Name: Wansolmoana Lunar Assembly
Start: 2026-01-20 18:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-01-20 18:00:00+11:00
Location: Malabar Ocean Pool

World Premiere

A night to reflect, to dream, to float in the salt water and renew the spirit. The WansolMoana Lunar Assembly is a soft space and spiritual celebration of feminine sovereignty and collective power. 

Led by Tongan Australian performance artist Latai Taumoepeau at Sydney’s Malabar Ocean Pool, this durational ceremony invites over 100 participants in a night of meditation, music and cleansing at sundown at one of the city's iconic swimming spots.

Rooted in fonua (land/place/body) and vā (relational space), here the ocean is both witness and salve. Cleanse and renew with a traditional tuitui (candlenut) scrub, cast intentions into the tide and be guided through ceremony by Gadigal, Dharawal, Yuin and Wiradjuri multidisciplinary artist and Knowledge Holder Nadeena Dixon. Within the pool, an Indigenous Pacific sonic meditation unfolds with aquatic percussion by surf mum Barapang Nani Kuntamari Crofts from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and the virtuosic fangufangu (bamboo nose-flute) of queer Australian Tongan multidisciplinary artist Adriana Māhanga Lear.  

Women can also enjoy this experience at Lady McIver's Baths, Coogee.

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Latai Taumoepeau

Tonga & Australia

Latai Taumoepeau makes live-art-work. Her faiva (body-centred practice) is from her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga and her birthplace Sydney, land of the Gadigal people. She mimicked, trained and un-learned dance, in multiple institutions of learning, starting with her village, a suburban church hall, the nightclubs and a university. Her faivā (performing art) centres Tongan philosophies of relational space and time; cross- pollinating ancient and everyday temporal practice to make visible the impact of climate crisis in the Pacific. She conducts urgent environmental movements and actions to assist transformation in Oceania. Latai engages in the socio-political landscape of Australia with sensibilities in race, class and the female body politic; committed to bringing the voice of unseen communities to the frangipani-less foreground. In the near future she will return to her ancestral home and continue the ultimate faiva of sea voyaging and celestial navigation before she transforms into ancestor.

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