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Silent Whistle: The all-female kava club empowering women
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- Silent Whistle: The all-female kava club empowering women
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- Description
Kalapu Fai kava, or Kava Clubs, have traditionally been the domain of Pacific Island men. But a new club in Auckland is the latest of a growing trend of all-female kalapu. Known as Longomapu, or Silent Whistle, the kalapu is all about empowering women through conversation and kava. Alice Lolohea reports.
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- Video
- Date created
- 01-03-2021
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sja_UIqLM6o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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- sunpix / tagata pasifika / tvnz / nz on air / tpplus / tp plus / pasefika / pacifica / tangata / polynesian / tp+ / kava / kalapu kava / kava club / all female / silent whistle / longomapu / mele vea / caroline matamua / todd henry / vava'u carving / four shells kava bar
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