Small Island Big Song
Taiwan/PNG/Mauritius/Aus+
This multi-platform project unites, through music, the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. These are the descendants of the Austronesian migration, and they are now at the frontline of the climate crisis. Since 2015, Taiwanese producer BaoBao Chen and Australian music producer and filmmaker Tim Cole, have filmed and recorded more than 100 musicians in nature across 16 island nations. These artists maintain the cultural voices of their people, by singing in the language, and playing the instruments of their land. The result is a magnificent musical dialogue between cultures as far afield as Madagascar, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Taiwan, Mauritius, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti and Rapa Nui (Easter Island).
Workshop:
The Indo-Pacific shares a little known ancestry of the ocean spread from Madagascar to Rapa Nui, Taiwan to Aotearoa and reaching back over 5,000 years along the ocean currents and seasonal winds to an island now called Taiwan. Small Island Big Song artists Putad, Emlyn and Yoyo Tuki embody these oceanic connections through dance, rhythm and chant, you will learn the Hoko of Rapa Nui, the Sega pulse of Mauritius and the enduring song of Indigenous Taiwan.
Audience members who would like to take part in this workshop are encouraged to wear a skirt or a hat, to add to their experience.
Tour supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan
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Fri
7:40pm
Taste The World
Sat
1:30pm
Moreton Bay Stage