Waru Pacific Arts Festival

This years line-up of awesome Pasifika and Maori artists include Jeanine Clarkin and local fashion icon Ron Te Kawa, Emma Kesha, Loretta Young, Tribalincs, DRUM 5, Areta Wilkinson, Te Hae Whanau, Mark Vanilau, Ebony Fields, Stanmore, Restoration, Swarm, 'Natural Buzz', Niu Seila and much much more.

Waru-Pacific Arts is the 8th annual Pacific Arts Festival of Christchurch. Since 2001 with the first festival called ' Tasi – Pacific Arts' (one day celebrating Pasifika and Maori arts) this celebration has seen many of New Zealands top artists display, perform, create, demonstrate and share. For Pacific Underground this has assisted and development all of its members through performance, production, event management, community capacity building and networking.

Happy New Year!!

Well, another year rolls around and here we are, planning to start 2008 with a bang!

Our plans for the immediate future are to develop some ICT training programmes for our Pacific communities here in Christchurch, so we can invite people to come and take part in utilising the resources that we have here at the eCentre.

Worth mentioning is the fact that we have had a change of officers, effective from our last meeting in December 2007. Congratulations to Toe Smith, who is the new Chairperson of Canterbury Pasifika Ltd. Memea Ma'aelopa and Vaemu Fidow remain as the Treasurer and Secretary of the company respectively.