Phoenix Performing Arts Company - Pilot Project with Australian Sydney Museum (ASM)

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Phoenix Performing Arts of Moana (PPAM) for teaching Moanan-Tongan performing arts and dances at The Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra ACT AUSTRALIA.

For further information please contact Belconnen Arts Centre on 02 6173 3300/ This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or PPAM's Manager, Ms Luseane H. Tuita, on 6257 9907 /0412480097 (mob).

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Phoenix Tas-Moanan Consultancy (PTMC) is for hiring to run public-university workshops, lecturers, researches, advices/consultations, etc., on Moanan-Tongan culture, oral traditions, arts, politics, history & society (by Mr Siosiua Lafitani Tofua'ipangai).

PTMC can run consultations, workshops and lecturers on the importance for both youth and adult of attaining a better education either on technical or academic terms, or both levels (by Siosiua).

Women group consulations on issues relating to domestic violence, drugs, abuse, youth, etc. can be conducted as well by Ms Lucy (Luseane) Tuita.

For more information please contact the Director, Mr Siosiua Lafitani Tofua'ipangai, on 02 6257 9907(hm)/0415668769 (mob)/Emails: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it OR Ms Luseane Tuita on 02 62579907 (hm)/Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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- Friday Dance classes, 7-9pm.

- Wednesday Chanting Classes 7-8pm.

LONDON FALE

We invite you to read our Spotlight Interview with both

Tongan born 'Siua and Lucy' of the Phoenix Performing Arts of Moana

based in Canberra, AUSTRALIA.

View the details here..

http://www.londonfale.org.uk/spotlight-ppa01.html

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Pilot Project with Australian Sydney Museum (ASM)

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On Saturday 24/10/09, Siosiua Lafitani Tofua'ipangai was interviewed by Mrs 'Eseta

'Aholelei from the Australian Sydney Museum (ASM) for two and half hours about the cultural and traditional importance and implications of kava bowl (kumete kava), and kava practice in Tongan society over the centuries.

This is part of a Pilot Study by the ASM to begin in gathering information and traditional knowledge on Tongan and Moanan artifacts from their native people and experts for their collections, with the intention to select three or four objects out from the whole lots of individual Island culture and publish on a new internet program.

‘Eseta and her work associates at the ASM are working towards selecting three or four artifacts with their traditional significance in terms of cultural, social, moral and political explanations and implications.

Siosiua was interviewed about the artifact of kumete in association to the myth on the origin of kava, and how different kava ceremonies/circles are conducted in Tongan culture, with their individual roles in maintaining socio-political order and preservation of traditional knowledge and skills for about thousand years.

Traditionally, there are three main kava ceremonies/circles, the Royal Kava Ceremony/Circle (Taumafa Kava/Tala Hau), Chiefly Kava Ceremony (‘Ilo Kava/Tala ‘Alofi) and Extended-Family Kava Ceremony (Kava-‘a-Kainga/Tala Fatongia).

Not only that but there was more elaboration on the interconnection of kava ceremonies to most, if not all, other aspects of Tongan society, culture and history.

Kava ceremonies can be seen as the traditional core and cultural heart of Tongan culture in that respect generally.

All status, obligations, best productions, etc., of culture and traditions in ancient Tonga were presented, shared and exchanged during Kava ceremonies, especially in the Royal Kava Circle (Taumafa Kava.Tala hau) during ancient national occassions such as 'Inasi.