Mrs Emelita Luisi is a Co-Founder and current Executive Manager of the Ranui 135 Youth Trust, a Youth Development Organisation in Ranui, West Auckland.

Ranui 135 supports and encourages positive outcomes for youth, their families, and their communities. She has grown Ranui 135 from a volunteer-led community group of 13 years, into an organisation that now employs seven youth workers. 

Mrs Luisi was a member of the inaugural group that drafted the first youth work code of ethics in the mid-2000s with the then National Youth Workers Network Aotearoa, now known as Ara Taiohi.

Congratulations Emelita for being recognized in this year’s Queens Birthday Honors List

World Oceans Day is the 8th of June each year and urges people around the world to celebrate and honor the ocean that connects us all.  Many countries have celebrated this day since its inception in 1992 and this year focus is on Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean.  

The Secretariat of Pacific Regional Environment Program also known as SPREP is the leading regional organisation charged with protecting and managing the environment and resources of the Pacific.  

We cross over to Samoa right now and talk with SPREP Director Kosi Latu about SPREP and what they held to celebrate World Oceans Day yesterday.

Fashion continues to be a form of self-expression and identity, and internationally, the industry craves unique designs.  A relatively new Pasifika owned brand is Konfident Clothing Urban Fashion business coming out of Otara.  Building the community from the ground up, finding opportunities to open doors for others to be proud of their humble origins.  

KONFIDENT CLOTHING URBAN FASHION· symbolizes brown currency, brown ownership, brown pride, taking the MANA back into our own hands and creating a better tomorrow, today.

The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa or Creative New Zealand is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets and audiences for New Zealand arts domestically and internationally.

Creative New Zealand is now calling for nominations for its prestigious annual Pacific Arts awards. 

Nominations close on the 10th July 2020.

https://www.creativenz.govt.nz/…/creative-new-zealand-arts-…

 

To tell us more about these awards is a member of the Arts Council of New Zealand, Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban.

The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa or Creative New Zealand is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets and audiences for New Zealand arts domestically and internationally.

Creative New Zealand is now calling for nominations for its prestigious annual Pacific Arts awards. 

To tell us more about these awards is a member of the Arts Council of New Zealand, Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban

With over 2 million views online as well as becoming one of the youngest people to be nominated for 4 awards at the 2018 NZ Comedy Guild Awards, including best newcomer and breakthrough comedian of the year, one of the brightest stars in New Zealand comedy Joe Daymond joins us on the show this morning to share more about his epic work.

The standard process for getting your blood tested and results back can take a number of days. And in some communities, this lapse can be the difference between life and death. Pacific Health Plus (PHP), a primary healthcare provider in the low socio-economic suburb of Cannons Creek in Porirua, will be the first GP practice in the Wellington region to use a combination of ‘rapid point of care’ blood testing analysers to quickly get results and diagnose, educate and manage patients on the spot. We’re joined now on Pacific Breakfast by Lee Pearce, Director at Pacific Health Plus. Former Pacific Director CCDHB for more.

Looking at sports from the weekend with Pacific Breakfast sports guru Ray “Razor T” Tele’a.

This year’s Young Alumna of the Year for the University of Auckland, Courtney Sina Meredith is a respected arts manager and distinguished author whose work delves into issues such as racism, sexism and poverty and draws on her Samoan roots. She is the Director of Tautai, Aotearoa’s leading Pacific arts organisation.

Recognised as a global thinker she was invited to the House of Lords by BBC, selected by Roxanne Gay and Jackie Kay into 21st Century Women for the Edinburgh Book Festival and cited by The Guardian as a potential future Booker Prize Winner.

Courtney has been awarded prestigious creative opportunities around the globe and is the author of four books, the most recent being The Adventures of Tupaia.

Which is a finalist in the Elsie Locke Award for Non Fiction category in this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

Wellington couple Esera Tanoa'i and Tupe Solomon-Tanoa'i are the co-founders of Poporazzi Productions and Samoan 4 Beginners.  They are passionate about telling modern Pacific stories, as well as helping people to learn more about Sāmoan language and identity.  

https://www.facebook.com/PoporazziProductions/ 

The first web-series they produced was Misadventures of a Pacific Professional, an independent series written by Tupe on the theme of unconscious bias.  They were interviewed on 531 pi last year when the series was released and here they are today to give us an update about that series and some upcoming projects as well.