Summer Associate Artist
Are you interested in producing digital media? Do you have a passion for Pacific stories? Talanoa is looking for exciting new storytellers to join our team over the summer! We have four summer associate artist positions available for digital storytellers based in Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia...
Owning your narrative: Christine Afoa
Christine Afoa is an emerging Samoan writer based in Western Sydney, Australia. Her publishing debut featured in Sweatshop Vol 2., edited by Tongan-Australian writer and arts worker Winnie Dunn. Christine took some time to share with us about her journey to owning her narrative. How...
Motherhood: Loss and Release, Vulnerability, Courage and Joy.
Motherhood has been an ongoing process of loss and release, leading me to vulnerability, courage, and joy writes our founder, Arieta Tora Rika. I knew something was off one morning when I sat up on my bed and felt the room spinning around me. My...
Storytelling: Connection in Adversity
Talanoa founder, Arieta Tora Rika, reflects on the importance of reminding ourselves that connection is a form of resilience in the face of adversity. Storytelling may seem trivial during a crisis and yet it is one of the most powerful pathways to connection. During times...
Supporting our people: A list of Oceanic initiatives that are leading community through the COVID-19 pandemic
We have put together an online resource of businesses & community initiatives that have been created or re-directed and are led by Oceanic peoples globally to support our community through these trying times. Sign up to our newsletter so you can receive a weekly update...
Combining technical knowledge & Indigenous heritage: Rudolph Cruz Rivera II
Rudolph Cruz Rivera II is the founder of Taiche’ Photography, hailing from the Marianas Islands in Guahan. Prior to picking up photography, I dabbled in graphic design. At 16, My father Rudolph Rivera Senior bought me my first laptop and digicam. The laptop had...
Reclaiming the meaning of representation: how Oceanic artists are taking up space in the fashion world
The year is well & truly underway and Pacific Runway has announced that they’re accepting applications after another hugely successful year. Talanoa’s associate artists, Taofia Pelesasa & Sela Vai, went along to the 2019 runway to connect with designers, models, audience & small businesses to...
Tired of looking at your screen? Here’s some Pasifika podcasts to listen to
When we first started this list two years ago, there were barely any podcasts by Pasifika people out there. Now, there are more and more emerging and it is so exciting to see! Keep scrolling to hear what’s out there in the podcast ocean. “Lilika...
Reclaiming the meaning of representation: how Oceanic artists are taking up space in the fashion world
The year is well & truly underway and Pacific Runway has announced that they’re accepting applications after another hugely successful year. Talanoa’s associate artists, Taofia Pelesasa & Sela Vai, went along to the 2019 runway to connect with designers, models, audience & small businesses to...
Generating a positive future for health literacy in Papua New Guinea: Lavau Kwalam Ngaluc
PNG Health Project was founded in 2017 by Eve Golma to address an ongoing gap in health literacy. Each year, a group of medical students travel to Papua New Guinea and reach out to over 2000 students to provide a foundational understanding of various facets of...
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