Justin Wellington performs in Auckland

Justin Wellington performed in Auckland last night. He was awesome and showed the PNG folks here "much love". He was here as part of Niu FM's album release party titled Jam Pacd-his song Island Girl is one of the featured songs.

Justin has been receiving a lot of air play on NZ's Niu FM and is gaining a following here. Check out the vids I was able to take last night.

Yumi PNG perform at North Shore Pasifika 2010

This past Saturday (27/1110), a young group of Papua New Guineans performed at Auckland's North Shore Pasifika festival in New Zealand.

Comprising of members of Manus, Oro, Kerema, Milne Bay, Western Highland and Engan heritage, Yumi PNG was formed so that the youth based in Auckland's North Shore could firstly get in touch with their roots through traditional songs and dances and secondly to create a support system for themselves as a number of them have recently moved to New Zealand and transition into a new way of life and culture can be difficult.

Headed by their youth leaders Michaelyn Pokarop, Kimberly Mills and Udu Mea, the group have been practising since September for the event and on Saturday performed a dance from Milne Bay and a dance from Manus.This was the group's first official performance and the group intend to keep learning new songs and dances and hope to be able to continue performing in and around Auckland to showcase Papua New Guinea and its diversity to a country that still knows little about their island neighbour.

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Barkers Black

Check out Barkers new range of menswear titled Barkers Black.

Kiwi Mate

Here are a coupke Kiwi videos that I've come across on the net and that I enjoy watching on NZ TV.

This first one I found on monster-munch.com entitled Kiwi



This second one is the first ad in Mitre 10's DIY its in our DNA campaign



And this last one is part of the TUI Beer series