Phoenix Performing Arts Company - Experience of the Australian Museum

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'Amelia the Youngest

(In Tongan dance)

(In Middle-Eastern dance)

Phoenix Bird

" Rising out of the ashes"

PHOENIX MOANAN ISLAND CLASSES:

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).

PHOENIX CONSULTANCY:

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

Phoenix Movement

- 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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Experience of the Australian Museum

Written by Phoenix Team

According to Siosiua in his participation on the Australian Museum Seminar

on Tuesday 24 of November, 2009, it was a learning experience, and it's great to realise that the Director and Staff of the Museum showed a profound respect to the Pacific/Moanan Island artists and scholars in Australia and the Pacific regarding art matters and surviving artifacts from the works of our past forebears that are kept in their Collection.

(Left - Frank Howarth, Director, Australian Museum)

"Seminar and consultations with us Moanan arts and scholars is a way of showing special respect towards our indigenous rights as direct descendants of the creators of their art works and artifacts. The Museum staff are the preservers of these artifacts with their own rights under copyrights Act of Australia, and our ancestors were the creators." explained Siosiua.

There are about 6,000 artifacts from the Pacific/Moanan cultural arts, and the Museum is in the process of creating a Virtual Museum of the Pacific (VMP) on the internet to demonstrate a few hundreds and open it for the public worldwide to comment on them and add stories about their meanings and backgrounds.

(Fijian Kava Circle)

"The Australia Museum has opened a new dimension for the public world-wide to access to their Pacific/Moanan Collection through VMP, but at the same time, it's very crucial for the information of know how not to be spelled out in details openly because they can be used by others for commercial purposes. It may be better then to just give little information as possible on VMP, and be very precise as it's seen in the ways Fijian experts explained their artifacts on the Museum's new DVD that were distributed among us at the end of the Seminar, Additionally, it's very important to publish and demonstrate valid and reliable information from people with authority on the selected objects ", Siosiua explained.

He also learned that the artifacts are not just object for demonstration and watching but this new program on VMP helps to unveil in the near future some information from academic writings and oral traditions regarding the creation of such artifacts. In the situation of Kava Circle, for example, it deals with many issues about the culture and history of Pacific/Moanan people, be they social or non-social, and in fact Kava can be regarded as the political core and cultural essence of these people.