When: 29 September 2022 Where: City Recital Hall, 2 Angel Place, Sydney 7.30pm: Jerome Blazê 8:15pm: Beckah Amani 9:20pm: Ngaiire 5 years in the making, Ngaiire is taking her third album around Australia and...
Paradise Palette: PNG Contemporary Art exhibition will be on show at the RQAS Petrie Terrace Gallery, 3/162 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane from 7 – 25 September 2022. Curated by Don Wotton, Paradise Palette showcases the...
A Constant Forester Paul Ryan This is the story of Paul Ryan’s forestry career, but it’s not just about trees. It also relates to his growing involvement with the people who, living in or...
Kalolaine Kalu Imagine being able to pay your parking fine with a string of shells. In Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province, you can do precisely that! The pearl oyster, the cowrie and...
Editing Papua New Guinean writers can be complex because it deals with writers whose first language is usually not English. Editing often fractured English has all the pitfalls of straight translation. The danger is...
Kevin Deutrom When the War Came to Our Ples: Some stories from the Momase Region of PNG When war zones are on the lands of indigenous subsistence farmers, the impact on the inhabitants is...
After being at ASOPA from 1961–62 I taught at four high schools in Papua New Guinea (PNG)—Malabunga, Goroka, Karkar and Brandi—from 1963 to 1977. It is often hard to judge our impact as teachers....
The December 2021 PNG Kundu article, ‘Recollections of a Plantation Manager’, and especially the few paragraphs about the native, indentured workforce, jogged a dozing gene in my intellect about my early days (1960s) as...
The story by Adam Liu, ‘The Search for Nicolasa’, in the December issue of PNG Kundu had more relevance to me because of the Saipan connection than the Rabaul connection. I did my...
In Part I of this story the author described the early stages of the creation of a national literature In Papua New Guinea. Further developments follow in this part of the story. It wasn’t...
Bilum & Bilas are excited to have been included in a new short film celebrating the creative economy for inclusive economic development in PNG. For thousands of years, bilum weaving has been handed down...
Lecture by Lesley Wengembo: CULTURAL IDENTITY, OUR GREATEST ASSET, 1pm Due to Covid, numbers are limited and bookings essential. VENUE: Cell Block Theatre | The National Art School (NAS) corner of Forbes & Burton...
Date: Saturday 6 November 2021 The PNGAA table at the Sydney Oceanic Art Fair welcomes your contributions for sale (10% to PNGAA; the balance to you!) Please email events@pngaa.net if you’d like to participate....
Featuring books about Papua New Guinea and reviews, art and craft exhibitions, interviews of interest to members and information for authors, artists and craftspeople. Michael Veitch The Battle of the Bismarck Sea During...
Kalolaine Fainu After a number of delays, with time to reflect on why my flight the previous day had been turned around en route, I finally found myself travelling high above the highlands of...
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NGAIIRE is performing in Sydney – 29 September 2022
September 21, 2022
