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Japanese Dolls at Fiji Museum

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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE SUVA

FIJI

92 Ratu Sukuna Road, Nasese, Suva

P.O. BOX 14548, Suva, Fiji Islands

Tel. : +679 331 3802

FAX : +679 331 3803

Email : [email protected]

website : www.af-fiji.org.fj



Facebook : Alliance-française de Suva



The Alliance française of Suva is a school of French language and culture teaching French, and also Fijian. It also features a Media Center: a growing collection of French DVDs subtitled in English, and music CDs.  Also available are novels, "bandes dessinées" (comics for children and adults). It aims to promote cultural events and invites everyone to a free Cinema every 2 wednesday nights.

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FIJI MUSEUM



http://www.fijimuseum.org.fj/



Fiji Museum

PO Box 2023 Govt. Bldgs,

Suva, Fiji Islands.

Email: [email protected]

Ph: +679 3315944

+679 3315043

Fax: +679 3305143



Located in the heart of Suva's botanical gardens, the Fiji Museum holds a remarkable collection which includes archaeological material dating back 3,700 years and cultural objects representing both Fiji's indigenous inhabitants and other communities that have settled in the island group over the past 100 years.

The Fiji Museum publishes several periodicals as well as a comprehensive range of reports and books.

It publishes a journal containing articles on Fiji's history, culture, flora and fauna twice a year. The Editorial team is made up of museum staff, authorities on Fiji's history and geography from, amongst others, the University of the South Pacific and the Institute of Fijian Language and Culture.

The museum offers a variety of programs and activities that are available to the general public.







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DAREN KAMALI

writer poet musician



Daren Kamali is a Wallis & Futuna native, who was raised in Fiji and has lived in New Zealand since 1992. He holds ten years of experience as a Creative Arts Youth Mentor, and has been engaged with the creative arts for over fifteen years. In 2004, he served as the New Zealand delegate for the Festival of Pacific Arts in Palau, and again in Solomon Islands in 2012. He is the co-founder of the South Auckland Poets Collective (2008), in cooperation with his partner Grace Taylor.



Daren (DK) Kamali is a Pacific poet, writer, musician, and teacher. Daren Kamali has emerged on the Pacific writing scene as a Fijian writer, placing Fiji at the heart of much of his creative work. His most recent publication is entitled, Tales, Poems, and Songs from the Underwater World (2011). Kamali was the recipient of the 2012 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency, which he completed at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in Honolulu, Hawai'i. He used the time to continue work on his second book, Squid Out of Water (Ala Press 2014). In 2013, Kamali launched the company Niu Navigations, with his partner Grace Taylor. The company promotes poetry in New Zealand. He has put up a poetic theater show called Vuni Maqo (Mango Tree), in 2013.



He has a tendency to work across genres and languages, creating a unique blend of beats and lyrics. As a native speaker of Fijian, Kamali works with metaphors, imagery, and rhythm of the Fijian, English, and Māori languages.



http://www.niunavigations.com



https://www.facebook.com/dkamali





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Vilsoni Hereniko

(born October 13, 1954) is a Fiji Islander playwright, film director and academic. He was the writer and director of Fiji's first ever (and so far only) feature film, The Land Has Eyes (Pear ta ma 'on maf).



Hereniko is a Rotuman, born in Mea village, Hapmak, Itu'ti'u District, Rotuma, Fiji. He was schooled in his native Rotuma, obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of the South Pacific in 1997, a Masters degree in Education at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and, in 1991, a PhD in literature and language at the University of the South Pacific.[1] [2] He is now a professor at the University of Hawai'i's Center for Pacific Islands Studies, where he teaches literature, theatre and film.[1]



From 2008-July 2010 Hereniko was the Director of the Center for Pacific Islands at the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at UHManoa.  From August 2010-July 2012 he was the Director of the Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture and Pacific Studies at USP.

Hereniko is a playwright and stage director and seven of his plays have been produced and published. As a screenwriter, film director or producer, he has written and directed or produced five films, including a narrative feature, “The Land Has Eyes”, set on his homeland, Rotuma.



“Land” premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has been shown at over 20 international film festivals, including Rotterdam, Montreal, Brisbane, Shanghai, Singapore and Moscow. Winner of several awards, including “Best Dramatic Feature” at the 2004 Toronto Imaginative Film and Media Arts Festival, “Land” was also Fiji’s official entry (2005) for the Academy Awards in the Foreign Language Film category. In addition, Hereniko has served on the film selection committee for the Hawai`i International Film Festival as well as a jury member for several international film and theatre festivals.



Hereniko was the editor of the award-winning journal “The Contemporary Pacific” from 2002-2008. He has also authored or edited academic books or articles on Oceanic literature, film, art, culture, and the politics of representation.

He published his first plays in the mid-1970s, including Don't Cry Mama, A Child For Iva, Sera's Choice and The Monster. In 1997 he received the Elliott Cades Writing Award for his overall contributions to literature.



List of books published :

    •    Two Plays, 1987, ISBN 982-02-0015-6

    •    The monster and other plays, 1989, ISBN 982-02-0028-8

    •    The wicked cat, 1991, ISBN 982-01-0073-9

    •    Last virgin in paradise: A serious comedy, 1993, ISBN 982-02-0084-9

    •    Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1655-2

    •    Sina & Tinilau, 1997 (children's book), ISBN 982-02-0127-6

    •    Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific, 1999 (as co-editor), ISBN 0-8476-9142-X



https://www.facebook.com/vilsoni.hereniko

http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/rotuma/Images/hereniko/herenikohome.htm



6105 Summer St Apt A Honolulu, HI 96821-2344







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A Japanese doll exhibition is held at the Fiji Museum. The exhibition is a collaborative effort by the Japanese Embassy in Suva, the Japanese Foundation and the Fiji Museum to introduce the Japanese culture in the country.

The exhibition includes the involvement of a Japanese doll Doctor Masaru Aoki, 65, who is here as part of the doll exhibition.

He came to repair and put the final touch-ups for the seventy Japanese dolls that would be on display at the Museum tomorrow.

The Tokyo City native has specialised in doll repairing for more than forty years and said he liked conversing with the dolls while making them.

“Before exhibiting these dolls I have been restoring the dolls and touching up their make-up while looking into their eyes and talking to them asking them how they have been.”

He said the dolls that would be on display were made fourteen years back on an island in Japan.

Most of the dolls are miniature samurai, geisha, sumo wrestlers and Kabuki and Noh actors, painted and dressed in minute detail, and there are also simplistic but lovely Kokeshi wooden figures.

The Japanese admiration of dolls as an art form more than playthings is fostered by annual gatherings like Hina Matsuri (the Girl's Festival) and Gogatsu Ningy (the Boy's Festival), where craftsmanship rules the proceedings.

Japanese dolls are characterised by their serene facial expressions, achieved by carefully sculpting the outer layer of pulverised oyster shell, and the beautiful colours of their costumes, which hark back to eras of pomp and pageantry.

“The dolls that would be exhibited were created in an island of Japan in March 2000 and these dolls are used in different ways with different purposes all deeply connected with people’s everyday lives.”

Mr Aoki said the seventy dolls have been travelling to many countries of the world before coming to Fiji.

“The dolls go for exhibition around the world and they have just come back from Auckland, New Zealand before coming here.”

He said the seventy dolls were made by different artists who hailed from different parts of Japan.

Meanwhile, doll doctor, Mr Aiko will also be visiting schools to demonstrate and provide lectures on Japanese dolls.



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