Talking Landscape Architecture and life in NZ with Alvin Amana
Originally from New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea but living primarily in Port Moresby, Alvin Amana wanted to return to the...
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Elaine Pokarop
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min
“Smart is smart, but when smart stops, hard work takes over”
- Elaine from Nambis Events speaks with Barbara Angoro Image: via Barbara Angoro - Twitter Smart is smart, but when smart stops, hard...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Dec 19, 2020
- 1 min
The Process - Making Marks
"As is my process before I mark someone; I look at the body as a whole and as our women did before us, choose where and what to be marked...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Jun 4, 2019
- 2 min
“From Old to New Old, That's How We Go Forward..."
Travelling to and from my birthplace and the country that birthed my passion to express my cultural identity, I have, as a trained...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- May 13, 2019
- 6 min
“Caution”
As part of the APT8 opening 'Live' performances at QAGOMA in Brisbane, Australia, Sunameke Productions directed by Julia Mageau Gray,...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- May 7, 2019
- 5 min
I Like It, I Want It, I'll Take It.
- Originally posted as 'The Hidden Wharenui in Fitzroy' on teptok.com, April 2015. In 2015, The Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival had...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- May 7, 2019
- 4 min
‘Traditional Tattoo and World Culture Festival, 2017'
My time at the ‘Traditional Tattoo and World Culture Festival’ in Mallorca was an eye opener for me into the ‘tattoo world’. My world of...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Jun 5, 2018
- 6 min
Talking with Ema Tavola
A conversation between Julia Mage’au Gray and Ema Tavola Papatoetoe, Auckland (January 2018) penned by Ema Tavola. - originally published...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1 min
Three Months with Terita
Introducing Terita Gamoga Toea and her revareva. (Terita’s story in brief. Full version coming up in the Tep Tok : Our Lines Connect Us...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Mar 9, 2018
- 2 min
My Mother’s Skin
Our Bubu’s (Grandmother’s) wore the marks of their families, clans, villages and regions. Their marks afforded them respect, an immediate...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Sep 18, 2017
- 7 min
When I say Nesian? You say dance. Nesian. Dance. Nesian. Dance.
Dance is an intricate part of Nesian culture. We can be identified by the way we sway our hips or the manner which we tilt our head or hold
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Aug 7, 2017
- 4 min
Shifting the Maiden - Pacific Dance New Zealand 'Artist in Residence, 2017'
What happens when you take the maiden out of that context, when you shift the maiden into the modern reality of urban Auckland and they are
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Jul 28, 2017
- 4 min
Gini Goada Gini Auka - Stand Strong Stand Firm
Sunameke performed A'inaisa as a response to the cultural compromise we are asked to make on a daily basis in regards to our way of...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Sep 1, 2015
- 4 min
Carrying Culture
Sharing the words of Moale James This year while on a family trip to PNG I received the opportunity to carry the permanent markings of my...
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