Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust

17 April 2009
Fresh Horizons Out West 2009

Fresh Horizons Out West is a three-day workshop for 30 nominated students from secondary schools in Waitakere city. With three workshops happening around the country, this year’s Auckland workshops are being held specifically for Pacific Island students in West Auckland.

With the encouragement of tutors Teremoana Rapley, King Kapisi, Janet Lilo and Venusi Taumoepeau, students will compose their own songs and music and will then go through the process of filming their performances. After three days of hard work, the end result will be the completion of their own music videos!

A special showcase of student works will be held on 22 April at Unitec Waitakere. It’s a great chance for friends, family and the community to see the creative results from these young and talented students.

Tautai Fresh Horizons workshops are not ‘art classes’ but opportunities to experiment, to try new art-related ideas or hone special talent.

By engaging well-known artists as tutors, backed up by senior tertiary students as assistants, secondary students are given visible role models – people they can relate to who are successfully working in the arts. The aim is to give the students a stimulating art experience under the eye of positive, enthusiastic role models, and reinforce the value of further education.

To read about the Tautai Fresh Horizons programme, please see our website:

http://www.tautai.org/fresh-horizons/

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