PICAA Inc. in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Community organisation

PICAA Inc.

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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22.01.2022 Bula! It's time for our second Emergency Relief day. We are Calling on community to help ease the pressure and stress for some of our Pasefika families during lockdown. You can help by: 1. Donating money that will go towards relief packages - fill out form here: https://forms.gle/ePAaiBnHswbNS2d39 2. Nominate a Pasefika family-in-need (no names please) - fill out form here: https://forms.gle/7RH4XBk1t8Pk5qim9... Vinaka

22.01.2022 To start off our week, we want to give a big shoutout to our Fijian community here in Victoria - Fijian Community Association of Victoria - as they celebrate a momentous week of Fijian language and culture in the lead up to their 50th Independence Day. We want to send aroha to our Fijian brothers and sisters and wish you all the very best with the busy week ahead! Thank you Von, Katerina, Sylvia and aunty Ash for your support of PICAA. Vinaka vaka levu! To join them in their week-long celebrations, please visit https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009892542665 and catch up with their daily talanoa/videos and activities

21.01.2022 Thanks to YOUR love and support, we have raised $1401.00 to help 11 Pasefika families this weekend. Vinaka to our donors: Janey Tugaga, George Tofa, Kelly North, Jessica Slade, Dori Peresetene, Uiese Tumuivaa, Nia Tapasu, Jade Hadfield, Leanne Herman, Terri Sadaraka, Tofete Family, Lesina Veniale, Saveve Sale, Monique O'Keeffe, Ivy Vea, and Autasi Tafea. So proud of our community!! Vinaka!

19.01.2022 Start off your Saturday by catching up on our blog! Today we're sharing about how we cope with COVID. You can also follow our blog so posts go directly to your email inbox #PICAA

19.01.2022 We got some big plans for Pasefika Theatre in Shepparton this year!

19.01.2022 Throwback to a lil performance we did with Melbourne artist MO'JU in 2018 A few years back we collaborated with MO'JU on a song called "Native Tongue" (watch here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ4by3lUJo), a moment we are super proud of as the song was nominated for APRA Song of the Year in 2019, and the album itself was nominated for an ARIA Best Urban Release award. During this time we shared the Samoan song "Tele i'a O le Sami" (Plenty of fish in the sea) with MO'JU and got to jam it a few times on stage. Sending our blessings to you @moju_music as well as our brother @joelistics as you both enjoy your new babies with your families.

17.01.2022 BULA VINAKA DON’T FORGET WE HAVE A GIVEAWAY FOR PASIFIKA FILM FEST! HEAD TO OUR INSTAGRAM (@picaainc) FOR MORE INFORMATION!... HERE’S A SHORT VID ON HOW TO ENTER THE COMPETITION! CLOSES FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 12PM SHARP - SO GET YOUR ENTRIES IN! MAHALO #PasifikaFilmFest #PasifikaArt #PasifikaStories #PFF #MyPFF #Giveaway

15.01.2022 ** HELP PASEFIKA FAMILIES-IN-NEED THIS CHRISTMAS ** Our 4th relief effort is planned for TUESDAY 29th DECEMBER. You can help by:... 1. Nominating PASEFIKA families that you know will need food/essential packs delivered directly to their doorstep (or nominate yourself!) 2. Donating food/essential items to our nominated drop-off locations (North/South/West) OR 3) Donating money to our cause All details in the form: https://forms.gle/DHtefevTK5RECF5M6 Help keep our Pasefika communities supported and safe during this Christmas period. #PICAA #PasefikaCommunitiesinCovid

13.01.2022 Call out to Pasefika young people aged 15-18 years who are keen on learning the art of film-making! MELBOURNE BASED! Drop us an email or DM if you’re interested! #PICAA #PasefikaArts

13.01.2022 ** STAY CONNECTED AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER ** (Fijian) * Keep in touch with your family and friends regularly * Stay connected with email, phone, video conferencing and social media * Keep up-to-date with COVID-19 news from trusted sources * Check in with our elderly members or those living alone... Restrictions are easing so staying connected will be so much easier for us now. Continue to keep each other safe fams! #CommunitySafety #COVID19 #PacificCommunitiesandCOVID #PICAA See more

12.01.2022 PASEFIKA YOUTH!! A heads up that we are opening registrations on Tuesday! Make sure you check our instagram or Facebook to access registration forms. We can't wait to start! (This program is supported through the Village Response Plan funded by the Victorian Government's Community Crime Prevention Program) Standing Together - Brimbank Pasifika... Charis Mentoring Inc. See more

12.01.2022 PICAA sends Christmas love and cheer to you all. May your Christmas days be filled with love and laughter with your loved ones. Christmas blessings to all

11.01.2022 How cute are these kids!? We put a call-out to community to submit videos of our tamariki dancing to the Samoan 'Heads, Shoulders' song and these are the gems we received. Some performed the actions, while others free-styled LOL. THANK YOU to all our cute PICAA KIDS who took part in this video project, and also to their parents who no doubt had to sit back and watch them in amazement/despair LOL. We appreciate you!! Song: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (arrangement by @Rita Seumanutafa) Music performed by: @The Melbourne Samoan Choir (feat. Bessie Faaaifili) Video dancers: Luellah Chong Gum, Amayah Chong Gum, Paige Metcalfe, Scarlett Metcalfe, Nathaniel Taupau, Mahaylia Taupau, Indianna Taupau, Sade Tafea, Akenese Tofete, Aniyah Tofete, Luana Tofete, Lila Rose Tofete, Hansolo Tofete, Losa Junior Tofete, Adeena Tofete, LaRosa Tofete.

11.01.2022 SAVE THE DATE! TALOFA LAVA! Introducing VIRTUAL TALANOA as part of the Pasifika Film Fest happening online on Tuesday 17 November! ... This is an open floor discussion between Pasifika filmmakers from all around the Pacific! Hosted by 2 amazing Filmmakers, Alana Hicks and Taofia Pelesasa (pelesasapics) Guests include: STALLONE VAIAOGA IOASA (Three Wise Cousins) KARIN WILLIAMS (Producer, Director, Writer) KEL MUNA (Founder and Program Director of the Guam International Film Festival) Stay tuned for more information about this awesome initiative, or head to Pasifika Film Fest MAHALO! #PASIFIKAFILMFEST #PFF2020 #OurStories #OurVoices #PasifikaStories #PasifikaFilms #PasifikaArts #PICAA

10.01.2022 ** STAY CONNECTED AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER ** (Samoan) * Keep in touch with your family and friends regularly * Stay connected with email, phone, video conferencing and social media * Keep up-to-date with COVID-19 news from trusted sources... * Check in with our elderly members or those living alone Restrictions are easing so staying connected will be so much easier for us now. Continue to keep each other safe fams! #CommunitySafety #COVID19 #PacificCommunitiesandCOVID #PICAA

10.01.2022 What an honour it was to be amongst Pasefika youth creatives in Shepparton Meeting our young people, hearing their stories and sharing their love of the arts. In partnership with Know Your Roots, Multicultural Arts Victoria, and Riverlinks Theatre we have officially Re-activated our Project Fiafia within our Pasefika communities. Our team of creatives spent a weekend in Shepp, visiting and meeting community as well as taking in the sights of the town. This is the beginning ...of our 2021 project and we look forward to sharing our play’s development as we continue on. We can’t wait to show you Shepp talent as it unfolds! #PasefikaCreatives #PasefikaYouth #PasefikaTheatre . Many thanks to Zion Worship church, Silverstein Orchards, Uniting Church of Shepparton, Fijian Community Church, Know Your Roots and the Fepuleai family for hosting us. . @polyroyaltee @gina_tafea @thelostcoconut @sikivi25 See more

09.01.2022 Awesome to see one of our fave PICAA brothers Sanele Savea strutting his Beyonce moves for Bakers Delight - geddit Chanel! #SaneleSavea #SamoanActor #HappyBirthdayBakersDelight https://www.facebook.com/NHCasting/videos/829957891081869

08.01.2022 PICAA director Rita Seumanutafa jamming with the kids in Shepparton. @thelostcoconut #ProjectFiafia

08.01.2022 Spreading some musical love to our communities during these covid times! Here we are, with our wonderful friends over at BRIMBANK MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY CHOIR with our rendition of the beautiful Samoan/English Ballad 'BEYOND THE REEF' Song: Beyond the Reef Recorded by: The Yandall Sisters Written by: J. Pitman (Samoan lyrics by The Yandall Sisters)... Guitar: Sikivi Masina Tafea Arrangement: Rita Seumanutafa Choreography: Samuel Teevale Beyond the reef where the sea is dark and cold. My love has flown, and our dreams grow old There'll be no tear, there'll be no regretting Will he remember me? Will he forget? I'll send a thousand flowers where the trade winds blow. I'll send my lonely heart for I love him so. Someday, I know he'll come back again to me. 'Till then my heart will be beyond the reef. Te'a mai le a'au ma gafagafa le vasa laolao. Ua sola lo'u au fa'amoemoega ua le tau. E leai ni loimata, uma fo'i masalosaloga. Pe na te manatua ita. Poo ua faagaloina.

08.01.2022 Call-out to our Pasefika community to nominate a Pasefika-family-in-need for our upcoming emergency relief THIS Sunday. No names needed, just an address and we will deliver! ** Families MUST be Pasefika ** ('Pasefika' meaning all Pacific Island cultures, including Maori) Easy registration here: https://forms.gle/vcoECJW4veNUpBwU9 or you can simply email us at [email protected]... Help us to keep our Pasefika communities safe and supported!

08.01.2022 ASALEMO TOFETE - Samoan actor, director and Playwright. Asa studied theatre in NZ (Bachelor of Performing Arts - NZ Drama School, Bachelor of Arts/Theatre - Victoria University). For the past few years Asa has been busy performing Shakespeare across Australia and NZ, featuring in commercial ads and being awesome on our PICAA Tiktok channel Asa has run the 'Acting for Youth' programs with our community since 2016, directed Australia's very first Pasefika musical ("ReHavaiki") in 2017 and this Saturday, he begins work with our Performing Arts For Pasefika Youth students! Watch this space fams! #PICAA #PICAAKids #PasefikaCreatives #AsalemoTofete

08.01.2022 Today we were blessed to spend Sunday with our brothers and sisters from Uniting Church Shepparton with Rev Vaitohi & Fijian Community of Shepparton Church. Blessed Sunday to all.

06.01.2022 We've got an exciting year ahead for our PICAA family of creatives, and we hope you are bracing yourselves for a great year too! Wishing all our PICAA families and supporters a wonderful 2021!

06.01.2022 COMMUNITY SAFETY UPDATE FOR VICTORIA!! Keep each other COVID-safe during the New Year season and if you have symptoms - even if only mild - PLEASE get tested.

06.01.2022 A massive FAAFETAI TELE LAVA goes out to our Pasefika community for coming through with registrations. Our program has reached full capacity therefore we have closed off registrations today. We're excited to be developing the future of Pasefika arts right here in Australia - watch this space! We will keep you updated with student progress and talent. Cheeehoooo! #PICAA #PasefikaCreatives #PICAAKids

05.01.2022 ** REGISTRATIONS OPEN ** Let's get our youth into the arts! PERFORMING ARTS FOR PASEFIKA YOUTH is a program that runs from September to December 2020. Workshops and mentoring sessions will be facilitated by our talented brothers ASALEMO TOFETE (Actor, Director and Playwright) and SIKIVI TAFEA (Musician, Director and Youth Worker). Students will learn to develop their creative skills and feel more confident in using these skills for their own self-development and wellbeing.... AGES 10 - 21 yo and ALL skills levels welcome. Workshops are online. You can register here: https://forms.gle/G7JCKfsj1d4Y1Ji76 Standing Together - Brimbank Pasifika Charis Mentoring Inc. #WeAreOne #WeArePasifika #WeAreBrimbank

05.01.2022 We are building a community of creative youth! There is so much talent bubbling within our young population so we wanted to share with you all, how we support and empower our youth through the arts. Read our latest blogpost: SHARE YOUR CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE #PICAA #PasefikaCreatives #PasefikaYouth https://picaa.com.au/20//17/share-your-creative-knowledge/

03.01.2022 Enjoy this reel of PICAA Creative SIKIVI TAFEA, facilitator of our Performing Arts for Pasefika Youth (PAPY) program which kicks off this weekend! We are building a collective of young Pasefika creatives, our future stars on the screen and stage and wherever their passions take them. #PICAAKids #PICAACreatives #SikiviTafea #PAPY

03.01.2022 VINAKA! HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS FOR Pasifika Film Fest YET?! The Pasifika Film Fest goes virtual this Friday 13 November and runs till the Sunday 29 November!... With over 40 films to choose from you don’t want to miss out on this wealth of Pacific Films! You can buy a season pass to watch ALL the films or you can buy a ticket for the films you want to watch. Your choice! All tickets are available on presale! The Virtual Launch this Friday includes 6 films followed by a LIVE QandA by the filmmakers of those films! Get your tickets NOW! Click on the link below to check out more info on the films and how to get your tickets!! #PasifikaFilmFest #PasifikaStories #pasifikafilms #OurStoriesOurVoices #PasifikaArt #MyPFF #PasifikaShorts EXTRA! EXTRA! PitchPleeze and Virtual Talanoa! More info coming soon! MAHALO

02.01.2022 LAST CALL for donations to help us with our emergency relief! If you can get them in to us by close of business WED 26th AUG that would much appreciated! Register your donation here: https://forms.gle/v46xBJMtXGpiF4wQ8 ALSO!!! We are still taking nominations for Pasefika families-in-need. You can do this anonymously here: https://forms.gle/CVWJwuytvTW93S7i9 Thank you everyone!! #PICAA #StandingTogether #WeArePasifika #WeAreOne

01.01.2022 ** STAY CONNECTED AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER ** (Niuean) * Keep in touch with your family and friends regularly * Stay connected with email, phone, video conferencing and social media * Keep up-to-date with COVID-19 news from trusted sources... * Check in with our elderly members or those living alone Restrictions are easing so staying connected will be so much easier for us now. Continue to keep each other safe fams! #CommunitySafety #COVID19 #PacificCommunitiesandCOVID #PICAA

01.01.2022 In partnership with the Victorian Government (CALD Communities Taskforce) as well as local Pasefika elders, PICAA will be producing COVID-safety updates for our Pasefika communities over the next 3 months. Please feel free to share these, or contact us on [email protected] for more information. Stay safe fams! #PICAA #KeepEachOtherSafe #COVID19