The Tonga National Canoe Festival is a youth project I am working on with the Tonga National Youth Congress.
The project's main focus is to revive the almost lost art of Tonga canoe carving. We are bringing together 6 master canoe carvers native to Tonga to teach 30 youth to carve a traditional Tongan canoe. There are 5 teams with 6 youth each. Each team represents one of Tonga's island groups: Tongatapu team, 'Eua team, Ha'apai team, Vava'u team, and a combined Niuas team. We will be documenting the whole event from the aquiring of the wood to the launch of the freshly carved canoes on the final day of the festival and the youth interactions with the elder master carvers throughout.
I will soon post photos of our trip to aquire the wood with our head master carver. I am excited about this project as it gains momentum up to October.
Here are the photos:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/vanessa.tuione/TongaCanoeFestival
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