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The flagship product of The BOKOLA Series is the Review. It examines art and culture in Fiji. Mary Rokonadravu finds inspiration from the Western approaches of reviews, then deviates to construct her own unique method based on multiple sources from her lived life and intellectual journey. It emerges as an evolving collage or bricolage.

Part 4 of 4: A Spectacle of Historical Persistences - The Power of Sound and Light

Part 4 of 4: A Spectacle of Historical Persistences - The Power of Sound and Light

Phil Dakei’s sound design deserves mention for its meticulous attention to detail and its mastery in achieving the difficult act of being unobtrusive or overall ‘invisible’. Coupled with Talei Draunibaka's Lighting Design, BUTAKOCI is an artistic feat.

Part 3 of 4: Pacific Blackbirding - A Spectacle of Historical Persistences

Part 3 of 4: Pacific Blackbirding - A Spectacle of Historical Persistences

The jewel in the crown in Butakoci (Stolen) is its Melanesian Blackbirding sequence. Draunibaka’s treatment of the case study is surprisingly tender. While her curatorial hand is evident in all vignettes, there is a discernible elevation in this sequence.

Part 2 of 4: Human Trafficking in iTaukei Settings - A Spectacle of Historical Persistences

Part 2 of 4: Human Trafficking in iTaukei Settings - A Spectacle of Historical Persistences

BUTAKOCI (STOLEN) the music theatre production selected a contemporary iTaukei Fijian case study to spotlight Human Trafficking in Fiji. It sought to balance the historical case studies of Indian Indentured Labour and Pacific Islands Blackbirding.

Part 1 of 4: Women in Indian Indenture - A Spectacle of Historical Persistences

Part 1 of 4: Women in Indian Indenture - A Spectacle of Historical Persistences

BUTAKOCI (STOLEN) the musical theatre production on Human Trafficking, lends a delicate hand-brush to the excavating of Indian women’s histories which reside in the deeper sediments of the overall ‘archaeological’ site of indenture.

A Spectacle of Historical Persistences

A Spectacle of Historical Persistences

Butakoci (Stolen) is a deeply moving study of historical persistences related to human trafficking in Fiji — an artistic study that could mark the beginning of a cultural upending necessary for national healing and transformation.