Culture & Arts
Pacific Human Rights Film Festival Draws More Than 2,500 Across the Region
The Pacific Community says more than 2,500 people took part in the 6th Pacific Human Rights Film Festival, which ran free screenings and talanoa sessions in Solomon Islands and 13 other countries and territories.
The label that sells the recording behind 'Sweet Lullaby' asks to be put in touch with Afunakwa's family
Smithsonian Folkways, which sells her 1969 recording, says it keeps royalties in escrow when it has no contact details for an artist, and will contact her grandsons' foundation. Thirty years on, the letters about Deep Forest's use of her voice still disagree.
Malaita woman is the voice of the world hit 'Sweet Lullaby'. A new film finds her family and Deep Forest names her
The voice in Deep Forest's 1992 hit Sweet Lullaby is Afunakwa, a Baegu woman from Malaita, singing a lullaby about two orphans. A new film has found her family, who say none of the money reached them. In October the band began to name her.
Dance scholar credits Suva childhood for research into Siva Samoa
Teuila Hughes, a doctoral candidate in Dance Studies at the University of Auckland, said her childhood in Fiji laid the foundations for her research into Siva Samoa, the university said.
West Papuan researcher graduates with doctorate on Muyu noken string bags
Dr Veronika Triariyani Kanem, from the Muyu region of South Papua in West Papua, graduated with a PhD from the University of Auckland on 24 September for research on the cultural and environmental significance of noken string bags.
Commonwealth Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh visits Tuvalu for first time
Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh, the first Commonwealth Poet Laureate, made her first visit to Tuvalu in August, running creative writing workshops in Funafuti after weather postponed the country's first Cultural Festival.
Pacific Break Winner Takes to WOMADelaide Stage
Pacific Break winner Chris Kamu'ana Rohoimae battled nervousness and excitement as he prepared to step onto the stage at WOMADelaide over the weekend.
Tourism Solomons Celebrates Success of Bonfire Festival
The recent Bonfire Festival in Honiara, centered around Melanesian music, has been hailed as a major success by Tourism Solomons, which has called the event a potential model for promoting local cultural, musical, and sporting events to international markets.
Rohoima Wins Pacific Break 2024
Solomon Islands artist Chris Kamu'ana Rohoima shared a heartfelt moment with his family when he received the life-changing call from Nesia Daily’s Jacob McQuire and Michael Chow, informing him that he had won the Pacific Break 2024 competition.
Bibao Joins Pacific Break 2024 Finalists
Solomon Islands very own, Lester Bibao Kisina known as Bibao has been announced as the seventh finalist in Pacific Break 2024.
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