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SERVICE - An Exciting new Service Activity is running every Tues & Thurs evenings. Group Volunteers Travel out to the western Village of 'Ahau to tutor30-50 students aged 11- 19 in English, Maths, Sciences & Arts. Transport and Dinner is provided by the Project coordinator Mr Manu and the students parents in exchange for 3-4 hours of fun and learning with our ON THE SPOT team. If you have any learning Materials /Resources--especially BOOKS!!!! please please please send !! or contact Ruha Fifita to join the service team on a TUEs or Thurs Evening. We can only take 6-10 people out each evening.
PULOTU - will be showcasing the best of the Groups artwork, Fashion, Music and Dance next month . To get involved in the Production call Ruha or Luisa. This annual event celebrates our culture through creative expression. Our theme this year- are the Legends of Maui and the ideas of leadership, warrior, explorer, magic, Ocean, Land, Family and Fire. its gonna be Awesome !! :-)
SUTO -our funky TV program ;-). is on hold till we secure ongoing sponsorship for the team . The Program has generated much community interest and there are already a line up of destinations to explore in future episodes.- including the Toloa Rainforest, Organic Farms, Tinopai Coconut Production Centre, schools etc. Also - our camera man has been employed so the team will be shooting the adventures themselves and editing it with Lani. :-) It's gonna be a whole new challenge for the Suto team.
PACIFIC PULSE- remember that Team from Austrailia that visited Tonga to do a story on ON THE SPOT- the show has finally been completed and will air on Pacific Pulse . you can check it out online at http://australianetwork.com/pacificpulse/
YEYA WORKSHOPS :
- NEW CALEDONIAN THEATRE COMPANY -Pacifique et Compagnie gave up a week to spend it ON THE SPOT with us to share skills in IMPROVISATION THEATER. These workshops were offered to students of Ocean of light, the USP DRAMA CLUB, TONGA STREET BOYS, PARTICIPANTS OF CLIPPING PROJECT and ON THE SPOT MEMBERS .the week ended with an Impromptu STAGE FRIGHT on the 29th of MAY . The evening was a great success - being the first Stage fright in our New center - The JUDO hall and attracting audience members from as far away as Mu'a and 'Ahau!!The program included on the spot performances by audience members, an Improvisation Match, on the spot performance by AMy's team of Volunteers and a few trial performances on the spot choreographers
- Taane Mete visits JULY 11th`-25th to work with a team of dancers . training will be in choreography , movement , and contemporary dance. selected team will work for 4 hours a day to produce a 20 minute performance for PULOTU. contact Yvane Fifita for more information , to join pre workshop trainning and sign up for Taane Metes workshops.For information about his work see-
http://www.okareka.com/ - CLOWNING- a visiting clown , performer and spiritual leader called Bubbles is visiting the kingdom and has offered to work with us- so there could be clowning workshops soon or at least discussions with her- watch this space!.
JUDO HALL – the skylights have been fixed!! yay . thank - you Lennie. Now we have to do the rest. A team of volunteers went in and sorted, scrubbed , swept and wiped the hall. Now, Yvane , mercy , Magnus, Sam and others are mapping out remaining holes in the roof- to fill in - then we'll be taking out the old mats to replace with the new, cleaning out tanks and looking at a renovation plan and budget for future work to transform the hall into an Arts Center. :-) Funds are also needed for this Action.
BRISBANE - Ruha & Luisa returned from their Queensland Tour with the Pacific Arts Alliance on the 15th June. The girls were on fire with inspiration, news and ideas. They made fantastic networks with other artist, represented outstandingly at the Pacific Arts Alliance meeting , displayed art at the Pacific Storms Exhibition and participated fantastically at the Dreaming festival . the girls encourage all artist to register with http://www.pacificartsalliance.com/ , and join the network for more exciting opportunities: ie..
- aplpication to join SHANGHAI EXPO 2010.
- OTS is commited to sending a team to WASAWASA festival in Fiji this DEC.
- INTERNATIONAL ARTIST have committed to Collaborating and working with the OTS team to " to build secure and sustainable pathways for our people through the arts"
CLIPPING HIV/AIDS - SURVEYS ARE DONE & FILM CONCEPTS HAVE BEEN CREATED. The team starts work on filming imediately. Ideas the group came up with are educational , entertaining, and encouraging. 3 teams were fomed for concept design- ONE to specifically deal with the Science and current international status of HIV/AIDS, ONE to Address the Negative PERCEPTIONS and MYTHS surrounding the Issue and another to PROMOTE the PREVENTATIVE ACTIONS and USE of the Local Services relating to HIV/AIDS.
WEBSITE - Although AMy has Left to France and ALfred was recently away in Korea!!! This initiative is still in development. to complete it we need ideas for Page Structure, Content for each section, Photos and videos, and background graphics ( digital or hand drawn in pale colors) to make our page FLASH!! . :-) :-) SO SHARE YOUR IDEAS :-)
NEW STUFF- Peace Corps has donated 3 Computers for the group . They are sitting in our living room till we find 3 monitors. Look around everyone. Computers will be used by the group members for Admin and Management, Music editing, photo editing, designing publications etc and maybe online stuff if we can get them hooked up - and have some support for the huge Electricity and internet bills they will create.
MEDIASNACKERS -DK - wants to visit !! in OCT. remember www.mediasnackers.com ? will he's in NZ this year and hopes we can organize something for him to do here with youth and online media and invite him over. share your thoughts everyone.
MEMBER REQUEST -CHRIS CLARK - just found out he needs to fundraise $1000 with his class at St Andrews by August!!. .. for their yearly donations to school developments. Any donations, volunteers to help him out ,or ideas on creative fund raising methods will be much , much much much appreciated.
And that's it . MALO EVERYONE. -------------------------------------------------------------------- FAVORITE QUOTES- from SAM HAFOKA "The worst sin is not doing what you have to do when you have to do it" "It is better to die living than to die never having lived"
