4 episodes
Solwata Kin Emele Ugavule and Brandon Tacadena
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Solwata Kin is a podcast, produced by Talanoa, that highlights and celebrates Oceanic thought leaders. We will be speaking with academics, artists and educators from across Oceania, diaspora and on-Country, about their journey to becoming who they are. This podcast is an opportunity for you to learn more about the uniqueness of their journey and how their Oceanic identity is not only integral but is inseparable from their work.
Through responsive storytelling, we aim to highlight the ways our thought leaders have carved their own paths, uplifted their peoples and re-imagined the future of our Ocean.
Hosted by Talanoa’s creative director, Emele Ugavule, and associate educator Brandon Tacadena. Each episode unpacks how our guest’s identity as solwata kin is not only important, but inseparable from their work.
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Dr Tammy Haili'ōpua Baker
Our third episode features the wonderful Tammy Haili'ōpua Baker. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. As a Director/Playwright/Theatre Educator/Scholar, her work centers on the development of an indigenous Hawaiian theatre aesthetic and form, language revitalization, and the empowerment of cultural identity through stage performance.
Links to the articles we mentioned in our talanoa and about Tammy's work:
https://howlround.com/series/foundation-and-rise-hawaiian-theatre
https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/12425
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13528165.2016.1162518
Vinaka vakalevu to our platforming partners South Pacific Islander Organisation . South Pacific Islander Organization (SPIO) is a 100% grassroots nonprofit founded in December 2018 by four Indigenous and Pacific Islander Stanford alumni who believe in democratizing Pacific Islander access to higher education and economic opportunities, globally. They came together in response to the lack of cohesive Pacific representation in higher education, professional fields, and in the media.
Follow SPIO on Twitter and Instagram for updates, or sign up to their Higher Education network.
Music: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA
This is an independently produced podcast, so if you like our work - you can buy us a coffee to show your appreciation and keep us going! If you buy us a coffee, leave your name and we will give you a shoutout on our podcast!: https://ko-fi.com/solwatakin
Find out more at https://solwata-kin.pinecast.co -
Seuta'afili Dr Patrick Thomsen
Our second episode features the amazing, Seuta'afili Dr Patrick Thomsen. He is a lecturer in Pacific studies at the University of Auckland, Principal Investigator for the Manalagi Aotearoa Pacific Rainbow LGBTIQA+ MVPFAFF Health and Wellbeing Project, the Pacific data co-lead for the Human Rights Measurement Initiative. PhD from the University of Washington - Seattle and lived in South Korea for 9 years. Freelance writer and consultant for many projects including SOGI rights, and the Pacific.
Links to the articles mentioned in our talanoa:
https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/history/lgbtqi-histories-aotearoa-new-zealand/there-are-ghosts
https://www.manalagi.org/
Links to Patrick's website:
https://www.patrickthomsen.com/
Vinaka vakalevu to our platforming partners
South Pacific Islander Organisation
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South Pacific Islander Organization (SPIO) is a 100% grassroots nonprofit founded in December 2018 by four Indigenous and Pacific Islander Stanford alumni who believe in democratizing Pacific Islander access to higher education and economic opportunities, globally. They came together in response to the lack of cohesive Pacific representation in higher education, professional fields, and in the media.
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Twitter
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for updates, or sign up to their Higher Education network.
Music: Underground Stars by Loxbeats
https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream:
https://bit.ly/underground-stars
Music promoted by Audio Library
https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA
This is an independently produced podcast, so if you like our work - you can buy us a coffee to show your appreciation and keep us going! If you buy us a coffee, leave your name and we will give you a shoutout on our podcast!: https://ko-fi.com/solwatakin
Find out more at https://solwata-kin.pinecast.co -
Dr Torika Bolatagici
Welcome to our first episode of Solwata Kin featuring the incredible, Torika Bolatagici. Torika is a Fijian-Australian mother, artist and educator who produces multidisciplinary projects centering the counter-narrative of marginalised histories and knowledges through curatorial collaboration, photography, video, installation and publication. Torika is a lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University and has a PhD from the School of Art and Design, University of New South Wales on the topic 'Somatic Sotia: Commodity, Agency and the Fijian Military Body.'
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Transcript of our trailer episode is available via the Talanoa website
here
The sere sung at the end of this episode is a lullaby called O o baua, and is recorded and sung by Emele Ugavule. It's shared as both a reference to a work by Torika Bolatagici called 'Ecology/Economy' and a lullaby that Emele's father sings to her son often.
Vinaka vakalevu to our platforming partners South Pacific Islander Organisation.
South Pacific Islander Organization (SPIO) is a 100% grassroots nonprofit founded in December 2018 by four Indigenous and Pacific Islander Stanford alumni who believe in democratizing Pacific Islander access to higher education and economic opportunities, globally. They came together in response to the lack of cohesive Pacific representation in higher education, professional fields, and in the media.
Follow SPIO on Twitter and Instagram for updates, or sign up to their Higher Education network.
Music: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA
Links to Torika's website: http://www.bolatagici.com/
Community Reading Room Instagram: @communityreadingroom
Links to works mentioned in the episode:
http://www.bolatagici.com/somatic-sotia
http://www.bolatagici.com/apenisa
http://www.bolatagici.com/ecologyeconomy
http://www.communityreadingroom.com/
O o baua (in the style of Brown Sugar) sung by Emele Ugavule as a reference to Torika Bolatagici's work Ecology/Economy
O o baua
Lai vei kotinamu
Lai qoli kedaru
Daru mai tatavu
Kemu na saku
Qau na damu
O, o baua
O, o baua
This is an independently produced podcast, so if you like our work - you can buy us a coffee to show your appreciation and keep us going! If you buy us a coffee, leave your name and we will give you a shoutout on our podcast!: https://ko-fi.com/solwatakin -
Trailer Episode
Talanoa is a digital storytelling platform, connecting Oceanic people with communities around the world through the power of our stories.
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Transcript of our trailer episode is available via the Talanoa website
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The Tokelauan Fatele at the end of the episode is called Tofa Koe. It was performed by Te Tuloto o Nukunonu Sydney, recorded and mastered by Emele Ugavule at Doonside Primary Public School for the stage production of Te Molimau written by Taofia Pelesasa at 25a, Belvoir St in 2019.
Lyrics & translation by Lesina Ateli-Ugavule:
TOFA KOE
Goodbye to you
TOFA KOE
Goodbye to you
TAKU PELE
My dearest
TAKU FA PELEPELE
My love, my dear dearest love
AI SEI LAGI ATU
I'm composing
O LAU PESE
my song to you
E fagufagu kiā koe
Because of my longing for you
Vinaka vakalevu to our platforming partners South Pacific Islander Organisation.
South Pacific Islander Organization (SPIO) is a 100% grassroots nonprofit founded in December 2018 by four Indigenous and Pacific Islander Stanford alumni who believe in democratizing Pacific Islander access to higher education and economic opportunities, globally. They came together in response to the lack of cohesive Pacific representation in higher education, professional fields, and in the media.
Follow SPIO on Twitter and Instagram for updates, or sign up to their Higher Education network here
Essay reference: Toward a New Oceania by Albert Wendt https://ethnc3990.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/wendt-toward-a-new-oceania.pdf
Music: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA
This is an independently produced podcast, so if you like our work - you can buy us a coffee to show your appreciation and keep us going! If you buy us a coffee, leave your name and we will give you a shoutout on our podcast!: https://ko-fi.com/solwatakin