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Critically acclaimed NZ Arts Laureates & Queer Indigenous, Interdisciplinary Arts Collective from the Moana. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau - SOUTH AKL ARCHIVE | https://www.fafswag.nz/ INTERACTIVE | https://fafswagvogue.com/

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 12d

Hi Bluesky FAFSWAG is in the building!!

FAFSWAG is an arts collective of Māori and Pacific LGBTQIA+ artists and activists founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2013. They explore and celebrate the unique identity of gender fluid Pacific people and LGBTQI+ communities in multi-disciplinary art forms.

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 3h

Thank you for this deeply considered review of our residency at HOME: the Fale Sā / Sacred House for Manchester International Festival MIF25

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BUGANZ83 @tanugago.bsky.social · Jun 22

These posters have been popping up around Manchester. There's 12 more days till The Fale Sā / Sacred house officially opens to the public. The team is gearing up to travel to the UK in the next two weeks. Here's how you can support the artists directly. xx :) <3

www.fafswag.nz/fundraiser

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BUGANZ83 @tanugago.bsky.social · May 30

She worked a lot of late nights, even went back to Rarotonga twice while making the work. The film will have its premier at the Fale Sā / Sacred House, by FAFSWAG Arts Collective in Manchester next month!!

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 6d

'What begins to emerge throughout the exhibition is the idea that digital spaces—game worlds, fantasy and dreamscapes—offer a kind of terrain where one can imagine differently.'

Jessica El Mal reviews FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE by Fafswag at HOME this year as part of Manchester International Festival.

FAFSWAG: FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE — Corridor8

Fale Sā / Sacred House, which showed at HOME as part of Manchester International Festival (MIF) this year, was developed by New Zealand-based collective

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Oxford Road Corridor @oxrdmcr.bsky.social · Aug 8

FĀGOGO: FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE at HOME closes this weekend.

Striking digital art and storytelling from Pacific artists exploring identity, ancestry, and Indigenous futures.

Last chance 👇

FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE - FĀGOGO (EXHIBITION) at HOME

FĀGOGO brings together an exhibition of striking digital art exploring some of the major issues impacting Pacific peoples

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 11h

Created for AsiaTOPA, SAUNIGA explores the majestic world of our earliest ancestors: the animals from the land, sky and ocean.

SAUNIGA recalls the sacred connections between spirits (Aitu) of the old world and the lives of their Samoan descendants. Bringing together dance, adornment and ceremony.

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 11h

FAFSWAG artist Māhia Tekore photographic series, Eyes of Kaos at Arts House Melbourne, Australia. For AsiaTOPA 2025.

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 11h

FAFSWAG at this year's Asia Pacific triannual AsiaTOPA in Melbourne Australia earlier this year.

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Aotearoa arts collective FAFSWAG at Melbourne's Asia Topa

Aotearoa Queer indigenous arts collective FAFSWAG is in Melbourne showcasing their latest work at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts. The three-week festival lights up the city bringing tog...

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 11h

Got to watch this beautiful film on Māori TV last night. I'd encourage everyone in our network to go check it out. It has the best sound design I've heard from a short this year. Next to Tanu Gago's Picking Crew. Congratulations 🎉👏🏽🎉 to Allie Howell and team.

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Day One Shorts 2025 | Ata Pūao | Trailer | RNZ

YouTube video by RNZ

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 21h

ALTERATION 2023, Mangere Arts Centre, Aotearoa.

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 21h

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ALTERATION CATALOGUE — FAFSWAG

A4, Limited edition exhibition catalogue from FAFSWAG Arts Collective’s touring exhibition ALTERATION. Ten years of collective practice, disruption and reclamation.

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 21h

Pacific Bizarre 2019

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BUGANZ83 @tanugago.bsky.social · Apr 15

Eyes of Kaos by FAFSWAG artist Māhia Tekore at Arts House Melbourne Australia, for Asia TOPA - Triennial of Performing arts in Naarm. Works from left to right - Magic, Lockdown Portraits, Tulou Collective and Takaroa.

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BUGANZ83 @tanugago.bsky.social · Apr 16

The most consistent collaborators within FAFSWAG are me and Pati. It makes sense, we're partners and co-founders of the collective. I guess it's a default. This is our recent project SAUNIGA, which is part of a larger project with other members of the collective called the Fale Sā // Sacred House.

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BUGANZ83 @tanugago.bsky.social · Jul 25

Responding to the lack of representation within the creative industries, FAFSWAG has come to redefine what it means to occupy a fluid gender spectrum, a multi-cultural identity and a growing interdisciplinary practice.

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In the Studio with FAFSWAG | Factory International

YouTube video by Factory International

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A Study of Resistance @colourmefiji.bsky.social · Jun 20

If you’re in the #Manchester area, this will be a goooooodie! A special curated collection of short films about Pacific people and the enduring ways coloniality shapes identities, from the perspective of Aotearoa’s #FAFSWAG collective, who are opening a stellar programme of new work for #MIF25 ✨

Diaspora Rendered introduced by FAFSWAG | MIF25

A collection of short films by FAFSWAG reflecting on identity, place and representations of Moana ocean people

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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · Jul 11

Look what I’m up to tonight whānau

Giant poster at HOME in Manchester, for the event FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE by queer Polynesian arts collective FAFSWAG.

The poster features a Sāmoan male presenting person with white eye contact lenses and red facial paint, looking directly at the viewer. On the bottom left corner of the poster reads “A ceremonial celebration of Queer Indigeneity grounded in Moana Pacific heritage.”

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 1d

Throwback to this time two years ago and FAFSWAG was in Toronto Canada for our exhibition ALTERATION, at Trinity Square Video for the 2023 ImagineNATIVE film & digital media arts festival.

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BUGANZ83 @tanugago.bsky.social · 1d

Today for #100DaysOfDrawingBoys I did a self-portrait. It's so weird to draw yourself. Fighting the impulse to nip and tuck all the parts you feel insecure about. I'm glad these drawings aren't super complicated, cause I can live with these basic and simple shapes. lol 😆

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 5d

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New Zealand "not ready" to recognise Palestine | Now You Know | The Spinoff

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 10d

Congratulations 🎉🎉👏🏽👏🏽 to the Grand Kiki House of Marama for a beautiful function tonight at the Heritage Museum of Aotearoa: Te Papa. Hope you all get to celebrate a successful ball. You should all be so proud. Thanks for the live feed for those of us trapped in Tāmaki.

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THE GRAND MARAMA BALL ⏾ - YouTube

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FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 10d

CONGRATULATIONS FATHER FANG COVEN AUCOIN.

Thank you for your years of service to the community and your commitment to the culture of ballroom. You continue to inspire so many with your enduring legacy in Butch Queen Performance, and outstanding contributions to the legacy of Ballroom Aotearoa!!!

FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz · 11d

Yesterday we met with the AKL Museum to discuss archiving our collection. We're relieved to learn there's also an emphasis on ephemera. We've generated so much of it as part of the public facing side of our community driven practice. Happy to know it too can live on in the archives.

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Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 25d

A gorgeous advance copy to end the week ❤️ @thwupbooks.bsky.social

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