Maana

Introducing MAN A

An upsurge of creative talent that has remained passive for generations is breaking forth across the whole Pacific. Independence or self government, and the successful first South Pacific Arts Festival, have heralded a new wave of confidence among the Islands peoples, and visions which formerly lay dormant are now being expressed. MANA is a new vessel which will contain and transport the best of this creativity.

MANA will appear each month as a section of the Pacific Islands Monthly, which carries it to many thousands of readers throughout the Islands and be yond. Each month we will include a rich collection of writings from various parts of the Pacific. At the end of each year, Pacific Publications, the pub lishers of PIM, will bring the whole collection to gether with other new material as an annual book on the creative arts in the Pacific.

MANA is set up for Pacific Islands' writers and other artists to publish their work. It will contain creative writing in all its forms—poetry, plays, chants, short stories, and legends as well as articles and reviews on all aspects of the arts in the Pacific area—dance, music, painting, carving, crafts, tattooing, sculpture, pottery, and any other form of creative expression.

MANA is an organ of the South Pacific Creative Arts Society, which was set up in September, 1972, to publish works in traditional and modern form from all over the Islands. Its editor is Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe of the Cook Islands, and the editorial committee includes Albert Wendt, poet, novelist and principal of Samoa College; Futa Helu, poet, composer and principal of Atenisi Institute, Tonga,- Radike Qereqeretabua, secretary Fiji Arts Council; Nicolai Michoutouchkine, painter, of the New Hebrides and New Caledonia; John Saunana, poet and novelist of the Solomon Islands,- Ken Arvidson,

poet and lecturer in literature, University of the South Pacific; Walter Uni, editor of New Hebridean Viewpoints, Aoba, New Hebrides,* Maunaa Itaia, Trainee Minister of the Gilbert Islands,* Sione Tupouniua, university lecturer and editor of Pacific Perspective, of Tonga,* Satendra Nandan, lecturer in English, University of the South Pacific,* and univer sity students Vanessa Griffen, Fiji; Ata Ma'ia'i, Wes tern Samoa and Neal Engledow, American Samoa.

Designer of masthead —Lai Naulumatua,* Illustrator Ulumaina Ngaunuvule.

The president of the society is Jo Nacola of the University of the South Pacific, vice-president is Raymond Pillai; the treasurer is Fazal Khan, and the secretary Howard Van Trease. Some of the edi torial committee and other officers of the society are located at the University of the South Pacific.

Others are spread throughout the Islands. Details of subscription rates to the South Pacific Creative Arts Society are published elsewhere in this issue of the Pacific Islands Monthly, or can be obtained from the secretary, South Pacific Creative Arts Society, Box 5083, Suva, Fiji. Items for publication in MANA should be sent to The Editor (Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe) at the same Suva address, and not to PIM.

MANA will express the soul of the peoples of the Pacific.