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UPU Collective
Artist Snapshots 3 – 03.29.2023
8am PT / 11am ET / 5pm GMT
UPU Collective - a Pasifika led creative organisation from Aotearoa New Zealand started to produce and tour ongoing productions of their work - UPU. We are also committed to growing opportunities for Pasifika artists to have more agency over their work. We believe more Pasifika-led arts organisations will encourage further sustainability and opportunity for Pasifika creatives.
Artist Snapshot:
UPU
UPU is made from the words of an intergenerational collection of 28 Oceanic poets. It captures voices from across the largest body of water on earth, know to us as Te-Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa or the Pacific Ocean. An ocean that holds our many islands from Tuvalu to Guam from Hawaii to Solomon Islands from Vanuatu to Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Rarotonga and Aotearoa and so many more. UPU weaves these poems with theatre craft, using performance expertly held in a dynamic and magical sound, light, and projection production design, to amplify the words, emotions and themes inherent in the exceptional writing.