Kiva: Writing From The Cook Islands

KIVA COLLECTION ONE: CONTEMPORARY WRITING FROM THE COOK ISLANDS Since April 2013, Tawata Productions worked alongside the Cook Islands’ Ministry of Education, Aid Programme, The Raro Dog and the Aka’oa gallery, The Art Studio, on a groundbreaking collaboration with a collective of new and emerging writers in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, to create a Writing Workshop led by Mīria George & Hone Kouka. The vision of the Writing Workshop was to continue to build upon the Cook Islands history of contemporary writing. KIVA Collection One: Contemporary Writing from the Cook Islands was written in Rarotonga and features nine writers, Maria Henderson Turi Mataiapo, Joan Gragg, Bobbiejo Healey, Ian George, Rachel Smith, Thomas Wynne, Teresa Tararo, Patricia Te Poe Cowan Metzker and Mariana Powell Schmidt. Mīria and the writers gathered in Avarua to write - amongst the writers were mothers, grandmothers, fathers, grandfathers. Writers who were also educators, journalists, senior Cook Islands...