The Vanuatu Cultural Centre (in BislamaVanuatu Kaljoral Senta[1] or "VKS"; in FrenchCentre Culturel du Vanuatu), founded in 1955,[2] is the national cultural institution of Vanuatu. It is located in the capital Port Vila.
The Vanuatu Cultural Centre
From 1995 to 2006, the VKS was run by Ralph Regenvanu. From 2007 until his termination in November 2014, Abong Marcelin was director. Ambong Thompson is currently acting Director.[3]
Describing itself as "an organisation that works to record and promote the diverse cultures" of Vanuatu, the Vanuatu Cultural Centre fulfills the role a national body for the preservation, the protection and the promotion of the different aspects of the culture of the archipelago. The Vanuatu Cultural Centre is an umbrella organization which includes :
Its aim is to record and promote the traditional indigenous cultures of Vanuatu in their various aspects - from sand drawing to music, land diving, other "customary practices" and "indigenous knowledge"-, but also the country's "contemporary arts and music".[4]
Among its projects is the Oral Traditions Collection Project, started in 1976, which has been described as "without doubt, the Pacific's most successful grassroots cultural documentation program".[5]
The Centre produces radio programmes and videos aimed at cultural promotion, preservation or revival. As of 1996, the centre's collection contained "approximately 2500 hours of audio tape, 2300 hours of video tape, twenty-three hours of 16-millimetre film footage, thirty hours of 8-millimetre film footage, 3000 early (up to 1950s) black-and-white photographs, and around 4000 colour slides, colour negatives and black-and-white negatives". Access to some of this material is restricted, being tabu. Some material may be accessed only by men, some only by women, and some only by members of particular indigenous cultural groups.[5]
In 2002 the German painter Ingo Kühl, after participating in an expedition of the Vanuatu Cultural Center to ceremonies of the indigenous people on Malakula, his works that were created there were shown in an exhibition at the National Museum of Vanuatu and in 2004–2005 at the Ethnological Museum of Berlin.[6]
^"Rev.John Williams artifacts showcased in Canada", Vanuatu Daily Post, February 11, 2010
^"Vanuatu Cultural Centre History". Vanuatu Cultural Centre. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
^. Vanuatu Cultural Centre. Archived from the original on 2014-12-18. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
^. Archived from the original on 2009-04-18. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
^ abSee Huffman, Kirk W., 1996, The Fieldworkers of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and their Contribution to the Audiovisual Collections, in Joël Bonnemaison, Kirk Huffman, Christian Kaufmann & Darrell Tryon, Arts of Vanuatu, University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN978-0-8248-1956-9.
Hochet, Antoine, 2013, Coopération et développement : le cas du Centre Culturel du Vanuatu, VKS Productions / Pacifique Dialogues, Port-Vila, Vanuatu, ISBN978-982-9144-03-4.
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