Objectives
- Establish
some of the key attributions at policy level that could enhance the empowerment
of Business Management and Marketing strategies for Pacific
Island and Melanesian Art practitioners
in New Caledonia.
- Create
an entity that advocates at community level with the approval of the state to
develop policies that empower professional artists and keep on going follow up
with projects as they take place and when they are completed.
- Strengthen
regional networks to keep up with the progression of other groups that
have gone through the same problems of not enough initiative from local
government, therefore we have to seek outside assistance for
sustainable development. As New Caledonia is faced with real needs for
indigenous Pacific Island and Melanesian people who work in the Arts
and Heritage sector, under resourced and seeking development
opportunities.
- Explore
and investigate Marketing strategies and request assistance from a regional
level, to learn from regional enterprise and cooperation development practices
that structure from a community base.
- Find
solutions for the growing needs of Siapo Artists which are in management and
support services.
- Activate
an awareness of New Caledonia's
special situation and work towards weaving in exchanges of development strategies
from a regional perspective. That also links into policy concerns of indigenous
art here and future development practices of empowering sustainability.
Purpose
- Aide art practitioners with marketing initiatives through projects
the lead to sustainable development.
- Keep networking with art practitioners and managers by updates of
current concerns and events.
- Bridge the gap in the region by strengthening networks to cross
over French and English speaking countries, and form opportunities to advocate
for Pacific and Melanesian Artists, and create an awareness and understanding,
of Art practitioners here in NC.
- Continue and strengthen networks and links for Artists to fall
back on when in need of advice for specific artistic endeavors.
- Support an educational development structured resource that
sustains an artistic management working carrier.
- Open opportunities to dialogue with Artists, managers and policy
makers, in order to Understand everyone's role and function, to better
sustainable development here in New Caledonia.
- Encourage educational development that involves regional
government bodies and non government organizations, to work with the arts
sector to produce valid initiatives that strengthen the growing needs of our
diverse society for development policies.
Siapo Calendar of Projects and Coming
Events, 2008
Visual Arts
Siapo Arts Collective participates in the Closing Ceremony
for the New Caledonia
and New Zealand 07 Season, held at the South Pacific Commission 22 May, 2008.
Performance piece includes a Contemporary Visual Art
installation, Contemporary Dance and Traditional Music.
Music
'The Dreaming Festival', Woodford Folk Festival, 6 -9 June
2008
Kalaga'la and Jimmy Wedin to participate at 'The Dreaming
Festival', Woodford Folk Festival
, Queensland, Australia.
Literature
Work in progress
Laga Vaka - is from the Uvean language which
translated means Making Canoe it is a small collective of writers of Uvea and Futuna origin of writers
based here and in France.
It is a Heritage book project that will be the first collaborative project from
Pacific writers of Uvea and Futuna. The writers include Vaimu'a Muliava
currently studying Archeology, Restoration and Conservation, Paris Uni
[Pantheon-Sorbonne], Rapheal Kaikilekofe Visual Artist - Painter and writer.
And Maria Tamole a long time support assistant to Siapo, who will share some
short story writings and poetry.
Sei Moana - Ela To'omaga-Kaikilekofe takes on a
personal Craft book project, which reaches out to makers of hand craft objects
influenced by traditional and contemporary techniques. A wide variety which
covers both a French Pacific and English Pacific text, and also drops in and
out of conversation with Pacific Island mama, cris-crossing the diversity of
hand craft made objects in the Pacific Region and beyond.
Patrice Kaikilekofe, Pacific Arts Advisor
Marie
Tamole, Communications
Ela To'omaga, Administration
Mobile : Patrice [00687] 81 86 75
Email :
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Land line: Ela [00687] 35 46 24
Mailing Address:
Lottisment n. 55,
Rue de Nautous,
Val Suzon,
Dumbéa,
New Caledonia
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