Pacific

One of a series of programs documenting the 1988 Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts in Queensland, Australia, this video features the performances, art and crafts of the delegations from Samoa, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Cook Islands, Rapa Nui, and other Pacific island nations. Does not include the Hawai’i or Tahiti delegations, which are documented in other programs in the series.

One of a series of programs documenting the 1988 Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts in Queensland, Australia, this video features the performances, art and crafts of the Fiji, Vanuatu, Kanaky (New Caledonia), and Papua New Guinea delegations.

One of a series of programs documenting the 1988 Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts in Queensland, Australia, this video features the performances, art and crafts of the delegation from Tahiti.

Fisherman Ray Kalili supervises a neighborhood hukilau, a group fishing technique, on O‘ahu’s windward coast. Ethno-historian Marion Kelly describes the use of fishponds in old Hawai‘i. Navigator Nainoa Thompson explains the art of wayfinding, or long-distance ocean navigation. And artist/philosopher Sam Ka‘ai speaks of the continent of ocean that makes up the Polynesian world.

Recorded in 1983 during a ten-day gathering in Vanuatu, a newly independent island nation in the south Pacific that had recently declared itself a nuclear-free zone, this program takes a look at the Pacific-wide movement towards independence and de-nuclearization.