FROCK A WHANAUNGATANGA exhibition preview & Hei Fluffy workshop for educators

Immerse yourself in making practices of the Moana with the Pacific Sisters for this workshop and preview especially for teachers and educators. Explore textile techniques while chatting with the Pacific Sisters about Moana making practices, kinship, ritual, and activism through art and adornment. Make a classic Pacific Sisters adornment and create your own fluffies made with milled muka textile fibres.

Whilst making, also enjoy the Pacific Sister's latest exhibition FROCK A WHANAUNGATANGA, a major exhibition showcasing the Pacific Sisters’ vibrant legacy through fashion, performance, film, and music.
 

About the Pacific Sisters 

Pacific Sisters is a Tāgata Moana art collective that emerged from the fringes of mainstream arts and culture in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1991. They are now celebrated for their multi-disciplinary practice that blends Moana heritage art and contemporary forms to create fashion activism. Through ceremony, art, adornment and performance, they embrace and assert their urban Māori, Pacific, and Queer identities, unique to Aotearoa New Zealand.  Pacific Sisters advocate for the environment, Indigenous, POC and Queer rights and body sovereignty. The collective is an active and influential part of the wider Moana arts community, nurturing and mentoring younger artists, as well as inspiring and supporting each other’s individual art practices.

Image: Pacific Sisters, Hei Fluffy workshop, Ōtautahi 2023. Photo: Pati Tyrell