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Kesaia Walker follows the trailblazing journey of two young Pasifika women from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa Gisborne in the 1950s and 1970s.Establishing a new community far from home
Tūranganui-a-Kiwa Gisborne, on the East Coast of the North Island, is the site of many historical firsts. A windy 500-kilometre drive from Auckland, two young Pasifika women — Piula and Liliana — arrived in Tūranga in the 1950s and 1970s.
What makes their individual stories unique is that geographically and culturally they inhabited ‘the spaces in between’. That is, they were a long way from their Pacific homelands and from established Pacific diasporas in Aotearoa. But, despite their isolation, they forged, from the ground up, a new and burgeoning Pacific community in small-town provincial New Zealand. Their lives were centred around family, faith, education, language, and culture.
In this talk Kesaia Walker traverses aspects of the lives of these Pasifika Pioneers, using snippets from family archival material and recollections.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
National Library of New Zealand, Corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon,Wellington, New Zealand
