Last year, as part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of John Macmillan Brown’s endowment to the University, Ariana Tikao and Nekerangi Paul received a one-off scholarship from the JMB Estate to travel to Norway to attend the seventh International Forum for Indigenous Librarians. The theme of the forum was Indigenous Wisdom and Communication. This Thursday, 22 September, at 1pm in Rm 208 of the MB Centre for Pacific Studies (up the corridor from the Library), Ariana will deliver an adaptation of her paper which explores the reawakening of whanau (extended family) knowledge through waiata (songs), performance, gatherings, and kapa haka.

This is a wonderful opportunity to hear Ariana’s conference paper and listen to her beautiful voice as she performs some of these waiata, the last we as a workplace will have before she leave us at the end of the month to work for the Turnbull Library.

Jill