Research Guides: Festival of Pacific Arts: 1988, Townsville

1988 newspaper

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Article titled "The Pacific People Celebrate Tradition"; From the LA Times Sunday, September 18, 1988

Pacific Ephemera Collection 1.03, Festival of the Pacific Arts, Pape'ete (Tahiti) 1985

1988 - news articles

Hawaiian craftspeople, artists being sought: International Festival of Pacific Arts. - Ka wai ola o OHA
February 1, 1988 - Men and women skilled in traditional Hawaiian crafts and art forms, as well as artists who take these arts in to contemporary forms to express Hawaiian cultural themes, are encouraged to apply to represent Hawai'i at the Fifth Pacific Festival of Arts in Townsville, Australia, August 14-27.
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Call Number: UHM Hawaiian Folio (Library Use Only) ; DU624.65 .W25 v 5 n 2, pp. 7
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Wai ola o OHA, FEB 01 1988 v 5 n 2, pp. 7
24 Pacific countries in arts festival. - Matangi Tonga
March 1, 1988 - Four delegates from the Festival of Pacific Arts Ltd. of Townsville, Australia, visited Nuku'alofa.
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Call Number: UHM Pacific (Library Use Only) ; DU880.A2 M38 v 3 n 2, pp. 32
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Matangi Tonga, MAR 01 1988 v 3 n 2, pp. 32
ISSN : 0113-0374
Pacific artists gather. - Pacific Islands Monthly
April 1, 1988 - With the 5th Festival of Pacific Arts due to open to the public on August 14, the northern Queensland city of Townsville is experiencing an unprecedented influx of island artists, performers and exponents of Pacific traditions.
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Pacific islands monthly, APR 01 1988 v 59 n 4, pp. 17
Australia organizers meet with Hawaii group. - Ka wai ola o OHA
May 1, 1998 - In an effort to promote and maintain the indigenous cultures of the Pacific region, a unique festival is hosted every four years in a different Pacific country. This event, the two-week Festival of Pacific Arts, offers an opportunity of Pacific peoples to share their culture, music, art and dance with one-another.
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Call Number: Hawaiian Folio (Library Use Only) ; DU624.65 .W25 v 5 n 5, pp. 14
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Wai ola o OHA, MAY 01 1988 v 5 n 5, pp. 14
Committee announces delegates for Aug. 14-17 festival in Australia. - Ka wai ola o OHA
July 1, 1988 - Final selection of delegates attending the Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts Aug. 14-27 in Townsville, Australia, have been announced by the Hawaii Organizing Committee which is being coordinated by the Kamehameha Schools at the request of Governor John David Waihee III and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
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Call Number: Hawaiian Folio (Library Use Only) ; DU624.65 .W25 v 5 n 7, pp. 13
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Wai ola o OHA, JUL 01 1988 v 5 n 7, pp. 13
Additional names for 5th Pacific festival. - Ka wai ola o OHA
August 1, 1988 - The names of several delegates to the 5th Festival of Pacific Arts Aug. 14-17 in Townsville, Australia, were inadvertently excluded in the Page 13 story of Ka Wai Ola O OHA last month.
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Call Number - UHM Hawaiian Folio (Library Use Only) ; DU624.65 .W25 v 5 n 8, pp. 21
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Wai ola o OHA, AUG 01 1988 v 5 n 8, pp. 21
Politics hit the festival of the isles. - Islands Business Pacific
September 1, 1988 - Victor Carell, who organised the first South Pacific Arts Festival in Suva 16 years ago, was one of the saddest Australians at the Townsville festival in August. The organisation was poor and production was badly looked after, he said. But, most of all, Carell was sad at the intrusion of Aboriginal nationalism.
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Call Number: UHM Pacific (Library Use Only) ; HF4032 .S68 v 14 n 9, pp. 41
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Island business pacific, SEP 01 1988 v 14 n 9, pp. 41
Arts...or politics? - Pacific Islands Monthly
October 1, 1988 - September's Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts emerged as an uncomfortable compromise between tradition and realpolitik.
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Pacific islands monthly, OCT 01 1988 v 59 n 10, pp. 20
Pacific arts festival an outstanding exchange. - Ka wai ola o OHA
October 1, 1988 - "Welcome brother, welcome sister" bleary eyed from 21 hours of traveling and stiff from restless hours in economy-class seats, the member of the Hawaii delegation to the Fifth Festival of Pacific arts waited anxiously for the airplane to taxi to a stop in Townsville, Australia.
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Call Number: Hawaiian Folio (Library Use Only) ; DU624.65 .W25 v 5 n 10, pp. 12
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Wai ola o OHA, OCT 01 1988 v 5 n 10, pp. 12
Festival on film. - Pacific Islands Monthly
December 1, 1988 - Memories of this year's Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts can now be enjoyed on video, thanks to a Townsville media farm.
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Pacific islands monthly, DEC 01 1988 v 59 n 12, pp. 45
Color Gravure: The 5th Festival of Pacific Arts - Gakkaishi
January 1, 1989 - (pending description)
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Call Number: UHM Pacific (Library Use Only) ; DU1 .G344
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Gakkaishi, JAN 01 1989 v 11 n 4 n 41, pp. (23)-170
ISSN : 0387-4745
A Report on the Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts - Pacific Arts Newsletter
January 1, 1989 - Like its predecessors, the festival had something for everyone - storytelling, films, exhibitions, demonstrations, performances of traditional and modern music and dance, and political rhetoric.
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Pacific Arts Newsletter, 1989 (28), p.1-3
ISSN: 0111-5774; EISSN: 2350-3394
The Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts - Oceania
June, 1989 - Performances and exhibitions from the Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts held in Townsville Australia are discussed. The festival celebrated the heritage and cultural identity of indigenous people from 24 countries in the Pacific region.
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Oceania, 1989, Vol.59 (4), p.299-310
ISSN: 0029-8077; ISSN: 1834-4461; EISSN: 1834-4461; DOI: 10.1002 j.1834-4461.1989.tb02339.x

1988 Logo

1988 misc items

Cover of "Where to see Aboriginal Art", a leaflet provided by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs

Pacific Ephemera Collection 1.03, Festival of the Pacific Arts, Townsville (Australia) 1988

Excerpt from Festival News of the 5th Festival of Pacific Arts. The title reads "THE FESTIVAL IS HERE" and the subtitle reads "It is unlikely that Australia will ever again have the opportunity to experience the excitement and richness of the cultures of Australia and the Pacific."

Pacific Ephemera Collection 1.03, Festival of the Pacific Arts, Townsville (Australia) 1988