Bought to you by Basement Theatre, ‘Moana Makers Wiki’ is a precious offering for Māori, Pasifika & MVPFAFF+ communities to share space with Māori & Pasifika craft makers, performers and activators for a week of intimate workshops that platforms Indigenous knowledge sharing and creation, community building and unapologetic self-expression. Manifested with intentions of fostering more creative havens for Māori & Pasifika artists and our wider communities, this is a week that we warmly welcome you all to join. Light snacks & wai provided. Supported by the Waitematā Local Board.
This EOI does not guarantee you a spot as we have limited capacity. We will contact you via email by Thursday, 11th July in order to let you know the outcome of your EOI, a waitlist will be active for all workshops. If you are unable to make the night(s) you express interest in, please let us know ASAP so we can offer the place to someone else.
There will be a photographer present during one of our workshops, should you not wish to be photographed, please flag that with us beforehand and we'll ensure our photographer is aware.
Any questions, contact:
amber@basementtheatre.co.nz
programming@basementtheatre.co.nz
Across the 5 evenings, we have:
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TUESDAY (7:00pm)
Dahlina (Ina) Taueu (She/Her) - Lalaga/Weaving
"This workshops is all about the precious art of 'Lalaga' (Weaving). Learn from Niue's finest on how to weave basic Niue lili (wall hanging)".
Dahlina Ritamanogi Taueu is a proud Niue descendant of Angelina Liorita Taueu and Taueu Pale who hails from the villages of Tamakautoga and Hakupu, Born and raised in South Auckland. Her hobbies involve listening to music, weaving, and reading manga.
Check out her work on IG: @rarojuicegal
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WEDNESDAY (7:00pm)
Te Ara Minhinnick (She/Her) - Harakeke Paper
"This workshop involves the processes of making paper from Harakeke pulp. All the paper making tools and materials will be provided! The participants are invited to take their paper with them from the workshop and use it however they wish".
Te Ara Minhinnick (Ngaati Te Ata), Hailing from Waiuku between the Waikato & Manukau waters, Te Ara employs Indigenous methods of practice through concepts pertaining to her Iwi, Ngaati Te Ata. Growing up under the framework of ‘akona mā te wai’, ‘learning through the medium of water’, Te Ara hopes to apply the observations taught by the Taiao to her artmaking focusing on placemaking through the wayfinding hua-vessels of whenua, one and wai.
Ko Taupiri, ko Puketapu ngā pito. Ko Tahuna Kaitoto te puna kōpu. Ko Te Manukanuka o Hoturoa, ko Te Awa o Waikato ngā wai ora. Ko Ngaati Te Ata te iwi.
Check out her work on IG: @te__ara
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THURSDAY (7:00pm)
Taualofa Totua (She/They) - Collaging
"Calling all silly sugas and sweethearts! In this workshop you will learn how collaging can help you release messy thoughts, draw inspiration from hot girl scholars and moana makers, or just make something pretty for you. Learn the process and how to make use of what you have with your own collage kit curated by Lofa Totua".
Born in Central Auckland, writer and creative Taualofa (she/they) is a moody shapeshifter, an overwhelmed big sister and a courageous dreamer. The tauiwi storyteller moves between writing and making as a form of service to their communities. Taualofa centres and celebrates the voices of the underserved, building a portfolio through honest reporting, informed story sovereignty and art that privileges joy and healing. A core member of a teine Sāmoa art collective MALAE/CO and co-founder of Filemu Zine, Taualofa has also dabbled in a range of creative pursuits from newsroom reporting to styling and creative direction. Her family are from Afega and Malie in Samoa; and Neiafu and Holonga, in Vava'u Tonga.
Check out their work on IG: @lofsgram_
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FRIDAY (7:00pm)
Jordyn with a Why (She/Her) - Songwriting & Performance
"This one is for all the musos, either established or aspiring, come for a jam and learn how to approach story-telling through songwriting".
Growing up in the suburban-scapes of South Auckland, Jordyn has quickly impacted the Aotearoa music scene with her bilingual (Māori and English) soulful sounds. Descending from Whāingaroa, Mulifanua Lalovi, Falelatai and Vaimoso, the stories are woven throughout her music, with her second release, ‘Brown Melodies’ being nominated for ‘Best Single’ at the 2022 Māori Music Awards. Following suit, Jordyn was a finalist for the 2023 Pacific Music Award’s Best Pacific Female Artist as well as her first Māori language release ‘Raumati’ landing as a top 3 finalist for the 2023 APRA Maioha Award. Jordyn was awarded the 2023 Māori Music Awards Best Female Artist.
2023 was a huge year for Jordyn’s career, being booked at her very first festival, the 2023 Pasifix Fest in Melbourne, showcasing at the Waiata Reo Māori Showcase at the Tuning Fork, featuring in the TVNZ Purapura Whetū Stars of Matariki show, performing at her first Pacific Music Awards, BigSound and SXSW Sydney 2023. 2024 has been no different, with Jordyn being a finalist and a performer at the 2024 Aotearoa Music Awards, in the Best Māori Artist and Mana Reo categories, and a Top 5 Maioha Award finalist for the 2024 APRA Silver Scrolls.
Audiences have praised Jordyn’s stage presence and dynamic, nestling into the soulful vibes somewhere between R&B and neo-soul with the occasional pop bend. In between the busyness, Jordyn has still been writing and is currently working on an album.
Jordyn’s ‘why’ is in and through her music - she tells the stories of language reclamation, identity and cultural heritage.
Check out her work on IG: @jordynwitha_why
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SATURDAY (8:00pm)
Manuha’apai Vaeatangitau (They/Them/She/Her) - Ballroom Chanting
"Ballroom Chanting requires quick wit, rhythm and a boombastic voice. In this workshop we will explore all these and have a kata and a lil jam on the way".
Manuha’apai Vaeatangitau (Lapaha, ‘Utulau, Tongatapu), an interdisciplinary artist, often engages with themes of eroticism and critical fabulation in her work, seeking to reassert queer Pacific identities into social and cultural contexts. With roots in the Auckland Ballroom scene, serving as a Ballroom MC and facilitator since 2017, community is instrumental in her practice. Representing the bodies and voices of the queer Pacific sits at the fore of her artistic explorations. Having garnered early recognition as the 2019 Creative New Zealand and Massey University Arts and Creativity category winner at the Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Awards, Vaeatangitau’s work has since been exhibited throughout Auckland and Wellington.
Following her solo exhibition, “Tupu’anga o Leitī,” at Moana Fresh Kū Kahiko Gallery in 2021 and her shared installation in collaboration with Sione Monū, “Kindred: A Leitī Chronicle'' at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki in 2022, Vaeatangitau was named the 2023 recipient of the Aniva Arts Residency. Her second solo exhibition, “Koe Tau’atāina o e Leitī: The Freedom/Emancipation of the Leitī '', the cumulation of her time for the Aniva Arts Residency exhibited at Pātaka Art + Museum. As a screenwriter/reluctant performer for TV and film, she plays the role of Pua and is a contributing writer to the second season of NEON/Prime TV Show “Not Even.” Collaborations with celebrated artists’ Sione Monū and Coco Solid, being a member of Coco’s Solid’s Rupture 2024 creative team, cultivates Vaeatangitau’s reputation as an exciting critical thinker and creator.
Check out their work on IG: @_petrossianbeluga