BY ICAP STAFF
Monday, March 12, 2012
ICAP invites you to join us on Thursday, March 22 at 5:00pm to have FREE ʻai pono pūpū and a FREE film screening of a locally produced film called Miss South Pacific: Beauty & The Sea. This is a film about the strength, beauty, and intelligence of the South Pacific Island women who competed in the 2009-2010 Miss South Pacific Pageant in Suva, Fiji. It is also a film about climate change and how increasingly destructive weather patterns and rising sea levels are impacting the daily lives of all South Pacific islanders.
Set against the backdrop of Suva, Fiji’s capital and the largest city in the South Pacific, the Pageant takes us on a week long journey that showcases the most beautiful women in the South Pacific, from island countries as famous as French Polynesia, Fiji and Samoa, to the lesser known atolls of Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Niue. We watch as the contestants, or “Cultural Ambassadors” as they are called, proudly display their traditional attire, and perform dances and songs from their native countries. We also listen as they give us heart-rending accounts of the effects of climate change on their island homes.
When- Thursday, March 22, 2012
Time- 5:00pm
Where- Kokokahi YWCA, Kāne`ohe, O`ahu (45-035 Kane‘ohe Bay Drive)
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Event sponsored by: The Kresge Foundation, US Forest Service Department of Agriculture, Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Gladys Brandt Chair in Polynesian Studies
For more info contact Malia Nobrega at nobrega@hawaii.edu or 808.286.5461.
