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Happy New Year to all! We are very much looking forward to 2021 and we have an array of equally exciting things in store! Despite current challenges we continue to support each other and thank you all for the love and support you have shown us.
Are you an OAS member yet?? Why not start your year right and get involved!
Visit www.oceanicartsociety.org.au/memberships/
to learn more about the incredible world of Oceanic Arts and become a member today!
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Membership | Oceanic Art Society

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The Society welcomes anyone with an interest in oceanic art. Our membership is international and includes enthusiasts, beginners, collectors, academics, artists, students, art dealers and museum profe...
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www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/curatorial-departments/art-of-africa-oceania-and-the-americas/rem...

Exciting news for Oceanic Arts with a physical and conceptual overhaul of the MET Michael C Rockefeller wing!
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Remaking The Met: A Plan for Renewal

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After nearly forty years since the inauguration of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, the Met is embarking on a plan to renovate and reconceptualize its 40,000 square feet, creating three distinct new...
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2 months ago

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Aboriginal & Pacific Art Gallery
2020 Timothy Cook
19 November - 19 December 2020
Aboriginal & Pacific Art In association with Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Melville Island, NT is proud to present our twelfth solo show of Timothy Cook.

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Aboriginal & Pacific Art Gallery
1/24 Wellington Street
Waterloo NSW 2017
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2020 Timothy Cook | Aboriginal & Pacific Art

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Aboriginal & Pacific Art In association with Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Melville Island, NT is proud to present our twelfth solo show of Timothy Cook.
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2 months ago

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Tribal Art London's Upcoming Online Exhibition
Spirit Animals
ONLINE - 03 Dec to 10th Jan 2020

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HOME | tribal art London

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Yolngu Science: Objects and representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land | Exhibitions | MCA Australia

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Works from the MCA Collection by Aboriginal artists from Ramingining and other north-east Arnhem Land communities.
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2 months ago

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SE VIENE!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

⭐️ 4ta Versión FIFO en Rapa Nui 2020 ⭐️

Con gran alegría, el Museo Rapa Nui y la Corporación Municipal de Arte y Cultura Rapa Nui, quieren invitarlos a la 4ta Versión del Festival de Documentales de Oceanía FIFO en Rapa Nui 2020.

Ven con tu familia y amigos a ver estos documentales de distintas islas de Oceanía, seleccionados especialmente para esta nueva versión de FIFO, que tratan diversas temáticas relacionadas con el medio ambiente, la cultura, la historia...

✨ Viernes 27 y Sábado 28 de Noviembre ✨
A partir de las 16 horas en el Patio de los Ceibos del Museo Rapa Nui

🌺Ka oho mai korua!!! 🌺
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2 months ago

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TICKETS FOR PACIFICA VIRTUAL CINEMA ON SALE NOW

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Pasifika Film Festival 2020

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We are coming to you. We have extended our outreach and impact by producing a festival that encompasses all of Oceania during the month of November!
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2 months ago

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Free on-line prentation from the NGV as part of NAIDOC week.

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Tiwi: Always Was, Always Will Be | NGV

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Ahead of TIWI, an exhibition celebrating the unique art and culture of the Tiwi people of Melville and Bathurst Islands opening at NGV Australia on 23 November, NGV Senior Curator, Judith Ryan AM pres...
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3 months ago

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Sugar Fest Oceanic Culture History & Music Fundraiser Luncheon

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Sugar Fest 2020 Oceanic Culture History & Music (Fundraiser/soft launch), Pyrmont, 21st of November | Humanitix

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Why support our fundraiser... Sugar Fest Oceanic Culture History & Music is the result of over a decade of building community partnerships that celebrate the willingness of our Australian society to l...
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3 months ago

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Upcoming Auction 17 Oct 2020 - The Willem Kok Collection
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Davidson Auctions

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4 months ago

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United States Government Returns Cultural Artifacts to Papua New Guinea | U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu

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United States Government Returns Cultural Artifacts to Papua New Guinea United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu Erin McKee today formally handed over to the PNG Nati...
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4 months ago

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Lost PNG Artifacts Returned to PNG

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Over 130 lost PNG Artifacts found in a museum in the United States of America have been returned to the country. US Ambassador to PNG Erin McKee today presen...
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6 months ago

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More time to paint and think, artists set eyes on Archibald Prize

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Entries to this year's prize open on Monday after the Art Gallery of NSW extended the deadline.
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6 months ago

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Where Clouds are Spirit Parrots
Art of the Ömie Women
Where Clouds are Spirit Parrots is an exhibition of Ömie barkcloth paintings, honouring senior women artists from the remote mountains of south-eastern Papua New Guinea.    It includes twenty paintings based on  ancestral clan designs by Duvahe (Chiefs), elders and leading artists.  The Ömie villages are located in the interior of Oro Province and surround the sacred volcano Huvaimo (Mount Lamington), which is central to  their creation stories and art.

Organised in conjunction with Brennan King, Manager, Ömie Artists Inc.

Exhibition dates: 4th July to 9th August 2020
Denmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School
https://www.trinity.nsw.edu.au/delmar-gallery/?fbclid=IwAR125IMMM6BhG7qLTCU5HfMUOp8xMtX5qeTriG7OcmRSkAwhbrho9Qh2iys

Image: Pennyrose Sosa, Avino’e – The Moon  2015, 124.5 x 71cm, natural pigments on nioge (barkcloth).  Courtesy of the artist and Ömie Artists Inc.

Where Clouds are Spirit Parrots
Art of the Ömie Women
Where Clouds are Spirit Parrots is an exhibition of Ömie barkcloth paintings, honouring senior women artists from the remote mountains of south-eastern Papua New Guinea. It includes twenty paintings based on ancestral clan designs by Duvahe (Chiefs), elders and leading artists. The Ömie villages are located in the interior of Oro Province and surround the sacred volcano Huvaimo (Mount Lamington), which is central to their creation stories and art.

Organised in conjunction with Brennan King, Manager, Ömie Artists Inc.

Exhibition dates: 4th July to 9th August 2020
Denmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School
www.trinity.nsw.edu.au/delmar-gallery/?fbclid=IwAR125IMMM6BhG7qLTCU5HfMUOp8xMtX5qeTriG7OcmRSkAwhb...

Image: Pennyrose Sosa, Avino’e – The Moon 2015, 124.5 x 71cm, natural pigments on nioge (barkcloth). Courtesy of the artist and Ömie Artists Inc.
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Beautiful barkcloth... and the name of the exhibition "Where Clouds are Spirit Parrots", excites my imagination. Where to see more of these, with some notes describing them? Tagging Bill Evans, Deniz Milasli.

Oceanic Art Society

9 months ago

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PlayConservafinement #1

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10 months ago

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It Takes a Village - global premiere this Saturday night at 7pm.
It will air on both NBC and EMTV (PNG).

It Takes a Village - global premiere this Saturday night at 7pm.
It will air on both NBC and EMTV (PNG).
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The trailer looks fantastic. ABC please take note!

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10 months ago

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www.screencraft.com.au/featured/world-health-organization-it-takes-a-village

Global premiere this Saturday. Will air on NBC & EMT in PNG
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It Takes a Village

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Screencraft is proud to partner with The Hands of Rescue and the World Health Organisation, to produce It Takes A Village for Papua New Guinean television.
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12 months ago

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Pasifika Film Fest is back with exciting news to unfold in 2020

Pasifika Film Fest is back with exciting news to unfold in 2020Pasifika Film Fest is back in 2020 with some BIG news! Subscribe to our emails and keep up to date with all the exciting news about to unfold in 2020!! - mailchi.mp/48c395692ed0/pasifika-film-fest-returns-to-the-festival-circuit-in-1801025 ... See MoreSee Less

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Oceanic Art Society

1 years ago

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UNSW Galleries
Wansolwara: One Salt Water

A series of exhibitions, performances and events from across the Pacific and throughout the Great Ocean. Wansolwara – a pidgin word from the Solomon Islands meaning ‘one-salt-water’ or ‘one ocean, one people’ – reflects not a single ocean, but rather a connected waterscape that holds distinct and diverse cultures and communities.

UNSW Galleries,
Cnr Oxford Street & Greens Rd Paddington NSW
Exhibitions: 17 Jan - 18 April 2020
Symposium: 18 January

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Also Papua New Guinea : Solwara

Tru tok Giles

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