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Nov 14, 20211 min read

Tim Tan of Honiara makes 4 Aloko blades

Tim Tan of Honiara made these 4 Aloko blades for smoothing the outside of a hull or a flat surface, or for cutting a tree by using it...

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Nov 11, 20211 min read

S.V. Lata Progress Report

S.V. Lata report of Nov 11 decking onto ama and complete water ballast tanks. Facebook Post

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WE, THE VOYAGERS: OUR VAKA is an official selection at the CARE Awards!

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Nov 10, 20211 min read

WE, THE VOYAGERS: OUR VAKA is an official selection at the CARE Awards!

Film: WE, THE VOYAGERS: OUR VAKA Festival: CARE Awards Facebook Post

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Canoes of the Marshall Islands is in the news

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Nov 8, 20211 min read

Canoes of the Marshall Islands is in the news

Kommoltata Team pictured. Facebook Post

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Nov 8, 20211 min read

KUAM News reports on 500 Sails of Saipan

On this week's episode of Pacific Matters, we are bringing you into the water with 500 Sails on Saipan and we catch up with the crew a...

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Guam International Film Festival holds Preserving Traditions Panel

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Nov 6, 20211 min read

Guam International Film Festival holds Preserving Traditions Panel

Guam International Film Festival filmmakers panel features Mimi George. Take a watch below! Facebook Post YouTube Link

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Ancestral Voyaging Knowledge online event in partnership with UNESCO

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Nov 5, 20211 min read

Ancestral Voyaging Knowledge online event in partnership with UNESCO

UNESCO and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development unveil a webinar on past, present and future knowledge capacity in...

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Nov 1, 20211 min read

S.V. Lata Building Progress Report in October

October progress building ama for SV Lata...with a 100 gallon seawater tank and a 50 gal fresh water tank in the center compartment....

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Best Documentary Feature Award to We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka!

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Oct 28, 20211 min read

Best Documentary Feature Award to We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka!

Congrats to all crew of Lata! Paris Independent Film Festival Facebook Post

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We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka submitted to a diversity-centric film festival

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Oct 27, 20211 min read

We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka submitted to a diversity-centric film festival

We have submitted We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka to the Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival. Los Angeles has a large population of...

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Oct 23, 20211 min read

Master Sailors invited on Woodlark Island to share circumnavigation story by Sailau canoe

Another brilliant voyage of Tawali Pasana. Congratulations! Master sailors, Justin and Sanakoli John from Milne Bay Papua New Guinea were...

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Micronesian Voyaging Society Yokohama explains important voyaging history of the Chechemeni

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Oct 18, 20211 min read

Micronesian Voyaging Society Yokohama explains important voyaging history of the Chechemeni

14 years after the 1975 Chechemeni Edition Satawal~Nuclear sailing, 1989, Chechemeni captain, Reppan sailed towards the Asian Pacific...

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Micronesian Voyaging Society Yokohama visits the museum to see the canoe ’Chechemeni’

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Oct 18, 20211 min read

Micronesian Voyaging Society Yokohama visits the museum to see the canoe ’Chechemeni’

大阪の国立民族博物館に仕事で行ってきました。１９７５年沖縄海洋博へミクロネシアのサタワル島から航海してきたチェチェメニ号もここに展示されています。 The society went to the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka...

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What awards have we won for our films? Take a look below!

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Oct 15, 20211 min read

What awards have we won for our films? Take a look below!

By request, here are some of the film festival awards and screening laurels of WE, THE VOYAGERS: OUR VAKA and WE, THE VOYAGERS: OUR...

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Oct 11, 20211 min read

Hale Vaka site handover

Kids of Taumako at Takulu during the Hale Vaka site handover. Enjoying themselves and having their meal. Photos by Luke Vaikawi Facebook...

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Luke Vaikawi resigns VTPSI/VVA and confirms HVTA

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Oct 8, 20211 min read

Luke Vaikawi resigns VTPSI/VVA and confirms HVTA

Luke Vaikawi, Executive Director of Holau Vaka Taumako Association, the charitable orgranisation, has approved posting of the first and...

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We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka is an official selection to the Paris Independent Film Festival!

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Oct 5, 20211 min read

We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka is an official selection to the Paris Independent Film Festival!

We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka screening from Paris to world. Congrats crew of Lata! Facebook Post

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CARE Awards selects We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka

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Oct 1, 20211 min read

CARE Awards selects We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka

So happy that the crew of Lata is welcomed in the CARE Awards. "Amazing news! We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka was just selected by CARE Awards...

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Luke Vaikawi returned to Honiara, waiting to cross to Taumako

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Sep 30, 20211 min read

Luke Vaikawi returned to Honiara, waiting to cross to Taumako

Luke Vaikawi, Executive Director of the Holau Vaka Taumako Association charitable organization, has returned to Honiara from 2 weeks in...

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Both films in International Migration & Environmental Film Festival

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Sep 9, 20211 min read

Both films in International Migration & Environmental Film Festival

BOTH Our Vaka and Our Moana films are in the International Migration & Environmental Film Festival (IMEFF)! Congratulations to the crew!...

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