The ‘Execute Director’ of West Papua Human Rights Center, Mr. Herman Wainggai, is currently in Hawaii to attend the Festival of Pacific Arts, which is set to open on June 6th, 2024, at the University of Hawaii, Oahu. The event will go from June 6th to June 16th.
According to their website:
The Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture (FestPAC) is the world’s largest celebration of indigenous Pacific Islanders. The South Pacific Commission (now The Pacific Community – SPC) launched this dynamic showcase of arts and culture in 1972 to halt the erosion of traditional practices through ongoing cultural exchange. The 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture, will convene in Hawaiʻi, 6–16 June 2024. “Ho‘oulu Lāhui: Regenerating Oceania” will serve as the theme of FestPAC Hawaiʻi 2024, honoring the traditions that FestPAC exists to perpetuate with an eye toward the future.
The ten-day festival will be attended by more than two thousands delegates—artists, cultural practitioners, dancers, scholars and officials— from more than twenty countries and territories all over of the Pacific region. This is the largest Pacific festival celebrating the unique cultures, arts, and music of the Pacific Islands.
The West Papua Human Rights Center wants to remind the world that West Papua is part of the Pacific family currently colonized by Indonesia – a foreign colonial power. This is what our center’s Executive Director is going to promote in Hawaii – the stolen nation of West Papua, known to indigenous people as West Melanesia.
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