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Vosa Season 2 Episode 10 - Rituals

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This episode we explore the sacred and - oftentimes intimidating - world of rituals and the relationship they have with our identities as Pacific people. 

Our two amazing episode 10 guests guide us through this final episode of VOSA Season 2 -  Wendy Mocke is a Papua New Guinean inter-disciplinary storyteller, a NIDA Acting graduate, Wendy has performed across stages in Australia and appeared in films and television. Our second guest Akanisi Nabalarua-Vakawaletabua of Fiji is a lawyer and lecturer of Business Law at the School of Accounting at the University of the South Pacific. 

If you’d like to learn more about the brilliant projects that Wendy and Akanisi are a part of, check out the links below:

Wendy Mocke

Wendy was a member of the emerging writers group at Sydney Theatre Company and this year her play 'I am Kegu' was shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights award. She has completed writing residencies at Griffin Theatre Company and Darlinghurst Theatre where she developed her stage plays 'Jalbu Meri' and 'REALish'. Wendy’s visual art’s project called ‘m e r i’, a collection of photographs and stories focuses on the recontextualising of contemporary PNG women, was exhibited last year at North Site Contemporary Arts Gallery (Cairns) and this year at Brisbane Powerhouse (Brisbane). 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendy.mocke

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melaninhaus/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WendyMocke

Akanisi Nabalarua-Vakawaletabua 

Akanisi has worked as a lawyer and lecturer traversing the world of private practice and academia engaging her legal research and advocacy skills as an iTaukei female lawyer and teacher in Fiji.

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/akanisi_reads/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/akanisi411

Do you want to be involved in Vosa’s next season? Listen in for details at the end of the episode.

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