Brown & Around

May 21st 2013
Pasifika Festival / Polyfest

April 3rd 2013
Pacific Energy Summit 2013

March 25th 2013
Positively Pasifika

March 13th 2013
Pasifika Festival 2013
The Pasifika Festival is one of Auckland’s longest running major events and each March attracts tens of thousands of people to Western Springs Park for a fantastic day to celebrate Auckland’s Pacific heritage.
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February 28th 2013
ASB Polyfest Launch 2013
The 38th annual ASB Polyfest was officially launched at the Auckland War Memorial last night (27th). Over 10,000 students from 59 schools from around Auckland will participate in the world’s largest Pacific Island and Maori festival.
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February 8th 2013
Showcase launched in True Pacific Style

December 21st 2012
Arts Pasifika 2012 Awards, Wellington

November 23rd 2012
Prime Ministers Pacific Youth Awards

FROvember 2012
FROvember FROmages

November 8th 2012
Fobb Nation Music Awards

November 6th 2012
National Day Celebration for Tonga Cocktails
Check out images from the National Day Celebration for Tonga Cocktail event.
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October 30th 2012
PCF Private Sector Cocktail Function
Images from the NZ Business Councils and Pacific Chambers of Commerce cocktail function.
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October 2nd 2012
Pacific Grooves Festival, Carson, California

October 1st 2012
11th Festival of Pacific Arts Solomon Islands 2012
Beginning with a dawn service to herald the arrival of a fleet of waka, the specially constructed festival village wowed contingents from across the Pacific, its man-made lake coming to life with nightly firework displays.
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July 30th 2012
Home AKL exhibition underway at Auckland Art Gallery
Home AKL, the first major exhibition of contemporary Pacific art to be showcased at the Auckland Art Gallery, and the first exhibition of New Zealand art to open at the recently refurbished gallery is underway.
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July 24th 2012
Auckland Mayor recieves Samoan Matai Title
Auckland Mayor Len Brown has stripped down to his bare chest, put on a head band and a necklace and wrapped a mat around his middle and become a Samoan matai or chief.
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June 25th 2012
PACIFICA Leadership Dinner
To mark Sir Peter Blake Leadership Week 2012, the annual celebration of PACIFICA “Women of Influence” held a special leadership event at the University of Auckland’s Fale Pasefika last night.

June 18th 2012
Advance Pasifika
A vibrant, vocal and passionate crowd of marchers brought central Auckland to a standstill on Saturday morning (16 June), as Advance Pasifika took to the streets to protest against the continued disparity that Pacific peoples of New Zealand experience.
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June 12th 2012
Hamilton Samoa Independence Celebrations
The Fonofaufautua a Samoa Hamilton City invited all people of the Waikato to kick off the region’s spectacular 3 day celebrations for the Samoa 50th Independence on Saturday June 2nd.

June 1st 2012
2012 Pacific Music Awards
The movers and shakers of Pacific music were out in force last night, as the Pacific Music Awards rolled around for its eighth year. SPASIFIK went along to document the night, with one of our reporters even making it to the awards podium.

GALLERY
May 22nd 2012
Polyfest Swagg
Visual artist Cerisse Palalagi is of Niuean (Tuapa) and Maori (Te Arawa, Ngai te Rangi) heritage. In March she attended the 2012 ASB Polyfest at the Manukau Velodrome to capture the style of the Polynesian youth of today.