WEAVING WATER

Weaving Water | Vanuatu 2026 explores the concepts of water, relational ways of being and connectivity. It is an in-person residency with dates to be confirmed for September 2026.

This project is a joint initiative of Treecreate and Leweton Cultural Experience.

Leweton Cultural Experience is based in the west coast of Gaua, a small island in the north of Vanuatu, where the now famous women’s water music originated. Water is everywhere around this tiny island and water influences almost every aspect of life.

“The Ëtëtung [or water music] shows the close connection that exists between the Oceanian peoples and the sea,” says the eldest woman of the Leweton Women’s Water group, the local water drumming troupe.

There is no stream more closely bound up with the life of a people, more important to Pacific islands nations than the ocean…

https://earthjournalism.net/stories/in-vanuatu-women-draw-strength-from-the-rhythm-of-the-ocean

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