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Regular guy, married, kids, cool job. Old but not a geezer.Fifty really strong guys rowing one boat. Its a Samoan tradition. The boats will be in the water during the Pacific Arts Festival. Here's a sample of a practice run for the Flag Day Race coming up next week on the 18th.
The Pacific Arts Festival is coming to Pago Pago, American Samoa from July 20 to August 2, 2008. There's more to do than singing and dancing.
3000 artists from 27 Pacific Island nations will perform traditional arts: dance, song, crafts and customary rituals such as ceremonial greetings, oratory, chants and healing practices. For indigenous islanders the festival will remind us of our common four thousand year old history of voyaging, the life giving links between humankind and nature and the mystical relationship between our spirit, the heavens, the sea and the earth.
In a modern context the Pacific Arts Festival is an opportunity for fusion. The festival is where people of the world; artists, fashionistas, musicians and writers; will come to remind themselves of other cultural ways, new old customs and the singularity of the human spirit manifest in a vibrant collage of color, voice, beat and meditative transcendence. The Pacific Arts Festival, the communal meeting place of Isla Pacifica, is where new world forms of art will take shape from collaboration, observation and the never unchanging need to awaken the creative voice that resides within us all.
Fusion now. The artists are on the page below. Invite yourself to Pago Pago.

Le Festival d'Arts Pacifique vient ; Pago Pago, le Samoa Americain du 20 juillet au 2 2008.
3000 artistes de 27 nations d'le de Pacifique excuteront des arts traditionnels comme la danse, la chanson, les artisanats et les rites habituels comme la salutation monielle, l'art oratoire, en scandant des slogans et en gurissant. Pour les insulaires indignes le festival nous rappellera notre histoire de quatre mille ans commune de voyaging, la vie donnant des liens entre l'humanite et la nature et le rapport mystique entre notre esprit, le paradis, la mer et la terre.
Dans un contexte moderne le Festival d'Arts Pacifique est une opportunite; pour la fusion. Le festival est les gens du monde, les artistes, fashionistas, les musiciens et les auteurs viendront pour se rappeler d'autres voies culturelles, nouvelle vieille douane et la singularite du manifeste d'esprit humain dans un collage plein de vie de couleur, voix, battront et transcendance ditative. Le Festival d'Arts Pacifique, le lieu de rencontre communal d'Isla Pacifica, est de nouvelles formes mondiales d'art prendront la forme de la collaboration, l'observation et le besoin jamais immuable de veiller la voix atrice qui side dans nous tous.
Fusion maintenant. Les artistes sont sur cette page ci-dessous. Invitez-vous Pago Pago.

Das Pazifische Kunstfest kommt zu Pago Pago, Amerika Samoa vom 20. Juli bis zum 2. August 2008.
3000 Kunstler von 27 Pazifischen Inselnationen werden traditionelle Kunste durchfuhren: Tanz, Lied, Handwerke und bliche Rituale wie feierliche, Redekunst, Singen und Heilpraktiken.
Damit erinnert das Fest die einheimischen Inselbewohner an die viertausendjahrige Geschichte von voyaging, dem Erleben, das Verbindungen zwischen der Menschheit und Natur und der mystischen Beziehung zwischen unserem Geist, dem Himmel, dem Meer und der Erde gibt.
Aber in einem modernen Zusammenhang ist das Pazifische Kunstfest auch eine Gelegenheit das Zusammenkommen und gemeinsame Erleben der Menschen und Kulturen. Zu diesem Fest kommen Leute ; Kunstler, Reisende, Musiker und Schriftsteller- aus allen Teilen der Welt, um andere kulturelle Wege und die Eigenartigkeit des menschlichen Geistermanifests in einer vibrierenden Collage der Farbe, der Stimme und des Klanges zu erleben.
Das Pazifische Kunstfest ist wahrend dieser Zeit der zentrale Treffpunkt der Isla Pacifica. Hier werden durch die Zusammenarbeit, Erfahrung und der in jedem Menschen schlummernden kreativen Stimme, neue Formen der Kunst Gestalt annehmen!
Fusion jetz! Die teilnehmenden Kunstler sind auf dieser Seite unten vertreten. Fuhle dich herzlich nach Pago Pago eingeladen!
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Ever Think About Going Primitive? ..
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"Ever Think About Going Primitive?"

"Queen Mary II Calls Pago Pago"

"We Cross the Ridge to Pago Harbor"

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The Pacific Arts Festival is only 120 days away so its time for us to get personal.

Meet the gang! When you get here be ready to do things you might not have expected. Like wear a lava lava wrap around, jump off a bridge and sample baked octopus. And . . oh. Did you see the video of the bridge jump ? Its not all about dancing and singing.

American Samoa is hip. The DJ's will be rocking with the tunes you want to hear. So sweat it up. Click on the profile and watch the slide show take you deep into the jungle.

So there you are. " Go ahead and read the first three installmennts of The Handy Couples Guide to Bush Sex in American Samoa".

Have fun with that. When you get here there will be a free map so you'll where to go and how to get there.

Plan on having fun in Pago.

From Pago

JWad

Music:

The 27 participating Pacific Island Countries and Territories who will perform at the Pacific Arts Festival in Pago Pago, American Samoa:
American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna.

Television:

ETHNOBOTANY
is the study of the relationship between plants and people: From" ethno " - study of people and "botany " - study of plants. Ethnobotany is considered a branch of ethnobiology. Ethnobotany studies the complex relationships between (uses of) plants and cultures. The focus of ethnobotany is on how plants have been or are used, managed and perceived in human societies and includes plants used for food, medicine, divination, cosmetics, dyeing, textiles, for building, tools, currency, clothing, rituals, social life, and music.
Biophony

The wild soundscapes of this world originated in the forests, deserts, and mountains of our domain. These 'biological symphonies' -- or biophoniesâ„¢ -- inspired humans to dance, sing, and express themselves through language and art. Drawing upon our singular collection of these rare biophonies, Wild Sanctuary research and outreach explores a variety of natural, historical, and cultural uses; linking our ancient and contemporary connections to the very soundscapes that have enriched and informed our lives -- from our origins to the present.

"Bernie Krause and his niche theory are the real thing. His originality, research, and above all basic knowledge of the sound environments in nature are impressive. The idea of music originating in the sound communication systems of wild animals (including insects) is a sound and provocative hypothesis. I admire also his attention to the preservation of ancestral-level cultures for their own value but also as a testing ground for theory on human behavioral evolution."

Edward O. Wilson
Harvard University, 3 November 2006

ETHNIC FUSION MUSIC

refers to the strain of New Age music that brings the instruments, sounds and themes of different cultures together in soft-focus music geared toward spiritual health, meditation or growth. Proponents of Ethnic Fusion vary from the flamenco-influenced guitarist Ottmar Liebert, to the east-meets-west synth artist Kitaro, to Nigerian composer Suru Ekeh.
TECHNO-TRIBAL MUSIC

lives at the intersection of Ethnic Fusion, New Age and electronic listening music. Progressive Electro-Acoustic artists like John Hassell, Djam Karet and Michael Brook recreate traditional sounds from native cultures in the Americas, Africa and Australia with '90s technological sophistication. Successful Techno-Tribal music accurately preserves the subtleties of primordial rhythms and tones in a manner that is reverent, celebratory and innovative, even as it places very modern digital sounds and techniques in the foreground.

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MODERN ETHNOBOTANY

Beginning in the 20th century, the field of ethnobotany experienced a shift from the raw compilation of data to a greater methodological and conceptual reorientation. This is also the beginning of academic ethnobotany. Today the field of ethnobotany requires a variety of skills: botanical training for the identification and preservation of plant specimens; anthropological training to understand the cultural concepts around the perception of plants; linguistic training, at least enough to transcribe local terms and understand native morphology, syntax,

ECO FASHION
Style from the earth
Tuai Auva'a wears a creation by Monty Tupuola designed for the 2007 Miss American Samoa pageant.
Tuai's dress is made entirely from plaited coconut fronds. The fronds are boiled and dyed to become flexible and soft before the dress is fashioned. A sash, woven from coconut fiber, sets off the waist in striking complimentary earthen tones.
Her traditional headdress, called the "tuiga" is constructed of fiber from the coconut and adorned with shaped and polished coconut shell.
The neckless is also made from coconut shell.
And what a stunning Pacific image Tuai presented before the audience. Her poise and couture was 100% Pacific â€” 1000% World Fashion.
Siapo, or the pressed cloth material made from the bark of the mulberry tree, is used here to fashion this stunning ensemble. Worn by Keresesa Puailoa for the 2008 Miss Amerika Samoa Pageant, the pattern design mimics the traditional pe'a or full body tattoo of the Samoan culture. The pattern was drawn onto the fabric from the residue charcoal ash of the umu, or earthen oven fire used for cooking.
Kere's's headress is made from dyed human hair adorned with feathers from the bird of paradise. Her necklace and armband is styled from the tusks of the wild boar. Kere's's face paint is a pigmented mixture of the lopa tree seed.
Poised in the actions of the Samoan dance, Keresesa, sets classic pose of the South Pacific and a sample of where world "green" fashion may be headed in years to come.

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The Tramway above Utulei

Tramway: Old Fale at Upper Point To arrive properly at the governor's mansion, a waiting car and driver met invited guests below at the foot of the inclined drive. Two by two and four by four the gues...
Posted by John on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:22:00 PST

The Blunt Point Shore Battery

Gataivai: Blunt's Point Guns I le suafa le tino ma le toto, Iesu Keriso. It was at that moment of the Catholic mass when the stillness of the parish coincides with the transformation of the bread and ...
Posted by John on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:44:00 PST

The Bark Cloth Clock

Marv Silverman felt quite at home on the Lido Deck.He had planned his cruise vacation with the same meticulous attention that he attended his job at Safeco Incorporated in lower Manhattan. The travel ...
Posted by John on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:45:00 PST

Toala, A new short story from Pago Pago

TOALAThe patient was brought to a small Samoan house behind the main family residence. He suffered from bouts of depression and disorientation. Occasional sharp pangs of pain racked his body. Breathin...
Posted by John on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:28:00 PST

We arrived in Pago Pago

The anchorage in a small cove seemed inviting enough so we headed for it. There were coconut trees so we figured people lived there. Actually my wife, Liz saw a wisp of smoke.As we approached, some pe...
Posted by John on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:18:00 PST