[Culturetalk] TR: FW: Tuvalu Cultural King Tides Festival

Fri Feb 19 18:45:52 EST 2010

De : Tamasoalii Saivaise [mailto:t.saivaise at mesc.gov.ws] 
Envoyé : mardi 16 février 2010 01:36
À : Elise Huffer
Objet : Re: [Culturetalk] FW: Tuvalu Cultural King Tides Festival

Greetings from Samoa and hello to everyone in the culturetalk group. This is the first mail I have sent and I apologise for not responding since last year. Thank you a lot to Elise Huffer for keeping me posted and updating me on what is going on in the region and many other parts of the world in terms of culture, heritage and environment. 

I have recieved every mail all of you good friends had sent and this is a very rare response from Samoa to all of you. I will try and respond regularly as all of you had done to me in the past since we met in Nandi last year. 

Congratulations to Tuvalu for the proposed activity and its great to see such an initiative and determination to conserve and preserve what they own and have before it is lost. Good luck to all the organisers and the people of Tuvalu. I hope that the Tuvaluans here in samoa will also celebrate the Cultural King Tide festival so that we can join and support them as well!!

Regards Tama

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	From: Elise Huffer <mailto:EliseH at spc.int>  

	To: culturetalk at lists.spc.int 

	Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:50 PM

	Subject: [Culturetalk] FW: Tuvalu Cultural King Tides Festival

	For information

	From: Veronique Fayard 
	Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:45 AM
	To: Elise Huffer; Johann Bell
	Cc: Gilda Manuel de Condinguy; Sonia De La Cruz; Delphine Godot
	Subject: TR: Tuvalu Cultural King Tides Festival

	PRO 128/1/3/9

	PRO 130/1

	De : Alofa Tuvalu [mailto:alofatuvalu at alofatuvalu.tv] 
	Publié à : jeudi 11 février 2010 04:10
	Publié dans : Incoming Email
	Conversation : Tuvalu Cultural King Tides Festival
	Objet : Tuvalu Cultural King Tides Festival

	PRESS RELEASE

	TUVALU CULTURAL KING TIDES' FESTIVAL 

	Tuvalu's 1st edition of its "Cultural King Tides festival" - Tuvalu ! The Tide is High! - will take place during the next king tides, the highest tides of the year, from Feb 26th to March 1st, when most of the capital island is submerged by sea water coming through the ground.

	Today global warming is the most serious issue humans have to solve. The remote and sparsely populated archipelago of Tuvalu is a microcosm of the environmental issues we all face. It is also the first sovereign nation faced with becoming uninhabitable due to climate change.  If Tuvalu is to disappear, not only a land would be wiped off the maps, but a whole nation with its unique society, culture and traditions will be erased from the Human diversity spectrum. 

	Determined not to let their cultural patrimony -- a remote part of the world's heritage -- slip away, the Tuvaluan people have devised this plan to display, perform and record multiple cultural activities to take place at a most symbolic period of time.  

	Little is known about Tuvalu's culture. Although, it is believed that the Pacific was settled 6000 years ago, the discovery of underwater caves in Nanumaga, one of Tuvalu's northern islands, indicates that human could have settled much earlier. In 1861, the arrival of missionaries (London Missionary Society-LMS), might have changed Tuvalu's beliefs and religious traditions forever. What is lost is lost and  the archipelago will keep some of its mysteries forever but there is an unquestionable need for preserving what is left . 

	During 3 days, traditional competitions and demonstrations will show some aspects of Tuvaluan Culture through sports, handicrafts, dancing, singing, food and Tuvalu's unique talent in improvised story-telling and dramas. The objective is to raise awareness about what will be lost if Tuvalu's nation was to disappear both to the new generations and to the world at large. Parallel activities on climate causes, consequences and solutions will target both children and adults, focusing on what we all can do to try to turn the tide.

	This first edition of the Tuvalu Cultural King Tides Festival is made possible by the unified efforts of many Government ministries and NGO's*. It is part of The "Small is Beautiful" (SIB) plan, one of UNESCO's Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Remarkable Actions, launched with, as a primary objective, the preservation of Tuvalu's cultural heritage and identity.

	Contact : tuvalukingtidesfestival at gov.tv

	The organizers :  

	The original committee :

	Ministry of Communication and tourism

	Ministry of natural resources and environment

	Ministry of Home Affairs, cultural department

	Ministry of Education and schools

	Department of Tourism 

	Environment Department

	Cultural Office

	Youth Office 

	Sports Office

	Meteorological Office

	Tuvalu Media Department

	Public Works Department

	Funafuti Kaupule,

	Chamber of Commerce

	Lodging Association (Filamona, Vaiaku Lagi Hotel)

	Red Cross

	Alofa Tuvalu

	Some of the other participants : 

	Island Communities

	Tuvalu National Council of Women 

	Island Care

	Tango

	TuFHA

	Tuvalu Overview

	EKT 

	Schools on Funafuti (the capital of Tuvalu)

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