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Pati Umaga
Fonotī Pati Peni Umaga is a New Zealand musician known for his compositions and musicianship as a bass guitar player, and significant contributions to the music industry, as well as his advocacy for the Pacific and Disabled communities. He works in the disability services sector. Umaga received the Queens Service Medal in the 2012 New Year Honours, for services to the Pacific community, and in 2015 he was awarded the Arts Access Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Award for Artistic Achievement. He was the first recipient of Creative New Zealand's Arts Pasifika Awards, Pacific Toa Award in 2019, and was also inducted into the Attitude Awards Hall of Fame that same year. When he received the award his thoughts about it were: "For the disabled community to be acknowledged in this way, promoting and advocating for full participation and inclusion in our Pacific community in the broader art sector." Umaga's parents were part of the 15,000 Samoans who immigrated to New Zealand between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pati Umaga QSM (cropped)
Pati may refer to: * Pati, Barwani, in India * Pati (title), an honorific * Pati Regency, Indonesia * Pati River, in Brazil * Patricia, a given name See also *Patti (other) Patti may refer to: People * Patti (name) * Patti caste, a group of people Places * Patti, Iran (other) * Patti, Punjab, India * Patti, Punjab Assembly constituency, India * Patti, Sicily * Patti, Uttar Pradesh, India * Patti, Uttar Prad ... * Shital pati, a kind of mat used on beds or floors {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Service Medal
The Queen's Service Medal is a medal awarded by the government of New Zealand to recognise and reward volunteer service to the community and also public service in elected or appointed public office. It was established in 1975 and is related to the Queen's Service Order. The QSM replaced the Imperial Service Medal as an award of New Zealand. Appearance 1975–2007 The original medal was made of sterling silver, in diameter. The obverse bears the same effigy of The Queen as the badge of the Queen's Service Order. Surrounding the effigy are the Royal styles and titles "ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F.D.". The reverse depicts the New Zealand Coat of Arms surrounded by the inscription "The Queen's Service Medal" and the name of the sub-division either "for Community Service" or "for Public Services". The initials and name of the recipient is engraved on the rim of the Medal. The medals were made by the Royal Mint. 2007–present The current medal is also made of sterling silve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 2012 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. They were announced on 31 December 2011. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour. Order of New Zealand (ONZ) ;Ordinary member * Hone Papita Raukura Hotere – of Dunedin. For services to New Zealand. File:Ralph Hotere (cropped).jpg, Ralph Hotere New Zealand Order of Merit Dame Companion (DNZM) * Rosanne Philippa O'Loghlen Meo – of Auckland. For services to business. * Suzanne Elizabeth Moncrieff – of Upper Moutere. For services to the arts. File:Rosanne Meo (cropped).jpg, Dame Rosanne Meo File:Suzie Moncrieff (cropped).jpg, Dame Suzie Moncrieff Knight Companion (KNZM) * Father Desmond John Britten – of Wellington. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Access Aotearoa
Arts Access Aotearoa was established as a charitable trust in 1995 with funding from Creative New Zealand. It was created primarily to meet a key objective of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Act 1994: that is, to support "the availability of projects of merit to communities or sections of the population that would otherwise not have access to them". Arts Access Aotearoa’s main areas of focus are supporting disabled people to create and participate in art of all kinds; encouraging performing arts companies, venues, producers and artists to increase their accessibility; and facilitating arts-based rehabilitative projects and programmes in prisons. It receives core funding from Creative New Zealand and has a major contract with the Department of Corrections. It also has support and sponsorship from local government, philanthropic trusts and businesses around New Zealand. Key activities Arts Access Awards Every year, it presents the Arts Access Awards in Parliament. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards
The Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards, formerly called the Big 'A' Awards, are New Zealand arts awards, presented annually by Arts Access Aotearoa. Introduced in 2007, they were initially called the Big 'A' Awards, but were renamed as Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards in 2018. The awards recognise the contribution of individuals and organisations in providing access to the arts, and celebrate the achievements of artists with lived experience of disability or mental ill-health. There are currently seven awards, including a Community Partnership award, a Museum award, two Arts in Corrections awards, the Arts Access Artistic Achievement Award for artists with a disability or lived experience of mental ill-health, and an Arts Access Accolade, presented to someone who has made a significant contribution to accessibility. The award winners are selected by a panel of judges, except for the Arts Accolade, which is selected by the staff and board of Arts Access Aotearoa. Up until 2020 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] |
Arts Pasifika Awards
The Arts Pasifika Awards celebrate excellence in Pacific arts in New Zealand. The annual awards are administered by Creative New Zealand and are the only national awards for Pasifika artists across all artforms. The Arts Pasifika Awards include the awards for: Emerging Pacific Artist; Iosefa Enari Memorial Award; Pacific Heritage Art Award (from 2004); Contemporary Pacific Art Award; Senior Pacific Artist Award; Special Recognition Award (from 2013); and Pacific Toa Artist Award (from 2019). List of award recipients Emerging Pacific Artist * 2022 Dahlia Malaeulu * 2021 Vivian Aue * 2020 Pati Solomona Tyrell * 2019 Tyla Veau * 2018 Leki Jackson Bourke * 2017 Tupua Tigafua * 2016 Anonymouz ( Matthew Faiumu Salapu) * 2015 Ane Tonga * 2014 Grace Taylor * 2013 Suli Moa * 2012 Justin Haiu * 2011 Kulimoe'anga 'Stone' Maka * 2010 Visesio Siasau * 2009 Poulima Salima * 2008 Linda Tuafale Tanoa’I * 2007 WakaUra Dance Group * 2006 Tusiata Avia * 2005 Mīria Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newtown, New Zealand
The suburb of Newtown lies in the southern part of Wellington in New Zealand. It lies east of Vogeltown (Wellington), Vogeltown, between Mount Cook, Wellington, Mount Cook and Berhampore, New Zealand, Berhampore. The main thoroughfares of Newtown are Riddiford St, leading from Mount Cook to Berhampore and Melrose, and Constable St, leading from Newtown to Kilbirnie, New Zealand, Kilbirnie. History Originally a working class, working-class suburb, Newtown has followed gentrification trends in recent years, attracting large numbers of immigrants, students and young professionals and resulting in an ethnically diverse population. The Wellington City Council District Plan identifies Newtown as a suburb with an "identifiable or distinct character".''Newtown! Community in a Wellington Suburb'' edited by Martin Doyle (1998, Wellington Safer Community Council, Wellington City Council) Demographics Newtown, comprising the statistical areas of Newtown North, Newtown West and Newtown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wainuiomata
Wainuiomata () is a large suburb of Lower Hutt, in the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. Origin of name The word 'Wainui-o-mata' is a Māori name made up of the words Wai = water, Nui = big, O = of, and Mata – which could refer to a woman's name. The origins of the word are disputed, but one commonly accepted translation refers to the women who came over the Wainuiomata Hill to evade marauding tribes from the north, and who sat wailing by the stream after the slaughter of their menfolk. From this we have 'faces streaming with water' or 'tears' although it could equally refer to the large pools of water which lay over the swampy surface (face) of the northern end of the Valley, or the river itself which is known to flood the Wainui (Coast Road) valley. The town is often abbreviated to Wainui by locals. History Wainuiomata occupies a basin at the headwaters of the Wainuiomata River, between the eastern Hutt hills and the Orongorongo Range. There are conflicting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kia Mau Festival
The Kia Mau Festival, previously called Ahi Kaa Festival, is a biennial performing arts festival in Wellington, New Zealand. In te reo Māori, kia mau is "a call to stay - an invitation to join us". The festival covers Māori, Pasifika and indigenous performing arts, including comedy, music, dance and theatre, across a variety of venues around the Wellington area. Background The Kia Mau Festival was founded by playwright Hone Kouka. The inaugural festival was in 2015, and it was held annually until 2019. Background to the Kia Mau festival was the production company Tawata with Kouka and another playwright Mīria George at the helm creating the Matariki Development Festival in 2010 at Circa Theatre. This was a festival for 'new writing for the stage by Māori'. Tawata had also organised a meeting about 'Māori Theatre' at Downstage Theatre in 2006, at this was a panel discussion chaired by Alice Te Punga-Somerville who asked, "Describe the last play your wrote and how it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Royal Commission Of Inquiry Into Abuse In Care
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care is a royal commission established in 2018 by the New Zealand government pursuant to the Inquiries Act 2013 to inquire into and report upon responses by institutions to instances and allegations of historical abuse in state care and faith based institutions between 1950 and 2000. History Creation On 4 December 2017, after an open letter from ActionStation signed by many taken to Parliament, Cabinet agreed to establish an inquiry into abuse in state care under the Inquiries Act 2013. It also agreed that a Ministerial Working Group be set up to consider the potential scope and implementation of the Inquiry, led by the Minister for Children/of Internal Affairs supported by the Minister for Social Development. The terms of the inquiry were announced in November 2018, and at that time the scope was widened from covering abuse in state care to include abuse in faith based institutions. A gathering of survivors and advocates met wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samoan Musicians
Samoan may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean ** Something of, from, or related to Samoa, a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands ** Something of, from, or related to American Samoa, a United States territory in the Samoan Islands * Samoan language, the native language of the Samoan Islands * Samoans Samoans or Samoan people ( sm, tagata Sāmoa) are the indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language. The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between t ..., a Polynesian ethnic group of the Samoan Islands {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
