Justine Simei-Barton
Justine Simei-Barton is a Samoans, Samoan theatre and film director and producer in New Zealand. Early life and education Simei-Barton was born in Porirua to Samoan parents. She says she saw few brown faces in theatre, but she was inspired by seeing Jim Moriarty play Hamlet, and Don Selwyn. Simei-Barton moved to Auckland to attend university in 1987. Simei-Barton initially studied law, but graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Studies from the University of Auckland, and then earned a post-graduate diploma in broadcasting. Work Simei-Barton formed the Pacific Theatre company in 1987 based in Auckland. Finding a script for a Papua New Guinea musical in the university library as a student led to Simei-Barton staging ''Feiva/Favour!'' (1988) at the Maidment Theatre, Maidment Theatre's Little Theatre in Auckland. The show was a sell-out. It was also a springboard for other Pasifika performing artists, notably choreographers Iosefa (Sefa) Enari, founder ...
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Porirua
Porirua, ( mi, Pari-ā-Rua) a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. The name 'Porirua' is a corruption of 'Pari-rua', meaning "the tide sweeping up both reaches". It almost completely surrounds Porirua Harbour at the southern end of the Kapiti Coast. As of Porirua had a population of . Name The name "Porirua" has a Māori origin: it may represent a variant of ''pari-rua'' ("two tides"), a reference to the two arms of the Porirua Harbour. In the 19th century, the name designated a land-registration district that stretched from Kaiwharawhara (or Kaiwara) on the north-west shore of Wellington Harbour northwards to and around Porirua Harbour. The road climbing the hill from Kaiwharawhara towards Ngaio and Khandallah still bears the name "Old Porirua Road". History Tradition holds that, prior to habitation, Kupe was the first visitor to the area, and that he bestowed name ...
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