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Look at us, @elyssiaw!! We both felt gorgeous at today’s #MarksOfMana shoot ✨ Vinaka vakalevu @duskyqueen, thank you @melanesianmarks for allowing me to wear marks that connect me to the #Fijian practice of #veiqia 🙌🏾 #TeamMela #PacificArt #MelanesianMarks 🍑🇫🇯⚡️ (at Auckland, New Zealand)

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Chuck! #Profile #TeamMela https://www.instagram.com/p/BvF_qPiFBSa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wrqkm7jndwxm

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Such an inspiration! Papua New Guinean Jacqueline Joseph – Commonwealth Pacific Young Person of the Year. Jacqueline is the co-founder of Equal Playing Field, a not-for-profit organisation that uses sport as a tool to prevent violence against women and children and promote gender equality in schools. ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #lumailoves #MelaninMagic #TeamMela | http://ift.tt/2nTReax

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Opening TONIGHT in #Māngere, #SouthAuckland! What a treat! Can't wait to see new work by these four fierce brown woman choreographers!! #BOOM!! #TeamMela #TeamPoly #TepTok #PacificArt #PacificDance (at Mangere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku)

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To have my oldest niece with me today was to have my sister with me 💕 and today’s marks were at times incredibly hard, for everyone in the room. So grateful for @melanesianmarks Julia Mage’au Gray and @vasagray for helping me move forward, process and release a lot of pain locked up in my core / sacral chakra 🧡 Hope everyone will sleep well tonight, it’s a new moon, a fresh start. Tomorrow we finish! 🙏🏽 #Niecey #AuntyEma #PacificArt #TeamMela #Veiqia #TeamFiji #MelanesianMarks (at Birkdale, New Zealand)

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@kolokeza’s #Bilum that I openly, and unapologetically covet, often 😂 #CanIHaveItYet!! Hahaha! Bilum trade pending! #PacificArt #SouthAuckland #TeamMela

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I went back to see #Wantok today at #Māngere Arts Centre, to soak it all in again for a review I have the pleasure of writing for #ARTtalk, Fiji’s independent online art magazine. I sat in the space that #TufalaMeri created, falling in love with their work, “Tufala Meri Blo Tiu” (2018) and seeing myself again and again in their work, literally and emotionally, and in this show. I love that. I’m so excited to be heading home, to work with more Melanesian artists from my new base in Suva, #Fiji. #Mykineshow #TeamMela #PacificArt #SouthAuckland (at Mangere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku)

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So many amazing #Melanesian women in #Māngere today!! #Wantok opens at Māngere Arts Centre this morning! #PacificArt #SouthAuckland #TeamMela (at Mangere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku)

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Best #TeamMela x #RealTalk sessions, aided with a nip of @stolenrum 😝🥃☕️🦈🦈🦈 (at Olly)

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#SOLD! #Poedua, #PapuaMerdeka! Vinaka vakalevu :) #FreeWestPapua ALL DAY 💪🏾#TeamMela #MorningStar #AK #Melanesia #Unity (at Olly)

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#Melanesia x #SouthAuckland for the screening of @teptok at Event Cinema #Manukau! Audiences are in for a special afternoon 🔥 🇵🇬x 🇫🇯🔥#PacificArt #TeamMela (at Event Cinemas Manukau)

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Papua New Guinean Toea Wisil, the fastest woman in the Pacific is now a double champion, winning both 100m and 200m titles at the Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney! 🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽 #TeamMela #lumailoves #MelaninMagic | http://ift.tt/2oAUEzy

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Another inspiring woman!! 🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽Veronica Simogun has been honored as the East Asia and Pacific awardee for the 2017 U.S. Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award. Ms. Simogun is an advocate for women and children who have been victims of violence. She founded the Family for Change Association based in Wewak, East Sepik Province. She believes in protecting the women and children who are victims of violence in East Sepik province and that through education and awareness, her generation can influence young men and boys to become supportive partners in violence-free homes. #lumailoves #TeamMela #MelaninMagic | http://ift.tt/2oyLP6s

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In a @reileelana x @solonesian.hybrid #Melanesian sandwich at #Wantok, an exhibition celebrating nine women artists at #Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku, #SouthAuckland ✨ #TeamMela #tufalameri #PacificArt (at Mangere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku)

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#Boss ladies ✨ Chair of #Māngere-#Ōtāhuhu Local Board, Lemauga Lydia Sosene and #Wantok exhibition curator, Luisa Tora at the opening reception at #Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku, 5 April 2018. #TeamFiji #SouthAuckland #PacificArt #TeamMela (at Mangere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku)

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Breathing life back into the art histories of our bodies is transformative... decolonising. @juliamageau and her @melanesianmarks team are doing the WORK for #PacificArt! So grateful, and honoured to be part of the #Veiqia and #MelanesianMarks revival, grateful to share the journey with these fierce, trailblazing women. ✨ Torika Bolatagici’s marks were made by Julia Mage’au Gray in Auckland, 19 April 2018. 📷: Ema Tavola. #TeamFiji #TeamMela #Kadavu #Fiji #Tatu #FijianArtist