Tickets $15. Presented in partnership with PICA’s TBA Festival and Boom Arts, The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana is a dramatic anthology, woven together by three Whakapapa stories of the ancient Ngāi Tara people. Each episode in this series is Māori led and told in te reo Māori language. Special guest actress Mere Tokorahi Boynton (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki & Ngāi Tūhoeof Aotearoa New Zealand), who stars in the third episode, will be present to discuss the films. Mere has a long list of credited roles including Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) and Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors (1994). A few days prior to this event, Mere will be performing in Portland-based artist Sam Hamilton’s experimental opera Te Moana Meridian: How the Prime Meridian Shapes the World, and the Case for Relocating It also in partnership with PICA’s TBA Festival, Boom Arts, and the Portland Art Museum.
