1st
Artists Forum at the 10th Pacific Festival of the Arts
‘SUSTAINING THE ARTS THROUGH ENTERPRISE AND COOPERATION'
hosted
by the Pacific Arts Alliance
PURPOSE
Provide a formal forum for Pacific
artists at the Pacific Arts festival to engage in conversation about issues and
challenges of the Pacific arts sector and to develop networks and solutions to
proactively counter these.
Develop professional relationships in
order to support each other in the development and promotion of the Pacific
arts.
Exchange knowledge and understanding
about the arts sector through a structured networking opportunity.
To provide an opportunity to increase the
awareness and knowledge of existing programmes, projects and initiatives that
engage Pacific artists.
To discuss current and anticipated issues
affecting Pacific artists and provide a stock take to SPC and other important
regional agencies
To provide an opportunity to discuss
funding and support programmes with key agencies and partners.
To provide a forum that will link artists
and managers on the ground with high-level policy makers, in order to give
Pacific artists an opportunity to gain an awareness and understanding of the
work of the Pacific Arts Council and other initiatives at policy level.
RATIONALE FOR THE ARTISTS
FORUM
The concept of an Artists forum at the
Pacific Arts Festival is an important tool to achieving all the above purposes,
as it is the only Pacific arts event in the region where all 27 countries are
regularly represented. While the PaCaa
engages in projects throughout the year and in between the Pacific Arts
Festival, the forum would provide a key opportunity to bring it all together.
The Artists forum will have presenters and
panelists from various key Pacific and international agencies plus
representatives from the arts sector throughout the Pacific region. The forum will also be open to all artists
from the various Pacific delegations.
For many countries, attendance at the
Pacific Arts Festival provides opportunities for meeting with representatives
of international festivals, donor organizations, and other parties interested
in collaborating or working in the Pacific arts sector. The Artists forum provides an opportunity for
these representatives to present their work initiatives directly to the arts
practitioners.
Currently opportunities for face-to-face
meetings between Pacific arts practitioners, national and regional bodies are
almost non-existent. The Artists forum provides the opportunity for arts
practitioners to engage with policy makers and other important representatives
to gain an awareness of the key instruments of change, development and
protection in the region.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The meeting is invited to:
Affirm the critical importance of
collaboration and sharing of information and resources within the region so as
to empower and create platforms of opportunity for Pacific arts practitioners;
and to influence a solution orientated forum for dealing with the challenge of
balancing the preservation of culture with the encouragement of innovation and
enterprise through the creative industries, and to consider ways to increase the participation
of Pacific arts practitioners in the development of programmes and initiatives
for the arts sector in the Pacific region, by creating the link between policy
makers and arts practitioners. In making this recommendation, it is suggested
that new sources of support for such continued participation and dialogue
should be sought.
MAJOR OUTCOMES OF THE FORUM
Present Pacific Arts Alliance to wider region and establish further
network opportunities to the pacific arts sector. Complete the Online Cultural Directory project.
Facilitate a formal response and recommendation paper to the Pacific
Arts Council and Secretariat of the Pacific Community for formulation into their
policies and strategies.
PROGRAMME
Friday July 18th: Pacific Arts Alliance Secretariat and Talanoa House opens
Monday July 28th: Forum Opens
DAY
1: MONDAY
28th JULY: 9.00AM - 11.00AM
8.00am: Registration
9.00am: Welcome by Daniel
Waswas - Chair, Pacific Arts Alliance
9.10am: Opening Address by
Festival Organising Committee
Opening
Prayer
Session
One: Development, resources and support networks
9.20am: Introduction to the
Pacific Arts Alliance - Networking and partnerships between artists and arts
organizations: Letila Mitchell, Secretary General for Pacific Arts Alliance
9.30am Introduction
to panelists: Daniel Waswas
Panel discussion:Art form issues &
barriers for artists
11.00am: Break for tea/ coffee
DAY
1: MONDAY
28th JULY: 11.30AM - 12.30PM
SessionTwo: International Development and
Support
Panel discussion:
What support is out there? Who really
does want to help?
11.30am: Introduction to
session and to panelists: Anton Carter
Facilitator: Anton Carter
Panelists: Tairisi Vunidilo - CNZ, Aivu Tauvasa -
PITIC Australia
Panelists
to discuss:
Creative New Zealand
model
ACP strategies
and funding for Arts Development and the Creative Industries
PITIC Market Sector
Fund and other regionally based support mechanisms
12.30pm: BREAK
DAY
1: MONDAY
28TH JULY 1.30PM - 3.30PM
Session Three: Regional development and protection
Panel discussion:
We are the regional bodies for change and what is our role in arts development and protection.
Who and what work
is being done at regional policy level to protect and support the artists.
1.30pm: Introduction to
session and to panelists: Mere Ratunabuabua
Panelists: Elise Huffer - SPC, Scott
Morris - APRA
DAY
2: TUESDAY
29TH JULY 9.00AM - 10.00AM
Session Four: Mobilising Pacific
artists
Panel discussion:
Compliance and issues of entry into international festivals, exhibitions and
events and issues of copyright waivers
9.00am: Introduction to
session and to panelists: Anton Carter
Panelists: Rhoda Roberts(Director, Dreaming Festival), Petrina
George APRA
10.00am: Break for Tea/Coffee
DAY
2: TUESDAY
29TH JULY 10.30AM - 12.30PM
Session Five: Arts and trade - developing the Creative Industries in the Pacific
Panel discussion:
Issues in developing the arts sector and creative industries with little protection, support and opportunity - how do we change this? Is there Fair trade? How do we facilitate
access to markets?
10.30am: Introduction to
session and to panelists: Letila Mitchell
Panelists: Aivu
Tauvasa(Pacific Islands Trade and Investment
Commission), Vi Cottrell (Trade Aid NZ)
12.30pm: BREAK
DAY
2: TUESDAY
29TH JULY 1.00PM - 3.00PM
Session
Six: Discussing the solutions
1.00pm: Stocktake -
Submission to the Pacific Arts Council on outcomes and recommnedations
2.00pm: Pacific Arts
Alliance - Projects in progress and What can we do as artists to strengthen our
capacity
Online directory
Foundation
for Pacific Arts
Pasifika Market
Country points of
Contact and Regional Working committees
Faciltators:
Letila Mitchell, Daniel Waswas and Anton Carter
APPENDIX 1: PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
History:
The concept of the PaCaa was born out of a
gap identified at the 9th Pacific Festival of Arts in Palau. A group of Pacific artists and producers
found themselves in a situation of being on the outskirts of the Pacific Arts
Council as advisors and country coordinators, as well as being directly
involved in the coordination and programming of their national delegations.
However none of these young leaders had the mandate to formally collaborate or
share ideas with each other, or to put forward these ideas and issues to policy
makers at the Pacific Arts Council level.
There was also the realization that we all worked for a common purpose,
which was to strengthen and empower Pacific people through their arts and
culture.
There was an underlying common desire for
more collaboration regionally and internationally between Pacific artists and
other arts professionals and practitioners.
However there was no organization that currently had the mandate to
provide these links. There was also the
realization that there was no centralised point focused on collecting
information and disseminating knowledge and opportunities.
We believed by establishing and building an
independent non government organisation, that brought together key Pacific arts
practitioners throughout the region, that we would be able to fill this gap and
work strategically to make links between all levels of arts management,
governance and policy. It was from this
Pacific Arts Festival that key arts practitioners from throughout the region
found inspiration, and motivation through informal discussions, an exchange of
visions, passions and ideas.
The PaCaa has also aimed 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 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.
Trustees:
Letila Mitchell: Founder of the Pacific
Arts Alliance,
Trustee and Current Secretary General.
She is also the Director of the Fiji Arts Council. She is a visual and performing artists with
15 years experience performing and working in the Pacific, London,
New Zealand and Australia. She has extensive networks in the trade,
tourism and arts sector throughout the region.
She is also the Artistic Director of Rako a multidisciplinary arts
project that focuses on contemporary Rotuman productions. (see www.pacificartsalliance.com for
full cv)
Professor Vilsoni Hereniko: Is based at the
Center for Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawai'i. He is an accomplished writer, theatre
director and film producer. Hereniko has produced two plays, The Last Virgin in
Paradise and Fine Dancing. His latest play. He has also published extensively, including
a book based on his doctoral research entitled Woven Gods
and a beautifully illustrated children's book concerning the legend of Sina
and Tinilau . In 1997 he was presented the prestigious Hawai'i Elliott
Cades Award for a "significant body of work of exceptional quality."
More recently Hereniko has become interested in filmmaking. With his wife,
Jeannette, he produced a short film entitled Just
Dancing based on his play. His full-length feature film The Land had Eyes, premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in January 2004.
Key Core Group members:
Anton Carter: A founding member of Pacific
Arts Alliance, employed by Creative New Zealand (Arts Council Toi Aotearoa) for
the past 9 years as the Pacific arts adviser and current role is Strategy
Adviser, Pacific Arts. Responsibilities include; developing strategies for arts
development in New Zealand,
policy development, establishing residencies and partnership projects, developing
funding systems/structures and attending international arts markets. Has toured extensively (as an artist / tour
manager) around the Pacific region, Australia,
Japan and USA. Has a strong performing arts
and music background, former manager of Pacific Underground, member of award
winning band ‘Rhombus'. Also collaborates with visual artist Michel
Tuffery on a multi media project called ‘First Contact' which has exhibited in
NZ, Australia, Cook Islands
and Germany.
Director of a new entity called ‘The Vehicle' a multi media arts/music
collective based in Wellington,
New Zealand.
Daniel Waswas: is the current Chair of the Pacific Arts
Alliance - a celebrated Papua New Guinean Fine Artist, Educator and the Founder
of GalleryPNG. He completed a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of
Auckland, New Zealand and a Bachelor in Art & Design from Whitecliffe College
of Art & Design, Auckland,
New Zealand. Daniel has been exhibiting in some of the
major International Exhibitions eg, The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
Art, Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
and The Latitudes 2005 - Terres du Pacifique. (Contemporary Art from Pacific) Paris City
Hall (hotel de Ville de Paris). His artworks are collected by both private
and public Institutions namely, Museum
of Confluences, Lyon.
France, Museum de Rochefort,
France,
Australian National Gallery (Print Dept). Australia,
Museum of Ethnology,
Frankfurt. Germany and Tjibaou Cultural
Centre. New Caledonia
Ole Maiava: Currently Pasifika Festival director
for Auckland City Council, is also an independent film maker, actor,
broadcaster, musician, published poet and short story writer. He is also an
exhibited visual artist and sculptor. He has worked as HOD of Maori Performing
arts at the Te Wananga o Aotearoa's Porirua campus. He has presented papers at
various conferences around the world dealing in Pacific Arts,
education and events. He has collected a national award for television as
well as having a top ten hit on the NZ music charts in the eighties. He has
been active in the arts for the last 30 years. An original member of the
NZQA advisory board on electronic media, Maiava has also been involved in the
DSIR Pasifika scholarships panels and is one of the original co-coordinators of
the Achievers magazines. Maiava is also an active participant in the arts and
ran one of the first broadcast news gathering courses in NZ.
Rhoda Roberts: Currently is the Festival
Director for the Dreaming Festival. A
member of the Bundjalung nation, Wiyebal clan of Northern
NSW and South East QLD.
Rhoda was also one of 24 Australians selected as Creative Directors to
the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. For the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival she was
also co-creative director with Stephen
Page of Tubowgule,
the official opening ceremony of the Festival.
Her other role with SOCOG on a part time basis was Indigenous Cultural
Advisor. Rhoda was Artistic Director of
The Festival of the Dreaming, 1997, the first of four Olympic Arts Festivals.
Well known for her work with SBS television as a journalist and presenter for
the current affairs program, Vox Populi, she has also worked for Network Ten
and ABC Radio as a producer and journalist.
Rhoda has written and produced several documentaries, and was the first
Aboriginal to host a national prime time current affairs program. She continues
her radio work as reporter and presenter of the national music program Deadly
Sounds. Her involvement in the arts is
extensive. She was a co-founding member of Australia's first national
Aboriginal theatre company, the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust (ANTT) and as
an actor/producer and director, continues to work in theatre, film, television
and radio.
FORUM PANELISTS:
Aivu Tauvasa, Trade Commissioner, Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission,
Aust
Scot Morris, Director of International Relations
for APRA/AMCOS
Scot Morris has a Master of Laws in
Information Technology, Communications and Media Law from the University of New South
Wales and a Master of International Business from the University of Sydney. He has also just completed a
Graduate Diploma in EU, UK and US Copyright Law at King's
College London. He worked as a lawyer for a while then as a Legal Officer at
the Australian Copyright Council. His current position as Director of
International Relations for APRA/AMCOS involves dealing with copyright
societies around the world and maximising revenues from abroad for member
composers and copyright owners from Australia, NZ and the Pacific. He
is the Vice-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Committee of the International
Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies (CISAC) which has a particular
focus of developing music copyright infrastructure in the region. He was
copyright advisor for the Music Council of Australia and is on the Management
Committee of the Copyright Society of Australia.
Petrina George, Manager - Member Services,
APRA NZ
Petrina George currently holds the position
of Manager - Member Services, APRA NZ. Petrina is of New Zealand/Samoan descent
and has worked at APRA since 1994.
Petrina's role involves working directly
with New Zealand's
songwriters and composers in regards to the services APRA provides. Most
importantly, this means working to ensure the songwriters and composers receive
royalties from the performances and broadcasts of their works. Alongside this
key role, the Member Services department provide information to local members
via the APRA NZ website, bi-annual magazine and email bulletins; they also host
seminars for APRA members throughout the country. APRA NZ also host their own
songwriting awards, the APRA Silver Scroll Awards. For more information about
APRA go to: www.apra.co.nz
As an aside to her role at APRA, Petrina is
also the Event Director for the Pacific Music Awards and Trustee of the Pacific
Music Awards Trust. The inaugural Pacific Music Awards were held in 2005, with
the event being held annually to celebrate Pacific music and Pacific artists.
For more information about the awards go to: www.pacificmusicawards.org.nz
Elise Huffer, Cultural Affairs Advisor,
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Mere Ratunabuabua, PIMA/ICOMOS Pasifika
Vi Cottrell, Founder and CEO Trade Aid NZ
Tarisi Vunidolo, Creative New Zealand
FORUM PARTNERS:
10th Festival of Pacific Arts Organising
Committee
Pacific Islands Trade
and Invstment Commission
American
Samoa Arts Council
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Australiasia Performing Rights Association
TradeAid NZ
The International Seminars Support Scheme
(ISSS) is an Australian Government aid activity administered by AusAID
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