Siva Mai! 🇼🇸 Beautiful Siva Samoa Dance Performed at the Happy 4th Anniversary Dinner for EFKS Smithfield Congregational Christian Church of Samoa in Sydney, Australia. 5.12.2020 | Tonga Vision

Storytelling through Siva Samoa. Music and dance serve as repositories that preserve our history, cultural traditions and genealogy. These art forms bring our land and ocean to life. I continue to learn how Pacific cultural arts can serve as a portal into the past, to inform the present and help me to better navigate my future as a Pacific person. Cultural arts has always been centred in life. Dance is the most authentic physical and spiritual representation of how much our islands, people, land

12 reactions | Siva is the Samoan  word for dance. But for second and third-generation Samoans living in Australia, it means much more. In the diaspora, connecting to our cultural heritage helps us stay grounded. Research shows it also helps us thrive.  Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/siva-samoa-second-third-generations-samoans-australia-identity/103088760 | ABC Pacific | Facebook