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National Photo, Film & Sound Archive

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:36:26 UT

Moratorium (ban) on commercial filming of Nagol (Pentecost island land dive)

Thu, 10 May 2007 02:00:00 UT

Commercial filming of the Nagol ceremony (the Pentecost island land dive) is banned until further notice

Vanuatu exhibition in Victoria, Australia, for the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Marcellin Abong — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:00:00 UT

This exhibition of photographs, which ran from the 10th of March until the 17th of April at the Surfworld Ocean Gallery in the town of Torquay in Victoria, was a result of the Commonwealth Games “Adopt a Second Team” initiative. It was one of the main components in a Shire initiative to raise the awareness of its residents about the home country of their “adopted second team”

First CD of songs of John Frum released

Marcellin Abong — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:00:00 UT

The Vanuatu Cultural Centre has published the first-ever CD of the music and songs of the John Frum movement of the island of Tanna

Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta i blokem ol ovasi film kampani blong mekem film blong Pentikos landaeva (Nagol)

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:00:00 UT

Kaljoral Senta hemi wantem talemaot se naoia hemi stopem eni ovasi film kampani blong mekem film long Pentikos landaeva (Nagol), stat long yia 2006.

Memory of the World Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific established

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:00:00 UT

Vanuatu was represented at the UNESCO Memory of the World Regional Meeting for Asia and the Pacific, held in Manila in the Philippines from the 7th to the 9th November 2005, by the Director of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Ralph Regenvanu

National Photo, Film and Sound Archive

Billy Bakeo — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:00:00 UT

The role of the National Photo, Film and Sound Archive is to compile and preserve as much information as possible about custom, culture and tradition in Vanuatu in audio, audiovisual, photographic and digital formats. It has the most comprehensive collection of data about custom, culture and tradition in Vanuatu in these formats in the world

Launch of completed string band music preservation project

Ralph Regenvanu — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 02:00:00 UT

The National Film and Sound Archive of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre has been undertaking a project to digitally preserve the string band and other music recordings made by Paul Gardissat in the late 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s. This project is now complete.