Hunting for the Best Coffee in Suva
After having a two-week trip to Suva extended to six, I decided to start hunting around for the best local coffee spots. For a seriously spoilt, Sydney coffee head like me, finding the right coffee spot was essential to my productivity while writing, working remotely...
Leaning In, Showing Up and Taking a Chance: What it’s Like to Talanoa in Suva
Three weeks ago, sitting on my living room floor, I decided to take the leap into the unknown and hold my first independent event at home in Fiji. A talanoa session – one that would encourage people to step into the limelight of their own...
Elizabeth Kitè and the Queen’s Young Leader Programme
I really didn’t know what to expect when I walked out of the elevator of my office to wait at our designated meeting spot. I knew Elizabeth Kitè was Tongan, she’d recently been selected to represent Tonga in the Queen’s Young Leaders Programme, and that...
What’s in a Name, When it Comes to Talanoa?
On the 29th of September 1988, a young Pasifika couple welcomed their screaming bundle of joy into the world. A round, bald and healthy baby girl. As he did with his two children before her, her father beamed with pride as he gifted her with...
Talanoa with Arieta in Suva
I’ll be in Suva for a few weeks, and would love to meet you – fellow storytellers, creatives, writers, publishers, digital communicators and content creators near and far! If you’re interested in meeting me too, I’d like to invite you to my very first event...
Finding My Fijian Identity Through The Ocean | Genisis Selina | TEDxSuva
From TEDxSuva – 15 year old Genesis shares her journey of reconnecting with Fiji and her identify as a Fijian through the ocean and a recent trip she made to her grandmother’s village. She challenges us all to discover more meaningful connections and greater sense...
Fijian Women of The World Feature
Earlier this week, I had the honour of being nominated to share my story with Isabella Naiduki, writer and blogger from Fijian In The UK, for her Fijian Women of the World Series. Isabella describes it as “a series celebrating Fijian Women Of The World...
Our Ocean, Our Voices, Our Future – Event
“In our Pacific Islands Ocean Region the ocean unites and divides, connects and separates, sustains and threatens our very survival.” This is the opening of the regional discussion paper circulated amongst Pacific Civil Society in the preparation for the Oceans Summit happening right now. This...
Home, Ronna Su’a
Our crown is in the God we serve, there we find our core foundation in who we are. We are the peoples of seas that carried our ancestors and land that tell of their stories. To the world, our islands are havens of paradise, to...
Deprecated: strpos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated in /home/ouyg0b4ahz04/public_html/wp-content/themes/gillion/footer.php on line 22