From My Lips To Yours: Exploring Poetry Through The Lens of Reciprocity

Name: From My Lips To Yours: Exploring Poetry Through The Lens of Reciprocity
Start: 2024-11-07T18:00:00+1300
End: 2024-11-07T20:00:00+1300
Location: Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust

Thu, 7 Nov, 6pm - 8pm NZDT

Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust

auckland, new zealand

Dani Kionasina

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Join Samoan (Falealili, Falelatai)/Welsh writer, poet, journalist, kaiako and multidisciplinary artist Dani Kionasina for an evening of Moana art and upu (words). If you are interested in developing your poetry skills with a supportive community of storytellers, this activation is for you.

On the night, you will embark on the process of gathering upu in response to the Solesolevaki exhibition. Guided by your senses and relationships, your writing will explore the theme of reciprocity. Through talanoa, creativity and community building, Dani Kionasina will offer awhi (support) as you navigate these exercises.

Learners of all ability levels are welcome. Wherever you are on your writing haerenga (journey), you are encouraged to utilise this nourishing space.

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Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson is a Samoan (Falealili, Falelatai)/Welsh writer, poet, journalist, kaiako and multidisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She is also the founder and director of Tagata Atamai and the Moana Creative Business Network. Both projects aim to amplify voices of the Moana through community, culture and creativity.

In 2024, Danielle was commissioned by Nevertheless Trust to create a visual art display of her poem ‘Ie Lavalava’ for the Arts and Culture Festival of the Rainbow Games. During that same year, Danielle's writing was selected to be included in a range of publications including Salient, Bad Apple, Overcom and Awa Wahine's Papatūānuku Collection. As a result of her promising contributions to the storytelling landscape in Aotearoa, Danielle was profiled in Rima Magazine: Awa Wahine and selected to participate in the pilot Pōkai Tuhi wānanga.

Danielle's debut poetry collection, Tusitala, was published by Tagata Atamai in September 2024. This book was written for "the mothers who whispered wisdom into my ears, aunties who slipped twenty-dollar notes into my hands and sisters who cackled with me into the night. These poems are an archive of the lives we have lived together. They are eternal - like us." Through a rt and upu, Danielle hopes to "facilitate connection, healing and the preservation of sacred cultural knowledge.”

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