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As we pass the half way mark in 2009, I just wanted to get some ideas about the whos, hows, wheres and whats of PNG Music.
The RokRok Music facebook group was started because we love our PNG music and seeing that our membership is fast approaching 200, we wanted to see how we could perhaps improve and expand on what little we have started. Whether we do it by ourselves, or it is done by others or as joint projects with others in the PNG music industry, we have allot of room for growth in this industry.
Our hope is that if we can learn from the audience, then we can begin to shape the music industry the way we want to see it done as a collective movement by everyone not just in PNG alone but across the region as well.
If you can, cut and paste the questions below to an email and send your answers to emmanuel@masalai.net
Questionaire:
1. Where in PNG and Australia would be the best cities and venues to hold live PNG gigs?
2. Who would you like to see at the moment?
3. Do you like big events or small events?
4. From what you have seen does PNG have a variety of musical styles, if so what styles do you recognize?
5. What is your favourite genre of music?
6. Would you pay K100 a ticket if it meant a quality show? (or if you’re outside PNG, how much would you pay to see a PNG act?)
7. How do you currently get/enjoy your PNG music?
8. What do you use to listen to your music?
9. Do you use your mobile phone to listen to music?
10. What country are you based in?
By Ilya Gridneff (See also Iilya’s Blog, aptly named “Papua News Guinea“)
Papua New Guinea’s Office of Climate Change (OCC) director Dr Theo Yasause has been suspended while an internal investigation of the office is carried out.
PNG’s cabinet decided last Friday to sideline Yasause after much speculation surrounding his role.
A PNG government source told AAP a statement would be made on the matter next week.
Yasause has vehemently denied any wrongdoing after a series of media reports highlighted anomalies with the OCC issuing multi-million dollar carbon trading deals without any policy or legislation in place.
Yasause denied any money had exchanged hands in the deals but documents obtained by AAP showed Australian company Carbon Planet paid $1.2 million for projects in PNG.
Leaked documents to The Economist magazine showed Yasause had made deals on a range of other projects throughout PNG.
When AAP asked Yasause about the deals at a news conference in Port Moresby on June 15 he said even though the leaked documents appear to carry his signature, the OCC’s official seal and another colleague’s signature, they did not represent real deals.
“It’s not a false document but a sample,” he said.
Asked why he would make sample documents, he said: “We want to see what it looked like.”
PNG Department of Environment and Conservation secretary Dr Wari Iamo will become acting OCC director while an investigation is held, the National newspaper reported.
AusAID has announced a corporate planning adviser will be placed in the OCC office for three months as part of the $3 million pledged under the Australia-PNG carbon initiative.
PNG has the world’s third-largest rainforest and the government has great interest in turning the asset into carbon trading revenue, but at present no such policy or legislation exists in PNG nor under UN guidelines.
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The second Emerging Pacific Leaders’ Dialogue (EPLD) is scheduled to take place from 11 to 23 March 2010.
This follows the successful staging of the inaugural EPLD in June/July 2006 that brought together 120 prospective leaders from the member and observer nations/territories of the Pacific Islands Forum. For EPLD 2006, the average age of selected participants was 34 years.
EPLD 2010 is an important regional leadership development initiative that is funded and sponsored by government agencies and the private sector across Pacific – particularly the Australian Government. It is planned to again bring together another 120 high calibre mid-career participants selected through an open application and selection process from more than 20 Pacific region countries/territories. Male and female applicants will be drawn from business, government, trade unions and the community service sector including educational institutions and NGO’s.
The Opening Plenary sessions of the second EPLD will take place in Samoa and the Closing Plenary sessions will be held in Tonga – each over two days. The middle week of the EPLD will be devoted to 10 thought provoking and intellectually challenging study tour programs for widely representative groups comprising 12/13 participants. Each study tour group will visit separate Pacific region locations including Australia and New Zealand focusing on leadership and community development initiatives.
The theme of the EPLD2010 is again “Navigating our Future Together” and all aspects of the conference will focus on the significance of leadership in the context of relevant sub-themes including sustainable economic growth; regional co-operation and infrastructure; good governance; security, stability and strengthening communities: and environment, industry, education and health.
Further information on this important leadership initiative is available on the EPLD web site at www.epld2.com. Applications can be made via an on line application process available on the web site – see “Applications” tab.
Applications close on Friday 17 July 2009
Please apply online by going to the EPLD website: www.epld2.com.
The EPLD Central Organising Committee on receiving your application will send it to the PNG selection committee to select 15 participants from Papua New Guinea.
Email itsupport@nasfund.com.pg for a softcopy of the application form if you don’t have access to the internet to apply online.
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YUMI PIKSA is a new program at the University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea, through which students learn how to make films with local Highland communities in order to record local stories and local knowledge.
The Workshops
Yumi Piksa is training future filmmakers at the University of Goroka.
The concept of the workshop is that the students apart from learning the technical and conceptual skills will develop strategies to be responsive to the communities where they will be filming.
The Outcome
We hope to produce four final films that we will shoot with communities in the Eastern Highlands Province.
Yumi Piksa Training Methodology
Yumi Piksa participants learn the technical and conceptual skills of filmmaking. They learn the basics of video production, from shooting, how to capture elements of a story to editing and DVD production. The participants acquire these skills in order to be able to go out into local communities to record the communities’ stories. The respect to the community and their involvement in the process of production is of great importance to the Yumi Piksa concept. The video training component of the workshop is therefore put together from ideas of documentary training and participatory video.
Participants are researchers to record local knowledge in these communities. As part of the workshop, methods are developed and designed in the communities’ interest to capture their stories in appropriate ways.
More Info
See their website and check out the participants and the workshop diary.
Contact
University of Goroka
PO BOX 1078
Eastern Highlands Province
Papua New Guinea
Facilitator
Verena Thomas
verena.thomas@gmx.com
+675 7311 769
+61 2 8090 9350
The Workshops
Yumi Piksa is training future filmmakers at the University of Goroka.
The concept of the workshop is that the students apart from learning the technical and conceptual skills will develop strategies to be responsive to the communities where they will be filming.
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