Latest news from Pasifika Festival 2013
Kia orana, malo e lelei from the Pasifika
Festival team,
Ole Maiava, the
longest serving event producer for Pasifika Festival
completed his 6th year of service in December and announced
his retirement from the role to embark on a new venture.
Ole, thank you for your inspiration and leadership, we wish
you every success.
Stan Wolfgramm, best known for his work
with Westfield Style Pasifika has recently joined the team
to take up the event producer role for 2013.
Welcome
aboard Stan - It's wonderful to have your guidance and
support
Stan's connection with the event began in the
nineties. Fashion Pasifika was a feature of the festival at
that time.
œI was tasked with the role of delivering the event. Westfield Style Pasifika NZ Fashion Awards has become a significant annual event on the New Zealand fashion calendar since.
Today, Pasifika is so much bigger and
brighter - An iconic event for Auckland, a cornerstone to
our cultural identity.
With less than six weeks to go,
Stan is part of a brilliant team who have already spent
considerable time developing new initiatives to enhance the
festival experience.
This year's expanded two day event will include, more authentic and traditional Pasifika villages, bustling markets, song and dance, and for the first time a combined church service will be held on Sunday to bless the start of the day, with the voice of Pasifika choirs.
Bring the whole family because it's a day of festivity, food, kids, crafts, choirs, bands and the traditional Pasifika Sunday lunch with the people you love.
Finally, make sure you visit our new Pasifika 2013 website it's full of key information, event history and festival news.
Kia manuia
The Pasifika Festival team
Food, Arts and Craft
Thank you to those that have expressed interest in holding a stall at Pasifika Festival 2013.
We are currently allocating stalls on the
park for Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 March which has been a
massive undertaking.
Just a reminder - the deadline for
all stallholder payments was last Friday, 25 January. If you
have not made payment yet, your stall site maybe offered to
someone on our waiting list
If you have any question
regarding your payment or application please email Iris atpasifika@aucklandnz.com
Pasifika
Festival pre-stallholder meetings will be held next week at
the Fickling Convention Centre
Hillsborough room at 6pm.
The following villages and
section briefings will be held on:
Monday 4
February- Blue Section Fiji Village, Tahiti
Village, Blue Pan Pacific areas
Tuesday 5
February- Red Section Tokelau, Cook Islands, Niue,
Kiribati, Red Pan Pacific areas
Thursday 7
February- Green Section Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa,
Green Pan Pacific areas
Tuesday 12 February
- Yellow Section Aotearoa Village, Yellow Pan
Pacific areas
Wednesday 13 February-
Yellow Section Aotearoa Village, Yellow Pan Pacific
areas
Please note - Tip Top and Frucor (Pepsi Max and
Mountain Dew) will be providing wholesale rates to Pasifika
Festival vendors.The offers will be explained at the
pre-festival stallholder meeting.
Music and Dance
Thank you to everyone who participated in the auditions that were held in December.
It was great to catch a glimpse of the
fresh talent in Auckland.
Successful emerging artists
will perform at Pasifika Festival, Saturday 9 March on the
Prosperity stage, including Rizvan andVallkyrie (both
pictured).
Make sure you check them out!
On Sunday 10 March, the Prosperity stage will hold aPasifika Festivalchurch service from 9am to10am followed by cultural performances throughout the day.
There will also be a Pan Pacific stage that will feature music, dance performances of all ethnicities.
For more information, refer to the
website, aucklandnz.com/pasifika
or email us
atpasifika@aucklandnz.com.
Villages
From the Village Coordinators - Tena koutou katoa. Talofa lava. Ia Orana. Kia Orana. Fakaalofa lahi atu. Kam na Mauri. Taloha ni. Ni sa bula vinaka. Talofa koutou. Malo e lelei.
We are grateful for the assistance of the Lion Foundation and Nautilus Foundation for their financial assistance to support the villages.
Programme preparations are well underway for each village We are grateful for the support of our Village Coordinators who are responsible for compiling, scheduling performers, weavers, artists, tattooists, and carvers of their respective stages, fale's and activity marquees.
A large Tongan contingent, of forty people, will be travelling to Pasifika Festival to perform along with many other performers and stallholders. Some of these artists will travel from their home nations of Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands, Tahiti and our Pasifika brothers and sisters living in Australia.
A key objective of Pasifika is to produce an event that strongly reflects a truly authentic look and feel of the Pacific islands. Ensuring that the cultural, spiritual and social objectives are applied. So come and join us for the first ever combined church service on Sunday at Western Springs between 9am 10am.
A snapshot of
activities that will take place in the villages in addition
to performances on stages:
• Aotearoa
Traditional cooking and ta moko
(tattooing)
• Niue - Traditional
weaving and cooking
• TahitiTattooing
Tahiti style
• Tokelau- Traditional
weaving
• Tonga Traditional weavers
from Tonga and brass bands made world famous during Rugby
World Cup (RWC 2011)
• Tuvalu Fatele -
traditional dancing
costumes
• Kiribati- Making
traditional decorations, and weaving
(harakeke)
• Samoa- Traditional
weaving and carving
• Fiji-
Traditional stone carving
• Cook
Islands- Traditional costume making and
performances
For more information, visit aucklandnz.com/pasifika or join our Facebook page for regular
updates.
Commercial Partnerships
To the big announcements we'd like to
welcome the following companies to the Pasifika Festival
family: Pepsi, 2degrees, Mai FM and Fairfax Suburban
Newspapers, part of the Mighty A Network.
We are also
incredibly grateful for the continuing support of long-term
partners Tip Top, Pacific Media Network and AUT
University
.
Important stallholder news - If you
didn't manage to read December's stallholders newsletter,
Tip Top and Frucor (Pepsi Max and Mountain Dew) are
providing wholesale rates to Pasifika Festival vendors.
These companies are the exclusive providers to Pasifika
Festival 2013 for all ice-cream and beverages. If you are
selling any of these products, make sure you're at the
compulsory pre-festival stallholder meetings commencing next
Monday 4 February. Make sure you attend to find out more
about product range available to sell, payment and delivery
options, order requirements and general house-keeping
rules.
Finally, thanks to long-term partner Smokefree, 2013 will mark the first year Pasifika Festival is completely smokefree.
We thank them for their continued support.
ENDS