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		<title>Artist Discussion Panel, Film Screening</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 13 update: photos posted
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PPP AGM: Friday, November 6, 5:30-6:30 pm
University of Victoria, Sedgewick Boardroom C168
Artist Panel &#038; Film Screening: 7:00pm
University of Victoria, Gordon F. MacFarlane Lecture Theatre, Harry Hickman Building (HHB 105)
Please join us for the Pacific Peoples&#8217; Partnership Annual General Meeting. Following the AGM will be an artist discussion panel and a screening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria Performances: North to South Pacific Theatre &amp; Dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 17 update: photos added. Thanks to Ashley Marston for most of these.
Saturday, November 7, 7:00 p.m.
at Wawaditla (Mungo Martin House), Thunderbird Park, Royal British Columbia Museum
(outside the museum, at the corner of Belleville &#038; Douglas Streets)
Join Michael Mel, John and Luke Marston, the Coast Salish Tzinquaw Dance Group, and the South Pacific Dance Group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Performance Art of Michael Mel: hearing silenced voices, sharing histories and seeking Mbu Noman (wisdom)</title>
		<link>http://hailanstoailans.com/art/performance/michael-mel-essay-by-pamela-rosi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Michael Mel performing Shoosh! Na Kang Temani te tokor il. Nunga koom talg na ta. (Shoosh! I am chanting a tale. Give me your ears) at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, September 2009. (Photo: Dan Lepsoe)
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Essay by Pamela C. Rosi
Bridgewater State College
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INTRODUCTION: A CONTEXT OF ENTANGLED HISTORIES
Since the 19th century, the unique art forms of Papua [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Performance: Kam long mi- Opim ai na iau</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Michael Mel performs at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London (Photo: D. Lepsoe)
Update Nov 19: photos and more are on the de Young&#8217;s website.
Friday, October 30, 7:00 p.m.
Koret Auditorium
de Young Museum, San Francisco
Dr. Michael Mel is from the Mogei tribe of the Wila Village, Mt. Hagen, Western Highlands Province, PNG. His work as a performance artist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>lessLIE (Leslie Sam) Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Born in 1973 in Duncan, B.C., lessLIE’s “colonized, Catholic, Canadian name” is Leslie Robert Sam. His “decolonized artist’s name” is lessLIE. Picasso once said that “art is a lie that tells the truth.” lessLIE is living this perspective in the spirit of trickster traditions. lessLIE has a Bachelor of Arts degree in First Nations Studies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claytus Yambon Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Claytus Yambon is Village Councillor and a master carver from Korogo in Papua New Guinea’s Middle Sepik region. He is of the Iatmul tribe. Uri, his grandfather’s brother, taught him to carve. Claytus has travelled much of the Sepik River, and has an extensive knowledge of the various styles and forms of Sepik [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creation</title>
		<link>http://hailanstoailans.com/art/metalwork/creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the Bena Valley, two brothers lived and moved around. One day, the younger brother is killed and his body consumed by some cannibals. The brother finds his remains, brings home the bones, and puts one of the bones into a bowl of water. While mourning his brother, he waters the bone day and night, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cathy Kata Biography</title>
		<link>http://hailanstoailans.com/art/fibre/cathy-kata-biography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: P. Rosi
Cathy Kata was born in 1966 in Pakin Village in the Nebliyer region of Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Her tribal group is Kapia Ulgu; her language, Timbuka. She lives and works in Goroka. Cathy has been a professional bilum (string bag) maker since 2003, well known in PNG for her “bilumwear”: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Michael Mel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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I enjoyed many challenging discussions with Michael Mel over the course of ten days in Goroka, where he continually rearranged his comically busy schedule to help me prepare a shipment for Hailans to Ailans. Two things struck me about this extraordinary man. The first was that despite his tremendous commitments as a father, artist, university [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Initiation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This piece depicts one of the processes that take place prior to the initiation practiced by my people, the Bena Bena, and other neighbouring tribes.
&#8220;When boys reach their teens, they’re gathered and kept in the haus man (men’s house). Inside, these young men are taught everything they must know for survival in the future. While [...]]]></description>
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