Long Beach's Pacific Island Ethnic Art Musuem - General Tiki

M Mongoloid Member Long Beach Joined: Apr 25, 2008 Posts: 590	M Mongoloid Posted posted on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 9:55 AM Save-the-Date: First Annual Pasifika Living Arts event first weekend in May The Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM) presents the First Annual Pasifika Living Arts event on the first weekend of May 2011. Pasifika Living Arts will feature workshops and performances by traditional artists and cultural specialists from across Pasifika’s diverse islands. This event celebrates May as National Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and serves as the ideal launch to the Pacific Islander community’s summer festival season. Pasifika Living Arts will showcase many traditional living arts that are already confirmed. These will include a workshop/performance of authentic Chamoru dance representing the Marianas Islands, a workshop/ performance of the famed fire knife dance representing the Samoan Islands, a lecture/presentation on traditional wooden tools, weapons and handicrafts representing the Fijian Islands, a lecture/demonstration on historic taro cultivation and farming and poi pounding demonstration representing the Hawaiian Islands, a Tapa cloth-making/designing workshop and storytelling (oral tradition) presentation representing the Samoan Islands, and a fishhook bone carving workshop representing various Polynesian cultures. This event is not only to showcase and educate about the ethnic arts but also to document/preserve and open them up to a worldwide audience. Therefore there will be live web-streaming of Living Arts workshops, lectures, and performances to reach a global audience.

Save-the-Date: First Annual Pasifika Living Arts event first weekend in May

The Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM) presents the First Annual Pasifika Living Arts event on the first weekend of May 2011. Pasifika Living Arts will feature workshops and performances by traditional artists and cultural specialists from across Pasifika’s diverse islands. This event celebrates May as National Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and serves as the ideal launch to the Pacific Islander community’s summer festival season.

Pasifika Living Arts will showcase many traditional living arts that are already confirmed. These will include a workshop/performance of authentic Chamoru dance representing the Marianas Islands, a workshop/ performance of the famed fire knife dance representing the Samoan Islands, a lecture/presentation on traditional wooden tools, weapons and handicrafts representing the Fijian Islands, a lecture/demonstration on historic taro cultivation and farming and poi pounding demonstration representing the Hawaiian Islands, a Tapa cloth-making/designing workshop and storytelling (oral tradition) presentation representing the Samoan Islands, and a fishhook bone carving workshop representing various Polynesian cultures.

This event is not only to showcase and educate about the ethnic arts but also to document/preserve and open them up to a worldwide audience. Therefore there will be live web-streaming of Living Arts workshops, lectures, and performances to reach a global audience.

Post #577551 by Mongoloid on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 9:55 AM