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shareLocation: NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
(entrance at 111 Amsterdam between 64th and 65th)
Time: 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Cost: Free
Kick-off PIFF 2024 with our Opening Ceremony, A Celebration of Dances From the Pacific Islands, hosted by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The event is free to attend and is open to the public.
The evening will feature a screening of two short films, Vakaraitaka and Pō’ele Wai, Textile and Augmented Reality exhibitions, along with a live performance by Dancers Unlimited principal dancer Keala Fung and a panel discussion about the importance of art in the Indigenous environmental activist space.
In this program
Vakaraitaka
Directed by Fenton Lutunatabua
This four-part cinematic poem weaves together multiple layers of beauty, pain, colonialism, climate change culture, and loss. Opening…
Pōʻele Wai: As The Water Darkens
Directed by Tiare Ribeaux
A weaver navigates between survival and her connection to the land while a mysterious rash grows on her…
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