This Must Be the Island — Liga Hanai e Motu Phil Dadson

Phil Dadson

sung and danced to the music

Greg O’Brien

blending nonfiction with reimagined fiction in a tribute to their resistance

This Must Be the Island — Liga Hanai e Motu Phil DadsonIn 2010, poet artists John Puhiatau Pule and Gregory OBrien embarked on a voyage of artmaking and travel around the South Pacific, making collaborative etchings, corresponding, writing poetry and immersing themselves in Moana Oceania. Sixteen years on, their collaboration continues to yield a heady mixture of dreams, memories and a pervasive sense of the joy and wonder of being alive in this part of the world. This Must Be the Island Liga Hanai e Motu