Along with the week-end activities and the ONO’U Battle, we put on a festival week that will include the following events:

// Collective wall paintings

Dates: May 5th to 9th
Location: City center of Papeete

Collective wall paintings getting together international guest writers to paint public walls given away by the city hall of Papeete.

On the fringe of the festival, the organizing committee will be impulsing, in collaboration with City Hall of Papeete a new project in Tahiti, namely the Pacific Ocean Gallery. It aims to create over the years an open air Gallery and Art Walk in the city center of Papeete, consisting of paintings and murals realized by invited artists from all over the world and  selected local artists. It will be exclusively managed and developed by the organizers of the ONO’U festival in cooperation with the city hall of Papeete.

Each year, new artists invited to participate in the festival will be given the opportunity to paint new murals that will extend the art walk in the city. Paintings will focus on themes related to the history, symbols, traditions or way of life of Tahiti and her islands. It will also be the first ever opportunity in the history of Tahiti for international artists to leave a long-lasting wall painting footprint of their passing through the island and share it with the local population, and for retained local writers to express their Polynesian identity through this contemporary art form.

// A private Graffiti Art Exhibition (May 7th)

Dates: May 7th 2014
Location: TBC

// School art workshops

Dates: May 5th to 7th 2014
Location: TBC

Writers will be invited to speak at classrooms about their art career experience and wall paint dedicated frescoes involving students.

Tahiti New Generation is fully independent from art galleries, auction houses as well as associations and businesses selling graffiti or street art products. TNG freely selects the artists and partners of the ONO’U festival it has created and developed with the objectives to foster international artistic and cultural exchanges in Tahiti and promote the Polynesian culture and Tahitian destination through visual and graphic arts.