On Air Highlights
Stories by Isabelle Genoux
22 February 2012
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Maketi Ples ( market place) is an annual exhibition organised by the Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission at the Global Gallery in Sydney. It showcases the diversity and creativity of Pacific communities.
20 February 2012
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Emerging Pacific artists from New Zealand examine the Western romantic idea of Pacific paradise in The Anatomy of Paradise. The exhibition now showing at Auckland Artstation challenges well entrenched stereotypes and artistic representation of the South Pacific and explores modern Pacific identity.
17 February 2012
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French colonial history and the representation and treatment of Kanak people during the 1931 Colonial Expo in Paris inspired Kanak journalist Brigitte Whaap to explore the story of Marius and his daughter Wassapa.
17 February 2012
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The Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne is Australia’s biggest and oldest sustainability event, it involves hundreds of organisations, communities and individuals looking for action and solutions to the ecological and social challenges we face.
16 February 2012
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Concerns about the rise of violent crime in Saipan, in the Northern Mariannas, have led local karate instructor Josephine Togawa to share her skills and experience with other women.
14 February 2012
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Australian film Murundak, songs of freedom won the Jury’s Grand Prize at the 9th Pacific International Documentary film festival( FIFO) in Tahiti. The film follows the Black Arm Band which includes some of Australia’s leading indigenous musicians on the road.
10 February 2012
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Australian composer David Chesworth is reknown for his unusual instrumentation and original soundscapes. His latest work “Vanishing Tekopia” accidentally led him to discover Tikopia, a tiny island in the Solomon Islands.
8 February 2012
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Forty young people from Fiji’s Bau Island recently went through financial literacy training to learn how to manage their income and spending.
Only one third of the participants had bank accounts. The skills they learned during the workshop will help them make informed decisions about their money and their future.
7 February 2012
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Now in its ninth year, the Pacific International Documentary Film Festival opens at Papeete’Cultural Centre.
The annual festival attracts an increasing number of films produced by Pacific film-makers and a few make it into the official selection.
1 February 2012
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Sydney-based surf photographer Joel Coleman plans to send a shipping container of surfboards to the Solomon Islands early next year to assist with the development of a sustainable surfing industry which will benefit local communities.
