Pasefika: The Festival of Pacific Arts - Paperback

by Floyd K. Takeuchi (Author)

Every four years since 1972, the Pacific Islands' best dancers and cultural practitioners gather to perform. The Festival of Pacific Arts, as this amazing event is known, is a celebration unlike any other held in Oceania. The Festival is a two-week showcase of the finest dancers, singers, carvers and other cultural masters from across the Pacific. This book, the first published about the Festival of Pacific Arts, tells the story of the 10th Festival that was held in American Samoa in mid-2008. More than 2,000 cultural practitioners traveled to Tutuila Island for the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts. Hundreds of visitors from around the world, plus thousands of resident Samoans, gathered on the shores of Pago Pago Harbor to watch performance after performance. This book is the story of that special gathering of the best of the Pacific Islands.

Author Biography

Floyd K. Takeuchi is a writer-photographer who specializes in the Pacific Islands. He has traveled widely in Oceania, and has reported from many of the islands. He has been a resident journalist in Guam, Fiji, Hawaii and Japan, and worked in Washington, D.C., as a senior staffer for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Floyd is the co-author of "Majuro-Essays from an Atoll," and wrote and photographed "School On The Hill, Micronesia's Remarkable Xavier High School." Both books are available exclusively at Amazon.com. Floyd was born and raised in the Marshall Islands. For more information, please visit www.floydtakeuchi.com.