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Pacific Pulse

one ocean – many stories

Pacific Pulse ventures beyond the headlines with feature stories from Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia that reflect contemporary life across the Pacific and recognise the strengths, hopes, achievements and aspirations of the region.

 

Episode 11

 

In this episode of Pacific Pulse, Tania Nugent is in the Cook Islands' capital, Rarotonga, where she meets the woman behind the clothing label TAV, one of the Pacific's most successful fashion exports.  Ellena Tavioni talks about her journey to become a fashion designer from a tiny island in the South Pacific, taking Polynesian style to the international market.  Her contemporary prints also incorporate traditional motifs to revive local culture, quashed when missionaries destroyed carvings and banned dancing. It's a creative family - Ellena's uncle, Henry Tavioni, is a renowned Cook Islands carver, and transforms Ellena's designs into wood carvings to print all the fabric on site, using traditional Polynesian tapa block printing techniques.

 

Pacific Pulse will be broadcast across the Pacific in the following time zones:

 

Sat 17^th April          22:20   American Samoa

                                Samoa  

                                Niue

                        23:20   Cook Islands

                                French Polynesia

 

Sun 18^th April          18:20 Palau

                        19:20   Guam

                                Northern Marianas

                                 Papua New Guinea

                        20:20    Federated States of Micronesia         

                                New Caledonia  

                                Solomon Islands

                                Vanuatu

                        21:20    Fiji

                                Kiribati

                                Marshall Islands        

                                Nauru  

                                Tokelau

                                Tuvalu

                                Wallis and Futuna

                        22:20   Tonga           

 

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