We have another exciting stage performance event for Pasefika Vitoria Choir, this time at the ACU Big Sing for a Big Cause event this Friday (June 27th) at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne city. We have spent the last few weeks deep in rehearsal, preparing music that advocates for mental health and wellbeing. Under the…
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Tuiga Program 2025 – EOIs open
Talofa lava! It’s time to get our popular Tuiga Program rolling. Our Tuiga Program 2025 is suitable to those Samoan/Pacific community members who are looking to create their own tuiga for family and ceremonial use. Therefore we invite our PICAA followers/subscribers to send us an expression of interest by doing the following: Send us an…
Spirit of Pasefika will be back in 2025
Last week’s 4-day heatwave resulted in the cancellation of the Moomba Parade 2024 – an annual event that our program SPIRIT OF PASEFIKA centres on. Although we were disappointed that our performance did not reach Moomba crowds this year, the City of Melbourne‘s decision to cancel the parade was for our safety and well-being. Today we…
ANNOUNCEMENT! Bowery Theatre Residency Artists for 2023-24: PICAA with Asalemo Tofete & Gina Tafea
We are thrilled to announce our new creative residency with Brimbank City Council’s Bowery Theatre in 2023-24. Through this residency, we will develop our newest PICAA initiative – a Pasefika Theatre Festival taking place in 2024. This project will be led by two of our PICAA Creative Associates Asalemo Tofete (Creative Director) and Gina Tafea…
Melbourne Lockdown Extension
Yup! We’re back there again. In fact, we didn’t make it out of the 7 days! We got slapped with a lockdown extension instead. At the time of writing this blogpost, we have 6 more days left to go and then hopefully – Hoooppppefully Looooord Jesussssss! – we can return to some kind of normality….
Keep Each Other Safe
A Community Safety message from PICAA: We are doing our bit to keep Victorian Pasefika communities safe as we ease out of lockdown. It’s important that we remain vigilant and up-to-date with health messages coming from the Premier’s office. We are committed to updating community for the next few months, by working with our local…
Become a PICAA 2020 Volunteer
Malo ni! We are calling out for volunteers who can join us on the big days when we are hosting events and projects. This is a great opportunity especially for those wanting to pursue the Arts, or Community-focused careers. All our events promote and engage Pasefika arts and artists here in Australia, and for 2020…
UPCOMING EVENTS – Don’t miss out!
Bula! Welcome to our second blogpost since our PICAA website went up. We made THREE project call-outs over the past 7 days on our facebook page – but you may have missed our posts. Our classes are starting to fill up so it would be a real shame if you missed out coz you didn’t see…
“REHAVAIKI” A musical production (A.Tofete/R.Seumanutafa) in 2017
Friday 14th July 2017 – what an amazing night that was – our second showing of “ReHavaiki”, a Pacific Island musical written and directed by Asalemo Tofete and musically composed by Rita Seumanutafa. When people think of a Pacific Island musical show, Hammerstein and Rodgers’ “South Pacific” comes to mind for many theatre goers. In…
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