-1990s (the others are the The Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Artspace NZ, and Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Enjoy). The Gallery is overseen by a charitable trust governed by a Board of Trustees. The Physics Room began in 1992 as the South Island Art Projects, based at the Christchurch Arts Centre, which organised exhibitions in other galleries, published a newsletter, and hosted visiting artists and speakers. In 1996 the Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery (commonly known as Te Uru, formerly known as Lopdell House Gallery) is a contemporary art gallery located in Titirangi, Auckland. The gallery, which serves the West Auckland region, was originally opened within Lopdell House in 1986. Redevelopment The gallery closed in 2012 for a building project, with the new custom-built gallery, designed by Mitchell & Stout Architects, opening on 1 November 2014. The building project received a warm critical reception and has received awards in the 2015 Auckland Architecture Awards Public Building and Heritage categories, and the 2015 New Zealand Architecture Awards Public Building category. Name change The name of the gallery references the Māori phrase Te Hau a Uru (wind from the west), meaning the air currents the West Auckland (Waitākere/Hikurangi) area is known for. The name was chosen in consultation with local iwi Te Kawerau ā Maki. Te Uru's inaugural director was Andrew Clifford, who was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Mage’au Gray
Julia is usually a feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of the name Julio and Julius. (For further details on etymology, see the Wiktionary entry "Julius".) The given name ''Julia'' had been in use throughout Late Antiquity (e.g. Julia of Corsica) but became rare during the Middle Ages, and was revived only with the Italian Renaissance. It became common in the English-speaking world only in the 18th century. Today, it is frequently used throughout the world. Statistics Julia was the 10th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 88th most popular name for women in the 1990 census there. It has been among the top 150 names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It was the 89th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2007; the 13th most popular name for girls born in Spain in 2006; the 5th most popular name for girls born in Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Tora
Luisa (Italian and Spanish), Luísa (Portuguese) or Louise (French) is a feminine given name; it is the feminine form of the given name Louis (Luis), the French form of the Frankish Chlodowig (German Ludwig), from the Germanic elements ''hlod'' "fame" and ''wig'' "combat". Variations include Luisinha, Luisella, Luisana, Luisetta, Luigia, Luisel. Its popularity derives from the cult of Saint Louise de Marillac of Paris, and from Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Luisa Miller''. People with the given name Luisa *Luisa Accati (born 1942), Italian historian, anthropologist and feminist public intellectual *Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi (1799–1866), heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence *Luisa Baldini, Anglo-Italian news reporter and presenter, presently working for BBC News *Luisa Bradshaw-White (born 1975), English actress *Luisa María Calderón (born 1965), Mexican politician *Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922), Corsican-Puerto Rican writer and anarchist *Luisa Casati (1881–1957 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Aull
Margaret Aull is a New Zealand painter, art manager, and curator. She works in mixed media using canvas, installations and sculpture to contribute to and comment on Māori and Pacific artistic discourse. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, showcasing work at the Casablanca Biennale, Morocco in 2018. Along with her own art practice she is an advocate for Māori arts, serving as an advisor on Te Atinga Māori Visual Arts Board, Creative New Zealand, Hamilton City Council Arts Advisory Forum and Creative Waikato's Māori Arts Advisory Group. Biography Aull studied Māori and Pacific arts at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. In 2008 she completed her Bachelor of Media Arts at Waikato Institute of Technology. For her Masters she studied at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design. Her thesis investigated "the notion of tapu/tabu (sacredness) in relation to objects as visual representations of ancestors and gods." Her first solo exhibition in 2008 was titled ''Na Kena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
