Vision
To empower and give voice to Pacific artists through
collaboration and with a focus on the freedom of creative expression.
Mission
We are motivated by a mutual commitment to the
Pacific, our land, our culture and our people.
We will build an alliance of Pacific arts leaders that provides a strong
support system, in which they will thrive as individuals, be spiritually and
financial fulfilled, and therefore collectively be empowered and motivated to
build secure and sustainable pathways for our people through the arts.
Background
The concept of the Pacific Arts Alliance
(PaCaa) was formed in 2005 by the founding Chair Letila Mitchell and Anton
Carter. In 2006 this concept became a
reality with the establishment of a core group of founding members - Daniel
Waswas, Ben Fong and Craig Marlow. With
a strong hold of key members many who were principals of their own companies,
key people in their organizations or who worked independently as professional
artists, the Pacific Arts Alliance was born.
By providing this support network to Pacific
artists and producers, we envisaged that the partnerships formed would enhance
and develop ways of combining the limited resources dedicated to the arts in
the region.
Today this vision has become a reality as the
core group of the PaCaa continues to grow and more Pacific artists and
producers join because they find inspiration, and motivation through informal
discussions, exchange of visions, passions and ideas. There is a strong realization and recognition
that we all work for a common purpose, which is to strengthen and empower Pacific
people through their arts and culture.
From this recognition new projects are being born and existing ones
strengthened.
There is also a underlying common desire for more
collaboration regionally and internationally between Pacific artists and other
arts professionals. However there was no
organization that had the mandate to provide these links. There was also the realization that there was
no centralised point for information and sharing of knowledge and
opportunities.
Aim
The aim of the
organisation is to become a co-operative and support network of Pacific arts
practitioners.
The PaCaa focuses on being a
vehicle to provide information and creating networks, and through this network
provide better access to opportunities.
This will help to stimulate cross-cultural arts activity throughout the
Pacific, and to connect and enhance the visibility of Pacific artists
worldwide.
The PaCaa also aims then to provide an avenue for arts
managers to access information and stimulate activity throughout the region,
simply by being knowledgeable about each other's projects. The PaCaa also provides an avenue to re
connect with Pacific artists based internationally and to utilize each other's
skills, knowledge and resource base to develop as artists and as professionals.
The PaCaa also aims provides a place where those with
little knowledge or little access to the Pacific arts sector can gain knowledge
about who we are, what we do and where they can find Pacific arts.
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