MEASINA FESTIVAL 2023

14 Malone Road, Mt Wellington is the Housing Corporation of New Zealand (1983) property that Tupua’s family lived in and where his passion for dance and music was cultivated throughout his childhood. A melting pot of Pacific and Asian diaspora living alongside the urban Māori migration, Malone Road represented diversity, hope and endless possibilities. Where a young Samoan boy, his brothers and sister could practise everyday to jump in the arena and become the neighbourhood chatter rings champions and rush home whenever possible to keep refining their performance craft in the hopes of one day making it big, really big…..in the BIG FRESH talent quest.

Featuring: Tupua Tigafua, Andy Tilo-Faiaoga, Aloali'i Tapu, Aisea Latu, Onetoto Ikavuka and Villa Lemanu.

14 Malone Road, is an ode to the old neighbourhoods of Aotearoa, which are slowly starting to disappear with property development throughout the country. As children of the Pacific Islands migration, these neighbourhood’s were our foundation, the first layer of cultural and social education informing how we would dream and navigate the rest of the world. This work is a nostalgic reference to a current circumstance and utilising modern theatre to evolve Tupua’s unique style of creative storytelling.

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