![]() Example: “I’ve known my wife since my hanabata days.”.(Noun): Your childhood when you were a kid.(Expression): A phrase that essentially means “encore,” or to encourage someone to repeat something.(Verb): When something is disorganized and messy.Example: “I’m gonna stay hale tonight.”.Example: “Halala, I’m in huge trouble.”.(Expression): A Filipino phrase that’s the equivalent of saying “uh-oh.” You say this when someone else has or you have an issue.Example: “My favorite snack is candied ginger crack seed.”.It’s made from preserved fruits that are split open with the seed still inside. Example: “So I heard through da coconut wireless that you’re single again…”.(Expression): This is the Hawaiian equivalent to the old saying, “hearing something through the grapevine.” In other words, this is when you hear something through gossip.Example: “Don’t cockroach stuff from friends.”.Example: “You have choke money – no need to be chang.”.(Verb): Hawaiian pidgin that means a large amount of something.Example: “The water was so cold, I got all chicken skin.”.(Expression): You can say this to show that you’re excited or happy about something.Example: “Stop being chang and pay your employees more, brah.”.(Adjective): A word that means someone is really stingy and cheap.Learn more about the festival: mothertongue.si. ![]() This program received support from Arenet, the Embassy of Mexico in the United States, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Georgetown University Department of Anthropology, Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington DC, New Zealand Embassy to the United States of America, Planet Word, The Elizabeth and Whitney MacMillan Endowment, and Wick and Bonnie Moorman. ![]() The Mother Tongue Film Festival is a public program of Recovering Voices, a collaboration between Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the Asian Pacific American Center. Whetū Mārama: Bright Star is the story of Sir Hekenukumai Ngaiwi Puhipi, aka Hek Busby, and his significance for Māori in rekindling their wayfinding DNA and for all people in Aotearoa New Zealander in helping them reclaim their role as traditional star voyagers. For 600 years, these arts were lost, until the stars realigned and this wisdom rose in the hearts of Pacific Islanders across the region. Wakas were once made from giant trees and used in conjunction with the Māori’s intricate knowledge of the stars to map their movements around the Pacific. Synopsis: For Māori, the waka (canoe) is the underpinning of their culture. (Directed by Toby Mills & Aileen O’Sullivan | Documentary Feature, Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021, 93 min.) The actions from that day sparked an international outcry and brought new life to the ongoing movement for Native Hawaiians’ rights for self-determination. Synopsis: On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, a heavily armed police force arrested thirty-six Native Hawaiian kūpuna peacefully protecting Maunakea from desecration. Like a Mighty Wave: A Maunakea Film (Directed by Mikey Inouye | Documentary Short, Hawai‘i, 2019, 15 min.) With this call to action and an anthem for accountability, Sprigga Mek seeks to empower through music. Synopsis: Papua New Guinean hip-hop artist Sprigga Mek brings forth his unique style of “conscious rap” in his single, Dodge the Bullet, highlighting the highlighting inequality linked to resource extraction, unemployment, and rapid urbanization. The three films within this program explore the ways communities in Papua New Guinea, Hawai‘i, and Aotearoa New Zealand are calling out the injustices of settler colonialism and resource extraction and asserting their sovereignty.ĭodge the Bullet (Directed by Nigel Muganaua (Digital Story Box)| Music Video, Papua New Guinea, 2020, 5 min.) Shaped through ancestral, historical, and contemporary migration, home within Oceania is rooted in place and defined by these routes.
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