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Mangere community news. This month: have your say on Auckland's Fuel Tax, stand up for Ihumatao, pathways for performing arts, rethink waste - and more!

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Students from the Pathways to Performing Arts<br />

Programme celebrated their graduation in April<br />

with a BBQ outside Māngere Town Centre.<br />

6<br />

Good Seed Trust<br />

hosts a<br />

LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE!<br />

all proceeds to Breast<br />

Cancer Foundation<br />

PINK RIBBON<br />

BREAKFAST<br />

Saturday 12th <strong>May</strong> , 7am to 8.30am<br />

Shiloh Hall 201 Buckland Rd, Mangere<br />

Pre-Paid tickets of $20pp will be sold at Good Seeds Children Centre<br />

EFTPOS available<br />

All tickets must be Paid by Wednesday 9th <strong>May</strong> at 4pm.<br />

RSVP to Natasha Salei 0274772995 or 09 <strong>275</strong> 1069<br />

12y.o.+ please<br />

Pathways to performing arts<br />

By Shirl’e Fruean<br />

This month Word on<br />

the Street is all about<br />

‘Pathways to Performing<br />

Arts’ (PTPA) – a free<br />

community programme I<br />

set up in 2006 for young<br />

people from Māngere<br />

who were having trouble<br />

staying in school.<br />

Some were talented<br />

dancers, singers and<br />

emcees. They just needed<br />

guidance and someone<br />

who understood them<br />

to give them a chance.<br />

There were no free performing<br />

arts classes in our<br />

community back then, so<br />

I linked up with Puritia,<br />

the kaitiaki of the Māngere<br />

Community House, who<br />

signed me up as a tutor.<br />

Each week, young people<br />

would come to learn<br />

music, dance and acting.<br />

They were excited that<br />

there was somewhere to<br />

go after school – a safe<br />

space where they felt<br />

respected and empowered<br />

to express themselves<br />

through their art.<br />

One of the students<br />

in that first class was<br />

14-year-old Amanda<br />

Ashton, who went on<br />

to become a presenter<br />

on Māori TV and is now<br />

a successful business<br />

woman in Rotorua.<br />

The PTPA programme<br />

expanded when I became<br />

a performing arts tutor at<br />

Te Wānanga O Aotearoa<br />

a few years later.<br />

Over 100 students<br />

graduated from that<br />

course, many with<br />

memories of performing<br />

on the same stage as<br />

Pieter T, Scribe, David<br />

Dallas, Smashproof and<br />

Sweet & Irie – all of whom<br />

were making big names<br />

for themselves at the time.<br />

This year, I started<br />

running a PTPA<br />

programme at Māngere<br />

Town Centre Library.<br />

The first students from the<br />

six-week course (Hanna<br />

So’oalo, Donnell Fa’auma,<br />

Lucy Ru, Taimana Tahana-<br />

Pou, Asena & Abigail<br />

Panuve, Younis A Abdallah,<br />

Johvani & Mikeymalik<br />

Sagala, Yarran Kelemete<br />

and Cece Apineru) all<br />

graduated in April.<br />

On graduation day, they<br />

performed “Thank you”<br />

an original song which<br />

they wrote as a tribute to<br />

their loved ones. Some<br />

of the parents shed tears<br />

of joy as they watched<br />

their children performing<br />

for the first time.<br />

New PTPA classes will be<br />

starting at the Māngere<br />

Town Centre Library,<br />

Māngere East Library<br />

and Te Oro Community<br />

Centre this month.<br />

For more info, email<br />

queenshirlemusic@<br />

gmail.com

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