A big thanks to all who attended last week’s Pacific Presences conference at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It was an incredibly fruitful event that was part of a week long series of events for the project, who were hosting the Oceania (2018) exhibition advisory committee, all of whom are based in the Pacific. A montage of photos of the week can be seen below;

l-r Michael Mel performs at the Tapa exhibit opening, Tina Rehuher-Marugg in the stores with Rachel Hand, Michael Mel and RA curator Adrian Locke discuss architecture, Francois Wadra and PP team member Julie Adams at the reception at NZ House, Megan Tamati-Quennell ‘unsettling the line’ at the conference, and the conference day end panel with Nick Thomas, Anita Herle, Maile Andrade, Francois Wadra and Lissant Bolton. 

Eve Haddow of the Pacific Collections Review project based at National Museums Scotland has kindly written a review of the conference, which can be found here.

With thanks from the Pacific Presences Team!