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Going live at 3pm today (Sunday) to discuss creative survival in the corona era with Fiji-based VV Arts Manager in Residence, @peterdanielfiji - talanoa on IG Live, tune in! #TeamFiji #MoanaOceania #PeterSipeli #VunilagiVou

All going to plan, yesterday would have been the last day of our @aklfestival show, #SafeAsHouses 😔 Thank you to artists @marcushipa.art, @craighorne and @metiria for being part of what has ended up being... our last show in Ōtāhuhu! What a way to go out! Thank you to Craig Horne for firmly planting this show and this kaupapa in the #Ōtāhuhu consciousness with the work, “The Pegler Project”, which includes documentation of 78 Pegler Brothers houses in the Ōtāhuhu hood. It was awesome to see so many Pegler residents at the exhibition opening earlier this month, meeting each other for the first time! These houses are quickly disappearing with the tides of gentrification and intensification that are reshaping and reframing Ōtāhuhu at an alarming rate. But, with this global pause and impending economic recession, perhaps, just maybe, we (including the powers that be) can take the opportunity for a re-think; has our rate / definition of ‘progress’ undermined / overlooked our community’s need for connection, wellbeing, security and purpose...? #LockdownReflections 😎 Hope everyone is staying sane in #lockdown, embedding good practices that will keep us safe as a country: wash hands, moisturise, eat, pray, rest, reflect... and repeat 🧘🏽‍♀️ #StayHome #SouthAuckland

‪We may be in lockdown here in Aotearoa and won’t have #Fiji-based poet & arts manager, @peterdanielfiji here for our VV Arts Management Residency, but we’ll be doing a series of live conversations here to exchange ideas, share poetry & support in response to this new climate.‬ #MakeDo #ArtsManagersInIsolation #VunilagiVou #Fiji #MoanaOceania #Talanoa

What is a gallery without people? A very sad little room! We’re relocating to adapt to our uncertain futures, taking some downtime and look forward to re-emerging in the Spring with a fresh approach to honouring the space where art meets audiences. Watch this space! 🌊🙏🏽🌊

Thinking of you, Teresia 💜 It’s 3 years since we lost your radiating presence on this earth. Praying for #MoanaOceania today as the impacts of a global recession will amplify what we experience in the privileged Pacific Rim many times over. Thank you Tere for being a portal to the Pacific here in Aotearoa and beyond, a consciousness that changed the world. 🙏🏾

Today I bought all the plants from the Gallery home, so they don’t die with my business 💀 #RealTalk // We are now closed until further notice 🦠👈🏽🤬 #SouthAuckland

We were really looking forward to holding space for this #talanoa tonight but as per announcement earlier this week, this event has been postponed. Still important, but not essential to our community health and wellbeing at the moment. Vinaka vakalevu to Auckland Council for supporting this kaupapa, and to our artists in #SafeAsHouses: @marcushipa.art, @craighorne and @metiria - we endeavour to stay open but taking it one day at a time at this point. 🦠⚡️🦠 #Ōtāhuhu #SouthAuckland #PacificArt #MoanaOceania #AklFest

Closed today due to emotional exhaustion 🌊🦠💀

Miss you already, Peter! 💔 Our current corona-crisis announcement has put the final nail in the coffin of our first Vunilagi Vou Arts Manager in Residence opportunity. We will keep supporting you and the arts community you play such an important role within, in whatever ways we can. Stay strong: as you told me today, we gotta pour optimism into this world. Love you long time and see you on the other side. 🌊✨🙏🏾✨🌊 #PacificArt #MoanaOceania #InvestingInRegionalArtsDevelopment CLARIFICATION: Peter is not dead! Just Vunilagi Vou’s capacity to host him as an artist in residence! 💀

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