Event

Toi Kōrero – Artist talk

Manuha‘apai Vaeatangitau

Saturday 27 January 2024

Join Pātaka’s Lead Curator Ioana Gordon-Smith in conversation with artist Manu Vaea to discuss Manu’s current exhibition Koe Tau’atāina o e Leitī | The Freedom/Emancipation of the Leitī. Manu uses photography, moving image and painting to explore the radical honesty of Leitī (Tongan third gender) experiences.

Listen to an interview between Mark Amery and Manu Vaea on RNZ https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/culture-101/audio/2018917712/manu-vaea-the-spiritual-and-mundane-in-being-fakaleiti-tongan-third-gender

Read the The Post article by Ioana Gordon-Smith  https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/350118044/leiti-take-centrestage-pataka