PNG-AUSTRALIA EVENTS CALENDAR JUNE 9 - 22 Yumi Stap Wantaim 72-Hour Film Competition and Film Festival, Goroka and Port Moresby
around PNG’s 1975 Independence. Collaborators: National Archives of Australia and PNG’s National Museum and Art Gallery. • A book featuring speeches of Independence leaders, and a collection of historic documents from this important period, now digitised and made easy to share to a new generation. Collaborator: Deakin University, Victoria. • A piece of music created by PNG and Australian artists and scheduled for release in July to further connection and understanding between the two countries. Collaborator: Wantok Musik Foundation For more on Yumi Stap Wantaim events, follow the Australian High Commission PNG’s social media sites.
JUNE 28 Meganesia music and dance show, Sir John Guise Stadium (part of the PM’s Music Festival that will continue to July 5) AUGUST - SEPTEMBER ‘The Invisible Line: Stories, Legends and Connections’ PNG-Australia Art Exhibition, Mulgrave Gallery, Cairns Also in the planning but yet to be announced in detail are: • A dance event that will be a fusion of PNG and Australian dance styles, bringing both cultures to a new generation. Collaborators: PNG’s hip hop crew Wan Squad who made history last year by winning the World Hip Hop Dance Championship in Phoenix, USA. • A culinary TV docu-series Kin and Kai showcasing PNG and Australian cuisines. Collaborators: Chef Julz Henao and Aaron Fa’aoso • Historic photo exhibition focusing on the events
PNG Chef Julz Henao will explore Australian and PNG cuisine in a new TV docu-series celebrate nationalism and take pride in it, we can also remember we have relationships older than that and which run deeper than diplomacy and are more relevant than political ones.” Involved in the show are some of PNG’s
biggest names in rock, reggae, hip hop, blues, soul and Pasifica music, including Sprigga Mek (last year’s PNG Music Awards winner for best album, which was produced by Airileke’s Gaba Musik), Melbourne-based
PNG alt-R&B singer- songwriter Kaiit Waup, reggae singer Anslom Nakikus, Tonton Malele,
collaboration will be art exhibitions held in both Cairns and PNG that showcase the work and stories of artists in each country. ‘The Invisible Line: Stories, Legends and Connections’ will open at the Mulgrave Gallery in Cairns in August, featuring four artists from PNG and four from Australia. It will then lead into the Cairns PNG community’s 50th anniversary celebrations on September 16, much of it happening in Fogarty Park. Curated by PNG’s acclaimed portrait artist Lesley Wengembo and Cairns- based Australian Sally Brown, the PNG artists include Gazellah Bruder (printmaking, painting
Mereani Masani, Danielle Morgan, Estapacifica, and
rapper Siala Robson. Airileke described the lineup as incredible. “Kaiit is the queen of R&B, she just won an APRA Award a few weeks ago (April 30) for the most played R&B/soul song. This will be a bit of a homecoming for her, her first time to do a big show in PNG but she’s done some great things, last year she was over in Europe collaborating with Anderson .Paak (an American singer- rapper-drummer who performs with Bruno Mars).” Another big PNG- Australian cultural
and metal work), Leonard Tebegetu
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