Performing Lines Tasmania in association with Ten Days on the Island presents

SA/MOA

By Lila Meleisea

(Lutruwita/Tasmania | Pacific Islands)

When

EXHIBITION
21 MAR FRI – 5 APR FRI

SUGA PERFORMANCES
21 MAR FRI 2PM
22 MAR SAT 12:30PM AND 6PM

Where

Moonah Arts CentreNipaluna/Hobart

Tickets

$15 – $20

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Please Note

Suitable for all ages

Show Accessibility

Language No Barrier
Language No Barrier

This event can be meaningfully engaged with, even without a comprehensive understanding of the English language.

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Visual Content Rating

Event is partially subtitled or includes dialogue. There will be background music and/or sounds.

Venue Accessibility

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Level Access

The venue and specific seating areas can be accessed without encountering any stairs.

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Wheelchair Accessibility

This venue is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible toilet.

 

More detailed information on Moonah Arts Centre can be found here.

SA/MOA by Lila Meleisea is the culmination and first expression of a 3-year project exploring Samoan indigenous knowledge systems, environmental care and creative practices, produced by Performing Lines Tasmania. 

During Ten Days on the Island, Moonah Arts Centre will have the honour of housing SA/MOA, welcoming traditional makers, knowledge holders, musicians and contemporary artists travelling from around Samoa and Australia.  

They will converge and take over the spaces of Moonah Arts Centre to share a multi-faceted program of cultural artforms and practices – among each other and the public – including conversations and workshops that embrace and encourage inter-cultural exchange, community-building and learning.

Plus, a unique multi-dimensional work by Suga (Grace Vanilau, Natalia Mann, Folole Tupuola and Lila Meleisea) who express through music, dance, spoken word, video and the practice of ‘Resonance’ which lies at the heart of SA/MOA.

SA/MOA Siapo presents an exhibition of siapo, Samoan bark cloth, including ancestral siapo held by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery alongside contemporary siapo created using the same traditional process by Lila Meleisea, Tusolo Aumale, Regina Meredith and Su’a Uilisone Fitiao.

Credits

SA/MOA Project Collaborators
Galumalemana Steven Percival (Samoan heritage artist, writer and documentarian)
Regina Meredith Fitiao (Samoan siapo maker of Leone lineage)
Su’a Uilisone Fitiao (Tufuga ta Tatau – Samoan tattoo master, wood carver and siapo maker) Tusolo Aumale (Samoan siapo maker of Siutu lineage) Grace Vanilau (Aotearoa-born Samoan poet, singer/songwriter) Natalia Mann (Australian Samoan resonance artist and musician) Folole Tupuola (Samoan diaspora performer and activist) Lila Meleisea (Tasmanian-raised Samoan multi-disciplinary artist).

Palawa and Pasifika Communities connected to this place

Image Credit: Lila Meleisea, contemporary and old Samoan bark cloth (Siapo) and fagufagu (Pacific nose flute)

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